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Bruce Pardo gunned down his ex-wife’s family while wearing a Santa Suit on Christmas Eve and burned their home down. 9 people died in the massacre. Pardo killed himself a few hours later in his brother’s home.

Hosted by Ash Kelley and Alaina Urquhart from the hit show Morbid. You can binge the entire series early and ad-free right now by subscribing to Wondery+ in Apple Podcasts or the Wondery App.

The Green Bay Diocese moved child molesting priest, John Feeney, from city to city instead of investigating the serious allegations against him. The cover-up by the Diocese went far beyond one priest, and for decades, they were moving priests from city to city to outrun sexual assault accusations.

James Nichols shot and killed Cha Vang, a 30-year-old Hmong hunter from Green Bay and tried to claim self-defense. This was the second major incident that took place between Hmong and White hunters in northern Wisconsin and increased tensions in the state.

High school student Gary Hirte killed Glenn Kopitske to see if he could get away with the crime. In court, Hirte claimed he was temporarily insane during the crime, which was fueled by shame and humiliation after having a same sex encounter.

On April 7th, 1994, after taking off from the Memphis International Airport, FedEx employee Auburn Calloway hijacked a DC-10 intending to crash the plane. He was being investigated at work and wasn’t doing financially well. He updated his will and life insurance policy beneficiaries to benefit his family.

A dismembered body, skinned beyond recognition, was discovered by the Wisconsin River in 1999. It took authorities six months to identify the victim as Mwivano Kupaza, 25, a student from Tanzania. Her cousin was charged and convicted of the crime.

Antoinette Frank was an officer employed by the New Orleans PD and worked security for a local restaurant that treated her like family. In 1995, she killed a police officer and two family members when she and an accomplice robbed this establishment.

Robert Creek forced Illinois DCFS to take custody of his 14-year-old daughter in order to save her life. She chronically ran away from the residential center where she was placed. In 1996 turned up dead in a nature reserve in Wisconsin. Law Enforcement didn’t catch her killer until 2014, and the court process quickly became complicated.

On November 26, 2016, 61-year-old Joel Guy Sr. and 55-year-old Lisa Guy were murdered and dismembered in their Knoxville, Tennessee home. They had planned to retire and stopped funding their 28-year-old son’s life. Their son, Joel Guy Junior, was quickly identified as the perpetrator.

14-year-old Aundria vanished from her home on March 11th, 1989 recently after accusing her adoptive father Dennis Bowman of molesting her. Dennis told authorities she had stolen money and left home. Aundria was classified as a runaway for decades. They arrested Dennis Bowman for murder and he eventually revealed what happened to his daughter.

Minister Matthew Winkler failed to show up at church on Wednesday night and was found dead inside his home. His wife shot in him the back. Was she an abused preacher’s wife or a murderer?

Jeffrey Moreland quit his job as a police officer because of a Parkinson’s disease diagnosis. He assaulted and murdered 2 women, one of which was his ex-girlfriend’s mother. Despite trying to elude law enforcement, they caught him when his ex-girlfriend identified him after seeing the composite sketch on a billboard.

Maria Lauterbach was a United States Marine who was 8 months pregnant when she disappeared from Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Her remains were found in the backyard of Corporal Cesar Laurean who she had accused of sexual assault.

Police were called to the UW Arboretum, where Dr. Potter and Robin Carre were found in a pool of blood. Their killer was 18-year-old Madison West High School student Khari Sanford, who was their daughter’s boyfriend.

Richard McNair was convicted for murder and received a lengthy sentence. He managed to escape from prison three times and was considered one of American’s most wanted.

In 2005, David Jordan went to the Tennessee DOT building where he shot his estranged wife along with several of her coworkers. 3 people died and 2 were injured. Jordan resides on Tennessee’s death row.

4 people died and 2 were seriously injured when Travis Reinking shot up a Waffle House outside of Nashville, Tennessee in 2018. Reinking suffered from severe schizophrenia and law enforcement took his guns away prior to the incident. The father gave the guns back to his son a few months prior to the shooting.

A woman was found deceased in a cornfield in the Town of Raymond in 1999. It took 20 years for police to identify the victim and find her killer, Linda LaRoche, who was a registered nurse living in Cape Coral, Florida.

Chai Vang unintentionally trespassed on private hunting land in northern Wisconsin. This led to an altercation and he claimed self-defense after shooting 6 dead and wounding 2.