Christmas…
The festival of love, peace and friendship.
Well, allow me to ruin that image for you with four true Christmas tales of death and murder.
Aziz Yazdanpanah, called Bob by his friends, did not have an easy life.
His financial problems were so severe that his wife and he had to declare bankruptcy
in late 2010 and during the process the couple even split up because of theise troubles.
Together with their two teenage children, his wife moved out of the shared apartment.
On Christmas Day 2011, Yazdanpanah came to visit the Christmas party of his wife's
family. Despite the problems the married couple had in the past, he was welcomed with open arms.
According to texts sent by Yazdanpanah's niece Sara Fatemeh Zarei, Yazdanpanah arrived
shortly before 11 p.m.
He was dressed as Santa and acted very overbearing and festive, acting as if he was "trying
to win father of the year".
At 11.34 p.m. Grapevine police received a 911 call but couldn't make out what was
said.
In a later examination of the audio, screams for help could be heard and Yazdanpanah, who
had apparently placed the call himself, could be heard saying "I am shooting people!"
After killing his family, Yazdanpanah placed a gun in the hand of his dead brother-in-law
before shooting himself.
The motive for this horrible murder-suicide aren't fully known, but the police suspects
that his marital and financial problems led to his actions.
Even before Christmas Eve 1881, the Gibbons' family hasnn't been the most lucky family
in the world – John and Martha Gibbons often fought when John was home too often or too
long and their son Robert had just recently lost his leg in a car accident – but they
were nonetheless just another normal family living in the normal, boring town of Ashland,
Kentucky.
The Gibbons had three children, 17-year-old John, 14-year-old Fanny and 11-year-old Sterling.
Especially Fanny, a beautiful and lively young girl, was very well-liked in the neighborhood.
But all this changed in one fateful night.
John Gibbons was off, working in another city, as he often did, and Martha had taken her
youngest son, Sterling, for a family visit out of Ashland, leaving Robert and Fanny alone
with Fanny's 15-year-old friend Emma Carrlco.
Emma's mother kept an eye on the house and heard the kids laughing and enjoying themselves
until they went to sleep in the evening.
When she woke up at 4 in the morning on Christmas Eve, the house was quiet.
Two hours later, though, when she looked at the house again, she saw flames.
The house was burning.
Screaming for help, she ran outside but when the townspeople entered the house, all three
kids were already dead – though not from the fire.
It was soon discovered that the children's heads were bashed in, a later examination
revealed that both Fanny and Emma had been raped prior to their deaths.
This enraged the townspeople who went up in arms, searching for the culprit.
They quickly set their sights on John Gibbons, Robert and Fanny's father, as the culprit
but he was quickly exonerated when he could prove that he had been in West Virginia the
whole time.
The real culprits were soon found when a man named George Ellis confessed and named his
two accomplices, William Neal and George Craft.
Ellis' accomplices were both sentenced to death and hanged while Ellis was sentenced
to life in prison.
Shortly after his conviction, though, a mob of people in black hoods broke Ellis out of
prison and hanged him outside the city.
Brian Hennessy was in a relationship but when he lusted for another woman on Christmas 2008,
he ruined not only his own life but took the lives of three others as well.
Sharon Whelan was living alone with her two daughters Zara and Nadia in the Irish town
of Windgap.
She did not know Hennessy particularly well.
He was her postman but the two did not share more than a passing acquaintance.
Despite this, he entered her house on Christmas morning.
Now, Hennessy claims that Whelan invited him in and the two had consensual sex afterwards.
The more widely accepted story, however, is that he forced his way inside and raped Whelan.
Whichever one is true, the end result is the same: Scared that she might tell his girlfriend
– or the Gardaí – Hennessy strangled Whelan to death.
Only when he was standing over her dead body, did he realize the severity of what he had
done.
He realized that he had killed the mother of two little girls, two and seven years old,
on Christmas morning.
Deeply ashamed and scared of being found out, Hennessy set the house on fire and fled.
He was, however, quickly caught and arrested.
On trial, Hennessy confessed under tears and was sentenced to three life sentences.
His sentence has since been reduced to one life sentence and since early 2015, Hennessy
has been considered for parole.
While he is still in prison at the time this video is published, he might be free
again very soon.
The Ortega family from Covina, Los Angeles, had a nice little Christmas tradition.
During their celebration, a neighbor would come in in a Santa Claus costume and spread
some joy among the children.
In 2008, however, this friendly neighbor moved away.
And the Santa Claus that visited the party in his place had a far more sinister plan.
Bruce Jeffrey Pardo's one year marriage ended in a bitter divorce only one week before
Christmas.
He did not have a known history of violence but while his wife handled the divorce rather
well and attended her family's Christmas party to distract herself and enjoy the holiday,
Pardo was unable to move on.
On the 24th of December, Pardo donned the red suit and white beard of Santa Claus, armed
himself with four handguns and wrapped a very special "present" for the family of his
wife.
He knocked at the door of Joseph Ortega, his ex-wife's father.
He was let in by the 8-year-old daughter of Leticia Yuzefpolsky, a close relative of his
former wife.
Without hesitation he shot the girl in the face and opened fire on the other party guests.
Panic broke out, people were running, jumping through windows, doing anything to stay alive.
Pardo aimed for close relatives of his wife, killing her and her parents among other members
of the family.
Then he unpacked the "gift", he had brought: A home made flamethrower which he used to
set the house on fire before fleeing to his brother's home where he was found the next
day, dead, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
Pardo had killed nine people that night and injured three more.
Luckily, the young girl that opened the door for him survived the massacre and, although
she has lost her grandparents, her uncles and aunts and a cousin that night, her mother
makes it a point to celebrate Christmas with her every year so she can at least find some
joy in this season that has been tainted for her by the memories of this event.
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