Christmas is a day for giving, kindness and to treasure loved ones, but some of the most brutal crimes have been carried out in the run up, or even on, Christmas Day.
What makes some of these killers even more twisted was that they either portrayed Santa himself or carried out horror attacks on their own loved ones - who were left blind-sighted to their deadly fate.Below we have rounded up just some of the shocking crimes that have taken place between Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.The Santa of CovinaBruce Pardo decided to walk into his ex-wife's family home a week before their divorce was finalised and started a shooting rampage on Christmas Eve in 2008.The 45-year-old was sickeningly dressed up in a Santa Claus costume when he killed.
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