What did the Man who wear Santa suit do after he kills his family?
After the attack, Pardo put on his street clothes and drove his Dodge Caliber rental car to his brother’s house in Sylmar, approximately 30 miles away from the crime scene, where he was later found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. His brother was not present in the home and he broke inside to enter in. It was initially believed that Pardo intended to flee to Canada by plane as he had bought an airline ticket to a flight on Air Canada; however, subsequent reporting on CNN indicated that the flight was on Air Canada airlines from Los Angeles to Moline, Illinois (with a layover in Minnesota), where Pardo planned to visit a high school friend for two weeks. The CNN report also indicated that Pardo had visited this high school friend and played with this person’s children as recently as October, 2008. However, due to suffering from severe third-degree burns on his arms stemming from the blaze, he decided to go against the initial plan. Police found $17,000 in cash cling-wrapped on
