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00:00Every year, historic Grapevine, Texas, celebrates Christmas with a bang.
00:10Grapevine is the Christmas capital of Texas.
00:15There's no way you can visit and not be in a happy, jolly mood.
00:20But in 2011, the celebration of peace on Earth and goodwill towards man is shattered by an eerie 911 call.
00:29Hello, Grapevine 911?
00:33You need help?
00:35Hello?
00:37Something terrible must have happened.
00:39You could tell that they were still gathered in that area where they were celebrating Christmas.
00:43I think they were, uh, surprised.
00:47Who could have committed this horrific attack?
00:51When you look at how these individuals have been murdered, it's personal.
00:57I could see the spiral start to happen.
01:02Police try desperately to make sense of this nightmare on Christmas.
01:09It definitely was pushed by the fact that it was in the holiday season.
01:13The End
01:18I'll see you next time.
01:48It's all about how the town of Bedford Falls comes together to overcome evil with the help of an angel.
01:59Just northwest of Dallas-Fort Worth is a place that has become the Texas version of Bedford Falls.
02:07Grapevine, Texas is the historic town that hosts over 1,000 Christmas-related events in the 40 days leading up to Christmas.
02:18But on December 25, 2011, this little town faces pure evil.
02:31So, it was Christmas Day, and I was spending the afternoon and dinner time with my then-boyfriend and his family.
02:47I had texted Sara, Merry Christmas, earlier in the morning, but she didn't text back.
02:55And that wasn't really out of the ordinary just because, you know, it's Christmas.
03:00Sara Zoray, Vivian Ta's best friend, is visiting her family in Grapevine, Texas.
03:08Vivian is not alarmed when Sara doesn't text her back on Christmas Day until she gets a call from their mutual friend, Simon.
03:17Um, and that was, like, one of the weirdest conversations I've ever had just because I understood all the words that he was telling me,
03:31but, like, my brain did not want to, like, believe it.
03:36And so, like, I remember being like, wait a minute, so, like, how, like, is our okay?
03:40I remember it like yesterday.
03:48We got the 911 call around 11.30.
03:51Grapevine 911, where is your emergency?
03:55Hello, Grapevine 911?
03:58You need help?
04:00911 calls come throughout.
04:02It's normal business, if you will, in police work.
04:05It doesn't matter what day of the week or if it is a holiday.
04:08What was unusual about this particular call is this was a whispering voice
04:13and it was hard to understand what they were trying to say.
04:19Do you need help?
04:23Are you sick?
04:27What was that?
04:29Do you need an ambulance or police?
04:34Hello?
04:34This was a landline call, so the address would populate when the call was made into the 911 center.
04:42We want to make sure that there is not an emergency and that people are safe.
04:46So the officers responded accordingly.
04:51The call was very eerie.
04:54It was difficult to hear and understand what the caller was saying.
05:00So the police responding were going blindly because they didn't have information as to what was going on.
05:08So when the officers arrived at the scene, it was extremely quiet.
05:15They didn't hear anything.
05:16That's what you do.
05:17And the entire time you're approaching the origin of the call,
05:21you're evaluating what you're seeing, hearing, smelling.
05:25And in this case, there was nothing.
05:27So they went to the door.
05:29They knocked on the door.
05:31Again, no response.
05:35They probably didn't think that it was going to be a serious ordeal because this is a very safe community and it's Christmas Day.
05:43The officer took it upon himself to peer into the windows to see if he could see anything.
05:51And when he did that, he did see a pair of legs lying on the ground, not moving.
05:58He actually went to another window to see a different view and he actually saw more people in the same position, lying on the floor without any movement.
06:08They request permission to breach entry, forced entry, because it's without a search warrant, but it's exigent circumstances.
06:18So that emergency allows the officers to enter into that apartment.
06:23That's what they did.
06:26It didn't take long to determine what they had at hand.
06:32When first responders opened the door, they're caught completely off guard by a shocking scene.
06:38Amongst the backdrop of holiday cheer are multiple dead bodies that appear to have been shot while opening their presents on Christmas morning.
06:51Two middle-aged females.
06:55A young female in her 20s, one in her late teens.
06:59A young man about 14 years old and two middle-aged males.
07:05They had a pretty good idea that the shooter was in the apartment because they had to breach the apartment and get inside.
07:13First responders immediately check for signs of life.
07:17They sweep the other rooms to determine if there's an active shooter or any other victims inside the home.
07:24Once the scene is cleared, they notify headquarters, and the entire Grapevine Police Department is put on alert.
07:32It appeared from the officers that were there at the scene, what they described was that the Christmas gifts had already been open prior to the shooting.
07:49Then, the first responders spots something that almost makes their hearts stop.
07:57Someone everyone knows and loves lying prone on the floor.
08:03He's dressed as Santa, and only he knows why he chose that.
08:14Could it be simply because he wanted to put the family at ease?
08:20Or could it be that the person dressed as the symbol of Christmas was in fact evil in disguise?
08:27Grapevine, Texas, 2011.
08:37Nowhere in the entire Lone Star State is Christmas treated with such enthusiasm.
08:43So, the carnage that Grapevine, Texas, police discover on Christmas Day is even more shocking.
08:55Grapevine calls itself the Christmas capital of the state.
09:00It's practically enshrined Christmas cheer into the law.
09:04What occurred on Christmas morning is so painful to grasp anywhere, but perhaps here, most of all.
09:15So, in 2011, we opened our presents early, and I got a text from the city manager that said our police department and public servants were working a crime scene.
09:28They were apparently seven people dead in the apartment.
09:36My first thought was, no, it couldn't be not in Grapevine, Texas.
09:39We're a safe city.
09:41We never do have anything like this.
09:45It's a deep sadness, you know, seven people killed on Christmas Day.
09:52How does that happen?
09:53The victims in the Grapevine apartment look like their family members caught unawares by a shooter while they opened presents.
10:04Why would someone want to annihilate an entire family on what should be the happiest day of the year?
10:12The holidays, for most people, are a joyous time of getting together and this and that.
10:19And even though those individuals are looking forward to the event and spending time with family, it's still stressful.
10:25There's extra cooking, cleaning, all of those things that go along.
10:28But for vulnerable individuals that might not have support or might be going through some kind of internal conflict,
10:37it might be the trigger that pushes them over the edge to a violent episode.
10:44Grapevine police will not begin to know a motive until they first identify the victims.
10:52A forensic unit begins processing the scene and officers start knocking on doors.
10:59So when you have a crime scene like this where you have seven deceased people and making identification is extremely important
11:07because it kind of tells you who belongs where.
11:13You canvass out that area and try to find anybody that may have any type of information related to the crime.
11:21So when you canvass in the area, to their surprise, they didn't find anybody that heard any gunshots.
11:34Usually you have a gunshot, whether it's one or multiple, then you'll receive numerous 911 calls.
11:40But only one person made a 911 call from that murder scene.
11:45Finding out who made this call would help them to determine what happened on this Christmas Day.
11:51They called dispatch and asked them to call back the number that the 911 call came from.
12:02They heard a phone ringing.
12:03It's possible that this call was made by a victim that was hiding from his or her assailant.
12:23It's also possible that this call was the last communication from the last living person amongst these seven people.
12:34Grapevine detectives discover the landline belongs to a woman named Fatima Nasrin Ramati, who leases the apartment.
12:42In this case, we were fortunate that we were able to get most of the names from driver's licenses that were either on them or nearby.
12:52And from there, we pulled their driver's license photos from a database and compared them to the people we had there at the scene.
13:01Accurant is a subscriber database that is used in investigations regularly because it not only identifies members of the household, but potential relatives.
13:11And from that information, we can make a pretty good determination.
13:17We knew three of those people lived in that apartment.
13:21We determined that it was a mother, a teenage daughter, and a 14-year-old son.
13:28Fatima has two children, a boy, Ali, and a beautiful daughter, 19-year-old Nona.
13:35My name is Catherine Ann Coronado, and I was one of Nona's high school best friends.
13:44I was a sophomore going into a new school, new area, didn't know anybody.
13:48And I will never forget that this girl with long black hair walked right up to me, and she said,
13:58Hi, my name's Nona.
13:59You don't know me, and I just want to tell you, you are so pretty.
14:04Can we be friends?
14:06Nona was such a free-spirited person, and she was very sociable.
14:10She still didn't know what she wanted to do.
14:14She just wanted to get into college.
14:16She just wanted to help her family.
14:19She loved her family.
14:24Police ID the victims who actually live in the home, but who are the others?
14:29We had three other people that had a common address in Irving, Texas, so clearly they did
14:38not live there.
14:39We determined from their information, the three that lived in Irving, that it was a mother,
14:45father, and a daughter.
14:49The daughter is Sara Zoray, Vivian Ta's friend.
14:54So Sara and I met in college.
14:56She was majoring in biology.
15:00She wanted to become a medical doctor.
15:03She was always super caring, and, you know, just wanted to make things better in general
15:08for everyone, you know, and so that was a big reason why she was drawn to that occupation.
15:15She was very warm to everyone that she met, super, super generous, her and her family as
15:21well.
15:23Sara was close with her family in general.
15:25She had a big family, a lot of cousins, aunts, uncles, and it was just, everyone was just
15:30all, like, one big happy group.
15:33Nona's mother, Fatima, is the sister of Sara's mother, Zora.
15:38The middle-aged female that lived in Irving was the sister to the person that resided in
15:48the apartment.
15:50Police approached the last body lying on the floor, dressed in a Santa costume.
15:56They see a cell phone.
15:58Did Santa try to call 9-1-1?
16:05A phone was located.
16:07It was on the ground.
16:08In fact, the battery cover had come off as if it had been dropped, but it was located
16:13next to the individual in the Santa suit.
16:15And then they see something very alarming.
16:20Santa has a gun.
16:25This is shocking.
16:27It's possible that he was trying to defend himself from the assailant, or could it be that
16:33this was the murder weapon?
16:34He was wearing a Santa Claus costume.
16:40You know, that is a, you could call it a splashy detail, but it's also a tragic detail, considering
16:47the circumstances.
16:49To Santa's left is Sara Zora's father.
16:53In his hand, another confusing detail to add to the crime scene.
16:58To the shock of the investigators, a man to the left of Santa in an easy chair also has
17:05a weapon.
17:06He's holding a Smith & Wesson handgun.
17:09Seeing two firearms in plain view, the officers would have had to try to determine, are these
17:17the weapons involved?
17:20Two men, each holding guns.
17:23It begs the question, is one of them the killer, and one the victim?
17:33Instead of celebrating Christmas with their families, detectives in Grapevine, Texas, are
17:38investigating a tragic Christmas morning murder scene.
17:43Police have identified two families connected by two sisters, who are targeted Christmas morning
17:492011.
17:53The Yazdan Panahs and the Zoraes are originally from Iran, but they're Americans now, and they
18:01have embraced Christmas traditions.
18:04To go into any scene, especially on a Christmas day, and to see seven people deceased, it's unimaginable.
18:15And to have somebody in a Santa suit, and seeing two firearms in plain view, you just can't connect
18:26those kind of dots.
18:28It's a highly irrational situation and scene.
18:30You evaluate the scene when you get there to see if there may be anything related to your
18:47crime scene.
18:48And of course, vehicles are not unusual.
18:51In this case, there was a white Toyota 4Runner.
18:54In running the registration, we were able to determine that the person in the Santa suit also appeared
19:01to be the same registered owner to the Toyota 4Runner.
19:04We were able to determine the identity as the person in the Santa suit as Aziz Yazdan Panahs.
19:13He is the estranged husband of Fatima, who's leasing the apartment, and he's also the father
19:21of her two children.
19:22The other person that was at the scene with the pistol was identified as the brother-in-law
19:34of Aziz as Muhammad.
19:37Two brothers-in-law, Aziz and Muhammad, both dead.
19:43And both have guns in their hands.
19:45They have to evaluate the scene to figure out who shot who, how they were shot, where
19:52they were shot from.
19:55And there's another confounding detail.
19:59A specialist noticed that the blinds had been moved or changed.
20:05When he opened the blinds, he realized there was blood spatter on the outside of the blinds,
20:10and clearly the shooting had taken place inside the apartment.
20:15And then also, the wand that you used to manipulate the blinds to open and close had blood on one
20:22side, but not the other.
20:23So we concluded that somebody inside of the apartment, after the shooting, had closed the
20:31blinds.
20:32For Grapevine detectives, this presents another possible scenario.
20:36Perhaps Muhammad and Aziz were defending their family from someone else, someone that fled
20:44the scene.
20:46We knew immediately that this was, you know, uncharted territory, not only for the police
20:52department, but for the citizens of Grapevine to have to learn that this happened in their
20:58city.
20:59You could tell that they were still gathered in that area where they were celebrating
21:03Christmas.
21:03It didn't appear that, you know, there was any type of struggle.
21:08I think they were surprised.
21:13I don't think at that point I released a lot of information.
21:17I believe I just gave them the amount of victims.
21:21That's a number that jumps out.
21:23That's not normal.
21:24That's not normal anywhere.
21:26That's not normal on Christmas Day anywhere.
21:29In a Christmas Day tragedy in Texas, four women and three men were found shot to death in
21:34their home, apparently, after opening their Christmas gifts.
21:38In 2011, I was a news reporter for KXAS, the NBC-affiliated television station here in Dallas-Fort Worth.
21:45I had gotten a phone call from a news manager.
21:51Some of the details, of course, weren't yet to fully come out yet, but there wasn't any
21:56question as to what the story of the day was going to be.
21:59It's still early in this investigation, obviously, though this did play out some almost 24 hours
22:04ago.
22:04No, there is no known motive, at least as one that police are telling us about.
22:08I think it was the largest Christmas massacre in the history of this country at that time.
22:15I couldn't imagine what our police and paramedics were having to deal with in a crime scene like
22:23that.
22:24It became a national story really quick.
22:27It's the chilling sound of near silence on the other end of a 911 call.
22:33Not long after that, police in Grapevine, Texas, near Dallas, found seven bodies in an apartment.
22:39It wasn't long after that that I was getting calls nonstop, and that included international
22:48media.
22:48I was receiving calls as far away as Australia.
22:52It's certainly amplified, given the fact that it is Christmas today.
22:56And I feel like, you know, I can speak safely for the rest of the police department.
23:00I don't think any members of the police department has encountered something like this on Christmas
23:04Day.
23:05The murders continue to grab worldwide attention as investigators try to learn exactly what
23:12happened.
23:15But you can't commit yourself to whatever your theory is.
23:20You have to prove that by the evidence at hand.
23:23You have to prove that painstakingly, piece by piece, piece of information by piece of
23:29information, to determine in your best ability what exactly happened.
23:34The investigators relied on the cell phone information from the victims to really nail down the time
23:45that this crime occurred.
23:47We were fortunate in the sense that we had phones, and they have date and time stamps.
23:54Detectives used the cell phone data to determine that Zara sent a text message at 1115 AM on Christmas
24:02Day.
24:03The 911 call came in at 1134 AM.
24:07And so it's determined that the time frame between 1115 and 1134 was when this massacre occurred.
24:16Sarra's text reveals nothing to explain how or why the shooting occurs just minutes later.
24:26Investigators immediately reach out to people who receive texts or phone calls from the victims.
24:32The 14-year-old boy, just 12 minutes before he was killed, called a friend and wished him Merry Christmas.
24:41So he was relaxed, and he thought everything was well.
24:4512 minutes later, he's dead.
24:49Police speak to Ali's friend.
24:51He says there's nothing strange about this family.
24:55Ali's parents are separated, but that's not unusual.
24:58The boy's father has only good things to say about Aziz.
25:03One of the nicest guys I'd ever met, he was one of those that enjoyed buying drinks or dinner
25:10for his friends.
25:11We had several sources that we spoke with that refer to Aziz as a non-violent person.
25:19The same goes for Sarra's dad, Muhammad.
25:23No one can imagine him ever being violent.
25:26Her parents were, like, like the best people ever.
25:34They often had a lot of events, like, at their house.
25:38They made me feel so welcomed, which is why they're so loved by the community.
25:45Then police learn about Nona's boyfriend.
25:48He was a little bit of an older guy.
25:54He was, you know, unfortunately a high school dropout.
25:57But, you know, she always told me, like, he did care about her a lot.
26:01What we learned from the daughter's closest friend, she was able to share that she did not like
26:10this boyfriend.
26:12She always felt like they were always arguing about something.
26:15I always told her she could do so much better.
26:17I'm like, you have so much more potential, but, you know, if this is somebody you really,
26:21you know, want to enjoy, then, you know, be your boyfriend, then so be it.
26:25And he also didn't get along with Nona's dad.
26:33Nona's boyfriend had once been arrested, and detectives learned that she's actually the one
26:39who bonded him out.
26:41This is concerning, because given his background, it's possible that he could be a suspect in this case.
26:47I think that that played a big part in a lot of the drama.
26:57At this point, investigators are thinking, is Nona's boyfriend the key to this horrendous crime?
27:05Is he the one who closes the blinds after murdering seven people?
27:17Investigators in Grapevine, Texas, are dealing with a shocking tragedy.
27:23Christmas Day, 2011, seven people shot dead, including one man dressed as Santa.
27:33News agencies around the world pick up the story.
27:36Police are under pressure to come up with answers.
27:39The boyfriend was interviewed, and he provided some important information for Christmas.
27:48He had a pretty good alibi.
27:50We looked into his information, and what we were able to determine is he was with two friends
27:58at their apartment, and, in fact, there were text messages where he was trying to reach out
28:04and trying to contact Nona.
28:05Police also learn Nona and her father, Aziz, the victim dressed as Santa, have argued since she was a teen girl.
28:17When she was in high school, the father put up security cameras and would even board her door at night
28:23just to keep her from sneaking out.
28:25So, clearly, there were issues there with following her parents' wishes.
28:30But Aziz does not hold himself to the same standards he expects of his daughter.
28:38Although Aziz had high expectations for his family, he did not live up to these expectations himself.
28:45It was learned that he had a history of picking up prostitutes,
28:51and this is something that was very much against his belief system.
28:57A friend of Aziz shared information that indicated that Muhammad and Aziz would get together,
29:04reportedly to go on hunting or fishing trips,
29:07when, in fact, they were going to hotels and meeting with prostitutes.
29:12He believes the brother-in-law, Muhammad, had shared that with his wife regarding Aziz doing these activities,
29:22but he didn't reveal his participation,
29:25and that caused a big rift between him and Aziz.
29:28What we found out about Aziz is that at one point in time, he was a very successful businessman.
29:38He lost his livelihood when there was an embargo placed on his country origin, which was Iran,
29:47and because he could not import goods from his country,
29:53and that's how he was a successful businessman,
29:56was selling these artifacts and items from Iran.
30:00He lost his entire business.
30:03He did try to work at other businesses.
30:07I believe real estate was one of those that he attempted to make a go at it,
30:12and he just was not successful.
30:15So his wife and his family suffered financially because of his situation.
30:23Nona started looking for a job.
30:25She was working at a bakery for a little bit.
30:27Then she moved to working at a restaurant.
30:29She was just doing everything she could to just save up money for herself,
30:32but also to help her mom.
30:35Fatima appeared to be a very proud woman,
30:39a woman who dearly loved her children,
30:42but she was also in a difficult place.
30:46Again, being proud, she just couldn't stay with Aziz anymore,
30:50and that's why she moved out.
30:53Finally, the medical examiner's report comes back.
30:57It tells investigators a lot,
30:59revealing how each victim is shot.
31:02When you look at how these individuals have been murdered,
31:08it's personal.
31:09They've been shot in the head.
31:14Aziz's family has been shot in the head one time,
31:18execution style.
31:20The niece shot in the head.
31:22However, there are two of them that stand out in the manner in the amount of times that they were shot.
31:32Zora and her husband, Mohammed, have both been shot three times compared to all the other victims that were shot one time.
31:43Zora was shot three times in the head.
31:47Her husband was shot once in the head, which is consistent with the other victims,
31:51but then he was also shot twice in the abdominal area.
31:59And why?
32:01Why are they different?
32:02Why were they killed in another manner?
32:04It's a question that stands out that needs to be answered.
32:07The post-mortem, of course, does not reveal a motive behind the murders,
32:13but it confirms something else detectives already suspect.
32:20The medical examiner's information revealed that one of the victims died from self-inflicted gunshot.
32:29The person that was in the Santa suit had committed suicide.
32:33Aziz, y'all stoppina.
32:42On this case, it's my opinion that Aziz is a family annihilator.
32:52Family annihilation is not a common event.
32:57However, it is the most common form still of mass shootings within the United States.
33:04We don't tend to hear about it as often as it occurs.
33:10And it isn't until we get to a case like this one where there are so many victims that it actually makes the news.
33:19It happened Christmas Day in the state of Texas.
33:21Tonight, Brandon Todd explains how the holiday quickly turned into a nightmare for this family.
33:26There's a final twist revealed in that medical examiner's report.
33:31A twist that shows how Aziz tries to implicate his own brother-in-law in the murders.
33:40This particular scene was highly unusual in the sense that I've never seen a staged crime scene of a violent nature.
33:48They've had these 911 tapes.
33:53They've been going over and over and over them trying to listen and hear what's on there because the voice on there is very faint.
33:59They needed additional software brought in to identify exactly what he was saying.
34:04They've been able to do that now.
34:06We're going to play it for you so you can hear it for yourself.
34:08Do you need help?
34:12Are you sick?
34:13Apparently Yazdampana was trying to cover up this crime and make it look like it was a shootout there that his brother-in-law perhaps was responsible for these murders.
34:30In this case, placing a pistol in Muhammad's hand.
34:38He had a pistol in his right hand, but he did not have the indications that he would have been a shooter.
34:47Based on his injuries, based on the blood spatter, there's also the pistol had blood on the handle that was not consistent with the blood that was on Muhammad's hand.
35:06It is Aziz' blood on the handle and Aziz' bloody fingerprints on the blinds.
35:14When you have a scene, it's, if you will, connecting all the dots, all the dots you can.
35:21If Aziz' residents revealed information that can tie him to those weapons, that's important.
35:30But also because we now know that he committed suicide, it's not common, but it's not uncommon for people to leave a suicide note.
35:40And so that would be important, too.
35:43And that's why we conducted the search at the residence.
35:52No note was found regarding his suicide at the residence.
35:55We did find numerous other indications of contraband, if you will, that tied him to the pistols that were there.
36:11Holsters, ammunition.
36:14And also, I believe we even found receipts for two of the weapons.
36:18What most likely happened that Christmas Day is that Aziz showed up to his family's celebration wearing a Sansa costume.
36:29His family probably thought that he was just being in the jolly mood and maybe trying to make amends with his estranged wife and his children.
36:39However, in reality, Aziz was most likely using that costume to hide the two weapons.
36:54Grapevine, Texas, 2011.
36:56The iconic Christmas celebrations in this Texas town are now marred by a horrifying murder-suicide.
37:05The tightly-knit community wants answers.
37:09Why did a man named Aziz Yazdan Panah perpetrate such a horrible act?
37:17This isn't a whodunit.
37:19It's a whodunit.
37:20So I remember having a specific conversation of, wait, he was, okay, he was wearing a Santa Claus costume when he killed his entire family.
37:29You know, I'm a father, you know, I know what a family gathering is like, I know what family strife feels like, I know what bad feelings are like.
37:43But what person would ever consider doing that, even if you have all the facts, we'll never know, we'll never get it.
37:56Again, the big question, obviously, is the motive in this case.
38:01Perhaps it may never be known.
38:03We do expect to learn more information from Grapevine police later this morning.
38:09Anytime you have a homicide like that, you still investigate it like you have a suspect that you need to make a case on to take to trial.
38:18Knowing that what our detectives did, how many family members that they spoke with, friends, a multitude of friends, and just making sure that they were covering the bases and trying to develop something that was a plausible motive to it, and it took a long time.
38:38We learned that his sister-in-law did not think highly of Aziz.
38:46She looked at him as a failure, as a provider for the family, and I think Aziz took that very personal.
38:55He did not like his sister-in-law at all.
39:02To me, she came across as a strong woman who's not afraid to voice her opinion, and that did not set well with Aziz.
39:12Everyone was of the opinion that Aziz headed out for his sister-in-law.
39:23It was a very strained relationship.
39:27She did not respect him, and many people alluded to this, that he seemed to blame her for everything that was wrong in his life.
39:37Then Aziz hears about the Zoray's Christmas Eve party, to which the entire extended family is invited, except for him.
39:49One of the things that came out was Aziz felt slighted that he wasn't invited to a Christmas party that was held by his brother and sister-in-law.
40:00What was, I think, what upset him more was previously at Thanksgiving, they had all been together, and they reportedly had a great family gathering.
40:12And I think that gave him some false hope, because then came Christmas Eve, big family party.
40:18He was not invited.
40:20His family was there.
40:22I think he felt not only offended, but slighted.
40:24Aziz's absence at the Christmas party, people would have noticed that.
40:32They were all a very close-knit group, and the whole family was there except for the husband.
40:37And he just looked at this as another step of interfering with his relationship with his family.
40:46And from that came Christmas Day, the next day.
40:49The family had a plan that day.
40:57He had begged to attend Christmas Day to give his children gifts.
41:04The mother was not excited about that, so they came up with the plan that they would have lunch, he would show up, he would give them their gifts,
41:14and then they would have to leave to go attend the Dallas Mavericks basketball game.
41:19He clearly had a plan to do what he did.
41:28You don't just take two firearms and put them in a Santa suit and go have lunch with your family and then shoot them.
41:37He was at a deep, dark place of despair, and I just think it took all rationale from him, and he did what he did.
41:52Because in his mind, I feel like he felt there was nothing else left to do but exact revenge.
41:58I want the world to remember, and those that did know Nona and her family, who they were, and the light that they carried, the light that she carried.
42:15She really carried her family in such a positive way.
42:19It's harsh.
42:25I am a very blessed person.
42:28I've been married to the love of my life for over 36 years.
42:32We have two beautiful grown children.
42:35And to see a beautiful family killed, or two beautiful families killed by an individual, it affected me deeply.
42:45And a strange husband, fueled by anger and bent on revenge, it all added up to the Christmas spirit gone horribly wrong for a family who wanted only to embrace the warmest of holidays.
43:08I'm Nancy Grace.
43:11Thank you for joining us here on The Christmas Killings.
43:38Thank you for joining us here on The Christmas Killings.
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