Man Used Homemade Flamethrower to Torch Parents

• Bruce's relationship with his own dad reportedly picked up when Bruce was in college, they were not together during his growing up years after his parent's separation when he was a very young child. But Bruce actually lived in his dad's house to save money when a young adult, prior to purchase of his own first house. (This is the same house owned now by Bruce's older brother Brad, a scant half-mile from the Oakridge park neighborhood that was incinerated, and where Bruce's mother Nancy Windsor lived.) Bruce, according to neighbors of Brads, did visit his brother from time to time. Bruce was very familiar with that area, and the park in the area where the fire may have started, and the high winds in the area which would whip up a small fire into a big one. Also, I noticed there was a golf resort adjacent. This doesn't seem terribly likely, actually kind of unlikely and only just possible, but I wonder if Sylvia would visit Bruce's mother and play golf ( she was an avid golfer), giving him more that one person in the area against whom he carried a murderous grudge. Even if not, he did apparently harbor enough ill will against his mother to want to incinerate her with his flamethrower by Christmastime, and apparently this ill will developed far earlier, back to her "betrayal" in telling Sylvia about his disable son when he was still lying about it to Sylvia. Motive, method, access. familiarity, disreguard for innocents "in the way"...enough to make him a potential suspect for arson in that area at the time of the Sayre fire, in my view. I recall the DC sniper was really after revenge against his ex-wife the whole time, and shot innocent people mostly to provide cover for murder of her. Natural fires higher in the hills might have been sufficient inspiration for him to whup out the flamethrower and give it a good test. A <strong>NOTE FROM STEVE: Um, did you read this post? It's about a crime in Europe, not Bruce Pardo. For all we know, Pardo knew about this and got his idea from it, but we'll never find out, since he's dead.</strong>

• I wonder if Bruce Pardo knew about this story. I personally think he might have been responsible for the Oakridge Park Mobile home neighborhood fire. Not only did he have a murderous rage against his mother, his brother lived a scant half-mile from her, in his deceased father's former home ( the home he drove after his attendance at the Ortega Christmas party, in front of which he blew his brains out.) Think he knew the area? Think he had a fire-machine to put together and test? I can't imagine authorities would ignore that set of coincidences. I imagine they would look into it, if only to try and rule him out as an arsonist.

• The son obviously had issues. I mean to go to that extent is unreal. He should have put that much effort into doing something good. How anyone could do that, not to mention to your own parents, is sickening. The human mind is so fragile it's scary.

• As we live longer and longer, as a species, I suspect we'll see more and more of this kind of crime, whether born of psychosis or other reasons. I'm reminded of this woman I used to know who tends to her ailing, elderly mother, who effectively turned a blind eye to various stepfathers and stepsons sexually abusing her daughter. I wouldn't be surprised to read something like thise in the paper, involving them. Elder abuse or payback? Who knows.

• lol...thanks Steve~o ;)

• I fixed it. You're not (that) mental ;)

• please tell me that I saw in~laws in the title and you changed it LOL... if not I need more coffee :-)

• Steve, was it his parents or his in~laws? Wasn't sure with your title? Either/or....this is one nasty way to die! Especially for the poor woman with no legs...but two eyes to see that fire coming for her.

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