This 82 Year Old’s Obituary Is So Savage That It Left Her Son Speechless

[Music] Elwin Crocker works as an in-store Santa Claus for Walmart but he's certainly not the character he plays for Christmas it's December 20th 2018 and police stand on his property ready to dig after their dogs have signaled where they should do so and as they rip up the earth they uncover the stand in st. Nick's grim secret before the police showed up at Crocker's home he had once played the part of Santa Claus at a Rincon Georgia Walmart Adelman Gaytan a quiet farming community he and his wife Candace spent time raising his children Mary and Elwin Jr Candace's mother Kim air boyfriend Roy also lived with him but life on the Crocker property wasn't as simple as it may have seen from the outside when the police came knocking they uncovered something so terrible that the sheriff nearly broke down in tears when his team found it and the local community of less than 2,000 people couldn't believe what their local Santa had done either not all Santa impersonators behave as kindly as the real Saint Nick in fact plenty of people employed to play the Christmas character or those who just happen to be wearing the suit have gotten in trouble with the law and some of them have committed more horrific crimes than others in December 2004 a man dressed as Santa called Elkin Donny Clark went on the attack at an Atlanta area shopping mall the ABC News crime blotter gave no motive for his actions but he became wildly violent towards senior citizen auntie Ruth Nelson namely he whacked her in the face and head with a 2x4 piece of wood when another person aja al Britton attempted to stop Clark's attack on the elderly woman he raised the board to her - but her intervention stopped the fight and the assailant apparently attempted to rid himself of evidence before the cops showed up namely he ditched the Santa hat and matching red shirt he had on at the time Clark was subsequently charged with aggravated assault on two counts on the other side of the country california-based Jesse boob became known to the Citrus Heights Police Department in 2017 as criminal Santa he didn't have the signature outfit on but borough had mimicked one of st. Nick's go-to moves in order to commit a crime according to time Beru trying to break into a business by sliding down its chimney however the plan didn't go as he envisioned like chubby Santa might be thief got stuck so he wiggled his body to give himself just enough room to call police for help firefighters wielded specialized equipment in order to free borough from the chimney and he got out of the precarious situation unhurt of course cops realized pretty quickly what Bruges plans had been and arrested him for burglary and his mug shot shows off all the soot from his failed Santa style robbery as it turns out donning a Santa suit during a robbery is a relatively common choice for crooks on December 22nd 2009 a st. Nick impersonate er waltzed into a Nashville Tennessee bank with his toy filled sack in hand and at first the customers thought he might be there to hand out gifts for their loyal patronage but this Santa had no intention of giving he only wanted to receive he whipped out a gun and apparently implored the tellers to give him the cash he needed to pay his elves according to the Daily Mail eyewitness richland Jones recalled it was a little unbelievable he was actually jovial which is scary that same year ohio-based anthony russo used a Santa suit and beard for an even more sinister purpose he attempted to kidnap a twelve-year-old girl to do so authorities said he hid in a bush with a box full of candy canes and a unicycle the deck with bells and a red bow when she walked by Russo left from his hiding spot and grabbed the little girl however she managed to wriggle away and report the attack thankfully it didn't take long for authorities to find and arrest the culprit which indicates that he might still have had his costume on when they cornered him santa's around the world of partying and criminal conduct while wearing the costume two children in Great Yarmouth and Norfolk England broke down in tears at a local Christmas procession in 2000 when they realized the man in red was going to jail after being arrested for fighting police locked the bearded assailant into handcuffs and whisked him away as fireworks cracked and glitter overhead sadly for him the English Santa had earned his place at the back of a patrol car the man had been hired as part of a Christmas event though he wasn't the father Christmas tasked with riding in the processional sleigh but as he stood in the market the faux st. Nick got into an altercation with a teenage attendee soon enough the Santa impersonator and the teenager were exchanging punches in front of families who had attended the Christmas processional according to the BBC children started to cry as they watch their holiday hero get into a fight and the tears continued when police cuffed and arrested the man in red in a statement Norfolk Police said some members of the public including families with children witnessed the incident these children were understandably concerned and upset at seeing what they thought was the real Santa being arrested fortunately police had a solution to assuage their fears after arresting the Santa impersonator police tracked to the station was some of the distraught children in tow there they explained that the man responsible for the fight wasn't the real Santa and that's why he was arrested and detained eventually though Norfolk authorities released the phone st. Nick with a caution the Norfolk Police ended their statement with a bit of advice that was inspired by the big man himself they said we're certain the real Santa would not approve of people behaving in this way and of course he will continue his pre Christmas visits and delivery of gifts everywhere on Christmas Day not all Santa related crimes end in such a wholesome way and sometimes people in st. Nick garb commit unforgivable crimes behind the suit and that's what happened on Christmas Eve 2008 in Covina California when Bruce Jeffrey Pardo lost his job and struggled with a divorce triggering him to go on a rampage Pardo formerly employed in the aerospace industry put on a Santa costume and carried a large present with him he then knocked on the door of a Christmas party held at a two-story house what a young girl answered the door she may have even thought the man on the other side was actually Saint Nick himself however the man at the door was part of and he had prepared to Massacre the people inside the house he shot the young girl who let him in in the face although she would ultimately survive the night then he went on the attack firing at the 25 people who had come over to celebrate the holiday some lead through windows or hid behind furniture trying to save their lives most of those who part off shot were inconsequential to him though he'd come to the party looking for one person in particular his ex-wife Sylvia the pair hadn't separated amicably and he still owed her the $10,000 she'd earned in their divorce settlement after losing his job though it had apparently become tough to make the payments at the end of his rampage Pardo had murdered his ex-wife as well as her parents Alicia and James Ortega six other people died although not all of them died from gunshot wounds horrific ly the Santa costume killer eventually unwrapped the present he'd brought along with him to reveal a flamethrower to end his nightmare rampage Pardo doused the house at accelerant before lighting it up with a flamethrower it took seconds for the property to go up in flames killing those left alive inside of the building after that the costume mass murder went to one of his brothers houses and ended his own life and then there was Ellen Crocker senior the man who'd found work as an in-store Santa at a rink in Georgia Walmart on the outside the man may have seemed to be a good candidate for the job his own birthday fell on Christmas Day and he had three children of his own Crocker had three children living in his Guyton Georgia trailer his youngest son James had zero Bell palsy and lived at home his other boy Alwyn jr. Crocker and his daughter Mary also used to live there and go to school in the area Jr went to South effington middle school and Mary went to Ethington County middle school for a few years later eventually though both jr. and Mary left their traditional schools in favor of homeschooling the former left first as a sixth grader in 2014 and he'd remained a visible part of the close-knit Gaytan community of 2,000 people until November 2016 after that no one could remember seeing jr. around town then Mary withdrew from school in 2018 and the family said she left Gaytan to move in with her biological mother in South Carolina and crackers house had grown crowded he lived there as did his wife Candace Crocker his mother-in-law Kim Wright and her boyfriend Roy Anthony Prater of course for adults plus three children would equal tight quarters Mary's departure didn't sit well with some people however consequently the police received a tip-off that suggested the young girl was possibly missing or even dead so the cops went to speak to Crocker at his property indictment in the past the Crocker family had raised a few alarm bells within their community police had been summoned to the property once to settle a complaint about the Crocker's pit bulls the pups had a dog pen on their property close to the wood line so the cops never came back for dog related calls deputies also later discovered that the family had been reported to the Division of Family and Children Services during the police's second visit Crocker his wife and his in-laws stuck to the story that Mary was living with her biological mother in South Carolina but as the investigators listened to the family stories they realized that the details didn't quite add up as the Effingham County Sheriff's Office spokesperson Jeana Sullivan told The Daily Beast they figured out things weren't as they were being presented so police kept pressing and eventually they figured out the truth Sullivan continued they were able to determine positively the children were there unfortunately though the Sheriff's Department would find neither marry nor Junior alive on the Crocker family homestead instead they called in a cadaver dog to search as soon as the Sun came up the cops k-9 signaled that the bodies of both jr. and Mary were on the Crocker family property the boy who'd been missing for two years was buried right near the dog pen that had brought police to the property in the first place on that note cops initially had no idea that another government official had them in their crosshairs for a while as we mentioned earlier the Crocker family had been reported to the Division of Family and Child Services in both 2012 and 2013 for example Crocker and his wife Candice had needed to go through state provided counseling and parenting classes they did so after they dealt with allegations of child abuse according to the Atlanta journal-constitution as W TOC reported in 2019 Crocker started out as an epithet ik father but the investigation into his home life had changed him supposedly he later realized the importance of showing love to his children and as a result the division of Family and Children Services later closed the Crocker file because they saw according to the publication significant improvements in the family still the Crockers case file told only a part of jr. story there were no details about Mary's treatment the released information had nothing to do with the teenager's deaths either what the public does know though is that the adults who let both children perish will have to face the law each one face charges for child cruelty and concealing a body so far however the teens causes of death have yet to be determined fortunately Crocker's third child escaped the home unscathed although he did go to the hospital for observation still the case proved heartbreaking for the entire community Sheriff Jimmy McDuffie included he said in a press conference I've been doing this 41 years and I almost broke down in tears it's that bad I cannot understand how you do children like this it's horrible elsewhere the 2,000 people who lived in Guyton couldn't believe that something so heinous could have occurred in their hometown coroner David actually told the Atlanta journal-constitution in 2018 this is a very unusual crime especially in this area which is a good close-knit community many people cannot believe this happened the Sheriff's Office did hope one huge lesson would come out of such a painful loss for the Gaytan community however spokeswoman Sullivan told The Daily Beast our biggest messages if you see something or something doesn't seem right call and report it there were months upon months that we could have intervened had we known something was wrong you