Death on Delivery

On the third day of Christmas, a spurned lover sends lethal gifts to a family that did not want him

Chris Santella was feeding his infant daughter last Tuesday evening in the living room of his town house in Rochester, New York, when he heard the boom. "It was like someone slammed a door hard enough so that it shook the house," he explained. At first he thought it was his water heater blowing up. When no gushers of water followed, he waited until the child was asleep before looking out his door and catching sight of the blasted-out window in a town house 25 ft. away, the one rented by a woman named Pamela Lazore-Lanza. A bomb had gone off,...

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