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Episode 249: As this is our special Christmas episode. It is our tradition to tell a Yuletide-themed yarn. This one is about a duo of bandits who burglarized various shopping malls across the United States and Canada year after year during the holidays. Their insidious M.O. was to work from the inside. The group\u2019s leader, a safe cracker named Willie Thomas Soke and his sidekick, a little person of colour called Marcus Skidmore, would acquire jobs inside the department store. Soke, a foul-mouthed, chronic alcoholic and sex addict, would play the store\u2019s Santa Claus, and Skidmore, his evil sidekick, would be one of Santa\u2019s elves. Finally, after the murder of the head of a mall security manager named Johnny \u2018Gin\u2019 Calhoun at a Phoenix, Arizona, shopping complex, the pair were brought to justice in 2003. This was thanks partly to the unwitting help of a Canadian-born 10-year-old boy, Thurman Merman, who was living in Phoenix with his grandmother.\nSources:\nAchondroplasia | Johns Hopkins Medicine\nCity of Phoenix, Arizona, Police Department\nKiss an Angel Good Mornin\u2019 - song and lyrics by Charley Pride | Spotify\nSimon Fraser University\nThe University of British Columbia\n\u2018Documentary\u2019: Bad Santa\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices