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During the Christmas season of 1987 Ronald Gene Simmons committed one of the most sinister mass murders in American history, killing fourteen members of his immediate family, including his wife, children and grandchildren. Four days after massacring his family, Simmons went on a terrifying forty-five-minute rampage killing two of his former colleagues and wounding four others. In total, he claimed the lives of sixteen people, resulting in the largest family mass murder in U.S. history and Arkansas’s worst mass killing. So, why did Ronald Gene Simmons murder his family and former colleagues?

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The Ronald Gene Simmons Story

Simmons, Ronald Gene - Encyclopedia of Arkansas

The Christmas Massacre: How Ronald Gene Simmons Became the Deadliest Dad in US History - PKAlert

Ronald Gene Simmons: The Family Annihilator Who Killed 16 in Arkansas' Worst Mass Murder (1987)

The Christmas Massacre of Ronald Gene Simmons — Inside America’s Most Terrifying Family Slaughter | by Chronicles of Crime | Nov, 2025 | Medium

Dad murdered 16 people, including 14 family members, in horrific Christmas killing spree - The Mirror

Ronald Gene Simmons | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers

Ronald Gene Simmons Killed 16 People — 14 Of Them Were His Family

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