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On New Years Eve in 2017, Scott Kologi, a New Jersey teen, fatally shot three of his family members and a family friend with a semi-automatic rifle just before midnight in his childhood home. Prosecutors called him cold-blooded, but his defense attorneys said severe mental illness drove him to kill his family. However, Scott was found competent to stand trial and was eventually sentenced to hundred-fifty-years in prison. So, did Scott kill his family in cold blood or was his mental illness to blame?

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NJ Teen Who Killed 4 Family Members Found Guilty On All Counts | Long Branch, NJ Patch

Scott Kologi: Guilty verdict in Long Branch NJ family murders

'I Doubt I'd Do It Again, but I'm Not Sure': Video of Teen with Autism Confessing to Family Massacre Leads to Guilty Verdicts in New Jersey | Law & Crime

NJ man Scott Kologi sentenced to 150 years for killing 4 family members | New York Post

Scott Kologi: Teen Who Killed Family on New Year's Eve Gets 150 Years

Long Branch NJ Murder: Scott Kologi Sentenced to 150 Years in Family Killings – NBC New York

N.J. Man Who Massacred His Family Gets Effective Life Sentence for 'Acts of Evil Carried Out by Someone Who Knew Exactly What He Was Doing' | Law & Crime

Scott Kologi murder trial: Brother testifies Long Branch family happy

A 16-Year-Old Killed 4 People on New Year’s Eve 2017

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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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In the early morning hours of Christmas Day in 1945 a devasting fire broke out at George and Jennie Sodder’s home located in Fayetteville, West Virginia. Four of the ten Sodder children survived, one had been away fighting in World War II, but the other five quite literally disappeared. It was first assumed that the five young children had perished in the fire, however, the children's remains were never discovered in the debris leaving more questions than answers. So, what happened to the five missing Sodder children?

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Mysterious Disappearance of the Five Sodder Children - Historic Mysteries

The True Story Of The Disappearance Of The Sodder Children

A Christmas Eve Mystery: What Happened to the Sodder Children? | HowStuffWorks

The weird disappearance of the Sodder Children in West Virginia — StrangeOutdoors.com

Sodder Children Disappearance: Strange Events Still Unexplained Decades After Christmas Fire | HuffPost Latest News

The mystery of the vanished Sodder children has never been solved, but the cold case has haunted this small town for decades - ABC News

The Chilling Story Of The Sodder Children Who Went Up In Smoke

What Happened to the Sodder Children, the Siblings Who Went Up in Smoke in a West Virginia House Fire?

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