The Dark Knight of Rock Ronald Gene Simmons' Enduring Allure

Ronald Gene Simmons was born July 15th 1940 in Chicago, IL to Loretta and William Simmons. Three years later Simmons' dad died of a stroke. For about an hour on December 28th, 1987, the town of Russellville, Arkansas was under siege. A gunman had gone on a shooting spree, ... The deadliest case of familial mass murder in the United States took place in the last place anyone would think of... in a sleepy hamlet in Arkansas. Over the Christmas holidays, he methodically killed 14 members of his family -- bludgeoning them, shooting them with a .22-caliber pistol or strangling them ... 1767 Likes, 113 Comments. TikTok video from People are the Worst Podcast (@peoplearetheworst_pod): “Help find missing children Ransom and ... Simmons decided to kill all the members of his family. On the morning of December 22, he first killed his wife Rebecca and eldest son Gene by shooting them ... Listen to this episode from Talking Murder With Mum - A True Crime Podcast on Spotify. We're back at last and this week I bought the case of Ronald Simmons ... Ronald Gene Simmons was responsible for one of the most shocking mass murders in U.S. history. His horrific crime spree during the Christmas ... Ronald Gene Simmons Sr. was an American mass murderer who killed 16 people over a week-long period in Arkansas in 1987 and wounded several others. In 1987, Ronald Gene Simmons began a killing spree that would be the worst mass murder in Arkansas history and the worst crime involving one family.