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In December 1987, over the course of a single week, Ronald Gene Simmons brutally killed 14 members of his own family. They included wife Becky, his children Gene Jr, Loretta, Eddy, Marianne, Becky, Billy, and Sheila, his grandchildren Barbara, Trae, Sylvia, and Michael, his daughter-in-law Renate, and his son-in-law Dennis. 

Not content with slaughtering his family, Simmons then murdered a former co-worker, Kathy Kendrick, and an innocent bystander, Jim Chaffin and wounded many other people in the process.  

It remains one of the deadliest familicides in American history. Simmons was executed by lethal injection in 1990. 

This is the story of the Simmons Family.  

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References  

Ronald Gene Simmons–True Crime All The Time – Apple Podcasts 

Simmons, Ronald Gene - Encyclopedia of Arkansas 

Ronald Gene Simmons - Wikipedia 

Something snapped in Ronald Gene Simmons in December 1987.... - UPI Archives 

Mass Slayer Abused Wife, Got Daughter Pregnant, In-Laws Say - Los Angeles Times 

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