#246 The Tale of Those Nights Before Christmas When Murderers Are Stirring

Three Of The Most Shocking Holiday Crimes: Chapter 1 - Carnage In Carnation, Chapter - 2 Not *THAT* Gene Simmons, & Chapter 3 - Santa Is Not Kissing Mommy This Year

We are delving into 3 different horrifying crimes that took place in the days leading up to Christmas. Chapter 1 is the 2007 murders of 3 generations of the Anderson family in Carnation, Washington planned and carried out by Michele Anderson and her boyfriend Joseph McEnroe.  Chapter 2 is the 1987 murders of 16 people in Central Arkansas, including 14 members of the same family carried out over the week of Christmas by Ronald Gene Simmons, Sr.  Chapter 3 is the 2011 murder of Za'zell Preston in Anaheim, California, who was not only murdered by her husband William Wallace on Christmas Eve, he posed her dead body on the sofa holding their 7 week old newborn the next morning while the two older children opened their gifts. 

SOURCES:

https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/ronald-gene-simmons-3731/

https://murderpedia.org/male.S/s1/simmons-ronald-gene.htm

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4247202/

https://lawandcrime.com/crazy/man-fatally-beat-wife-put-her-body-on-sofa-and-told-children-she-ruined-christmas-prosecutor/

https://nypost.com/2021/06/07/man-who-killed-wife-propped-up-body-while-kids-opened-presents-sentenced/

https://www.ocregister.com/2021/04/07/anaheim-man-who-propped-dead-wife-on-couch-for-kids-on-christmas-convicted-of-murder/

https://www.ocregister.com/2021/06/04/anaheim-man-gets-15-to-life-for-killing-wife-who-he-then-propped-on-couch-for-kids-at-christmas/

https://allthatsinteresting.com/za-zell-preston

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