Ronald Gene Simmons: The Christmas Killer

Ronald Gene Simmons. Image courtesy of Tom Pitts, Arkansas Gazette.

The holidays are supposed to be a time of peace and family togetherness. But over the Christmas holiday in 1987, Ronald Gene Simmons took the lives of 14 of his family members (and two of his former co-workers), making it the worst family massacre in US history.

Unlike the more sensational “civil reputable” type of family annihilator like John List, Simmons was the more common type: the…