All three bodies were later found in a shallow pit Simmons had instructed the children to dig months before for a third family outhouse. He then strangled his three-year-old granddaughter. Simmons also bludgeoned and shot his visiting son, twenty-nine-year-old Ronald Gene Simmons Jr. He went to work at a Sinclair Mini Mart for approximately a year and a half before quitting on December 18, 1987.Įvidence indicates that Simmons bludgeoned and shot his wife on December 22, 1987. He quit a position as an accounts receivable clerk at Woodline Motor Freight after numerous reports of inappropriate sexual advances. Simmons worked a string of low-paying jobs in the nearby town of Russellville (Pope County). The home did not have a telephone or indoor plumbing. The family took up residence on a thirteen-acre tract of land that would become known as “Mockingbird Hill.” The residence was constructed of two older-model mobile homes joined to form one large home and was surrounded by a makeshift privacy fence, as high as ten feet tall in some places. Fearing arrest, Simmons fled first to Ward (Lonoke County) in late 1981 and then to Dover (Pope County) in the summer of 1983. On April 3, 1981, Simmons was being investigated by the Cloudcroft, New Mexico, Department of Human Services for allegations that he had fathered a child with his seventeen-year-old daughter, Sheila. Simmons retired on November 30, 1979, at the rank of master sergeant.
During his twenty-two-year military career, Simmons was awarded a Bronze Star, the Republic of Vietnam Cross for his service as an airman, and the Air Force Ribbon for excellent marksmanship. In 1963, Simmons left the navy and approximately two years later, he joined the air force. Over the next eighteen years, the couple had seven children. His first station was Bremerton Naval Base in Washington, where he met Bersabe Rebecca “Becky” Ulibarri, whom he married in New Mexico on July 9, 1960. On September 15, 1957, Simmons dropped out of school and joined the U.S. The corps moved Griffen to Little Rock (Pulaski County) in 1946, the first of several transfers that would take the family across central Arkansas over the next decade. Within a year, Simmons’s mother married again, this time to William D. On January 31, 1943, William Simmons died of a stroke. Ronald Gene Simmons was born on July 15, 1940, in Chicago, Illinois, to Loretta and William Simmons. His rampage ended on December 28, 1987, leaving dead fourteen members of his immediate family and two former coworkers. On December 22, 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 in the history of the country.
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