HOLIDAY BONUS: The 1987 Arkansas Christmas Week Murder Spree
That's So Fcked Up
Ashley Love Richards
4.5 • 541 Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
This week, Ash is joined by long time team member, research assistant and friend, Kesha Epperson. Kesha tells Ash about Ronald Gene Simmons Sr. murdered 16 people, and wounded several others, between December 22nd and December 28th in Arkansas in 1987. Fourteen of his victims were his own family members. Merry Christmas y'all!
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-Research by Kesha Epperson.
-Audio editing by Dallas Hernandez.
-Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Gene_Simmons
- https://murderpedia.org/male.S/s1/simmons-ronald-gene.htm
- https://www.4029tv.com/article/ronald-gene-simmons-murders-arkansas/42308596#
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=o91lN7DAw2o
- https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-08-04/el-paso-dayton-gilroy-mass-shooters-data
- https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-08-04/el-paso-dayton-gilroy-mass-shooters-data
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | In an attempt to regain control and get some kind of perceived order back into his life, |
| 0:07.5 | he called for a family meeting in December, 1987. |
| 0:11.0 | At the meeting, Argyne began to plead with his family, kind of just like pleading for understanding. |
| 0:18.0 | Sorry, I'm such a piece of shit, but this is why... |
| 0:21.0 | I'm sorry that I've been fucking your sister for most of your life, |
| 0:25.4 | but this is why, and please understand, |
| 0:27.6 | and we need to get back to our family. |
| 0:31.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:32.1 | That is so fucked up. |
| 0:34.9 | It's fucked up. |
| 0:36.6 | So fucked up. It is just so damn fucked up. That's fucked up. Before we get started |
| 0:50.7 | with today's show, I just want to throw out a critic trigger warning. |
| 0:54.9 | This episode includes graphic descriptions of violence against children, sexual abuse, murder, |
| 1:02.7 | pedophilia, the list goes on, incest. The entire episode is fucked. So the trigger warning |
| 1:09.1 | covers the whole thing, like the umbrella of authority. |
| 1:11.8 | Which is also super fucked. Aye, aye, aye. Let's get into it. On the ninth day of Festivist, |
| 1:18.6 | my true love gave to me a Christmas murder in a crime tree. Ah, hey guys, welcome back to the ninth day of our Festivus celebration, the all-inclusive |
| 1:32.7 | celebration where you put up a metal pole and you air your grievances. You know, you let the people |
| 1:40.9 | in your life how they've disappointed you over the year kisha do you know |
| 1:44.7 | what festivus is or are you just like what the fuck you talk i'm familiar but i'm not just like |
| 1:49.1 | a pro at festivis not yet well it's from seinfeld which i've said is i'm pretty bummed because |
| 1:55.5 | you jerry seinfeld was 38 dating a girl in high school and kramer's are racist so ew but Festivus was you know that was |
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