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The story today is about a spree killer.

There's a slight distinction between a serial killer and a spree killer.

According to the FBI, a spree killer designation is given to someone that kills two or more without a cooling off period.

In 1987, Ronald Gene Simmons strolled into his former

workplace and killed the office manager. He surrendered saying, I've gotten everyone who wanted to

hurt me. This turned out to be the crescendo of a murderous rampage that investigators would unravel,

discovering more and more unsettling details as they went on.

This is the story of the Mockingbird Hill Christmas Time Murders.

Ronald Gene Simmons was born in July of 1940 in Chicago.

A few years later, his father died of a stroke.

Less than a year after that, his mother remarried.

His stepfather was a civil engineer for the Army Corps of Engineers.

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