The Easter Massacre

Criminology

Emash Digital

True Crime

4.7 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

While Easter is generally a day of peace with your loved ones, that’s not always the case. Fifty years ago, on March 30th, 1975, Easter Sunday was a nightmare for one Ohio family. That Sunday, James Ruppert called the police simply telling the dispatcher there’s been a shooting.

Join Mike and Morf as they discuss the Easter massacre perpetrated by James Ruppert. When the police arrived, they discovered this was more than a shooting, this was a massacre. There was never a doubt that James Ruppert was behind it. The real question was why Ruppert murdered eleven of his family members that day.

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0:00.0	Criminology is a true crime podcast that may contain discussion about violent or disturbing topics.
0:05.9	Listener discretion is advised. Hello, everyone and welcome to episode 354 of the criminology podcast.
0:42.2	This is Mike Ferguson.
0:43.8	And this is Mike Morford.
0:45.2	Mr.
0:45.8	Morford,
0:46.1	how you doing this week, man?
0:47.5	I'm doing pretty good.
0:48.3	How you doing?
0:49.1	I'm doing,
0:50.3	you know,
0:51.4	pretty well.
0:52.6	I overslept this morning.
0:54.4	I missed our initial meeting time, but, you know, I've got my coffee.
1:00.6	I'm ready to go.
1:02.1	Well, you should be rested up, so they should go smoothly.
1:05.4	Yeah, I got a little bit of extra sleep.
1:07.7	You know, sometimes you need it.
1:09.6	Let's go ahead and do our patreon shoutouts we had amanda
1:12.7	levette carla tate and brittney girly so some great new support we really appreciate it yeah that's
1:20.3	some awesome support thank you very much and for anyone else that would like to help support the show
1:24.6	head over to patreon dot com slash criminology to get started.
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