What forces drove Gene Simmons to murder sixteen people?
Madness doesn't strike people all at once. Gene Simmons' own madness had been eating at his soul all his life. But what finally drove him to murder his family? Was it rage? Guilt? Rejection?
Gene Simmons strangled and shot his wife, daughters, sons and grandchildren. Then, three days after Christmas, 1987, he unleashed a reign of terror on Russellville, Arkansas. When the smoke cleared away, six others were shot, leaving two more dead. Gene Simmons had entered the history books as one of the first American mass murderers.
Years after the crime, the Simmons killings are still the worst family-related slayings in the country's history. But decades later, troubling questions still remain. What propelled Gene Simmons to mass destruction? How did this one man kill more than a dozen people one-by-one? Did Simmons' incestuous relationship with his daughter send him down the dark road to madness and murder?
Author Jim Moore provides the answers in Rampage: America's Largest Family Mass Murder. The story Moore tells will fascinate true-crime buffs, mystery lovers and students of the darker side of human nature.
