# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ronald-gene-simmons
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:31:48.425Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ronald-gene-simmons"
name: "Ronald Gene Simmons"
slug: "ronald-gene-simmons"
description: "Ronald Gene Simmons Sr. was an American spree killer and former military serviceman who murdered 16 people, including 14 members of his own family, over a week in December 1987 in Arkansas. The killings, centered at his home near Dover and later at several public locations, remain the deadliest familicide and mass murder in Arkansas history. Simmons, a retired U.S. Navy and Air Force veteran, was convicted in two trials, sentenced to death, waived all appeals, and was executed by lethal injection in 1990 — the first person executed by that method in Arkansas. His refusal to appeal led to the U.S. Supreme Court case Whitmore v. Arkansas."
tagline: "American spree killer (1940-1990)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a0/Ronald_Gene_Simmons.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1940-07-15"
deathDate: "1990-06-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.91
  momentum:             1.052916741918006
  historical:           7.44064
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Ronald Gene Simmons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "رونالد جين سيمونز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "رونالد جين سيمونز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ronald Gene Simmons"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Gene_Simmons"
    title: "Ronald Gene Simmons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Gene_Simmons"
    title: "Ronald Gene Simmons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Gene_Simmons"
    title: "Ronald Gene Simmons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%9C%D7%93_%D7%92'%D7%99%D7%9F_%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%A1"
    title: "רונלד ג'ין סימונס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1685542"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump