In 1963, Simmons left the navy and approximately two years later, he joined the air force. Over the next eighteen years, the couple had seven children. His first station was Bremerton Naval Base in Washington, where he met Bersabe Rebecca “Becky” Ulibarri, whom he married in New Mexico on July 9, 1960. On September 15, 1957, Simmons dropped out of school and joined the U.S.
The corps moved Griffen to Little Rock (Pulaski County) in 1946, the first of several transfers that would take the family across central Arkansas over the next decade. Within a year, Simmons’s mother married again, this time to William D. On January 31, 1943, William Simmons died of a stroke. Ronald Gene Simmons was born on July 15, 1940, in Chicago, Illinois, to Loretta and William Simmons.
His rampage ended on December 28, 1987, leaving dead fourteen members of his immediate family and two former coworkers. On December 22, 1987, Ronald Gene Simmons began a killing spree that would be the worst mass murder in Arkansas history and the worst crime involving one family in the history of the country.
