The Mockingbird Hill Massacre: Ronald Gene Simmons Day 12 The 12 Nightmares Brefore Christmas

In the small town of Cloudcroft, located in a mountainous region of New Mexico, rumors began to surround a seventeen-year-old girl named Sheila Simmons. It was 1981, and most 17-year-old girls were excited about watching music videos on the newly launched 24-hour music channel MTV, reading Teen magazines, dressing in the latest fashion trends, and taking over the landline to chat with each other about their day and other important things. But Sheila's reality was, tragically, much darker. Shy, ashamed, and threatened into silence, she finally admitted her secret to a school counselor after much pressure: she was pregnant. What's more, the father of her unborn child was also the baby's grandfather, 40-year-old Ronald Gene Simmons. When he learned he was being investigated by authorities, Simmons felt betrayed. In a letter discovered almost a decade later, he warned his daughter, quote, "You have destroyed me, and you have destroyed my trust in you…

I will see you in Hell."

Little did anyone know, things would only get worse from that moment on.

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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-12-30-mn-21766-story.html 

https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/ronald-gene-simmons-3731/ 

https://apnews.com/article/6c5ee3b239d03ca1b0302e14795ed02c 

https://murderpedia.org/male.S/s1/simmons-ronald-gene.htm 

https://truecrimefanclub.com/2019/06/05/ronald-gene-simmons/ 

http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/simmons131.htm

Bad Romance: Charles Starkweather and Caril Fugate Day 11 The 12 Nightmares Before Christmas

 The year is 1958, and America is still innocent in terms of evil people. We know they were always around, but with snail mail and no internet, things that made the news are not like they are today. Someone commits a heinous crime in Manchester, England, and in mere seconds, we here in the US hear about it. Today's case, Day 11, takes us back to when Eisenhouse and Nixon led the US and the FBI, led by J. Edgar Hoover, was America’s watchdog. Even though it entered the lexicon in early 1900, the word teenager was coming into the common language. Teens were becoming more independent from their parents thanks to public education. No longer were young children pulled from school to go to work. This led to some rebellion from those teens, who were better to show the cause than James Dean and Elvis. Perhaps it was perfect timing in the US, or maybe it was the shock of how two teenagers could capture the world's attention and go down in infamy. The couple would be memorialized in such movie classics as Terrance Malik’s 1974 Badlands with Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek as the leads, Tarrantino’s True Romance, David Lynch’s Wild at Hart, Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers. Even today, the couple still holds our gaze with movies, tv shows, songs, books, and more. 

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Sources:

http://www.biography.com/articles/Charles-Starkweather-233080

https://scholarworks.umt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6100

https://books.google.com/books?id=CxYeAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA39&article_id=2740,4258335

https://www.archive.org/details/killerscontractk0000cawt/page/174

https://books.google.com/books?id=348UAAAAIBAJ&q=%22Charles+Starkweather%22&pg=PA21&article_id=5866,2297883#v=onepage

https://lincolnlibraries.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/StarkweatherTimeline.pdf

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/77473754/the-miami-news/

https://www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia/killing-spree-transfixed-nation-charles-starkweather-and-caril-fugate-1958

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/killer-couple-strikes-the-heartland

The Grim Sleeper: Lonnie Franklin Jr Day 10 The 12 Nightmares Before Christmas

 On April 17, 1974, a seventeen-year-old girl in Stuttgart, Germany, was visiting her boyfriend. After saying her goodbyes, she left for the train station at around 12:30 am. Along the way, a Fiat with three passengers pulled up beside her to ask for directions. These men, who were US Army soldiers, asked the girl for directions and offered her a ride home. The girl thought that the three were trustworthy. Sadly, her instincts were very quickly proved wrong. One of the men sprung a knife on her, and they drove to a remote location to sexually assault her. All three of the men raped her, and one of them took photographs during the attack. Ingrid was brought back to the car and finally dropped off at home. Ingrid, thinking on her feet, pretended that she was interested in the men, coaxing them to give her a phone number so she could get back in touch with them later. One of them fell for it and agreed, giving her his number. This man was 21-year-old Lonnie David Franklin Jr, a US army private cook stationed at the Kelley Barracks in Stuttgart. Ingrid didn’t know she was not the only victim of the three men that night or that this man would go on to become one of the most prolific serial killers of all time in America.

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The photos of the unidentified women suspected to be victims of Franklin are available to view at the following link: https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/grim-sleeper-serial-killer-suspects-secret-photos/9/. Anyone with information about these women is asked to call 1-877-LAPD-24-7.

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http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/260246/Grim-Sleeper-Investigation-Timeline#vars!date=1985-11-02_13:12:56! 

https://web.archive.org/web/20180617201135/http://www.lapdonline.org/grimsleeper 

https://thecinemaholic.com/who-were-the-grim-sleepers-victims-how-many-people-did-he-kill/ 

Lonnie Franklin: The Grim Sleeper Serial Killer Who Terrorized Los Angeles 

Lonnie Franklin, serial killer dubbed "Grim Sleeper," found dead in San Quentin State Prison - CBS News 

The Infamous Case Of Lonnie Franklin Jr ( JCS Inspired ) 

Grim Sleeper' Serial Killer Lonnie Franklin Once Gang Raped a German Teen

https://www.laweekly.com/grim-sleeper-returns-hes-murdering-angelenos-as-cops-hunt-his-dna/ 

'Everybody knew Lonnie' - Los Angeles Times 

Police collect hundreds of pieces of evidence from Grim Sleeper suspect's home - Los Angeles Times 

‘Grim Sleeper’ Serial Killer: Everything You Need to Know – Rolling Stone

Landlady from Hell: Dorothea Puente Day 9 The 12 Nightmares Before Christmas

 It is November 11, 1988, when Detective John Cabrera and his team pay a visit to the once regal but past its prime Victorian home located on F Street in Sacramento, California. The detectives are conducting a wellness check on 51-year-old Alvaro "Bert" Montoya. Bert, a tenant at the home, has an intellectual disability. His social worker had phoned the police, worried that he was missing since she had not heard from him.  They knock on the door and are greeted by a landlady of the home, an older woman. Det. Caberea asked her if they could look around the place, and she agreed and told them to go ahead. “Dig in my yard. I don’t know what’s out there.” She knew exactly what, or shall I say, who was in her yard.

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Sources:

http://articles.latimes.com/1989-03-25/news/mn-500_1_doody

https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-xpm-2011-mar-28-la-me-0328-dorothea-puente-20110328-story.html

https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8b85fn5/entire_text/

http://www.absolutecrime.com/dorothea-puente-and-the-boarding-house-of-death.html#.XWXz2Ht7nIU

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadly_Women

https://www.netflix.com/watch/81149403

http://www.kcra.com/article/sacramento-serial-killer-s-former-home-renovated-ready-for-visits/6407363

http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/city-beat/article33287136.html

"House of Horrors". A Stranger in My Home. Season 1. Episode 1. October 13, 2013. Investigation Discovery

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/in-print-dorothea-puentes-killer-cookbook/Content?oid=897848

The Snapshot Killer: Christopher Wilder Day 8 The 12 Nightmare Before Christmas

On March 5th, 1984, a twenty-three-year-old Orange Bowl Princess named Elizabeth “Beth” Kenyon left the parking lot of the Coral Gables High School where she worked as a special needs teacher. Beth had also been a finalist in the Miss Florida contest in 1982. She thought the pageants were a lot of fun, but her heart was with the kids she taught. She waved goodbye to the security guard on duty, and it is presumed she was headed to the gym. However, she would never make it to the gym, nor would she make it home to her apartment on Ives Dairy Road. The police did list Beth as a missing person but assured the Kenyons their daughter was fine, claiming that young women her age went away for a few days without telling their parents all the time. Beth’s parents knew that their daughter was not that irresponsible. Convinced that something was wrong and unhappy with the apathetic attitude of the police, the Kenyons hired private investigators, a father-son duo named Ken Whittaker Senior and Junior. Ken Senior was an ex-FBI Chief and amazingly thorough. No clue was too small for him. Hiring them would be the most important step in this case.

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Sources:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43410008-the-snapshot-killer 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmBXz0Emm38

https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/beauty-queen-killer-christopher-wilder-florida-playboy

https://www.amazon.com/Christopher-Wilder-Historical-Killers-Murderers-ebook/dp/B01EZ3Z87W/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=christopher+wilder&qid=1638501577&s=books&sr=1-3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiJovpsOP1o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQDW9pr_KzA&t=1287s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiHK-G1QsHs

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1301&dat=19870426&id=QHZWAAAAIBAJ&pg=5084,7474822&hl=en

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/08/15/Tina-Marie-Risico-the-teenager-who-accompanied-serial-killer/5727461390400/

https://web.archive.org/web/20120421001039/http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/predators/wilder/index.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20120227031048/http://www.lawandordnance.com/Mystery-And-A-Spree-Killer.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20120220033821/http://www.chronicle-express.com/news/police_and_fire/x342383242/-Nothing-ever-happens-here

https://web.archive.org/web/20160403145301/http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/beauty-queen-killer-takes-bloody-ride-1984-article-1.2366878

http://dingeengoete.blogspot.com/2012/04/christopher-wilder-beauty-queen-killer.html

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1817&dat=19840425&id=cDodAAAAIBAJ&pg=6904,7213272

https://web.archive.org/web/20131212203006/http://www.thefreelibrary.com/A+TEEN%27S+TERRIFYING+DAYS+WITH+A+KILLER+IN+1984,+AN+L.A.-AREA+GIRL...-a0179511757

https://healthpsychologyconsultancy.wordpress.com/2012/08/12/making-of-a-monster-christopher-wilder-the-beauty-queen-killer/

https://www.dailybreeze.com/2021/07/19/south-bay-history-christopher-wilders-savage-crime-rampage-included-a-stop-off-in-the-south-bay/

https://charleyproject.org/case/elizabeth-ann-kenyon

https://buffalonews.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/1983-slaying-of-young-woman-may-have-been-work-of-serial-killer/article_8f92c889-687e-50fc-84fc-53cb210b162f.html

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/mass-murderer-wilder-commits-suicide#:~:text=Christopher%20Wilder%20dies%20after%20a,state%20troopers%20to%20avoid%20capture.

Blood Lust: The Rainwater Killings Day 7 The 12 Nightmares Before Christmas

 25-year-old John Rainwater and 22-year-old Lori Rainwater were a young married couple just starting out. The couple had a 15-month-old daughter at home and  Lori had just got home from the hospital after delivering her son, who was just seven days old. The couple lived in Atascadero, CA and by all accounts were a loving family with lots of friends. John and Lisa were Christians who managed an apartment complex at 8750 El Camino Real located in Atascadero, a city with a population today of 29,000 and located in San Luis Obispo County.  They were working hard to get their lives going and were excited about the future.  The couple had a lifetime to look forward to, but one man changed all that on a chilly February morning in 1987.

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Sources:

https://nonreligiously.rssing.com/chan-1817104/article4256.html

https://scocal.stanford.edu/opinion/people-v-webb-31113

https://calcoastnews.com/2016/12/death-row-inmate-killed-atascadero-couple-dies/

https://pasoroblesdailynews.com/man-convicted-raping-murdering-atascadero-couple-dies-prison/65453/

https://www.newtimesslo.com/sanluisobispo/justice-for-all-the-death-of-dennis-webb-and-the-future-of-californias-death-penalty/Content?oid=2973922

https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/crime/article120902828.html

https://murderpedia.org/male.W/w/webb-dennis-duane.htm

A Christmas Massacre: The Carnation Murders-Day 6-The 12 Nightmares Before Christmas

 The 6Tth day takes us to the small town of Carnation, Washington. On December 24, 2007, 60-year-old Wayne Anderson, a retired engineer from Boeing, and his wife of 31 years, 61-year-old wife, Judy, were anxiously awaiting the arrival of their family to start celebrating the holiday. It was tradition for the Anderson family to get together on Christmas Eve. It was Wayne’s favorite holiday, and they celebrated by opening presents, eating, and enjoying everyone’s company. The couple was expecting their 29-year-old daughter Michele and her partner, Joe, who lived in a trailer on Anderson’s 11 acres. Their 32-year-old son Scott and his wife, Erica, would bring their two small children. In addition, 41-year-old Mary and her son were also planning on coming.  At around 5 pm, the king county sheriff’s office receives a 911 call from Anderson’s home. When the dispatcher picked up the phone, they heard a woman screaming. The call only lasts 10 seconds before the line goes dead. The dispatcher tried to call back twice, but the calls went to voice mail. What happened in the home was vicious and savage, but the biggest shock was who committed this heinous crime. 

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Sources:

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/michele-anderson-sentenced-to-life-for-killing-6-relatives/

https://www.q13fox.com/news/you-are-a-bully-and-coward-michele-anderson-told-before-given-6-life-sentences-for-killing-family

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVydO82yBNU

https://www.seattlepi.com/local/crime/article/At-long-last-Carnation-woman-who-wiped-out-6866197.php

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TXQIcYckus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVDiTNw2TwY

https://www.nbc.com/homicide-for-the-holidays/video/a-christmas-massacre/3435780

https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/i-wanted-my-mum-brother-and-dad-to-die/news-story/ddc51732d3e6f5deb9d7cfa4abf1c813

https://torontosun.com/news/world/crime-hunter-yuletide-massacre

https://mylifeofcrime.wordpress.com/tag/michele-anderson/

https://mylifeofcrime.wordpress.com/2007/12/26/6-bodies-found-on-carnation-wa-property-122507-police-have-ruled-out-murder-suicide-no-suspects-yet/

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/timeline-of-carnation-killings-anderson-murder-trial/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/577073483/?terms=judy%20wayne%20anderson&match=1

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