Rampage: America's Largest Family Mass Murder

by Jim Moore

Draws on interviews, new information, and police and autopsy reports to depict Gene Simmons, a mass murderer who killed sixteen people, fourteen of his own family

Genres: True Crime

213 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1993

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Reviews

[Fishface]

This was OK, not spectacular. A very brief treatment of the Christmas family massacre. The virtue of this book is that it covers every aspect of the murders not covered in "Zero At The Bone," including the moment-by-moment interactions of the shootings after Simmons left his house on Deecmber 29th, and summaries of the autopsy reports on the 14 family members killed. He also provides the full text of Simmons's last, pleading letter to his daughter Sheila, altered by the author to make it into a suicide note. The downfall of the book is the author's insistence on giving us every syllable of every police interview with every witness, and his own unclearly-explained, none-too-well-thought-out theories of how the family massacre went down.