Carol Diane Ruppert was 13 when she was killed on March 30, 1975, in Hamilton, Ohio, one of 11 family members murdered that day in the house on Minor Avenue in the Lindenwald neighborhood. The attack, later called the Easter Sunday Massacre, also claimed the lives of her parents, her grandmother and her seven siblings.

Authorities identified the shooter as her uncle, James Urban Ruppert, then 41. At trial he was convicted on two counts of aggravated murder and found not guilty by reason of insanity on nine other counts; he received two consecutive life sentences and was incarcerated at Allen Correctional Institution.

The case was described at the time as motivated by Ruppert’s reported feelings of neglect and lack of affection from his mother and brother, along with signs of possible psychosis and paranoia. Does anyone have memories of the family or the Lindenwald neighborhood in 1975 that could shed more light on Carol’s life?