The Simmons family murders devastated Dover, Arkansas over the 1987 Christmas period. On December 26, 1987, 24-year-old Sheila McNulty and members of her immediate family arrived at the Simmons home on Mockingbird Hill to celebrate the holidays and were among those killed by Sheila’s father, Ronald Gene Simmons. Sheila’s husband, Dennis Raymond McNulty, 33, and their two young children were also among the victims; Sheila herself was shot and killed by her father.

Investigators later determined Simmons had begun killing family members days earlier and that multiple relatives were killed at the home before he left the scene. He then traveled from Dover to nearby Russellville, where additional shootings occurred. The attacks left a large number of family members dead and others wounded, and the motive for the killings remains a matter of public attention.

If anyone knew Sheila, Dennis, or other relatives who were at the Simmons residence that holiday, or has information about the sequence of events that led to the December 26 killings, please share what you know.