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Beyond the Ozarks

Crimes of the Century Across Arkansas

KUAF | By Kyle Kellams

Published September 28, 2020 at 12:55 PM CDT

Ronald Gene Simmons killed 16 people over a week-long period in Dover and Russellville in 1987.

This week's archives from the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History focus on some of the infamous crime stories that have taken place across the state in the last century.

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Kyle Kellams is KUAF's news director and host of Ozarks at Large.

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