208: Easter Sunday Massacre

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Brandi really outdid herself this week by covering the most horrifying crime… ever???

James Urban Ruppert had a rough life. As he grew into adulthood, his struggles continued. He couldn’t hold a job. He couldn't maintain relationships. He had paranoid delusions. That all came to a head on Easter Sunday of 1975, when his entire extended family celebrated the holiday at his mother’s house.

Also, please cue the Golden Girls theme song for Brandi. She told our only case this week so that Kristin could spend time with her grandma.

And now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.

In this episode, Brandi pulled from:
“The 1975 Easter massacre: Uncle Jimmy Ruppert kills his family” by David J. Krajicek, New York Daily News
“CRIME HUNTER: Easter Sunday massacre of Ohio family stunned U.S.” by Brad Hunter, Toronto Sun
“James Ruppert” murderpedia.org
“Easter Sunday Massacre” wikipedia.org
“Mother, Brother Among James Ruppert’s Victims” by John R. Clark, The Cincinnati Enquirer
“Grandmother Still Haunted By Memory” by Janet C. Wetzel, The Cincinnati Enquirer
“Parole Hearing Not Due Til 95” by John R. Clark, The Cincinnati Enquirer
“Officials Share Bitter Memories Of Ritter Case” by John R. Clark, The Cincinnati Enquirer
“Ruppert Chronology” The Cincinnati Enquirer
“Living in a murder house: Hamilton mom copes with her home's dark past” by Maxim Alter, WCPO 9 News
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