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Family Dinner Ends in Brutal Massacre True Crime Documentary · Weird Darkness:True crime & The unexplained

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  Speaker 1: Easter Sunday in 1975 started off as a normal Easter
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  Speaker 1: holiday for the Ruppert family, but soon turned into a
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  Speaker 1: nightmare that is now dubbed as the deadliest family massacre
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  Speaker 1: in American history. Stay tuned as we uncover how a
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  Speaker 1: seemingly harmless man managed to murder 11 members of his family.
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  Speaker 1: James Urban Ruppert was born on March 29, 1934, to
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  Speaker 1: his mother Charity and father Leonard Ruppert. He, along with
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  Speaker 1: his older brother, Leonard Jr., grew up in Hamilton, Ohio. However,
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  Speaker 1: their small family was far from normal, as Leonard Sr.,
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  Speaker 1: who was known to have a violent temper, made his
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  Speaker 1: children's childhood traumatic. To make matters worse, Charity picked her
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  Speaker 1: favorites when the boys were still young, always favoring her
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  Speaker 1: brighter and more confident older child, Leonard, over her younger son.
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  Speaker 1: James grew up in a hostile environment and was often
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  Speaker 1: told by his mother, that she wished he was never
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  Speaker 1: born since she wanted a daughter in his place. As
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  Speaker 1: expected from a child who grew up without parental affection,
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  Speaker 1: this negatively impacted Ruppert's self-confidence, and he grew up to
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  Speaker 1: become a loner. His parents' carelessness constantly cost him, including
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  Speaker 1: his father's insistence on keeping chickens around their house, causing
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  Speaker 1: him to develop an allergy to the feathers. Despite his allergy,
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  Speaker 1: his parents showed little to no concern for his well-being
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  Speaker 1: as they continued to keep the chickens around. When Rupert
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  Speaker 1: turned 12 in 1947, his father became deathly ill and
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  Speaker 1: soon died of tuberculosis. However, his days of torment were
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  Speaker 1: far from over as his older brother quickly took over
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  Speaker 1: their father's role and went out of his way to
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  Speaker 1: harass his younger brother. As a result, Ruppert's performance in
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  Speaker 1: school was severely lacking as compared to his brother. With
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  Speaker 1: no friends to offer him any support, Ruppert found himself
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  Speaker 1: dealing with everything on his own as charity continued to
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  Speaker 1: ignore his existence. The constant bullying at home and school
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  Speaker 1: got so bad that at the age of 16, Ruppert
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  Speaker 1: decided to end things once and for all. He took
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  Speaker 1: sheets from his home and tried to hang himself. However,
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  Speaker 1: he failed to succeed in his suicidal attempt. This marked
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  Speaker 1: an important event in Ruppert's life as he stopped making
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  Speaker 1: any effort towards improving his life and accepted his fate
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  Speaker 1: as the inferior son. This became Ruppert's first and only
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  Speaker 1: suicide attempt. Not surprisingly, Ruppert grew to hate both his
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  Speaker 1: brother and mother. By the time he reached college, he
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  Speaker 1: stood at 5 feet 6 inches and only weighed 135 pounds.
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  Speaker 1: He spent two years in college before giving up on
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  Speaker 1: it as well. while his brother once again surpassed him
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  Speaker 1: and graduated with a degree in electrical engineering. It helped
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  Speaker 1: that Leonard Jr. had his mother's full support. His resentment
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  Speaker 1: towards his brother grew to a dangerous level when Leonard Jr.
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  Speaker 1: married one of Ruppert's former girlfriends, named Alma, a girl
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  Speaker 1: that he never lost feelings for. This would later be
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  Speaker 1: cited as a motive for his rampage. Ruppert began to
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  Speaker 1: feel as if the entire world was against him. and
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  Speaker 1: resigned himself to an unremarkable life, accepting defeat. He trained
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  Speaker 1: to become a draftsman, but remained unemployed for the majority
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  Speaker 1: of his life, leaving him with no choice but to
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  Speaker 1: continue living with his mother, often borrowing money from her
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  Speaker 1: and Leonard Jr. While his brother not only managed to
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  Speaker 1: get a job with General Electric, he also bought a
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  Speaker 1: house in Fairfield, where he lived with Alma and their
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  Speaker 1: eight children, 17-year-old Leonard III, 16-year-old Michael, 15-year-old Thomas, 13-year-old Carol,
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  Speaker 1: 12-year-old Anne, 11-years-old David, 9-year-old Teresa, and 4-year-old John. Perhaps
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  Speaker 1: because he was so frustrated with his life, Ruppert developed
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  Speaker 1: an affinity for guns. Among his collection, he had a.
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  Speaker 1: 357 Magnum, two. 22 handguns, and a. 22 rifle. Two
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  Speaker 1: things became ritual for Ruppert, drinking and target practicing. Ruppert
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  Speaker 1: had turned to drinking to deal with the toxic environment
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  Speaker 1: at home, as well as to numb his feelings of inferiority.
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  Speaker 1: As he got older and remained unemployed, Charity, tired of
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  Speaker 1: his drinking, threatened to evict him unless he paid rent. However,
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  Speaker 1: since he had lost all of his money during the
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  Speaker 1: stock market crash of 1973-1974, Ruppert had no way to
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  Speaker 1: pay his portion of the rent. Although Charity intended for
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  Speaker 1: this threat to motivate him to get his life back
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  Speaker 1: on track, she unknowingly pushed him towards his breaking point.
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  Speaker 1: As the threat of eviction loomed over his head, Ruppert
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  Speaker 1: began to approach his breaking point. While purchasing ammunition one day,
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  Speaker 1: he inquired about silencers, but did not end up going
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  Speaker 1: through with the purchase. On March 29, 1975, Ruppert turned 41.
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  Speaker 1: On his birthday, he was seen at the Great Miami
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  Speaker 1: River in Hamilton shooting cans, and this became pivotal in
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  Speaker 1: helping the prosecution build their case against him. It can
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  Speaker 1: be argued that he was possibly preparing for one of
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  Speaker 1: the deadliest nights in Hamilton, Ohio. That night, Ruppert stumbled
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  Speaker 1: into a bar called the 19th Hole Cocktail Lounge. He
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  Speaker 1: met 28-year-old mother of five, Wanda Bishop, who worked at
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  Speaker 1: the cocktail lounge. and confessed that his mother was threatening
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  Speaker 1: to evict him if he failed to find a job
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  Speaker 1: to pay for his portion of the rent. Charity had
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  Speaker 1: told him that if he could afford to pay for
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  Speaker 1: his drinks, he could pay her rent as well. Wanda
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  Speaker 1: recalled that Ruppert insisted that he had to find a
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  Speaker 1: way to solve the problem. Ruppert stayed in the cocktail
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  Speaker 1: lounge until 11 p.m. before leaving, but soon returned and
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  Speaker 1: continued drinking until the lounge closed at 2.30 a.m. When
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  Speaker 1: Wanda asked him if he had managed to resolve his problem,
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  Speaker 1: Ruppert replied, No, not yet. The next morning, Charity, who
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  Speaker 1: was not feeling well, called Leonard Jr. and his family
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  Speaker 1: for Easter dinner, instead of an early lunch at their house,
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  Speaker 1: 635 Minor Avenue. Once Leonard Jr. and Alma arrived, their
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  Speaker 1: children participated in an Easter egg hunt outside, while Ruppert
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  Speaker 1: slept in late, nursing a hangover from the previous night.
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  Speaker 1: By the time he got up at 4 p.m., everyone
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  Speaker 1: had moved inside to continue the celebration, while Charity prepared
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  Speaker 1: sloppy joes for the family, and Alma helped put them together.
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  Speaker 1: Ruppert stayed with the family for a short while before
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  Speaker 1: returning upstairs to retrieve a. 357 Magnum,. 222 handguns, and
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  Speaker 1: a rifle. He intended to head to a shooting range
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  Speaker 1: to spend his day, but as he was leaving, his
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  Speaker 1: brother asked him, How's the Volkswagen? Ruppert took this as
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  Speaker 1: an insult, as Leonard Jr. 's comments reminded him of
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  Speaker 1: his own failure to lead a successful life like his brother.
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  Speaker 1: Instead of leaving for the shooting range as planned, Ruppert
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  Speaker 1: made a split-second decision that not only altered the trajectory
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  Speaker 1: of his life forever, but also robbed 11 people of
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  Speaker 1: their lives. At 6 p.m., Charity, Leonard, Alma, their son David,
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  Speaker 1: and daughters Tessa and Carol, who were in the kitchen,
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  Speaker 1: became Ruppert's first victims as he fired off several shots
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  Speaker 1: in rapid succession, hitting all of them in the chest,
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  Speaker 1: except for his mother, whom he shot in the head
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  Speaker 1: as she jumped at him to try and prevent him
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  Speaker 1: from killing anyone else. He then moved to the living
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  Speaker 1: room where he shot his niece Anne, Leonard III, Michael,
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  Speaker 1: and John. After his initial shots, Ruppert went around and
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  Speaker 1: shot everyone several more times to make sure that they
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  Speaker 1: were dead.
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  Speaker 2: After the initial shooting, And if people were moaning and
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  Speaker 2: groaning still, he shot.
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  Speaker 1: Them in the head. The entire ordeal took less than
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  Speaker 1: five minutes with Ruppert only stopping in the middle to reload.
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  Speaker 1: All in all, he fired 44 shots out of which
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  Speaker 1: 40 hit the victims. After making sure that everyone was dead,
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  Speaker 1: Ruppert sat with his family's dead bodies for three hours,
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  Speaker 1: contemplating suicide, but decided that since it was a mortal sin,
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  Speaker 1: He did not want it to be his last act.
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  Speaker 1: After three hours, he decided to make a 911 call.
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  Speaker 1: He told the 911 dispatcher that there has been a shooting.
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  Speaker 3: As his relatives took their last breaths around him, Rupert
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  Speaker 3: sat on the couch. He waited there for three to
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  Speaker 3: four hours before he called police to tell them someone's
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  Speaker 3: been shot.
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  Speaker 1: When officers arrived at the scene a few minutes later,
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  Speaker 1: Rupert greeted them at the front door. At first glance,
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  Speaker 1: the officers did not suspect that anything sinister was waiting
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  Speaker 1: for them beyond the front door since Ruppert, with his
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  Speaker 1: short stature and thick black framed glasses, did not fit
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  Speaker 1: into the usual description of a murderer. As the officers
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  Speaker 1: entered the house, they were in for the shock of
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  Speaker 1: a lifetime. One of the responding officers also reported that
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  Speaker 1: he had never seen anything like the crime scene before
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  Speaker 1: him and that he had to rush to the side
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  Speaker 1: to throw up. There was so much blood on the
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  Speaker 1: floors that it had seeped through the wooden floorboards and
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  Speaker 1: was dripping into the basement. There was no sign of
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  Speaker 1: struggle inside the house except for an overturned trash can,
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  Speaker 1: indicating that because the family had not expected this, they
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  Speaker 1: did not have enough time to react. As the Hamilton
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  Speaker 1: Police Department was made aware of the shocking discovery, they
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  Speaker 1: immediately covered the area with police tape as people began
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  Speaker 1: to gather around. The small community that had known the
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  Speaker 1: Ruppert family as a loving family was taken by surprise
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  Speaker 1: at the tragedy, and was even more horrified to find
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  Speaker 1: that the helpful and modest man they had known their
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  Speaker 1: whole lives was behind the murders. The first body to
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  Speaker 1: leave the house was of little John, with his sneaker
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  Speaker 1: peeking out of the sheet drawn over him. Dread began
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  Speaker 1: to fill everyone as one by one. Eleven stretchers were
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  Speaker 1: brought out of the house, all carrying the now dead
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  Speaker 1: members of the Ruppert family.
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  Speaker 4: Ruppert was arrested on the counts of 11 aggravated homicides.
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  Speaker 4: Despite being known as a demure but helpful man, Ruppert
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  Speaker 4: remained uncooperative with the officers.
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  Speaker 1: And refused to answer any of their questions. Investigators struggled
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  Speaker 1: to find a motive since the suspect in custody refused
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  Speaker 1: to say anything. During the initial questioning, it was made
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  Speaker 1: clear by Ruppert that he planned on pleading insanity. The
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  Speaker 1: prosecutors believed that Ruppert planned on taking advantage of the $ 300, 000
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  Speaker 1: worth of inheritance left by both his brother and mother
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  Speaker 1: in the form of their properties and assets by pleading
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  Speaker 1: guilty he would serve time at a court-appointed facility before
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  Speaker 1: being released and getting hold of the inheritance. This case
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  Speaker 1: led to two high-profile trials. During the initial trial, Ruppert
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  Speaker 1: admitted to killing his family but pleaded innocent by reason
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  Speaker 1: of insanity. Ruppert was represented by Hugh D. Holbrock, who
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  Speaker 1: became so dedicated to the case that he even personally
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  Speaker 1: funded the hiring of psychiatrists and psychologists from all over
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  Speaker 1: the country to testify in favor of Ruppert's insanity plea.
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  Speaker 1: Two psychiatrists who were brought on by his defense team
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  Speaker 1: concluded that Ruppert suffered from paranoia and delusions of persecution
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  Speaker 1: that were brought on by the beatings he had endured
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  Speaker 1: during his early life at the hands of his brother.
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  Speaker 1: This is why, they argued, he had been unable to
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  Speaker 1: control his actions at the time of the crime. Harvard
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  Speaker 1: University psychiatrist, Dr. Lester Grinspoon, supplied his expert opinion claiming
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  Speaker 1: that if more people were present in the house, Ruppert
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  Speaker 1: might have killed them as well, pushing the narrative that
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  Speaker 1: Ruppert did not have a solid motive other than insanity.
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  Speaker 4: After the slaughter, James Ruppert changed his clothes and called
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  Speaker 4: the cops. He was charged and tried for 11 murders.
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  Speaker 4: His attorneys said he killed during a psychotic rage. They
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  Speaker 4: said he was insane.
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  Speaker 5: Along those same lines, doctor, isn't it true that You
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  Speaker 5: have no way of telling the court what Mr. Rupert's
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  Speaker 5: ability to rationally discuss the case with his attorneys, to
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  Speaker 5: rationally assist in the preparation of a defense would be
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  Speaker 5: if he were not under the effect of either a
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  Speaker 5: major tranquilizer such as Thorazine or Trilophon at this time.
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  Speaker 5: Isn't that right?
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  Speaker 6: I have no specific way of telling that other than
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  Speaker 6: to say that during the course of my examination with him,
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  Speaker 6: he was able at that time and under that condition
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  Speaker 6: with that dosage of medication to rationally confer with me
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  Speaker 6: and talk to me about what had happened.
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  Speaker 1: At the same time, the prosecution argued that Ruppert planned
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  Speaker 1: to misuse the insanity plea to inherit the $ 300, 000 inheritance.
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  Speaker 1: He murdered his family. to collect his brother's $ 300, 000 or
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  Speaker 1: so in life insurance. That's what I think. That's what
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  Speaker 1: I think the evidence showed, and that's what I believe.
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  Speaker 1: Instead of having his case presented in front of a jury,
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  Speaker 1: Ruppert decided to have his case tried in front of
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  Speaker 1: three judges. However, he was incorrectly told that all three
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  Speaker 1: of the judges would have to agree unanimously on a decision.
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  Speaker 1: Two out of the three judges found Ruppert sane and
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  Speaker 1: convicted him on 11 counts of aggravated murder. he was
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  Speaker 1: sentenced to serve 11 consecutive life sentences. During 1975, the
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  Speaker 1: United States had banned the death penalty, saving Ruppert from
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  Speaker 1: being given a death sentence. The third Hamilton County judge,
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  Speaker 1: Fred Kramer, however, found Ruppert insane. Between the years 1977
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  Speaker 1: and 1978, The Supreme Court of Ohio ruled that there
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  Speaker 1: had been a mistrial since the judges did not know
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  Speaker 1: whether they needed to unanimously agree on a decision or
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  Speaker 1: have a majority rule. Ruppert was granted another trial that
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  Speaker 1: was determined to be held in Findlay, Ohio, since it
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  Speaker 1: was deemed that he could not receive a fair trial
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  Speaker 1: in the city of Hamilton. On July 23, 1975, the
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  Speaker 1: new trial began where Ruppert and his defense team once
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  Speaker 1: again argued for the insanity plea. However, the prosecution led
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  Speaker 1: by John Holcomb brought forward 29 witnesses and presented 200
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  Speaker 1: exhibits in court, successfully building a different line of reasoning.
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  Speaker 1: He argued that his inquiry into the silencers, practicing his shooting,
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  Speaker 1: and talking about his mother as a problem that needed
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  Speaker 1: to be resolved were all pointing towards the fact that
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  Speaker 1: this mass murder was a carefully plotted crime, especially given
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  Speaker 1: the fact that the shooting had been carried out at
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  Speaker 1: a time when the church bells had begun ringing, hence
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  Speaker 1: drowning out the noise from the gunshots, preventing anyone from
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  Speaker 1: calling the authorities. He went on to say that Ruppert
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  Speaker 1: planned on aiming for the insanity plea because that would
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  Speaker 1: ensure that he would be sent to the Lima, a
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  Speaker 1: state mental hospital where he would eventually be declared sane.
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  Speaker 1: This would allow him to easily inherit the $ 300, 000 worth
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  Speaker 1: of inheritance left behind by Leonard and Charity, which he
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  Speaker 1: would not be able to do if he was convicted
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  Speaker 1: of murder. Based on the prosecution's convincing argument, Ruppert was
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  Speaker 1: once again sentenced to 11 consecutive life sentences. A few
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  Speaker 1: years later, in 1982, on appeal, Ruppert was granted another trial,
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  Speaker 1: where his defense attorney was able to convince the jury
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  Speaker 1: to grant him an insanity plea. Ruppert was charged with
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  Speaker 1: two counts of first-degree murder for his brother and mother,
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  Speaker 1: but found not guilty for the remaining nine counts of
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  Speaker 1: murder by reason of insanity. The only family member to
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  Speaker 1: attend the trial was Alma's mother, Edna Allgaier. She blamed
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  Speaker 1: Ruppert for 13 deaths, including her husband, who took his
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  Speaker 1: own life three years after the incident on Easter Day.
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  Speaker 1: as well as a juror who collapsed during the trial
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  Speaker 1: and died of a heart attack. When Edna passed away,
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  Speaker 1: her headstone proclaimed that she was preceded by eight grandchildren.
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  Speaker 1: At the age of 48, Ruppert was incarcerated by the
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  Speaker 1: Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction at the Franklin Medical
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  Speaker 1: Center in Columbus. Thirteen years later, at the age of 61,
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  Speaker 1: Ruppert was granted another parole hearing by the state parole board,
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  Speaker 1: but was denied release. He was granted two more parole hearings.
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  Speaker 1: one in 2005 and another one in 2015. During all
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  Speaker 1: of these parole hearings, he was denied release. During his
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  Speaker 1: last hearing in 2015, the Allen-Oakwood Correctional Institutional Parole Board
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  Speaker 1: released a statement that indicated that Ruppert was not suitable
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  Speaker 1: for release due to his negative institutional conduct as well
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  Speaker 1: as a strong community objection to his release. Seven years later,
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  Speaker 1: Ruppert died at the age of 88 of natural causes,
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  Speaker 1: having spent 47 years in prison.
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  Speaker 2: A man who shot and killed 11 family members on
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  Speaker 2: Easter 1975 has died. James Ruppert died over the weekend
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  Speaker 2: at Franklin Medical Center in Columbus at the age of 88.
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  Speaker 2: The Hamilton Journal News says that he died of natural causes.
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  Speaker 1: The Ruppert family was buried in Arlington Memorial Garden in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: A year after the heinous mass murder, the house was
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  Speaker 1: opened up to the public. The Ruppert family's belongings were
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  Speaker 1: auctioned off, and the hardwood floors were covered with a
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  Speaker 1: carpet in places where bloodstains were harder to remove. The
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  Speaker 1: house was rented to a family who was unaware of
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  Speaker 1: the house's history. As soon as they found out, they
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  Speaker 1: moved out, complaining of hearing strange voices and other unexplained noises.
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  Speaker 1: To this day, the house remains occupied. Even today, The
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  Speaker 1: Easter Sunday Massacre is remembered as one of the deadliest
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  Speaker 1: family massacres in America. A book called The Easter Sunday Massacre,
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  Speaker 1: A Prosecutor's Diary, The True Story of Mass Murderer James Ruppert,
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  Speaker 1: written by the lead prosecutor John's daughter-in-law, Karen Holcomb was
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  Speaker 1: published with the help of his notes left behind after
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  Speaker 1: his death.
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  Speaker 3: Karen Holcomb first became familiar with this case in the
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  Speaker 3: 1990s when she was a reporter for the Journal News.
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  Speaker 3: She didn't know at the time that her coverage would
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  Speaker 3: lead to her marrying the prosecutor's son and decades later
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  Speaker 3: taking her late father-in-law's words and crafting them into a
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  Speaker 3: book that details the trauma left behind after this tragedy.
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  Speaker 1: What did you think of the case? Do you think
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  Speaker 1: Ruppert was eligible for the insanity plea? Or do you
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  Speaker 1: think that this was an elaborate plan that he had
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  Speaker 1: come up with? after deciding that he was finally done
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  Speaker 1: accepting the abuse he had endured his entire life? Share
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