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Kathy Kendrick

Case from Russellville, AR dated Dec 28, 1987

Victim Details

Kathy Kendrick

Female

Russellville

AR

1987-12-28

24

Kathy

Kendrick

07/22/2026

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In the winter of 1987, a 24-year-old woman named Kathy Kendrick was working as a secretary at the Peel, Eddy, and Gibbons Law Firm in Russellville, Arkansas. On the morning of December 28th, her life was tragically cut short in a horrifying act of violence that was part of a larger, devastating crime spree. That day, a former coworker, Ronald Gene Simmons, entered the law firm and shot Kathy four times in the head as she sat at her reception desk. She was rushed to the hospital but succumbed to ...
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