The Easter Sunday Massacre – James Urban Ruppert (Hamilton, Ohio, 1975)

 On Easter Sunday (March 30, 1975), James Urban Ruppert fatally shot 11 members of his own family (his mother, brother, sister-in-law, and eight nieces and nephews) in their Hamilton, Ohio home. Ruppert had a history of financial and emotional instability. In one of the deadliest shootings within a private residence in U.S. history, he methodically moved through the house, targeting his relatives during a holiday gathering.