Zero at the Bone is a true-crime account of Ronald “Gene” Simmons, the former Air Force sergeant responsible for one of the most disturbing family murder cases in American history. The book reconstructs Simmons’s trouble...Zero at the Bone is a true-crime account of Ronald “Gene” Simmons, the former Air Force sergeant responsible for one of the most disturbing family murder cases in American history. The book reconstructs Simmons’s troubled life, his controlling and abusive relationship with his family, and the events leading up to the 1987 Christmas-time killings in rural Arkansas. Written by Bryce Marshall and Paul Williams, it examines the violence, secrecy, and psychological collapse behind the Simmons case.