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Man who killed 11 relatives in Easter shooting dies at 88

FILE - Mass murderer James Ruppert, center, listens to his attorneys, H.J. Bressler, left, and Hugh Holbrook, right, as they prepare to ask for a change of venue retrial on March 18, 1980 in Butler County Common Pleas Court in Hamilton, Ohio. Ruppert, 88, who was serving a life sentence for the shooting deaths of 11 family members — including eight children — died Saturday, June 4, 2022, at the prison system’s Franklin Medical Center in Columbus. (AP Photo/Jeff Hinckley, File)

FILE - Mass murderer James Ruppert, center, is taken back to jail after his arraignment in Hamilton, Ohio, on eleven counts of aggravated murder, April 8, 1975. Ruppert, 88, who was serving a life sentence for the shooting deaths of 11 family members — including eight children — died Saturday, June 4, 2022, at the prison system’s Franklin Medical Center in Columbus. (AP Photo/Brian Horton, File)

Man who killed 11 relatives in Easter shooting dies at 88