Beoria Abraham Simmons II (born May 17, 1954) is an American serial killer who kidnapped and murdered three female victims in Jefferson County, Kentucky between 1981 and 1983. He also attempted to abduct another woman and a teenage girl, and one other man was wrongfully jailed for one of Simmons' crimes. Simmons was sentenced to death in 1985, but his sentence was reduced to life in prison in 2010.