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Corpus Delicti

95: Bad Blood: Pike County Massacre

Corpus Delicti

CDM Productions

True Crime

4.5608 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This week's story is that of an entire family killing another entire family. What could cause two brothers, their parents, and their grandmothers to annihilate a family of 8 while they slept? Could it be drug related? Or was it something a little bit closer to home?

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Music by:
Kai Engel
"Daemones"

Blooper music by:
Art of Escapism
"Coal Miners"

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Sources:
https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/local/3rd-anniversary-pike-county-murders-1st-with-suspects-charged/WI7cC77wU7GxJZJRhXBYoO/
https://www.oxygen.com/the-piketon-family-murders/crime-time/pike-county-murder-massacre-wagner-family-alleged-motive-custody
https://www.oxygen.com/crime-time/4-things-know-pike-county-family-murders
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/11/14/pike-county-rhoden-family-murders-timeline/1998579002/
https://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/remembering-rhoden-massacre-in-pike-county-on-3rd-anniversary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pike_County_shootings
https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2016/04/25/exclusive-we-aint-no-revenge-our-hearts-pike-co-family-says/83517330/

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0:00.0

The weather. Tomorrow, expect a... Biting cold front. Mmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise, slowly but surely, reaching their peak in the afternoon.

0:23.0

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0:25.8

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0:55.0

Sun Express, non-stop sunshine. Hey everyone, it's Jen.

0:55.9

And this is Lindsay.

1:00.0

And this is Corpus DeLucti, the Body of a Crime Podcast.

1:01.5

She got it right this week.

1:03.7

Boom!

1:06.8

What did you say, the body of a podcast crime last time?

1:09.5

You deck and roll, girl.

1:10.3

Duck and roll.

1:14.1

I'm going to apologize if there is a hum in the background.

1:23.7

We live in the gates of hell, Alabama, and it literally has been like 105 degrees today.

1:28.9

And our air condition is blowing, but it doesn't feel like it's doing anything because it's that hot and it my house is 85 degrees and so i have a fan on so i'm sorry can i tell you my story

1:38.3

yes i get home i start cooking so i put on the oven to 450 i.50. I was doing that really, really crispy chicken.

1:45.6

Not that you care. And all of a sudden, I hear, did, do, do, Doo. Boom. My miniature Dotson

1:51.6

runs through her doggy door like she always have for the past nine years. Well, the flap of the doggy door came off.

1:58.7

And with it being nine years old, it completely broke.

2:02.4

Oh, no.

2:03.7

So we have this big gaping hole in our door that leads straight outside, where it's 107.

2:09.5

Sweet.

2:10.1

Outside.

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