Introducing: The Piketon Massacre

The Idaho Massacre

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3.6 • 6.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2020

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

On the night of April 21, 2016 in rural Piketon, Ohio - eight members of the Rhoden family were viciously murdered execution style in their homes. Two years later in 2018, their neighbors, the Wagners, were arrested and charged with committing the largest massacre in Ohio’s history. Shocked by the arrests, this once close-knit and religious community remains divided and unable to cope. Was a respected and reputable Piketon family responsible for this unimaginable murder spree? Our team will examine the deep ties that connected both families. We’ll examine the evidence and possible motives for the crimes. For the first time we’ll speak with townspeople, psychological experts, respected investigators, friends and members of both families. Are the Wagners responsible for the murders, and if convicted, will they be executed? Or is it possible that there is still a murderer at large waiting to kill again?

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0:00.0	Picture Miami. Picture its beaches. Picture three radio journalists assassinated in cold blood.
0:09.2	This is silenced, the radio murders.
0:12.4	You left the body there for reason. It was the calling card. It's like the mafia used to do.
0:17.2	The mastermind has never been caught. To find him, we had to go deep into a world of drugs and darkness.
0:24.4	And there were these hints of a much bigger conspiracy.
0:28.8	I clearly gave it me in the light.
0:30.8	I must've lost him. Listen to silenced, the radio murders.
0:34.4	On the iHot Radio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:51.2	It was an unimaginable crime.
0:53.2	There's blind all over the house.
0:56.0	It was the second biggest mass murder in 2016 behind the Pulse Night Club shooting.
1:00.5	Eight people dead all from the same family.
1:04.4	It would become the largest criminal investigation in Ohio's history.
1:08.2	Pike County Sheriff's requested state help immediately after they got word.
1:13.3	In the early morning of April 22nd, 2016, eight members of the Rodin family were brutally murdered.
1:20.0	Shot to death execution style in their homes.
1:24.0	Eight victims, 24 gunshot Woolers, three children left alive at the scenes.
1:31.7	This is The Pike Didn Massacre.
1:37.2	Listen to The Pike Didn Massacre starting July 29th on the iHot Radio app, Apple podcasts or wherever
1:42.9	you get your favorite shows.
1:45.0	Picture Miami.
1:47.0	Picture its beaches.
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