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Who Killed...?

Pike Co. Massacre Arrests

Who Killed...?

Bill Huffman

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

3.8595 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

If you'd like to help keep these shows coming you can contribute to the show fund by clicking on this link: https://paypal.me/williamhuffman3 On the night of April 21 or in the early morning of the 22nd eight members of the same family in rural Pike County, Ohio, were shot execution style and it put the community on alert and created a frenzy to find out who killed the Rhoden family members, and why. SOURCES: 1. https://web.archive.org/web/20161028144512/http://www.kfvs12.com/story/33446144/pike-county-drug-cartel-speculation-were-wearing-that-label-now 2. https://abcnews.go.com/US/ohio-family-killings-evidence-consistent-cockfighting-found-scenes/story?id=38674426 3. http://www.10tv.com/article/ohio-attorney-general-rhoden-crime-scene-not-compromised 4. https://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/jake-wagner-back-in-pike-county-court-for-sudden-hearing 5. https://www.wkyt.com/content/news/Suspects-accused-of-murdering-8-southern-Ohio-family-members-arrested-500405341.html 6. https://www.yahoo.com/gma/25-000-reward-offered-information-ohio-family-killings-120009236--abc-news-topstories.html# 7. https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/state/2021/04/22/jake-wagner-rhoden-family-homicides-pike-county-ohio-pleads-guilty/7333052002/ 8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PKo6hk6knA 9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCMCLmQHq_M 10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT0zkhyjA4k 11. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KwWZvOauwE 12. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt2y7ydDXqU&t=23s Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Slow Burn Media and Bill Huffman present Who Killed, a podcast that provides a voice for the voiceless.

0:09.0

Hello and welcome to episode 115 of Who Killed.

0:15.1

I am your host, Bill Huffman, and this is a slow burn media production.

0:21.2

On this week's episode, we are going to be taking a look back at the Pike County Massacre arrests.

0:28.4

And we're going to just play the press conference that Governor Mike DeWine put out when the Wagner family was actually brought into custody and it's very

0:39.6

informative as far as how the investigation played out and it's definitely

0:44.6

worth your listen and it's really intriguing to hear from the Attorney

0:51.5

General at the time of the murders, who eventually became governor,

0:56.1

and to see the case from the start to, well, we're currently in the court proceedings,

1:05.0

but it's really interesting to hear their perspective.

1:09.4

And I believe the sheriff also speaks in the press conference as well.

1:15.6

And there's a Q&A section about some of the items that they were discovered at the Rodin family house and the compound

1:25.6

and all the different things that Nick and I kind of covered in

1:29.3

the first two episodes of this little mini series. So take a listen to Mike DeWine and the

1:38.1

sheriff of Pike County discussing the arrest of the Wagner family. Thank you guys again for listening this week,

1:45.7

and can't wait to talk to you again next week. Well, good afternoon.

2:08.6

We promised that the day would come when the rest would be made in the Pike County massacres. Today is that day.

2:24.3

Yesterday, a Pike County grand jury

2:30.3

indicted four individuals for aggravated murder

2:33.3

with death penalty specifications.

2:41.0

George Billy Wagner III.

2:47.0

His wife Angela Wagner and their sons, George Wagner,

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