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S3 Ep184: Piketon Massacre: The Rhoden Family (Part 1)

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True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.89.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2024

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Piketon is a small town in Southern Ohio, 90 miles east of Cincinnati with a population of just over 2000 people. It’s a salt-of-the-earth type of place, nestled in the heart of Appalachia, where many families can trace their lineage back generations. Everyone knows everyone, no one is a stranger, and when someone is in need all they have to do is turn to their neighbor. Bad things happen everywhere, even in small, tight-knit towns, but in April of 2016 something happened that no one had ever seen before, and it shook them to their core. Eight members of one family, in four separate locations, all murdered execution-style at the same time; it was a crime that most people only experience through movies, but the members of this quiet, hardworking town would soon find themselves thrust into the national spotlight, unwillingly living through a real life murder mystery and mourning a family who had been a fixture in the community.

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Pied in is a small town in southern Ohio 90 miles east of Cincinnati with a

0:17.0

population of just over 2,000 people. It's a salt of the earth type of place

0:21.4

nestled in the heart of Appalachia where families can

0:24.3

trace their lineage back generations.

0:27.1

Everyone knows everyone.

0:28.1

No one is a stranger.

0:29.4

And when someone is in need, all they have to do is turn to their neighbor.

0:33.0

Bad things happen everywhere, even in small, tight-knit towns.

0:36.6

But in April of 2016, something happened

0:39.2

that no one had ever seen before, and it shook them to their core. Police in southern Ohio have a dragnet out for a killer who executed eight members of one family.

0:50.0

The motive for the killings remains unclear tonight, but the rodent family was clearly targeted.

0:56.0

Eight of them killed execution style.

0:58.0

It occurred during the night we have victims who were in bed.

1:02.0

The one mom apparently was killed in her bed with the four-day-old right there.

1:07.5

They've executed five search warrants for those being in the crime scenes there on Union Hill Road.

1:13.7

I spoke with the family.

1:15.3

It's very evident that they were a target of this horrible crime.

1:18.4

A rural town in terror after seven adults and one teenager all shot execution style the first three homes where the bodies were found are without a couple of miles of one another on a sparsely populated stretch of road while the eighth body a man was found in a house within 30 miles.

1:34.6

I do not intend to give out one piece of information that in any way will endanger the

1:41.4

prosecution of this case or in any way will

1:44.4

slow down what our job is. We're very early in this. We have multiple crime scenes, very

1:50.3

horrific crime scene here. So I am not going to rule out the fact that we do not have someone or

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