The Pike County Massacre Conclusion

Who Killed...?

Bill Huffman

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

3.8 • 595 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Thank you to Nic from the True Crime Garage Podcast. You can find all their shows on Stitcher and merchandise at https://truecrimegarge.com 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Slow Burn Media, Evergreen Podcasts, and Killer Podcasts,
0:09.0	Presents Who Killed, a podcast that provides a voice for the voiceless.
0:13.0	All this stuff, it's on the news.
0:16.0	I just found my cousin with a game shot winning.
0:22.0	Okay.
0:23.5	Is you alive?
0:25.3	No, no.
0:25.8	Good evening.
0:28.4	They were all shot in the head, execution style.
0:32.5	Eight members of the same extended family living in a rural part of southern Ohio.
0:33.6	Man.
0:35.8	See, no one's going on.
0:58.7	They're right all over the house. Authorities found marijuana grow operations at three of the four crime scenes that has now led to speculation that the killings may be drug related the state crime lab is analyzing more than a hundred pieces of evidence right now investigators have also fielded more than 450 tips and interviewed nearly 130 people.
1:06.5	Investigators are still asking anyone with information to call this number, 855 BCI, Ohio.
1:09.6	There's plenty of places for people to grow marijuana. We're also a very, very poor county, one of the poorest counties in the state of Ohio,
1:14.6	and people grow marijuana as a cash crop.
1:17.6	There was, of course, a family that was targeted.
1:20.6	The Rodin family was targeted, and so we have talked with the members of the Rodin family
1:25.6	and expressed our concern about their safety and asked
1:30.3	them to be extremely cautious.
1:32.3	I think, you know, we can speculate what the motive was. You can talk about revenge,
1:37.3	you can talk about drug-related, but frankly, we just don't know.
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