The Pike County Massacre

Who Killed...?

Bill Huffman

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

3.8 • 595 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Thank you to Nic from the True Crime Garage Podcast. You can find all their shows on Apple Podcasts and their 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.
0:14.7	Hello and welcome to this week's episode of Who Killed.
0:17.6	I'm your host, Bill Huffman, and this is a slow burn media, Evergreen podcasts,
0:22.4	and Killer Podcasts production.
0:25.5	It's all this stuff. It's on the news. I just found my cousin with a game shot winning.
0:33.0	Okay.
0:33.9	Is it still a line?
0:35.7	No, no.
0:36.8	Good evening. They were all shot in the head, execution style. Eight members of? No. No. Good evening.
0:38.3	They were all shot in the head, execution style.
0:40.3	Eight members of the same extended family living in a rural part of southern Ohio.
0:44.3	Man.
0:45.3	You know what's going on?
0:47.3	There's blood all over the house.
0:50.3	Authorities found marijuana grow operations at three of the four crime scenes that has now led to
0:56.6	speculation that the killings may be drug related the state crime lab is analyzing more than a
1:01.8	hundred pieces of evidence right now investigators have also fielded more than 450 tips and
1:08.1	interviewed nearly 130 people investigators are still asking anyone with information to call this number,
1:15.6	855 BCI, Ohio.
1:18.6	There's plenty of places for people to grow marijuana.
1:21.6	We're also a very, very poor county, one of the poorest counties in the state of Ohio,
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