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Hello everyone and welcome to episode 270 of the criminology podcast. I'm Mike Ferguson and this is Mike Morford.

Mr. Morford, how are you doing, buddy?

I'm doing good. I was a little depressed this morning. I was watching some of this Maui news coverage of what happened. It was just awful.

I just, my heart goes out to the people that are out there and hopefully anyone listening that's able to help with maybe a donation to Red Cross or any of the other organizations that can help the people in Maui. I hope they're able to do it.

Yeah, I'm with you, man. It's heartbreaking to see the pictures and the video and your heart goes out to everyone involved.

But more of let's transition. Let's go ahead and give our patron shout outs. We had Anita Dunn, Shayla Hacked, Zach S and Tanya.

So that's a lot of great news support. We really appreciate it.

Yeah, thanks so much to everyone that supports the show. It means a lot to us and really helps us out for anyone that would like to support criminology.

You can go to patreon.com slash criminology to sign up.

All right, it's time to jump into this episode and we're talking about an infamous case that unfolded in my home state of Ohio.

In fact, it's a case that resulted in the largest murder investigation in Ohio's history.

We're diving into the murders of the Rodin family, the case that has a few different monikers, the Rodin family massacre, the python massacre, or the Pike County massacre.

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