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Rhoden Family Killings (Ohio; 2016)

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At least eight people have been killed in "execution-style killings" in four places near each other in rural Ohio.

It is believed the victims - seven adults and one teenager - are from the same family, the state's attorney general said in a statement.

They were all shot to death in the head and any suspects are still at large, police said.

More than a dozen officials from multiple agencies were sent to crime scenes in Piketon, south of Columbus.

A pastor at the scene said the violence may have been the result of a "domestic situation".

All of the victims are members of a family called Rhoden, said Pike County Sheriff Charles Reader.

Three young children survived the shootings. The boy who was killed 16 years old. ...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36115536
 
Murder on Union Hill Road
BY KATHLEEN HALE - JANUARY 11, 2017

In April 2016, eight family members were slain in their homes in Ohio. Nine months later, the killer or killers are still on the loose, and the town has all but forgotten the crimes.

“You must purge the evil from among you… Do not leave alive anything that breathes.” - Deuteronomy 17:7, 20:16

You heard gunshots all the time in Pike County. People shot coyotes. They shot into the sky to call back dogs who’d run into the woods. Sometimes people even stalked from bed and shot blind into the dark because they couldn’t sleep.In these hills, people honked hello when they passed each other’s driveways; at church the pastor sang “Satan” to indicate the devil himself and the human capacity for sin in general.

On Friday, April 22, 2016, sometime before dawn, a series of at least thirty-onegunshots woke several dogs on Union Hill Road in Piketon, a rural Ohio community. Owners told them to stop barking.

Forty-year-old Chris Rhoden Sr. and his ex-wife, Dana Manley Rhoden, lived in separate trailers less than a mile down Union Hill Road from one another. Chris Sr.’s property was equipped with security cameras. Their eldest son, twenty-year-old Frankie Rhoden, lived next door to his dad in his own trailer, with his blonde, bespectacled fiancée, twenty-year-old Hannah Gilley, and their six-month-old son, Ruger. Dana and Chris Sr.’s other children (sixteen-year-old Chris Rhoden Jr., nineteen-year-old Hanna Rhoden) and grandbabies (Hanna’s daughters: Sophia and Kylie—two years old, and five days old, respectively) lived with Dana. A festive, three-dollar Walmart wreath hung from their front door.

Dana’s family dominated Union Hill Road’s limited real estate; if you turned right out of her driveway, you’d run into her ex-husband, son, future daughter-in-law and grandson; if you turned left, you’d find Dana’s parents, Leonard and Judy Manley, in a trailer a two minute drive away. Dana’s sister Bobby lived on Union Hill Road, too.

Bobby had done chores for Dana and Chris Rhoden Sr., and gave rides to anyone who called. People took advantage; her father Leonard calls her “naïve.” “She’s thirty-six—thirty-eight years old? I can’t remember. But she’s got the heart of a kid,” he said.

On the morning of April 22, according to The Cincinnati Enquirer, Bobby picked up her friend and his wife and headed to her former brother-in-law’s place to complete some chores. At Chris Rhoden Sr.’s property, she left her phone charging in the car, and lowered her heavy frame onto the gravel. Hungry chickens chortled at her from their A-frame tents. She turned and saw that Chris Sr.’s pit bulls were loose. Confused, she walked to Chris Sr.’s private trailer, found the front door locked, and reached for a spare key.

In the days to follow, her relative access made people wonder.


Continued at considerable length:
http://hazlitt.net/murder-union-hill-road
 
Murder on Union Hill Road
BY KATHLEEN HALE - JANUARY 11, 2017

In April 2016, eight family members were slain in their homes in Ohio. Nine months later, the killer or killers are still on the loose, and the town has all but forgotten the crimes.

“You must purge the evil from among you… Do not leave alive anything that breathes.” - Deuteronomy 17:7, 20:16

You heard gunshots all the time in Pike County. People shot coyotes. They shot into the sky to call back dogs who’d run into the woods. Sometimes people even stalked from bed and shot blind into the dark because they couldn’t sleep.In these hills, people honked hello when they passed each other’s driveways; at church the pastor sang “Satan” to indicate the devil himself and the human capacity for sin in general.

On Friday, April 22, 2016, sometime before dawn, a series of at least thirty-onegunshots woke several dogs on Union Hill Road in Piketon, a rural Ohio community. Owners told them to stop barking.

Forty-year-old Chris Rhoden Sr. and his ex-wife, Dana Manley Rhoden, lived in separate trailers less than a mile down Union Hill Road from one another. Chris Sr.’s property was equipped with security cameras. Their eldest son, twenty-year-old Frankie Rhoden, lived next door to his dad in his own trailer, with his blonde, bespectacled fiancée, twenty-year-old Hannah Gilley, and their six-month-old son, Ruger. Dana and Chris Sr.’s other children (sixteen-year-old Chris Rhoden Jr., nineteen-year-old Hanna Rhoden) and grandbabies (Hanna’s daughters: Sophia and Kylie—two years old, and five days old, respectively) lived with Dana. A festive, three-dollar Walmart wreath hung from their front door.

Dana’s family dominated Union Hill Road’s limited real estate; if you turned right out of her driveway, you’d run into her ex-husband, son, future daughter-in-law and grandson; if you turned left, you’d find Dana’s parents, Leonard and Judy Manley, in a trailer a two minute drive away. Dana’s sister Bobby lived on Union Hill Road, too.

Bobby had done chores for Dana and Chris Rhoden Sr., and gave rides to anyone who called. People took advantage; her father Leonard calls her “naïve.” “She’s thirty-six—thirty-eight years old? I can’t remember. But she’s got the heart of a kid,” he said.

On the morning of April 22, according to The Cincinnati Enquirer, Bobby picked up her friend and his wife and headed to her former brother-in-law’s place to complete some chores. At Chris Rhoden Sr.’s property, she left her phone charging in the car, and lowered her heavy frame onto the gravel. Hungry chickens chortled at her from their A-frame tents. She turned and saw that Chris Sr.’s pit bulls were loose. Confused, she walked to Chris Sr.’s private trailer, found the front door locked, and reached for a spare key.

In the days to follow, her relative access made people wonder.


Continued at considerable length:
http://hazlitt.net/murder-union-hill-road


Maybe this would fit in Mass murder/spree killing?
 
This is a shocking story (I've done a search and couldn't find it here - feel free to move it if it's in the wrong place).

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/14/ohio-family-murders-rhoden-wagner-trial

Eight members of the Rhoden family were killed in one night in a well-planned attack by the Wagner family in rural Ohio in 2016. It's now gone to court with Jake Wagner pleading guilty to avoid the death sentence, and dobbing in sundry family members.

It appears to cover loads of clichés about sections of rural USA: home-schooling, under-age sex, cock-fighting, pit-bull terriers and the like...

Truly terrible.
 
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