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    Pike County sheriff: Rhoden children still in danger

    By Holly Zachariah
    The Columbus Dispatch

    WAVERLY — Pike County Sheriff Charles Reader made it clear Thursday that he fears the Rhoden family killings aren’t over.

    Reader, testifying at a hearing in Pike County Juvenile Court, said specifically that he thinks the three children, who were found alive and physically unharmed inside the rural Pike County homes where eight members of the family were shot to death on April 22, remain in danger.

    He told Juvenile Court Judge Robert Rosenberger that he worries every day about being called to another crime scene with multiple victims. And Reader also said publicly for the first time that investigators are looking for killers — plural — rather than a single shooter, something authorities have implied but never confirmed.

    "I believe if the information about the minor children is released, it would put the minor children or their caregivers in grave danger,” Reader said. "I do not want to ever find victims 9, 10 and 11 and have them be those three minor children."

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    Reader was the only witness to testify at the hearing held to discuss whether custody proceedings for 9-month-old Ruger Rhoden and 3-month-old Kylie Rhoden, who are both currently in foster care, should be closed to the public.

    Ohio law presumes Juvenile Court hearings to be open and that some (but not all) of the accompanying records are a matter of public record. In the case of the Rhoden children, Pike County Children Services has asked Rosenberger to close the courtroom and seal the records, saying that the potential danger to the children outweighs any public good.

    The Cincinnati Enquirer formally objected to that closure, and its attorney, Jack Greiner, argued the case Thursday. The hearing on whether to close the matter in the future was held in open court.

    Three people, identified in court records only by their initials, are seeking custody of Ruger and Kylie.

    Ruger is the son of Clarence “Frankie” Rhoden and Hannah Gilley, his fiancée, who both were shot to death April 22. Kylie is the daughter of Hanna Rhoden, Frankie’s sister, who also was killed. Kylie was born just four days before her mother died.

    Frankie’s older son from a previous relationship also was at his father’s trailer during the killings but he is with family and his custody is not in dispute.

    Rosenberger gave the attorneys until Aug. 16 to file additional paperwork supporting their cases, and he said he will rule after that.

    In addition to Frankie, Hannah Gilley and Hanna, also shot to death inside those four rural Pike County homes were Christopher Rhoden, Frankie and Hanna's father; Dana Manley Rhoden, their mother; Christopher Rhoden Jr., the couple's other son; Kenneth Rhoden, Chris Sr.'s brother; and Gary Rhoden, a cousin to Kenneth and Chris Sr.

    The judge acknowledged the unusual circumstances of the matter, and said everyone must proceed with care.

    “This is a very unique case of basically a whole family being wiped out,” he said. “It’s pretty obvious to someone even as stupid as me that this was an attack on one family, and these are the minor children of that family.”

    He pointed out more than once, however, that the killers did seem to purposely spare the children.

    Reader disagreed, saying that even though the children weren’t shot, and given the age of especially the newborn, they very well could have died, too, if the scenes had not been quickly discovered.

    http://www.dispatch.com/content/stor...tody-case.html
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    State: releasing autopsies in Ohio killings threatens case

    COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine is arguing that releasing the final autopsy reports in the unsolved slayings of eight people from one family would threaten the investigation.

    A filing by DeWine's office with the Ohio Supreme Court Tuesday said the reports contain information known only to investigators and the killers.

    At issue is a complaint by The Columbus Dispatch before the court alleging the Pike County coroner is improperly withholding the reports.

    The newspaper wants the court to lift an order requiring that the two sides try to settle the matter.

    DeWine's office says it still believes a solution could be reached that satisfies both parties.

    Seven adults and a teenage boy from the Rhoden family were found shot at four homes near Piketon on April 22.

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    Investigators search farm 10 miles from scene of Rhoden family massacre

    The Ohio Attorney General confirms several law enforcement departments have converged to search a home in Adams County.

    The Ohio Attorney General’s Bureau of Criminal Investigations, the Ohio Department of Corrections STAR Team and deputies from Adams and Pike County Sheriff’s Offices are searching a home, according to WLWT.

    A representative from the AG’s office could not confirm the exact location of the search, what authorities are looking for, or if it’s directly connected to the Rhoden investigation. The search started late Friday morning, the AG’s office said.

    The farm is approximately 10 miles from the scene of the April 2016 slayings of eight members of the Rhoden family. On April 22, 2016, investigators found seven adults and a teenage boy shot to death at four homes near Piketon, about 70 miles south of Columbus. Three young children were unharmed.

    One of the victims, Christopher Rhoden Sr., operated a commercial marijuana growing operation on his property “with the purpose of distributing the marijuana,” according to the office of Attorney General Mike DeWine, whose office is leading the investigation.

    The motive remains a mystery, and the case remains unsolved. The amount for information leading to a conviction remains at $10,000.

    It remains unclear if the investigation at the farm in Adams County is related to the Pike County case.

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    Ohio investigators search three locations in Rhoden family murder probe

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    Investigators searched three properties in the past two days for evidence related to the unsolved killings of eight members of an Ohio family nearly 13 months ago, according to reports Saturday.

    SWAT teams helped carry out the searches Friday and Saturday in Adams County and Pike County, according to media reports.

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    reported that police made no arrests in connection with the searches. The station reported that the searches marked a major development in the long-stalled probe.

    Seven adults and a teenage boy from the Rhoden family who were found shot to death April 22, 2016, at four homes near Piketon in Pike County. They were shot execution-style.

    It’s unclear what if anything was found during the searches, WLWT-TV reported.

    “A lot of things run through your mind at night,” Leonard Manley told the station. His daughter Dana Rhoden was one of the victims, so were three grandchildren.

    “It’s been a lot of sleepless nights,” he said.

    The properties searched included a 71-acre farm in Adams County.

    It belonged to a former boyfriend of one of the victims, 18-year-old Hannah Rhoden, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported. She was found shot to death next to her 5-day-old baby girl who was not harmed.

    Jake Wagner, 24, and Rhoden had a daughter in 2013 and he was given custody of the child after the killings, the paper reported. Records indicated Wagner may have sold the farm in March.

    Another search took place at a farm in Piketon that belongs to relatives of Wagner, according to the paper.

    A woman who answered a phone at the farm Saturday declined comment, the Enquirer reported.

    The third property searched was a used car lot in Adams County owned by a man named Brian Brown, according to the paper.

    Rhoden family members issued a plea last month on the first anniversary of the killings for anyone with information to contact police.

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/05/14...der-probe.html
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    Evidence tampering charge in probe of Ohio family massacre

    By Crimesider Staff
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    WAVERLY, Ohio -- Authorities have charged the brother of one of the eight relatives slain in an unsolved Ohio massacre with tampering with evidence and vandalism, accusing him of destroying a GPS device.

    The Ohio attorney general's office on Tuesday announced the charges against 40-year-old James Manley, of Peebles, in southern Ohio.

    Authorities say Manley destroyed the device being used in the investigation of the slayings. Manley is the brother of victim Dana Rhoden.

    Manley's phone is disconnected, and online court records don't list an attorney. Manley's father, Leonard Manley, told the Cincinnati Enquirer his son would turn himself in.

    No arrests have been made in the April 2016 slayings of eight members of the Rhoden family – seven adults and one teen boy. They were found shot at four homes near Piketon, about 70 miles south of Columbus. Three children were found unharmed.

    Authorities have executed several dozen search warrants in the lengthy investigation. One of the most recent was issued in April and allowed investigators to put a tracking device on a truck driven by James Manley, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer, which obtained a copy of the warrant.

    The warrant indicated that investigators believe the truck was used in connection with an aggravated murder or by a person intending such a crime, but it doesn't specify a connection to the Rhoden homicide investigation, and it doesn't name the man as a suspect, the newspaper reported.

    Leonard Manley told the paper his son was at his logging job Tuesday when Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation agents showed up at his home to take the GPS device they had earlier installed off his son's truck. But, Manley said, he told them that his son discovered the device about a week earlier and took it off the underside of his truck, the paper reports.

    Authorities searched multiple sites in connection with the investigation late last week, taking a trailer linked to the family of one victim's ex-boyfriend. Bernie Brown, who owns property in Peebles where the trailer had been stored, said its owners needed a place to keep household items after recently selling their Adams County farm.

    Whatever significance the trailer might have hasn't been publicly disclosed. The Pike County sheriff and the Ohio attorney general's office won't discuss details of any searches or other parts of the investigation.

    No arrests have been made, and family members have pleaded for anyone with information that might help solve the case to come forward.

    Leonard Manley, whose adult daughter and grandchildren were slain, said he wants justice, but it seems to him that investigators are "grasping at straws."

    "It's like a wound and then you pick at it," he told the Enquirer, "and they are starting to pick pretty hard."

    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/evidence...mily-massacre/
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    Tampering charge against massacre victim's brother tossed

    By Associated Press

    WAVERLY, Ohio – A judge in Ohio has dismissed evidence tampering and vandalism charges against the brother of one of eight victims of an unsolved massacre.

    Prosecutors asked for the dismissal Monday so they can take the case to a grand jury and keep additional evidence out of court.

    The charges accused James Manley, of Peebles, of destroying a GPS tracking device.

    Investigators trying to solve the slayings placed the device on Manley's truck last month.

    Manley turned himself in last week. He hasn't been named a suspect in the killings.

    His lawyer thinks investigators are trying to pressure Manley and wants to know what evidence prosecutors have.

    Manley's sister was among eight members of the Rhoden family shot near Piketon in April 2016. No arrests have been made in the slayings.

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/05/22...er-tossed.html
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    Why are Rhoden investigators asking about a family in Alaska?

    By Chris Graves
    The Enquirer

    In an uncharacteristically public move in the 14-month-old Rhoden family massacre investigation, the Ohio Attorney General and the Pike County Sheriff asked anyone with information about a former Ohio family who recently moved to Alaska to call authorities.

    Authorities are seeking any information about George "Billy" Wagner III, 46; his wife, Angela, 46; and their two sons, George Wagner IV, 25, and Edward "Jake" Wagner, 24. The Wagner family lived at a Peebles farm that authorities searched last month. The family sold the farm this spring.

    Jake Wagner is the former longtime boyfriend of Hanna Rhoden, 19, who was of one of eight homicide victims killed on April 22, 2016. The two share a daughter, who is now three and in the custody of her father.

    "Investigators are interested in receiving information regarding any interactions, conversations, dealings or transactions that the public may have had with these individuals, which could be personal, business, or otherwise. Specifically, information could include, but is not limited to, information regarding vehicles, firearms, and ammunition," a news release issued Monday said.

    The release did not name the Wagners as suspects in the slayings of Hanna Rhoden; her parents, Christopher Rhoden Sr. 40, and Dana Rhoden, 37; her brothers, Christopher, Jr, 16, and Clarence "Frankie" Rhoden, 20, and his fiancee, Hannah Gilley, 20; her uncle, Kenneth Rhoden, 44, and her cousin, Gary Rhoden, 38. Each was shot to death, many as they slept in four different trailers on family land. Three small children were found alive and physically unhurt.

    In a Facebook message to the Enquirer Monday afternoon, Angela Wagner declined to comment on the advice of her lawyer.

    But Angela Wagner called her husband, George "Billy" Wagner and Christopher Rhoden, Sr., "best friends," and vehemently denied the family had any involvement in their deaths in an exclusive interview with the Enquirer earlier this month.

    Her comments then and those of her son, Jake Wagner, came in several Facebook and email exchanges with The Enquirer.

    "Please let's concentrate on finding the real monsters who did this," Jake Wagner, 24, said in a combined email sent to The Enquirer in early June.

    Angela Wagner's comments came just weeks after authorities conducted three searches of the Wagner's properties in Pike and Adams counties. Authorities have repeatedly declined to discuss the searches or indicated what they may have seized. The Wagners denied knowing why the properties were searched.

    Rumors and speculation about the family have swirled since the day of the massacre but intensified in recent weeks after the family sold their farm, moved all their belongings to another farm and took a trip to Alaska. Angela Wagner called that trip a family vacation. They returned to Ohio late last month but said she and her family were too busy to meet in person with The Enquirer.

    Authorities said Monday they believe the family has now relocated to Alaska.

    Dan Tierney, a spokesman for the Ohio Attorney General's Office, said he could not comment on whether Ohio authorities have reached out to Alaska authorities in the case. He said the Wagners have not been charged with any crimes related to the Rhoden killings.

    Investigators are "certainly interested in any information around the day of the murders to present ... but we are hesitant to limit that time frame,'' Tierney said. "If anyone has any information or any tips, they should either call the BCI or the sheriff's office."

    DeWine, who has been tight-lipped about the case, has said that authorities believe the killers knew the family and were familiar with the rural area on Union Hill Road and East Fork Road, where they lived and where they were found shot to death.

    He called the killings execution-style, indicated the crime scenes were cleaned of some potential evidence and said police found evidence of three commercial-grade marijuana grow sites at two locations. Family members have said those sites were at the homes of Christopher Rhoden, Sr., and Kenneth Rhoden.

    However, they have never linked the grow sites to a motive in the case, which remains without an arrest.

    Family and neighbors have claimed Hanna Rhoden and Jake Wagner were involved in a nasty custody dispute over their daughter, Sophia.

    Both Wagners have denied that. They have said they have been interviewed and cooperated in the investigation.

    Rather, Angela Wagner said the couple wanted to legally formalize their agreed-upon shared custody arrangement. After they split up, each parent had custody of Sophia for one week, usually alternating each Saturday.

    "What has happened to us in the last few weeks has been devastating and will follow us for the rest of our lives,'' Angela Wagner wrote in an email. "Hanna was loved by all of us. She was like a daughter to me then and now. Her loss still hurts to this day especially when we see her every day in Sophia."

    Those who have information about the Wagner family are asked to call the BCI tip line at 1-855-BCI-OHIO (224-6446) or the Pike County Sheriff's Office at 740-947-2111.

    Any information provided will remain confidential, and a $10,000 reward is still in effect.

    Ohio Supreme Court wants to see full Rhoden autopsies

    http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/...ocid=ACERDHP15

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    Rhoden family massacre: Autopsy reports indicate one victim was awake when fatally shot

    By Kevin Grasha and Jessie Balmert
    Cincinnati.com

    Autopsy reports released Wednesday show the 2016 massacre of eight people from a Pike County family was methodical, calculated and vicious.

    It now appears that 40-year-old Christopher Rhoden Sr., the family patriarch, was among the first killed. The reports indicate he was awake when he was confronted by at least one person with a gun. Among the nine gunshot wounds he suffered was an apparent defensive wound to his right forearm that shattered bone. Also, at least one bullet went through a door before hitting him, according to the reports.

    Authorities had previously said the family members – who were found in three trailers on the same rural property as well as a camper several miles away – were killed in their sleep the early morning of April 22, 2016.

    In addition to the bullet wound to his forearm, Rhoden Sr. also was shot in the torso and cheek. He was found in the back bedroom of a trailer at 4077 Union Hill Road.

    Also found dead in the same trailer was his cousin, Gary Rhoden, 38. He was shot twice in the head and once in the face. With one of the shots, the reports indicate the gun was pressed against the side of his head, leaving a "muzzle stain."

    Information about the kind of bullets found was not included in the reports.

    Also killed in the attack were Christopher Rhoden Sr.'s older brother, Kenneth, 44; his former wife, Dana Manley Rhoden, 38; and their three children, Clarence "Frankie" Rhoden, 20; Hanna Rhoden, 19; and Chris Rhoden, Jr., 16.

    Frankie Rhoden's fiancee, Hannah Gilley, 20, also was a victim.

    The killers spared three young children, who were unharmed.

    The reports lay out the brutality of the killings. All but one of the victims were shot in the head multiple times in their homes. Kenneth Rhoden was found in a camper about three miles away, shot once through his right eye.

    Dana Manley Rhoden and her children, Chris and Hanna, were found dead in the same trailer at 3122 Union Hill Road.

    The reports appear to show Dana Rhoden was methodically shot four times around the right side of her head and a fifth time under her chin.

    Chris, who at 16 was the youngest victim, was shot in the head multiple times. Hanna was shot twice in the head. She was found in bed with her 5-day-old daughter.

    Inside a trailer at 4091 Union Hill Road, Frankie Rhoden and Hannah Gilley were fatally shot in bed. Their 6-month-old son was found between them, unharmed. Among the five bullet wounds to Gilley was one to her left eye.

    A second child in the trailer, Frankie Rhoden's 4-year-old son, who had been sleeping on a couch, also wasn't harmed.

    Authorities have repeatedly said the killers worked to cover their tracks, adding complexity to what is the largest homicide investigation in Ohio history.

    "Nobody's seen anything like this," Pike County Prosecutor Rob Junk said Wednesday.

    A spokesman for the Ohio Attorney General's Office, which is heading the investigation, declined to comment.

    As of April this year, investigators had received nearly 1,000 tips in the case, conducted nearly 500 interviews and processed more than 100 pieces of evidence.

    An Ohio Supreme Court ruling announced Wednesday reversed a lower court's decision and made the preliminary autopsy reports of the eight family members killed reviewable to journalists.

    The Pike County coroner and prosecutor had been fighting to keep the reports secret since an Enquirer reporter requested the reports in May 2016. An appeals court ruled the reports were not public but that decision was superseded by the high court's decision.

    Reward

    Anyone with information related to the case is asked to call Southern Ohio Crime Stoppers at 740-773-TIPS. Anonymous tips are still being taken at the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation at 855-BCI-OHIO (224-6446) or the Pike County Sheriff's Office at 740-947-2111.

    A $11,365 Crime Stoppers reward would be paid for any information that leads to the apprehension of suspects and a conviction in the case.

    https://www.cincinnati.com/story/new...ed/1357318002/
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    Authorities announce arrests in slaying of 8 family members

    By Andrew Welsh-Huggins
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    COLUMBUS, Ohio – A family of four was arrested Tuesday in the gruesome slayings of eight people from another family in rural southern Ohio two years ago, the first break in a case that left a community reeling and surviving family members wondering if answers would ever come.

    Arrested were four members of the Wagner family, who lived near the scenes of the killing about 60 miles (97 kilometers) south of Columbus.

    One of those arrested was Edward "Jake" Wagner, 26, who was once the boyfriend of one of the eight victims, 19-year-old Hanna Rhoden.

    The others were Wagner's father, George "Billy" Wagner III, 47; his wife, 48-year-old Angela Wagner; and George Wagner, 27. The Wagners had since moved to Alaska. No motive has been announced.

    Police in Kentucky say the FBI tracked "Billy" Wagner to Lexington, where he was arrested without incident at around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday. Lexington police weren't sure if he had been living in the area.

    Authorities said Wagner was arrested in a horse trailer that was pulled over.

    It's the culmination of a massive investigative effort since seven adults and a teenage boy were found shot in the head at four homes in April 2016.

    Investigators scrambling to determine who targeted the Rhoden family and why had conducted over 130 interviews and processed over 100 pieces of evidence and 550 tips, while getting assistance from more than 20 law enforcement agencies.

    Authorities had refused to discuss many details about the slayings, saying they didn't want to tip their hand to whoever was responsible for the shootings.

    Authorities in June of 2017 announced they were seeking information about the Wagners, including details on personal or business interactions and conversations that people may have had with the four.

    None was named a suspect at the time. Investigators also said they had searched property in southern Ohio sold by the Wagners.

    Jake Wagner was a long-time former boyfriend of Hanna Rhoden, one of the eight victims, and shared custody of their daughter at the time of the massacre.

    Both Jake Wagner and Angela Wagner told the Cincinnati Enquirer they were not involved in the April 2016 killings.

    Angela Wagner said in an email to the newspaper that what happened was devastating and Hanna Rhoden was like a daughter to her.

    Wagner also told The Enquirer that her husband, Billy, and Christopher Rhoden Sr. were more like brothers than friends.

    John Clark, a lawyer who has been representing the Wagners, said a year ago that four of the Wagner family members had provided laptops, phones and DNA samples to investigators, and agreed to be interviewed about the slayings.

    Clark said Tuesday the family will be vindicated.

    "We look forward to the day when the true culprits will be discovered and brought to justice for this terrible tragedy," Clark said in a statement. He added: "The Wagners are also very hopeful that in the ensuing months there will be a thorough vetting of all the facts."

    The Wagner family has lived in Peebles, Ohio, at the time of the killings but later moved to Alaska.

    Clark told The Cincinnati Enquirer that the family was being "harassed while the real killer or killers are out there."

    A coroner said all but one of the victims was shot more than once, including two people shot five times and one shot nine times. Some also had bruising, consistent with the first 911 caller's description of two victims appearing to have been beaten. The coroner's report didn't specify which victims had which wounds.

    Authorities said marijuana growing operations were found at three of the four crime scenes. That's not uncommon in this corner of Appalachia but stoked rumors that the slayings were related to drugs, one of many theories on possible motives that percolated in public locally.

    The victims were identified as 40-year-old Christopher Rhoden; his ex-wife, 37-year-old Dana Rhoden; their three children, 20-year-old Clarence "Frankie" Rhoden, 16-year-old Christopher Jr., and 19-year-old Hanna; Frankie Rhoden's fiancée, 20-year-old

    Hannah Gilley; Christopher Rhoden Sr.'s brother, 44-year-old Kenneth Rhoden; and a cousin, 38-year-old Gary Rhoden. Hanna Rhoden's days-old baby girl, another baby and a young child were unharmed.

    It appeared some of them were killed as they slept, including Hanna Rhoden, who was in bed with her newborn nearby, authorities said. The child, Hannah Gilley's 6-month-old baby and another small child weren't hurt.

    Three funerals were held for the victims.

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/authoriti...family-members
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    Governor Mike DeWine News Conference

    DeWine says custody of the child Jake Wagner shared with Hanna Rhoden was part of the motive. Wagners spent months planning, studying habits. Charges they are facing including forging child custody documents.

    Pike County Prosecutor Rob Junk: it will most likely be years before these cases go to trial. It's 4 people, charged with 8 homicides and death penalty specs.

    DeWine: Pike county can feel safe. Absolutely no evidence anyone involved here except those charged today..AG elect Dave Yost has been briefed.

    As for Sophia, the child Hanna and Jake has together, all they would say is Children Services is involved.

    DeWine says there was "obsession, a fixation, obsession of control of children" and says this is the most bizarre case he has ever seen. He says he wish he could talk of the details.

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    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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