Posted on 04/24/2016 12:02:57 PM PDT by ColdOne
PIKETON, Ohio (AP) — An out-of-breath caller who found two of the eight slain members of an Ohio family told a 911 dispatcher in a quavering voice that "there's blood all over the house."
"I think my brother-in-law's dead," she said, her voice rising as she adds later that it looks like someone has "beat the crap out of them."
"I think they're both dead," she said before breaking down into sobs, according to one of two 911 call recordings released Saturday by the state attorney general's office.
The calls were released a day after eight family members were found dead with gunshots to the head at four properties in rural southern Ohio.
Authorities continued the scramble to determine who targeted that clan and why. Investigators said they interviewed more than 30 people in hopes of finding leads in the deaths of the seven adults and the teenage boy whose bodies were found Friday at homes southwest of Piketon. They completed work at the crime scene Saturday.
"It's a very active and ongoing investigation," said Lisa Hackley, a spokeswoman for Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine. "We're looking for the person or persons who did this."
The victims, all members of the Rhoden family, were identified Saturday as 40-year-old Christopher Rhoden Sr.; his 16-year-old son, Christopher Rhoden Jr.; 44-year-old Kenneth Rhoden; 38-year-old Gary Rhoden; 37-year-old Dana Rhoden; 20-year-old Clarence "Frankie" Rhoden; 20-year-old Hannah Gilley; and 19-year-old Hanna Rhoden.
It appeared some of the family members were killed as they slept, including Hanna Rhoden, who was in bed with
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BLM?
Sheriff says he’s been in law enforcement in that county for 20 years and has never before been involved with that family
Cock fighting must be legal in that county
I don’t think so, looks like different color eyes.
...and what’s with the damn hood music?
The way Texicans drive I'm surprised it's only 60%.
It happens. They just like rooster collections, maybe. :?)
I see them in yards around here but never see any advertising
Not a Discovery addict. Sounds crazy but I have a fairly good built-in lie detector. The caller needing to have the authorities think he learned of the mass killings on the news is a diversion.. He learned of the killings as he was DOING the killing, not from watching the news!
Run down singlewide. Abandoned cars scattered about. And he collects at least a dozen roosters? You don’t even get eggs from those feathered monsters. No one in their right mind collects roosters.
Interesting press conf. The sheriff seems determined and how refreshing to hear an authority say, if you’re worried for your safety, be armed.
Also, they validated grow operations.
Interesting side note on victims possibly being stalked before.
This was utterly calculated.
you don’t raise roosters to eat. You raise roosters to sell as fighting cocks. It’s in the genes like horses. Good genes mean big $$
American cocks are prized in the Philippines. Exports and jobs you know
In the South, roosters raised like that end up in “the pit”. The strong one leaves to fight another day.
Probably 75% or more of those attending these fights are hispanic (and speak little or no English), in Ga anyway.
I’d be willing to bet that all the vics are of the Caucasian persuasion. Don’t know what group the trigger-pullers might identify with. If drugs are anyway involved in this story, it could be anyone.
But killing a 19-year-old girl with a 4-day-old baby is some low shi!t.
There’s a lot of suppressors out there,both legal and illegal.
FoxNews has said there’s a news conference on this coming up “shortly” (which, at Fox News, can mean just about any amount of time). Anyway, they’ll cover it live.
Well, they missed it.
Certainly looks like her. Under the video she notes she was just 11 yrs. old in the video.
The live press conf started around 5 eastern- it’s over. Is anyone awake there?
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No wonder you don't care for women, you're so easily manipulated. Ignoring means not responding, which is the opposite of what you've done.
Learn some html tagging so you can emphasize properly using bold or maybe italics. Apparently, you are unaware that all uppercase is SHOUTING. And nothing you've written is worth shouting about.
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