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Youngest Ohio family member received Facebook threat before murders
foxnews.com ^ | 4/26/16 | ap/cbs/foxnews

Posted on 04/26/2016 7:51:02 AM PDT by ColdOne

The youngest of the eight Ohio family members found slain in execution-style murders last week received a threat on Facebook before the mass killings, Ohio's attorney general said Monday.

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Christopher Rhoden Jr., a 16-year-old freshman at Piketon High School, was the subject of the threat, CBS News reported.

"I'm aware of the Facebook threat," Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said. "Every piece of information is valuable and our investigators are certainly taking that into consideration."

The threat is just one emerging piece of evidence in the investigation, which has also uncovered cockfighting chickens and a marijuana growing operation at some of the properties where the eight were killed.

DeWine told The Cincinnati Enquirer that investigators found roosters kept in individual cages, which he said was "consistent with" an illegal cockfighting operation. DeWine cautioned, however that investigators "don't know what's relevant" to the murders of members of the Rhoden family.

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TOPICS: US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: drugcartels; mexican; ohio; piketon; rhoden
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To: DesertRhino
Actual question, why didn’t she just unfriend him?

Long story, but the short answer is mental illness/diminished capacity.


21 posted on 04/26/2016 8:44:39 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: ColdOne

What exactly was the threat?


22 posted on 04/26/2016 9:00:03 AM PDT by Ken H
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To: GBA
"Given the location and what they're finding..."

In one night, at four separate homes, eight people are shot in their heads while sleeping.

Large marijuana grow operations are located at three of the homes indicating illegal drug trafficking by family members.

Cock fighting roosters were found at some of the locations indicating involvement in an ongoing illegal gambling operation at these locations.

To apply the standard investigative technique of establishing motive, means, and opportunity, one could establish the following:

Motive: Drug territorial dispute (eliminating the competition).

Means: Four different shooters striking simultaneously with silenced weapons.

Opportunity (1):

1. These eight people in four different homes went to sleep and neglected to lock their doors or the shooters brought lock technicians with them.

2. None of these homes had watch dogs that would have awakened them and alerted them to trespassers, or the shooters were able to poison/neutralize the dogs.

Opportunity (2):

1. A close family member had, over time, gained the keys to each of the homes and he accompanied the shooter as he went to each home.

2. This same close family member knew the dogs, and the dogs knew him, allowing him to approached them and poison them.

23 posted on 04/26/2016 9:02:29 AM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: DJ Taylor
Motive: Drug territorial dispute (eliminating the competition).

Seems like it would have been safer to burn down the grow ops.

24 posted on 04/26/2016 9:05:16 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: Randall_S
What is an “execution-style murder”?

A murder not committed during a fight or combat related or self defense.

You know...with a gun. Have to stick to the narrative and the agenda.

25 posted on 04/26/2016 9:08:27 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (#BlackOlivesMatter)
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

Investigators also spoke with his friend, Rusty Mongold, apparently about a Facebook post that appeared to threaten the youngest murder victim, 16-year-old Christopher Rhoden Jr.

CBS News has confirmed Mongold was interviewed by investigators. In a separate Facebook post, Mongold wrote that he went to the sheriff’s office to clear his name.

“I gave them DNA and everything. I have nothing to hide...” he wrote.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/over-60-people-interviewed-in-ohio-family-murder-investigation/


26 posted on 04/26/2016 9:23:27 AM PDT by KansasGirl (Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." Thomas Paine)
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To: b4its2late

See post #26


27 posted on 04/26/2016 9:24:34 AM PDT by KansasGirl (Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." Thomas Paine)
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To: DJ Taylor

I also wonder if the Mex operation that got busted a few years ago might have found out that this family snitched them.

The mex drug gangs are ruthless.


28 posted on 04/26/2016 9:27:14 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Restore Liberty!)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts; Randall_S

A murder not committed during a fight or combat related or self defense.

You know...with a gun. Have to stick to the narrative and the agenda.

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You mean all those Islamic throat cuttings were not executions??? No wonder our current regime is not concerned!


29 posted on 04/26/2016 9:36:23 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian governments are the biggest killer of citizens in the world.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

The victim wouldn’t be any less dead if it had been an anonymous letter delivered by USPS.


30 posted on 04/26/2016 9:46:58 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: DJ Taylor
In one night, at four separate homes, eight people are shot in their heads while sleeping.

I need clarification here. Were they all really in bed asleep? Multiple parties in the same household didn't react to any noise at all? All shot in the head in bed, with no reaction at all, but peacefully asleep? Were there multiple shooters taking aim and pulling the trigger at the same time? Even with suppressors, the noise would be loud in the confines of a house.

31 posted on 04/26/2016 9:49:37 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (I got nothin'.)
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To: Ken H

[What exactly was the threat?]

The FB post can be seen in this report.

http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/did-mexican-drug-cartel-carry-out-ohio-family-murders/


32 posted on 04/26/2016 9:51:28 AM PDT by KansasGirl (Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." Thomas Paine)
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To: ColdOne

An estimated time of death for these murders will tell much. If they were all done at about the same time then a team effort. If enough time to travel between sites then an individual or small crew is possible.


33 posted on 04/26/2016 10:01:56 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: IYAS9YAS

From the stories I’ve read, it sounds as ii the 2 victims found at the first home were not asleep when shot. The 911 caller said they had been beaten badly and that there was blood all over the house.


34 posted on 04/26/2016 10:01:59 AM PDT by KansasGirl (Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." Thomas Paine)
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To: Randall_S

execution implies a fair trial.


35 posted on 04/26/2016 10:03:29 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Chickensoup
You mean all those Islamic throat cuttings were not executions???

Shhhhh! That is politically incorrect speech. You risk being sent to a re-education center.

36 posted on 04/26/2016 10:43:04 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (#BlackOlivesMatter)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
The victim wouldn’t be any less dead if it had been an anonymous letter delivered by USPS.

Yes, but the USPS has Postal Inspectors, and investigates such things quite seriously. Facebook management hunkers down behind barbed wire with their ears covered, shouting " LA LA LA LA LA I DON'T HEAR YOU!"


37 posted on 04/26/2016 11:11:20 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Zuckerberg and his crappy website continue to get people killed.

It is indeed a crappy website!

38 posted on 04/26/2016 11:12:26 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.)
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To: ColdOne

This was right behind my niece’s wooded area. They didn’t know they were living there until the raid.


39 posted on 04/26/2016 12:11:21 PM PDT by Catsrus (I callz 'eYou m as I seez 'em)
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To: Resolute Conservative

Mewe.com


40 posted on 04/26/2016 4:00:00 PM PDT by ZULU (Trump is the answer. The Establishment is the problem.)
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