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Dr Lizardo6/23/2018 11:23:27 am PDT

So, came across this - a good article regarding the Pike County, OH murders; a case which remains unsolved over two years later.

The murder of the Rhoden family was a brutal tragedy that seemed straight out of an Appalachian noir. Two years later, no one knows why it happened.

The day Bobby Jo Manley pulled up to the Rhoden family property in April 2016, she saw two pitbulls. One of them was plopped down in a recliner. There was something funny about that. The dogs didn’t usually stay outside.

Inside the three mobile homes on the property, seven Rhoden family members were dead, except for the three babies. Shots to the head, mostly, executed some time between midnight and sunup in their respective homes. The property is a couple miles down Union Hill Road right off SR 32 — the James A. Rhodes Appalachian Highway— just past the small, green sign that reads, “Entering Pike County.”

A very well-written example of long-form journalism. Even though there’s really no new developments in the case aside from Internet rumors, it’s still an interesting read on an unsolved crime.

theoutline.com

Wiki article on the crime: en.wikipedia.org