Authorities called the slayings well-planned executions, with the killer or killers taking pains to cover their tracks. Surveillance cameras at the properties were either destroyed or taken. Thirty-two shots were fired, but investigators will not discuss if the killers took the shell casings or if they found any bullet fragments. Nor will they discuss if they know the types of weapons used.
That leads to speculation the killer is walking among them. Family members, not to mention the police, are convinced someone knows more than they are saying.
And that weighs heavily on the extended family, many of whom still can’t sleep and find themselves looking at people with suspicion.
Stacie Rigsby, Kenneth Rhoden’s former wife and Kendra Rhoden’s mother, has changed the locks on her doors, made adjustments to secure her windows and often asks a friend to spend the night with her. She is convinced damage done to her mailbox in early May is tied to the killings. Two weeks later, the family reported a masked man on the property who ran off, according to police reports.
Authorities investigated the incidents. They called each a coincidence. You can’t convince Rigsby of that.
Also in May, Geneva Rhoden came home to find her apartment door tampered with, according to a police report. No one had gotten into the apartment.
That did little, however, to assuage her surviving children.