Hello everyone! I've just registered. I've been following along with this case since a day or two after the murders. Like many others, something about this case has drawn me in and consumed me. I guess because it's the stuff of nightmares-they had security cameras, lots of dogs, guns and none of it mattered, 8 people in four different houses shot in such horrible fashion late in the night or early in the morning. Then when I started checking into if anyone had been arrested, I find all these interesting stories and avenues to explore. I have family and friends that remind me a lot of this family, so I'm sure that has something to do with my interest.
I know and understand that LE have to keep a tight lid on this all for the obvious reasons, but still think more could be released, just to reassure the public. That leads me to believe they know the perp or perps or maybe not the exact shooters but at least the main operator and are putting together a case. I know if I lived in that area, I would be terrified and really angry that not much is being said about how this is going, but I would be terrified to say anything about it at all. To anyone that lives in the area, is there a larger LE precise around or is it all back to normal? How are residents coping?
The media must have been told to keep pretty quiet with this, there really hasn't been much follow up. Most of the test results should be back by now or close to it, especially if priority was given to this case, hopefully it was. The media doesn't seem to be doing anything with any FOIA requests unless I've missed them. I know there was one right away for the incident report, but haven't seen any thing about any others.
One thought I have that has never been mentioned, if so, I don't recall, is perhaps a drone with a camera could have been used for surveillance of the family by the perps. If so, they might not have needed much info from anyone else about the habits of the family and the perps may not be as close to the family as some people think.
I know there is no way of knowing if the murders in early Jan. of the lady and her daughter in their trailer or earlier in April of the man and his girlfriend in their home in Elsmere KY are related, but they are certainly similar and if not the exact same murderers, the same type. LE is very quiet about that one too. Not sure if they've even said how they died. That murder and the Rhodens' seem very similar to me. Four children were left unharmed. A neighbor across the street stated in an interview that his security cameras didn't show anything. Which tells me the killer/killers came in the back some way. I know people are concerned about Frankie's child. My thought was if the killer/killers came in the back, they might not have even known the child was there, if on the couch, I assume they meant the couch in the living room. I grieve for all those children and hope they will have the mental health care they will require the rest of their lives. The older children left behind in both murders could suffer with memory relapses or ptsd later in life.
Seems LE has really been cracking down on a big dealer or dealers. There was the big bust or indictments. Perhaps the big boys reasoned by deduction of those that didn't get busted of who the snitches were or who they thought they were. While the Rhodens did seem to be keeping watch of their properties, which would be normal with all they had going on, they didn't seem overly worried or concerned to me. Seems that CRSR severally underestimated these killers. Or the men's egos got in the way. They didn't seem to shy to fight. I wouldn't be surprised if drugs other than weed were involved. Seems pretty horrific over just weed, but maybe not, if someone was owed money or thought they were going to be snitched on. Perhaps that is why LE released the info on the grow ops to deflect the killer from what they actually know it's about.
Something that seems strange to me is Kenneth taking the day off his regular job to work on cars. This was a Friday, I would think working on cars could wait until Sat. or Sunday. Why was it so important to not wait another day until the weekend if you have to take off work to do it, seems like that would be a pretty important reason. Perhaps "working on cars" meant something else.
One other thing that has been on my mind since I heard it was from an interview with LM, I thought was in the interview about about his son's truck where he quietly mentions it had fictitious tags and it looked like he was in a more wooded area on a small road or driveway, could have been his own driveway. I can't find that now from any of the interview links I've looked at. I've went back thru and watched interview links and it seems a lot of them have been cropped down from how they aired in the beginning. I could swear LM mentioned something about the family being under some sort of pressure since the beginning of the year after being asked by the interviewer. Does any else recall this or able to provide a link to the interview that isn't cropped down where that part is left out? Or at least from which media outlet this interview was from so I can research it further? I did see it, and thought I had saved it, but can't find it now.
I didn't intend for this post to be so long, just some thoughts I've had that I've tried to articulate here that haven't been brought up yet that I've seen. Like I said I have family and friends that remind me so much of the Rhodens. I thought I could add some perspective. I've enjoyed reading everyone's insight into this and it seems to have helped me in some odd way with dealing with my own grief and terror of a family I never knew. Somehow I just have to believe LE knows who has done this and are just putting the pieces all together. It's a very large puzzle with lots of avenues, I'm sure this has opened a big can of worms. I expect arrests of people of things not related to the murders. Probably a lot of nervous people waiting on the shoe to drop. So I can see and understand why an arrest or arrests are taking so long, it's just frustrating. So hoping for justice and peace for the Rhodens, Manleys, Gilleys and the community.