Hi all, just checking in. Assume there's still nothing happening with the case? Wonder if the grand jury is meeting.
After following the case of the man in N Ohio who killed an older couple in North Canton, then killed a mother and 2 daughters in North Royalton the next day, it's more clear than ever that the Rhoden case should have been solved by now. Up here, it's assumed LE checked with the mom's boyfriend who saw the suspect's car at her house. Did some checking on social media, made some calls and cornered the guy. No problem getting search and arrest warrants. No problems with balky prosecutors.
http://www.cleveland.com/north-royalton/index.ssf/2017/06/north_royalton_mothers_throat.html
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2017/06/son_of_slain_stark_county_coup.html
Ohio BCI and PCSO had pretty much the same information within 24 hrs of the Rhoden murders.
This case isn't being solved, IMO, because LE doesn't want to solve it. Whether that comes from higher up, at the county level, we don't know. But I'm no longer buying any more BS excuses from LE, nor am I giving any of them great praise.
I hope the locals keep pushing instead of letting them cover up another group of murders.
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Nothing new really. This case in North Royalton actually had someone, Plymale, who'd been dating her, if I read it correctly, to come forward about seeing the guy's van parked outside the home. He "met Brinkman, who was a longtime acquaintance of Taylor's, several dozen times after Plymale began dating Taylor. " He also knew that Brinkman and the vicitim's relationship had soured after she started dating Plymale.
No one saw a thing (that they're telling anyway) on UHR in those early morning hours. It's not surprising to me b/c of the difference in where the murders ocurred. I'm sitting right here with a state highway running nearby and after about 1 a.m. or so, it's pretty darn quiet. I lived in a subdivision for a few years before coming back to the country and there were cars coming and going all of the time. It was a nice little cul-de-sac outside the city limits, but people had different work routines, teens coming in and out, and it still wasn't as busy as some subdivisions, or living in town (did that for a short period and even with our town being as small as it is, it was horrible).
If you look up her address, she had homes all around her. Couldn't throw a rock without hitting one. The boyfriend (I think that's what he was) noticed the vehicle at her home, and the Greenhouse across the street may have even captured video of the car going into her little cul-de-sac, and leaving back out.
I love living out in the country, away from most distractions, but I've got No Trespassing signs, and Beware of Dogs signs, and a couple of equalizers. My nearest neighbor wouldn't hear nor see a thing if someone sketchy came 'round, and by the time LE got here, it would all be over.
There's no street lights on UHR, nor on 32 (iirc), no close neighbors to see cars pulling in or out, (I do think they may have left tread marks where they just pulled up and let folks out, and circled back to pick them up.). The folks who murdered the Rhodens, and HHG, are probably kind of like those of us who live in the country, they know the little side roads like the backs of their hands, and could pretty near drive them blindfolded.
I agree, I don't feel that they were up front on the Rhoden/Gilley case, and may be in over their heads, and feel close so they're not wanting to bring in any other folks to help. I hope I'm wrong about the latter, but feel pretty solid on the former. I do think location has something to do w/the difficulty of solving this though. We had a vehicle stolen right out of the front yard, in broad daylight. You could tell by the tire tracks that they had just backed right in, pushed the car into the box truck and drove right off. One of the family drove by that morning and remembered seeing the car there, and I drove by that afternoon of the same day and noticed it was gone. I made a comment that I saw they'd decided to sell the car (it was a pet project they'd been working on). NOPE! We talked to neighbors, but folks just aren't close enough to see much of anything, visited junk yards, called LE, (LE told us it was probably already a cube...) Never did find it.
just celebrated their first year anniversary. Not to go into politics at all, but, she leans a bit left and he leans a bit right so conversing with them is always enjoyable (they keep it cool 
). They balance one another out very well thus far. She chose well.
