I am being to agree with you on the reason's evidence and everything else in this case is being kept secret Betty P. I keep hoping that officials in this day and age are to be trusted and true. But the sad truth is, they cannot. It almost seems officials have a "spin doctor" like actor/actresses used to have to keep their bad behavior out of the press and away from the public. I guess it's not politicially correct to be a "whistle blower" anymore and I can't understand "them" getting away with it. I can understand some things being kept from the public in national matters, but not in something that affects private citizens, in their own town, in their own homes. I am supposed to trust "higher ups" in this case, when half of the police in this situation and others have been proven to be currupt? This case is hard to figure out when we don't have what is considered to be "normal" reports on it. It's starting to stink like something very, very rotten. Even though some people may think that the Rhoden's deserved what they got because they where into criminal activities, (I am not one of them) their children were innocent of whatever it was. They were robbed of their lives all 8 of them. Death was not fair to them, we are all human and make mistakes, most of us have a chance to change that, their chance is gone forever. I want to believe I am at least safe in my own home, I want to be able to believe that if I needed it, help would be there for me. Sadly, this is not true anymore. My faith in these poor people getting any justice is truly beginning to fade.
Betty P, how do we go about finding out what happened that Saturday prior to the murders? I haven't seen it mentioned here or other places. Like you said, it got shut down or quickly forgotten. That's why I was trying to go back and check "old things" out. When we started it was a whirlwind of info and rumors, now that things are calmer, time to check out those little things we missed.
I don't think there's anything out there about the Saturday night before the murders, other than the few remarks LM made. Back in the beginning of the case, I decided to check the scanner feed archives to see if we could go back and listen to what was on the scanner that night. Guess what? There is no public live police scanner feed for Pike County. Surprised? No. And that's unusual compared to most areas in the US, even most of Ohio.
Hard to say what's up. It could also be that prosecutors think they couldn't get a conviction if they do find the killers and bring them to trial. That seems remote, that local jurors would let a group of killers walk free just because they hated some of the Rhodens. Can any locals weight in on that? If they arrested the killers and brought them to trial in Pike Co, would a local jury convict them?
Seems more likely they're covering something up, especially when BCI took over the case instantly and DeWine came running out from Columbus within a couple of hours. He doesn't usually do that. JMO, someone called him and said "you have to get out there pronto and put a lid on this".