OH - Pike County: 8 people from one family dead as police hunt for killer(s) - #24

[jk204]

If he worked regularly in Columbus 5 days a week, why stay 90 miles away in a camper in Rarden? What do we know of his work? Was it full time or contractor work ? Fixed location or mobile?

What do they do exactly ?

 

[rsd1200]

Did her brother try?

Good question.

 

[rsd1200]

Is there a chance that KR did not really have a job in Columbus at all? Perhaps he just told his kids and ex-wife that to hide any illegal business he may have been involved in? Is His daughter the only reference of this job in Columbus?


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That is a thought, especially since they went up around that way after cars, and Chillicothe is another place they frequented too (which is on the way to Columbus). But I think that the place he said he worked for kind of farmed folks out around the area on the lines. They put it in the obit though so he'd have to have fooled a lot of folks. If DS knew, I don't see him as being able to keep that to himself.

 

[rsd1200]

Do you know where it said he worked for US Utilities? I must have missed that


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Kenneth Rhoden’s obituary reveals he worked at US Utilities

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2016/05/01/pike-county-rhoden-shooting-obituaries/83802830/

 

[rsd1200]

I wonder if he had a 4 day work week, or was part time. idk jmo

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But, if that was true, as close as his daughter said that they were, she'd not have called him, expecting him to be at work. That seems to be the reason no one checked on him at the camper sooner than they did. She'd tried to reach him thinking he'd be at work.

 

[rsd1200]

If he worked regularly in Columbus 5 days a week, why stay 90 miles away in a camper in Rarden? What do we know of his work? Was it full time or contractor work ? Fixed location or mobile?

What do they do exactly ?

It's not really uncommon for folks to travel like that. Especially from poorer counties. There were folks who worked w/my spouse who traveled over 80 miles one way, to work, each day. My spouse traveled over 50, one way, as did my father.

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[Dudly]

One relative that isn't mentioned much is BR. How was his relationship to with the victims?

 

[glf]

Perhaps if Kenny was working in the shop, they could only check their phones on their breaks, or if he was out in the field, calls may have not always gone thru due to location. If I drive thru rural southern Kan, between Greensburg and Meade, I rarely have svc. I used to have family in Liberal, MO, and as soon as I got to the city limits, my phone would say NO SERVICE.

 

[amauet1]

No new info but interesting www.10tv.com/pike-county-sheriff-announces-new-major-crime-task-force sorry I just can't get links to work right for me! It's about Sheriff Reader staring a new Major Crime Task Force for Pike Co. and checking into old murders and old crimes. Dated Jan. 23, 2016

 

[RAISINISBACK]

No new info but interesting www.10tv.com/pike-county-sheriff-announces-new-major-crime-task-force sorry I just can't get links to work right for me! It's about Sheriff Reader staring a new Major Crime Task Force for Pike Co. and checking into old murders and old crimes. Dated Jan. 23, 2016

Click here: Pike County Sheriff announces new Major Crimes Task Force | WBNS-10TV Columbus, Ohio | Columbus News, Weather & Sp

 

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Click here: Pike County Sheriff announces new Major Crimes Task Force | WBNS-10TV Columbus, Ohio | Columbus News, Weather & Sp

Click here: Pike County Sheriff announces new Major Crimes Task Force | WBNS-10TV Columbus, Ohio | Columbus News, Weather & Sp

"What had been written up as an accident, that as a result of members of the team looking at some information within the files, realized the body needed to be exhumed and properly autopsied. They established that that person had in fact been murdered," Smith said.


Going back to that outlandish theory out of an old gangster movie, could it be possible the victims saw someone commit a murder that was previously ruled an accident and the perpetrator got nervous and killed them?

 

[Obiwankenobi]

Then, the family sent a friend and a Rhoden cousin over to check Kenneth’s home. The pair called Kendra’s aunt to tell her the news.
Apparently DS was not alone when he made the discovery.

It could well be that both stories are true. KR tried to reach her father thinking he worked. And DS did not show up to the initial plan.

I wonder why it's worded that family sent a "friend" and a cousin! I thought I read LR and DS went to check on him! I thought LR was his son and DS was his cousin?

 

[glf]

Yes, Donald stated on film Kenny's son was with him, and D did not let him go in the house.

 

[jk204]

Click here: Pike County Sheriff announces new Major Crimes Task Force | WBNS-10TV Columbus, Ohio | Columbus News, Weather & Sp

"What had been written up as an accident, that as a result of members of the team looking at some information within the files, realized the body needed to be exhumed and properly autopsied. They established that that person had in fact been murdered," Smith said.


Going back to that outlandish theory out of an old gangster movie, could it be possible the victims saw someone commit a murder that was previously ruled an accident and the perpetrator got nervous and killed them?

Who wrote the death report qualifying as accident in the first place ?

 

[RAISINISBACK]

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That was also just the day before the trial w/the woman who slapped her son, wasn't it? There was also the drama surrounding her daughter. I tended to think that it probably surrounded those events.

It seems to be the only trouble in her life at that time, at least that we know of. But no one goes on a killing spree over four houses and eight people for no reason. They had to know that someone hated them enough to do that. They had to know that something was brewing even if the perpetrator was family or close friend. If that was the only trouble she knew then that almost leads me to believe that is why they were killed.

There has to be some indicator of that kind of violence before hand. Even the mass shootings that have happened the last few years would at first seem random but always later someone would say I knew he would do this someday. That kind of hate spills out into everyday life and family and friends always know about it. They can't help but know, even if they are in denial about it.

 

[RAISINISBACK]

The reason we are all so obsessed with this case is because it is like reading a murder mystery and never getting to the ending. It's like the solution is there in your mind somewhere but you just can't pin it down. You feel like you know the who and why but the answer is just out of reach.

 

[rsd1200]

Perhaps if Kenny was working in the shop, they could only check their phones on their breaks, or if he was out in the field, calls may have not always gone thru due to location. If I drive thru rural southern Kan, between Greensburg and Meade, I rarely have svc. I used to have family in Liberal, MO, and as soon as I got to the city limits, my phone would say NO SERVICE.

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True, but most would call the main office in the event of this kind of family emergency, and send someone out to get him. At some point they've realized he didn't go to work and I'd guess that was around lunch time. Iirc she said she talked to him at lunch sometimes. I wonder who the friend was that she called to go over with DS.

 

[rsd1200]

It seems to be the only trouble in her life at that time, at least that we know of. But no one goes on a killing spree over four houses and eight people for no reason. They had to know that someone hated them enough to do that. They had to know that something was brewing even if the perpetrator was family or close friend. If that was the only trouble she knew then that almost leads me to believe that is why they were killed.

There has to be some indicator of that kind of violence before hand. Even the mass shootings that have happened the last few years would at first seem random but always later someone would say I knew he would do this someday. That kind of hate spills out into everyday life and family and friends always know about it. They can't help but know, even if they are in denial about it.

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They may not have known though. The one I'm following here, the family members did not see it coming. The other folks had let it simmer for months. Then a spark ignited the whole thing. It wasn't well planned like this one though. They knew there was hard feelings just obviously never thought it would go to that level.

 

[glf]

RE post 294: I would imagine the people who did the initial investigation ruled the death accidental. Others reviewing the case didn't see or read anything that struck them as being odd, or just not fitting with other evidence, and the investigation was closed. And, possibly, the initial investigators are probably all retired by now.

 

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They may not have known though. The one I'm following here, the family members did not see it coming. The other folks had let it simmer for months. Then a spark ignited the whole thing. It wasn't well planned like this one though. They knew there was hard feelings just obviously never thought it would go to that level.

Could that slap and court case have been the spark? That she slapped CR2 and DR filed charges shows some animosity between them that likely had been building over a period of time. Wasn't the woman who was charged DR's niece? You don't normally go to the law on your niece. You go to your sister.

Also the niece would have access to information about the family not only through visiting but also through other family members like her grandparents. Those family members could also be the ones Sheriff Reader is talking about that are not telling all they know maybe because they are in denial about whether their granddaughter would be capable of doing that.