
Podcast
The Pike County Massacre: Eight Deaths, One Family's Dark Secret
How a premeditated execution-style killing spree in rural Ohio became the state's largest murder investigation
On the night of April 21–22, 2016, eight members of the Rhoden family were shot execution-style in their homes near Piketon, Ohio. Nearly three years later, arrests revealed the perpetrators were former neighbors—the Wagner family—in what became Ohio's most complex criminal investigation.