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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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J Oliver Conroy

‘Cold, cold blood’: why were eight Ohio relatives killed the same night?

One of the crime scenes in Pike county, Ohio, where members of the Rhoden family were killed in 2016.
One of the crime scenes in Pike county, Ohio, where members of the Rhoden family were killed in 2016. Photograph: Lisa Marie Miller/AP

When eight members of the Rhoden family were murdered in rural Ohio, in 2016, Edward “Jake” Wagner and other members of the nearby Wagner family denied any involvement.

For the next five years, the Wagners continued to dismiss the idea that they had any knowledge of why a person – or persons – had invaded the Rhodens’ compound one spring night and killed them with silenced guns as they slept.

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