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Speaker 1: a production of iHeartRadio and Katie Studios. Can help answer dead.
Speaker 1: It was an unimaginable crime. It was the second biggest
Speaker 1: mass murder in twenty sixteen, behind the Pulse nightclub shooting.
Speaker 1: Eight people dead, all from the same family. It would
Speaker 1: become the largest criminal investigation in Ohio's history. Pike County
Speaker 1: Sheriff's requested state help immediately after they got word. In
Speaker 1: the early morning of April twenty, twenty sixteen, eight members
Speaker 1: of the Rodent family were brutally murdered, shot to death
Speaker 1: execution style in their homes. Eight victims, thirty two gunshot wounds,
Speaker 1: three children left alive at the scenes. This is the
Speaker 1: piked In massacre. I believe that there is a shooter
Speaker 1: wherever they are. Episode one, Daddy's playing Zombie. Piked In,
Speaker 1: Ohio is a rural town located on the Sciota River,
Speaker 1: just sixty miles south of Columbus. It's home to twenty
Speaker 1: two hundred residents and the people of piked And say
Speaker 1: that because the town is so small, neighbors really look
Speaker 1: out for each other and treat each other like family.
Speaker 1: It was just it was a good, wonderful area to
Speaker 1: grow up in. It was we lived in the country,
Speaker 1: and you know, we rode horses on the road. We
Speaker 1: rode bikes to each other's houses, and we we played,
Speaker 1: you know, the kids and neighborhood played together all the time.
Speaker 1: I slept the whole time I was a kid with
Speaker 1: my window wide open. There's no way you could do
Speaker 1: that now, there's no way. This place was wonderful. Everybody
Speaker 1: took care of everybody, and now it's like a whole
Speaker 1: different place. The Roden family lived in piked in for generations.
Speaker 1: In fact, this close knit family all lived within miles
Speaker 1: of each other and were a beloved fixture in the community.
Speaker 1: It's part of what makes this story so heartbreaking and disturbing.
Speaker 1: Eight members of the Roden family, ranging an age from
Speaker 1: sixteen to forty four, were murdered, each killed execution style
Speaker 1: over one night in four different locations. The only known
Speaker 1: witnesses the three small children left alive. At the scenes,
Speaker 1: the Roden family was literally being hunted. I'm Courtney Armstrong,
Speaker 1: a television producer who helped make a documentary about the
Speaker 1: case for NBC Universal's Oxygen Network in twenty nineteen. Since
Speaker 1: it aired, the team and I at Katie Studios haven't
Speaker 1: stopped thinking about the case. With trials on the horizon,
Speaker 1: there are new details and theories to explore. By all accounts,
Speaker 1: April twenty, twenty sixteen was an ordinary spring day in
Speaker 1: rural Pike County, but that would be far from the truth.
Speaker 1: Here's Barbara, longtime piked In resident. I'll never forget that day.
Speaker 1: I'll never forget that day. I had gone into the
Speaker 1: office at the high school to pick Brittany up for
Speaker 1: an appointment. And when I walked in, they had a
Speaker 1: TV on and everyone in there was sitting with their
Speaker 1: mouths hanging open, and I was like, what's going on
Speaker 1: in here? And the secretaries said, my god, there's been
Speaker 1: a shooting. They said six people were killed, and she said,
Speaker 1: we are very worried because little Chris Rodin didn't show
Speaker 1: up today and we think he might be one of them.
Speaker 1: Everyone was just in shock. So a little Chris law
Speaker 1: enforcement because I couldn't find him. There was some speculation
Speaker 1: early on that he might have been involved. For the
Speaker 1: residents of piked In, there was little more than confusion
Speaker 1: at this point. People knew there was a shooting and
Speaker 1: that Chris Roden Junior, the sixteen year old freshman at
Speaker 1: Pikedon High was missing. Where was the team. It was
Speaker 1: at the home of Chris Roden Senior that the nightmare began.
Speaker 1: Chris Roden Senior was known to be a strong, hard
Speaker 1: working family man. He was, you know, a great father.
Speaker 1: He was a good man, just like the rest of
Speaker 1: the guys you know in that family. He would do
Speaker 1: anything for anybody. He and Dana Roden were married for
Speaker 1: twenty two years, and although they divorced, they remained close,
Speaker 1: so close that Chris Senior had recently bought Dana at
Speaker 1: a home on the same road he lived on Union
Speaker 1: Hill Road. He did it so they could stay close
Speaker 1: to their children. Chris Senior's cousin, Gary Road, was more
Speaker 1: like a brother to him and often stated his place little.
Speaker 1: Chris's aunt, Bobby Joe, who also lived nearby, was the
Speaker 1: first to make the gruesome discovery at seven forty nine
Speaker 1: am when she came to feed the dogs at Chris
Speaker 1: and Your's house. Love One, Yes, I yes, you over,
Speaker 1: He walked to the love boss. I can't my brother
Speaker 1: Halls dead. Let's live all over the house. Okay, my
Speaker 1: brother Halls, I think the patriarch of the family, Chris
Speaker 1: Rodin was dead. He looked like he'd been beaten to death.
Speaker 1: His cousin Gary, who was staying with Chris, was also dead. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what's her name? Chris Gary d Gary Roden stars in
Speaker 1: looks like the dead. Think they're both dead. I think
Speaker 1: the great said the exone has been to suck out
Speaker 1: of them. Okay, if there's anybody else in the house,
Speaker 1: i't know us. Okay, the door was awfull. We got here,
Speaker 1: but I have been. I went here and there letting
Speaker 1: on the floor. Bobby, I need you to get out
Speaker 1: of the house and way done out enough times now,
Speaker 1: I'm okay. Just stay out of the house. Don't let
Speaker 1: anybody gone in there. Okay, yeah, all right, we don't
Speaker 1: depute even the way. Okay, I thank you. Yeah, just
Speaker 1: watch this. Forty year old Christopher Roden was the only
Speaker 1: one of the eight family members who was shot somewhere
Speaker 1: other than they had, and he had mull of the
Speaker 1: gunshot wos to the head, torso and it stres. We
Speaker 1: found out, you know, the news broke overnight and saw
Speaker 1: the emails, saw the alerts, you know, the initial news coverage,
Speaker 1: and I knew this was we all knew this was
Speaker 1: a big deal. James Pilcher, as an investigative reporter who
Speaker 1: was assigned to cover this story. Chris Roden may have
Speaker 1: been awake when the intruders came in, at least there's
Speaker 1: some indication of that. He was shot nine times, but
Speaker 1: he was shot in the forearm, which means which seems
Speaker 1: to mean that he may have raised his arm in defense.
Speaker 1: His cousin Gary got shot twice in the head and
Speaker 1: once in the face, and one was execution style and
Speaker 1: I had a muzzle stain. It was that close to
Speaker 1: his temple. Even for a multiple murder scene disted out
Speaker 1: as being particularly violent. Wood fragments found on Chris's body
Speaker 1: indicate he was dragged through the house. Blood was everywhere.
Speaker 1: Was it a robbery, a serial killer, a random thrill kill?
Speaker 1: And if it wasn't random, why were these two men targeted?
Speaker 1: I spoke with Mike Gallen, criminal defense attorney from Ohio.
Speaker 1: Are you familiarity able to talk about the scenes themselves?
Speaker 1: You know if you look at it, and it's all
Speaker 1: from the autopsy reports. Chris seniors autopsy report says that
Speaker 1: they believe that he was awake. One he was confronted
Speaker 1: by at least one person with a gun. He got
Speaker 1: nine gunshot wounds, and one of them apparently was a
Speaker 1: defensive wound to his right forearm that shattered the bone.
Speaker 1: He was also shot in the torso and cheek according
Speaker 1: to that report. Then Chris Senior's cousin Gary, and they're
Speaker 1: all kind of related. Here. He was shot twice in
Speaker 1: the head and once in the face. One of the shots.
Speaker 1: Reports indicate that the gun was pressed to the side
Speaker 1: of his head, leaving a gunpowder mark that's called a
Speaker 1: muzzle stain. I mean, those kind of injuries leaves no
Speaker 1: doubt that this was an intentional or these all were
Speaker 1: intentional killings, kind of designed to send a message to someone.
Speaker 1: The muzzle mark sticks in my mind. You have to
Speaker 1: be obviously arms reach. I mean, you are locking eyes
Speaker 1: with the victim, it would seem. Does that paint any
Speaker 1: kind of picture or indicate to officers or attorneys anything,
Speaker 1: Sure it does, and maybe even closer than arm's length,
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe just inches. That indicates that the shot
Speaker 1: was fired right on top of the person. And it
Speaker 1: indicates to me, at least, especially when you have the
Speaker 1: number of shots like that here, that somebody was trying
Speaker 1: to send a message. I don't think there can be
Speaker 1: any doubt about that. It's personal. I mean it was personal,
Speaker 1: and I think that's what that demonstrates. We're going to
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Speaker 1: At this point, Bobby Chose sees two people are dead
Speaker 1: by twelve gunshot wounds. While waiting desperately for police to arrive,
Speaker 1: she makes her way over to her nephew, Frankie's house.
Speaker 1: She wanted to get some help and to tell him
Speaker 1: what had happened to his father and uncle whose body
Speaker 1: she had just found. Frankie Rodin was Chris Senior and
Speaker 1: Dana his oldest son. The twenty year old was a
Speaker 1: father to two boys, three year old and six month old.
Speaker 1: Like his parents, Frankie was a hard worker. He loved fishing, hunting,
Speaker 1: and demolition derby, but nothing so much as his family
Speaker 1: and his fiance, nineteen year old Hannah Gilly. Hannah Gilly
Speaker 1: was on the home coming court in high school, and
Speaker 1: at that time she told friends she planned to go
Speaker 1: to college, get a business degree, and open a daycare.
Speaker 1: Frankie and Hannah wanted a lot of kids. They had
Speaker 1: a bright future. The young family lived together just up
Speaker 1: the street from Chris Senior, also on Unionhill, road. They
Speaker 1: were looking forward to getting married soon. Here's reporter Jeff
Speaker 1: Winkler recounting the details of what happened that night based
Speaker 1: on his reporting. So, after Bobby Joe made the call
Speaker 1: to nine one one, she went to Frankie's house near
Speaker 1: right nearby. And the person who came to the door
Speaker 1: with Frankie's three year old son and was as police
Speaker 1: reports and newspaper reports showed, he was, you know, covered
Speaker 1: in blood, and he, like any three year oldie, sort
Speaker 1: of didn't fully understand what was going on. And he
Speaker 1: told his aunt that, you know, his father was playing
Speaker 1: zombie in the bedroom, and that's because the family were
Speaker 1: fans of The Walking Dead, so you know, was in
Speaker 1: there with his father playing zombie, which is, you know,
Speaker 1: absolutely heartbreaking. Bobby picked up her nephew and made her
Speaker 1: way inside. She finds two more victims. Frankie was shot
Speaker 1: three times in the head. His fiancee, Hannah Gilly, was
Speaker 1: shot five times in total, with one shot to her
Speaker 1: left eye. They were both in bed with their six
Speaker 1: month old baby. Thankfully, the infant was spared. Meanwhile, and
Speaker 1: this is all happening around eight am on April twenty second.
Speaker 1: Bobby Joe calls their brother James. She's in hysterics. There's
Speaker 1: now two murder scenes, four people dead, twenty gunshot wounds,
Speaker 1: two children left alive at the scenes, James immediately goes
Speaker 1: over to his sister Dana's house to check on her
Speaker 1: and the remaining kids. Dana Roden was a nurse known
Speaker 1: for her gregarious nature and loving smile. She'd met Chris
Speaker 1: Roden Senior when she was just in high school and
Speaker 1: it was love at first sight. Even though they divorced
Speaker 1: twenty two years later, they remained very close together. The
Speaker 1: pair had three beautiful children, twenty year old Frankie, Hannah May,
Speaker 1: and little Chris. She's goodhearted, a lot of fun, you know,
Speaker 1: always laughing, cracking up. She was a very very good person.
Speaker 1: She sent me a text slaved my grand babies here
Speaker 1: and I said, well, congratulations, I said, she's beautiful. What
Speaker 1: did Hannah Ma name her? She said Callie May and
Speaker 1: I said that's so pretty. And that was the last,
Speaker 1: you know, the last thing I ever heard from Diana.
Speaker 1: This particular April seemed extra special because Hannahme had just
Speaker 1: given birth to her second daughter five days prior, just
Speaker 1: weeks before that, Diana threw Hannah May a big baby
Speaker 1: shower at their new house. The pictures from the showers
Speaker 1: show what a happy celebration it was. Sadly, James, Diana's brother,
Speaker 1: was about to enter yet one more unimaginable scene. Dana
Speaker 1: and her nineteen year old daughter, Hannah May were both dead.
Speaker 1: Like the rest of the family, they were shot execution style.
Speaker 1: Dna three times in the right side of her head
Speaker 1: and once under her chin. Hannah was shot twice in
Speaker 1: the head, lying in bed with her newborn daughter, just
Speaker 1: five days old. The infant was spared alive, and thankfully
Speaker 1: Hannah's older daughter, Sophia, just two years old at the time,
Speaker 1: was not at the house at the time of the murders.
Speaker 1: This brings us back to when Dana's son, the high
Speaker 1: school freshman Chris Junior, was nowhere to be found. It
Speaker 1: took detectives several hours to locate him, but finally little
Speaker 1: Chris was found in the home with his mother, Dana
Speaker 1: and his sister Hannah May. He'd been shot four times
Speaker 1: in the head. There's now seven people dead, thirty one
Speaker 1: gunshot wounds, and three children left alive. At the scenes,
Speaker 1: the once small and sleepy town became the epicenter for
Speaker 1: grizzly crime and the subsequent complex murder investigation. When it
Speaker 1: was all said and done, two families would be destroyed
Speaker 1: and the town would never be the same. Here's Jeff Winkler.
Speaker 1: It was a long form article he'd written on the
Speaker 1: case that originally piqued our interest. And journalist based in Flyover,
Speaker 1: so I cover a lot of stuff that happens away
Speaker 1: from the coast. The road in case. I remember seeing
Speaker 1: coverage of it in twenty sixteen as it was happening
Speaker 1: on live TV, and there was a helicopter flying over
Speaker 1: the property, and it was just one of those things
Speaker 1: that seemed like it was straight out of southern Noire.
Speaker 1: The crime is as complex as it is grewsome because
Speaker 1: all the victims except for one were found on the
Speaker 1: same sort of back road and piked in, and they
Speaker 1: were all found gunned down on the same night and
Speaker 1: all had gunshots to the head. This was a incredibly
Speaker 1: well executed execution of several people. Here again is criminal
Speaker 1: defense attorney, former prosecutor and judge Mike Allen. Ed did
Speaker 1: this area like a ton of bricks? I mean, boy,
Speaker 1: the local media down here. We're all over this thing.
Speaker 1: I mean like white on rice. So yeah, it's big deal.
Speaker 1: Do you have any theories because I've spoken to people
Speaker 1: and they're all, I guess, just theories. But why do
Speaker 1: you spare the children? Is that some line a killer
Speaker 1: won't cross? Or what does that tell you? Yeah, and
Speaker 1: it's a really good question. I guess it shows that
Speaker 1: I don't know, the killers wanted to demonstrate that they
Speaker 1: have some humanity left in them and just would not
Speaker 1: kill infants. I guess that's small consolation, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: It probably is some kind of code thing. But they
Speaker 1: did find it within their hearts to spare the infants
Speaker 1: and the children. You know. As brazen and as violent
Speaker 1: as these killings were, I guess they just couldn't bring
Speaker 1: themselves to do it to small children and an infant, Yeah,
Speaker 1: five day old, I mean that's yeah, that's crazy for
Speaker 1: the quiet town. The scene was unreal. Nearly seven hours
Speaker 1: after the first bodies were found at one twenty six
Speaker 1: pm in April twenty second, a final fatal discovery, Yeah
Speaker 1: I need to day has been out to boast to
Speaker 1: seven ninety nine left force. Okay, it's all this stuff
Speaker 1: it's on the news. I just found, just found my
Speaker 1: cousins was again shop wind. Okay, feeling life So no, okay,
Speaker 1: I'll be staying out by the roadway going, Sir Donald thing, Donald,
Speaker 1: sound a whole thing. Sound Yeah, I'm he says, what's
Speaker 1: your name, Rod? Yeah, so prise, hurry out of the house.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm out of the house right now. I just
Speaker 1: went in horror nating and checked and okay, sure we're
Speaker 1: going to get all right, chick mar. A few miles
Speaker 1: down Union Hill Road was Chris Roden Senior's brother. Kenneth.
Speaker 1: The forty four year old was shot once through his
Speaker 1: right eye. Kenneth's cousin, Donald Stone, went to check on
Speaker 1: Kenneth after hearing about the murders of their six other
Speaker 1: family members. He'd failed to hear from Kenneth that day.
Speaker 1: Here's Jeff Winkler. There were a lot of breaking news
Speaker 1: moments during the first day, and the details just kept
Speaker 1: piling up and piling up, and more police, more law
Speaker 1: enforcement would show up, and the body count got larger
Speaker 1: and larger, and then I think the real sort of
Speaker 1: twist and the real sort of the heck has happened.
Speaker 1: A moment was when, you know, nearly seven hours after
Speaker 1: the first boys were found, at around one thirty pm,
Speaker 1: there is finally another body of Kenneth and he was
Speaker 1: found as well as the others. Is you know, shot
Speaker 1: execution style and in this case, he was covered with
Speaker 1: dollar bills that were strewn about his body. And it's
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Speaker 1: names of the eight victims piked In, residents were reeling.
Speaker 1: You know, they had snuck in in the night and
Speaker 1: committed this, these murders, and nobody had a clue about
Speaker 1: you know who or why, and that's really scary. There
Speaker 1: were rumors about who had done the crime everywhere online,
Speaker 1: in the coffee shops, you know, amongst the police, I
Speaker 1: mean everyone was talking about who could have done it
Speaker 1: and why they would have done it. Within two days
Speaker 1: of the murder, officials would make another shocking announcement. All
Speaker 1: let very sure, thank you very much. This is Mike DeWine,
Speaker 1: then Attorney General of Ohio, at a news conference on
Speaker 1: April twenty fourth, twenty sixteen. Let me go ahead, and
Speaker 1: I think it's okay for us to confirm that we
Speaker 1: did find marijuana in three locations. There's a grow operations.
Speaker 1: Here's Jeff Shane. We worked together on the case, and
Speaker 1: he reached out to Jodi Barr, an investigative reporter who
Speaker 1: was working in Cincinnati at the time of the murders.
Speaker 1: Let's like run through some of the theories, like what
Speaker 1: people were saying might have happened. So there were a
Speaker 1: lot of theories. Jody has followed the crime an investigation
Speaker 1: for years. We got all of these tips in and
Speaker 1: we're trying to make sense of these tips, vet them,
Speaker 1: see if there's anything that could indicate who did it,
Speaker 1: why they did it, what caused someone to kill eight
Speaker 1: people of the same family. So, you know, the one
Speaker 1: theory that sort of became the veiling idea of what
Speaker 1: might have happened here was the drug cartel theory. And
Speaker 1: you know that came about because, you know, hours after
Speaker 1: the murders, Attorney General Mike de Wine and Pike Countis
Speaker 1: Sheriff Charlie Reader are standing at a press conference and
Speaker 1: the Wine tells the public that they found commercial grow
Speaker 1: operations at three of the four crime scenes. Another theory
Speaker 1: was that the murders could have been the result of
Speaker 1: a dispute with another family in the area. Here's Jody Barr. Again.
Speaker 1: We had gotten word that a purely Chris junior had
Speaker 1: some sort of road range or some sort of incident
Speaker 1: with another family in the area some days before this,
Speaker 1: and there were some messages, social media messages exchange that
Speaker 1: could have indicated a possible motive. So that was one theory.
Speaker 1: As I got on the ground over there and you
Speaker 1: started talking to some of these family members and you
Speaker 1: talked to some of the neighbors, some of the people
Speaker 1: who knew the Rodents, it became clear that either people
Speaker 1: knew or had a very good idea about what happened,
Speaker 1: but they absolutely would never say it because I think
Speaker 1: they were they were afraid because at that point in time,
Speaker 1: whoever did this and not been arrested, there have been
Speaker 1: no persons of interest named. So you know, if you
Speaker 1: lived in that area, man, it was hush hush, you
Speaker 1: were just kind of walking around looking over your shoulder
Speaker 1: it seeing with some of these people not knowing you know,
Speaker 1: who could be next who did it? This is again
Speaker 1: Jeff Winckler. The majority of those theories rested on, you know,
Speaker 1: as a cartel. It was a cartel hit because the
Speaker 1: family was growing marijuana on their property. You know. Was
Speaker 1: it day rival marijuana farm? The area? Was it where
Speaker 1: the killings related to the family disputes that were going
Speaker 1: on with various members of adjacent families, and no one,
Speaker 1: no one quite knew, but they all had a bunch
Speaker 1: of theories. With the town living in fear, investigators worked
Speaker 1: around the clock to bring the killers to justice. Mike
Speaker 1: Dwine is and again I know him, but he's not
Speaker 1: a friend or anything, but he really is a professional
Speaker 1: and he was a professional prosecutor. I mean that's how
Speaker 1: he started his political life. And he ran this thing
Speaker 1: like a prosecutor or a law enforcement officer would. And
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, there is just no way that
Speaker 1: the sheriff's office or the prosecutor's office up there could
Speaker 1: have handled this thing by themselves. And that's no knock
Speaker 1: on them. It's just that they don't have the resources
Speaker 1: for something like this. There were in some of the
Speaker 1: news conferences sheriff reader without telling people to arm themselves
Speaker 1: as a precaution in a small county like that, And
Speaker 1: just the horrific nature of these things, I don't know
Speaker 1: that that would have not been good advice. I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously they'd have to do it legally with a concealed
Speaker 1: carry license and the legal right to carry a firearm.
Speaker 1: But people just didn't know what the heck was going
Speaker 1: on up there. I mean, you know, you had all
Speaker 1: the different theories bouncing around, and it's a rural county
Speaker 1: up there. So if I were living out there and
Speaker 1: I was legally able to carry a firearm, I think
Speaker 1: I would. For two years, not a single arrest was made.
Speaker 1: How could the largest massacre in Ohio's history, with so
Speaker 1: much blood, so many bullets, and so many victims still
Speaker 1: be unsolved. The questions abound, Who's doing this? Is that
Speaker 1: many people? Is it won? How did they get away
Speaker 1: with it? If the scene was so messy, how did
Speaker 1: they clean up? The four crime scenes had dead bodies,
Speaker 1: but the emmas were different. Chris and Gary's was the
Speaker 1: most violent and bloody. Two of the other ones had
Speaker 1: children left alive, and in the fourth, Kenneth was found
Speaker 1: with dollar bills all over him. With the victims all
Speaker 1: being shot at close range, we know that the killers
Speaker 1: and victims were eye to eye. How did nobody hear anything?
Speaker 1: Could it be a cover up and would another family
Speaker 1: be next? And then on November thirteenth, twenty eighteen, well,
Speaker 1: good afternoon, we finally got an update on the case.
Speaker 1: We promised that the day would come when a rush
Speaker 1: would be made in the Pike County Massacre. This is
Speaker 1: Mike DeWine, the state's then attorney general. He's at a
Speaker 1: press conference yesterday a Pike County grand jury and died
Speaker 1: four individuals for aggravated murder with death pality specifications for
Speaker 1: legilate committing this heartless, ruthless, cold blooded murder for the
Speaker 1: town of piked In. With the alleged killers behind bars,
Speaker 1: the nightmare may have been over, but the mystery has
Speaker 1: just begun. Who is this family of alleged killers? Next
Speaker 1: time on the piked In Massacre. Piked In Massacre is
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Speaker 1: and sound designed by executive producer Jared Aston. Additional producing
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