Posted on 04/26/2016 7:51:02 AM PDT by ColdOne
The youngest of the eight Ohio family members found slain in execution-style murders last week received a threat on Facebook before the mass killings, Ohio's attorney general said Monday.
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Christopher Rhoden Jr., a 16-year-old freshman at Piketon High School, was the subject of the threat, CBS News reported.
"I'm aware of the Facebook threat," Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said. "Every piece of information is valuable and our investigators are certainly taking that into consideration."
The threat is just one emerging piece of evidence in the investigation, which has also uncovered cockfighting chickens and a marijuana growing operation at some of the properties where the eight were killed.
DeWine told The Cincinnati Enquirer that investigators found roosters kept in individual cages, which he said was "consistent with" an illegal cockfighting operation. DeWine cautioned, however that investigators "don't know what's relevant" to the murders of members of the Rhoden family.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
What exactly was the threat?
In one night, at four separate homes, eight people are shot in their heads while sleeping.
Large marijuana grow operations are located at three of the homes indicating illegal drug trafficking by family members.
Cock fighting roosters were found at some of the locations indicating involvement in an ongoing illegal gambling operation at these locations.
To apply the standard investigative technique of establishing motive, means, and opportunity, one could establish the following:
Motive: Drug territorial dispute (eliminating the competition).
Means: Four different shooters striking simultaneously with silenced weapons.
Opportunity (1):
1. These eight people in four different homes went to sleep and neglected to lock their doors or the shooters brought lock technicians with them.
2. None of these homes had watch dogs that would have awakened them and alerted them to trespassers, or the shooters were able to poison/neutralize the dogs.
Opportunity (2):
1. A close family member had, over time, gained the keys to each of the homes and he accompanied the shooter as he went to each home.
2. This same close family member knew the dogs, and the dogs knew him, allowing him to approached them and poison them.
Seems like it would have been safer to burn down the grow ops.
A murder not committed during a fight or combat related or self defense.
You know...with a gun. Have to stick to the narrative and the agenda.
Investigators also spoke with his friend, Rusty Mongold, apparently about a Facebook post that appeared to threaten the youngest murder victim, 16-year-old Christopher Rhoden Jr.
CBS News has confirmed Mongold was interviewed by investigators. In a separate Facebook post, Mongold wrote that he went to the sheriff’s office to clear his name.
“I gave them DNA and everything. I have nothing to hide...” he wrote.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/over-60-people-interviewed-in-ohio-family-murder-investigation/
See post #26
I also wonder if the Mex operation that got busted a few years ago might have found out that this family snitched them.
The mex drug gangs are ruthless.
A murder not committed during a fight or combat related or self defense.
You know...with a gun. Have to stick to the narrative and the agenda.
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You mean all those Islamic throat cuttings were not executions??? No wonder our current regime is not concerned!
The victim wouldn’t be any less dead if it had been an anonymous letter delivered by USPS.
I need clarification here. Were they all really in bed asleep? Multiple parties in the same household didn't react to any noise at all? All shot in the head in bed, with no reaction at all, but peacefully asleep? Were there multiple shooters taking aim and pulling the trigger at the same time? Even with suppressors, the noise would be loud in the confines of a house.
[What exactly was the threat?]
The FB post can be seen in this report.
http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/did-mexican-drug-cartel-carry-out-ohio-family-murders/
An estimated time of death for these murders will tell much. If they were all done at about the same time then a team effort. If enough time to travel between sites then an individual or small crew is possible.
From the stories I’ve read, it sounds as ii the 2 victims found at the first home were not asleep when shot. The 911 caller said they had been beaten badly and that there was blood all over the house.
execution implies a fair trial.
Shhhhh! That is politically incorrect speech. You risk being sent to a re-education center.
It is indeed a crappy website!
This was right behind my niece’s wooded area. They didn’t know they were living there until the raid.
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