Dana Rhoden

Three generations of an Ohio family were arrested and charged with the 2016 murder of another Ohio family as they slept in their beds. George Wagner III, Angela Wagner, George Wagner IV and Edward Wagner face accusations of the murder of eight members of the Rhoden family, one of whom shared custody of a child with Edward Wagner.

Four family members were arrested Wednesday in the execution-style killings of eight people, members of another family, on an Ohio pot farm in April 2016, NBC News reported.

Fear in the community is holding back information about the massacre of eight family members in southern Ohio nearly a year after the still-unsolved killings, investigators said Thursday. Some of that fear is of retaliation by the killers, and some is fear of self-incrimination based on witnesses’ own criminal activity — likely involving drugs — unrelated to the slayings, investigators...

Fear in the community is holding back information about the massacre of eight family members in southern Ohio nearly a year after the still-unsolved killings, investigators said Thursday. Some of that fear is of retaliation by the killers, and some is fear of self-incrimination based on witnesses’ own criminal activity — likely involving drugs — unrelated to the slayings, investigators...

Six months after someone shot eight members of an extended family to death in their homes, surviving relatives are still waiting — for an explanation, for an arrest, for a hint of closure. “I just want to know why?” said Tajianna Mead, of Waverly, whose 44-year-old father, Kenneth Rhoden, was among the victims. Pike County Sheriff Charles Reader told WCPO-TV...

Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez was a patron at a Miami River bar and restaurant before he and two friends were killed in a boat crash, a spokeswoman for the establishment confirmed Tuesday.

Marijuana growing operations were discovered at some of the crime scenes where officials said eight family members were killed in a “pre-planned execution,” raising more questions as authorities scrambled to find a suspect or suspects in the slayings in a rural southern Ohio community. The killings at four homes near the small community of Piketon on Friday was “a sophisticated...