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

A vast criminal case alleging that one family plotted the massacre of a rival family has torn apart a rural county

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.