Were the Rhoden family murdered by their neighbors?

Family massacre 'hillbilly justice'
Saturday, 07 May 2016
The New Zealand Herald
By Marnie O'Neill

Cockfighting, pot growing, demolition derby, pitbull breeding. You name it, the Rhoden family of Pike County, Ohio, were into it.
Rivalries go hand-in-hand with such interests and it's no surprise many of the theories regarding who executed eight members of this ragtag clan last month centre around feuds and turf wars.
But the truth is, the Rhoden family didn't roll much differently to anyone else in their neck of the woods. They lived in mobile homes on sprawling, rural properties littered with rusty trucks and animal cages, supplementing their incomes selling dope and betting on roosters.
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As brutal as the Rhoden murders were, the perpetrator drew the line at killing babies and animals, a line that simply doesn't exist for Mexican drug lords and their hired assassins.

While the rest of the country dropped its collective jaw at the El Chapo link to the Ohio drug trade (who knew?), it wasn't news to locals, whose suspicions that the executions were hillbilly justice staged to look like a cartel's calling card, continue to grow.

In addition to the mercy shown to the babies and the dogs [who "would eat up" a stranger], there were other aspects of the murders that scream: "It's personal". Two of the victims, police have not revealed which, were shot nine and seven times respectively, compared to others who were shot between one and three times. Since all were asleep at the time of their execution, that suggests varying degrees of hate rather than a matter of subduing those most likely to fight back.

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