Rhoden family death certificates released
WAVERLY - Newly released coroner's reports reveal more pieces of the puzzle in the deaths of eight people in Pike County last month.
The Pike County Coroner's Office released death certificates Friday of the Rhoden family and a family member's fiancé, Hannah Gilley.
Kenneth Rhoden was the only person with a single gunshot wound to the head and others were shot multiple times, according to the death certificates. Kenneth Rhoden's body was the last one discovered on the afternoon of April 22 on Left Fork Road and listed on the coroner's report was the approximate time of death and injury at 1:49 p.m. The 911 call reporting his body had been found came in at 1:26 p.m.
Chris Rhoden Sr. was the only family member shot multiple times in different parts of his body including his head, torso and extremity, according to the report.
Hannah Gilley, Christopher Rhoden Jr., Hanna Rhoden, Clarence "Frankie" Rhoden, Gary Rhoden and Dana Rhoden all suffered multiple gunshot wounds to the head.
Times of death and injury reported were 8:07 a.m. for Gary and Chris Sr., 8:11 a.m. for Gilley and Frankie, 8:17 a.m. for Chris Jr., Dana and Hanna Rhoden. The first two bodies were found a family member who called 911 just before 8 a.m. April 22. Bodies were found in three homes along Union Hill Road that morning and Kenneth's on Left Fork Road that afternoon.
The manner of death is not listed on all eight certificates, instead, the field is filled in with "pending investigation." Final results have yet to be determined.
Gary Rhoden was the only one not found in his own residence, which is listed as Greenup, Kentucky, in coroner's reports.
More than a month after the shootings, there are still no suspects or arrests to speak of and no word on a possible motive, though several have been speculated by various media outlets.
Attorney General Mike DeWine has repeatedly told reporters that investigators are not approaching the case “with a grand theory” about what might have happened. Instead, he said, they are looking at each piece of evidence "without any preconceived notions.”
The Pike County Sheriff's Office and the Bureau of Criminal Investigation are working the investigation. Sheriff Charles Reader called the efforts "very much intertwined," in an interview with the Gazette Wednesday.
Reader said he was "very pleased" with how the investigation is going. He also noted the total expenditures from the sheriff's office have reached more than $135,000 in the course of this investigation.