COLUMBUS – Investigators are offering little new information about the unsolved massacre of eight family members in Ohio as the anniversary of their deaths approaches, but the state attorney general says “significant progress” has been made.
“But we are not to the point where we can announce any arrests,” Mike DeWine said at a news conference Thursday.
DeWine said investigators believe people still aren’t being forthcoming with their information on last year’s killings out of fear their unrelated criminal activity could incriminate them.
DeWine emphasized that his office’s focus is on the homicide investigation. He says investigators will be fair when people come forward.
Saying the killers acted “like thieves in the night,” Pike County Sheriff Charles Reader says investigators are getting closer and justice will be served eventually.
“We are coming,” he said in a voice often touched with emotion. “We will find you, we will arrest you, we will prosecute you.”