COLUMBUS – Preliminary autopsy reports in the unsolved slayings of eight southern Ohio family members are providing details about the nature of the victims’ gunshot wounds but little other new information.
The Pike County case involves seven adults and a teenage boy from the Rhoden family who were found shot to death at four homes in April 2016.
Reporters began inspecting the single-page reports Wednesday following an Ohio Supreme Court decision allowing journalists to view the preliminary results. No photos were released.
The report for victim Christopher Rhoden Sr. says he was shot nine times and notes without explanation that his body was decomposed “more than all the others.”
The bodies were all found the morning of April 22, 2016, with the shootings believed to have taken place hours before.