This series contains adult language and descriptions of graphic violence throughout. Listener discretion is advised. Calorie audio Welcome to the Pink Moon Murders, a production of I Heart Radio and Cavalry Audio. Episode three, Black Crows and White Caskets on Creek and you Will Run to your destination. Yeah. On a cold, windy day in the late fall, I drove into Suda Burial Park with Todd, a former cop who's lived in Pike County all his life. He and A's fiancee were friends with Dana Rodin. As we turned into the cemetery, we saw a well maintained grass with hundreds of new and old tombstones. The gravel road sloped up a large hill to a summit that overlooked the creek in the larger Sada River. Near By on one side of us was farmland, and in the distance on all sides was a tranquil panorama of the Apple Chi and Piedmont. I drove an idle speed for a minute, and then stop so we could scan the tombstones for the road and family. I'm gonna glance at the date so that this tombstone says two thousand five three so I was wondering if they're like that, probably is a newer one over there. I was wondering if there might be a new an area for like two thousand sixteen burials or I put the car in neutral and let it roll down several yards. No one was in the cemetery but us and a murder of crows perched in naked oak trees not far away. These are burial I drove the car farther up the hill was pretty yeah, are all out this way for sure? Road and family right right there. My goodness, let's get up a look at that. Yeah Todd. Because of his law enforcement connections, he didn't want his real name used, so that's a pseudonym. And I walked over the grass to the family's final resting spot. A large charcoal colored tombstone stood with the words together Forever, Roding and etchings of Chris and Dana, probably from when they were married, as well as Frankie, Hannah and little Chris. Placed next to it were colorful flowers, a small American flag, and a teddy bear that looked new. Dana and Chris had divorced when their three kids were young, but she remained on the homestead. She lived in the second trailer, the one that became Frankie and Hannah Hazel's home, until Chris seemed to have better finances and bordered the trailer and land a mile up on Union Hill Road. So they had moved forward in life as a family, but also with some space between them, and that's how they're spending eternity. Then we walked to the five individual graves which had headstone setting in the grass. So there's Hannah rode And mother of Apia and Kylie, Frankie Rodin, father of Brandy, and Ruger fancy of Hannah Gilly sad mm hmm. As a cold wind blew down the big hill, making me shiver, Todd and I stood silently. I wondered what he was thinking. Eventually he spoke, you know what's funny is I've seen Dana at Walmart about a week before I always went down. He paused with vacancy in his eyes as he looked at her headstone. He hadn't talked details about Dana yet, and I wanted to learn more, but this wasn't the right time. Soon, the crows in the oak trees that had lost their leaves started calling in the wind picked up. I have to admit it was eerie standing in the cemetery on that cold, windy day in late fall, even if it was daytime. The trees looked dead in the black crows sounded ominous. Pods of dark clouds obscured the sun in the eastern sky. I look back to the graves and thought about the bodies inside. Several days after the murders, preliminary findings were released jointly by the Pike in Hamilton's county corners, since the bodies had been transported to the big city of Cincinnati for autopsies. They reported quote all sustained fatal gunshot wounds to the body, including the head, torso, and extremities. There was one victim with a single gunshot wound, one victim with two gunshot wounds, two victims each with three gunshot wounds, one victim with four gunshot wounds, two victims each with five gunshot wounds, and one victim with nine gunshot wounds thirty two gunshot wounds. Based on trajectories of the bullets and positions of the bodies at the crime scenes, investigators do not believe it was a murder suicide that means in the middle of the night at four local Asians, an intruder fired at least thirty two bullets into the bodies of eight sleeping people. That's definitely eerie and infuriating, plus almost unbelievable. Somebody sneaked past all those dogs, into all those homes and then had nerved cold enough to press the trigger that many times. I bet most of the victims, if not all, had no connection whatsoever to any payback, as some people speculated that was meted out by the killer. Of course, it's hard to imagine any offense that would call for murdering eight people in their sleep with babies nearby. The preliminary findings also reported that some of the victims showed signs of soft tissue bruising that means they were beaten right before or after death. No further details were announced, including who was shot, how many times, and the type or types of bullets used, and who was shot first or last. If that was even known, law enforcement officials wanted to keep some secrets for the time being. A little while after visiting the cemetery, I reached out to doctor Schmissa Marco, Hamilton's County's corner to see if she would answer questions I had so many. She replied she would be happy to talk with me, but unfortunately was leaving soon for a vacation in Florida. I explained I was in Florida that week and could drive to wherever she'd be, or I could ask questions over the phone or through email. But without explanation, she concluded she wouldn't be available. She's probably bound by the judge's gag order. Dr sam Marco released the body shortly after the autopsies and they were transported to funeral homes in southern Ohio. I sat down with Pastor Phil who has preached at Union Hilled Church for more than fifty years and has served as spokesman for the Road and Family. He described how Chris, Dana, and their kids, along with Chris's brother Kenneth, were buried on May third, after visitations and funerals down in West Portsmouth. That's on the Ohio River, just across from Greenup County, Kentucky, the Road and ancestral homeland. I'll never forget walk key and not to the funeral, but to the funeral home at the visitation, and I will never forget and I've never experienced the feeling to walk in to a room and see all the caskets around the wall. Uh starting if I remember right with the youngest, right on around two, Uh, Dana and Chris and Chris's brother. Surprisingly, the caskets were open. Pastor Phil said the funeral director did an amazing job with the bodies. They had the funeral in a in a very very large church. There was not a seat available in their standing room only and setting there and seeing white caskets lined up totally across and thinking this whole family was wiped down. Among the mourners was Geneva Rodin, who sat in the front pew. She was burying two sons, a putative daughter in law, a nephew, three grandkids, and the fiance of a grandson. She wailed throughout the service. Also in attendance were police officers. After all, eight family members had been killed and many Rodents were attending this funeral, no one knew if they too were targeted. Regardless the killer might be at the funeral, so it was an opportunity for police to study faces. This was shaping up as a most intense man hunt in state history. Just the day before Ohio Attorney General Mike Dwine and Pike County Sheriff Charlie Reader had announced that a hundred witnesses had been interviewed or at least contacted so far, and more than four d fifty tips had been received by b c I in the Pike County Sheriff's office. Additionally, more than a hundred pieces of evidence had been sent to the bc I Crime Laboratory for DNA, ballistic latent, print and trace analysis. After the funeral was a procession of six horses and scores of other vehicles traveling up to the cemetery. You stand up on that hill and see him with with all the hearses lined up, and one by one they they bring up the caskets and at the beverage site, from under a blue canopy tent, Geneva rode and sobbing carried throughout the hills. A newspaper reporter quoted her as crying, oh my God, my God. As Paul Bears brought the caskets to the open graves and Leonard, the patriarch of the Manly clan, sat next to his daughter Dana's casket. The reporter described him as slumped and shaking as only a broken man can. After the service, Kenneth's body was driven up to Piketon where he was interred next to his son, who had died of cancer at the age of six. They're at Mound Cemetery, which has been a burial site since the time in the early Indians who built Serpent Mound, twenty miles west as the Black Crow flies Gary Road and services were held several days earlier at Crockett L. Reid Funeral Home down in Greenup County. A lifelong hunter, he was buried in camouflage for hours. At the visitation, which was reportedly attended by eighty people, his dad embraced one loved one after another. He told them Gary had been a good son. After a reporter asked the retired farmer and railroad worker who might have killed his son, he replied, I don't know. Then he added, I'd like to take him in torture room for killing the whole family like this. Investigators had told him privately that his son had been shot three times in the head. Two days later in the rain, Hannah Hazel Gilly was laid to rest at Hackworth Hill Cemetery outside Radon. That's the village population are fifty, where she grew up. The visitation and funeral were held in nearby Otway, just like at the other services, Many mourners wore jeans and T shirts, and several war camouflage and baseball caps a few war shirts with the words in Memory of Hannah Guilly. Later that day, a charity car wash was held to raise money for her six month old son, Ruger, and the night before, a couple of thousand people showed up at the Pike County Fairgrounds for a candlelight vigil to honor all eight victims. Balloons with handwritten notes were released into the sky and money was raised to help pay for the funerals. The Pink Moon Murders will return after the break. And now back to the Pink Moon Murders. I wanted to learn more about Hannah Hazel, who twenty, so when I saw her mom one afternoon outside the Pike County Courthouse, I introduced myself and asked if she liked to talk, but she replied that she had nothing to say publicly. Then she sat down on the back of her man's Harley Davidson and they drove off while blasting a tom petty song. Months later, at Bear Creek Cash and Kerry, I met a sales clerk who said she was Hannah Hazel's second cousin. She was really friendly and we spoke for twenty minutes, but she didn't divulge too much about her relative, who she called Hazel. She said the family didn't want to publicly say words it might be misconstrued and hurt the investigation. On a different day, a sunny Sunday afternoon, I drove to Hackworth Hill Cemetery. It's small, with only a handful of graves, and right off a narrow back road. Around it are a few homes and small farms with a backdrop of forested hills. Hannah Hazel's tombstone has a photo of her with a fun loving smile, and on the ground that day were fresh flowers and little statues of owls. A nearby bench was engraved with the words looked to the sky for an angel with blue eyes. I stood for several minutes, just looking and thinking. Fortunately, her Facebook account was still active. Besides boasting of her love for Frankie and their son, she posted a lot of photos with them and with Frankie's three year old all the comments were about how cute they were. It was clear she was hyper focused on her young family. One of her last posts looked like a selfie, and Hannah may rode and replied with a smiley emoji that had hearts as eyes. Hannah Hazel replied, thanks boo. I didn't learn anything new in her obituary. I learned in Dana's, however, that she had been born in Highland County, which borders Pike. I didn't know the Manly family had lived there, but maybe it just had a good hospital. Pastor Philip told Tom didn't me about her. Dana was a good mom, very personable, flighty but hard worker, loved loved her kids and all. There was never a time when I met Dana Rudin that I didn't get a hug. Never a time i'd seen her and Hannah just probably a couple of weeks and uh of courtun round up, give me a big hug and rubbed. She rubbed Hannah's big belly and said, well, I'm gonna be grandma again, Phil and then boom. Pastor phil said Dana was religious. She was doing her best to set herself and the kids on a good course for life and for the afterlife. Dana come to church faithfully for oh a number of years, and and the kids Hannah grown up here in church. Dana's daughter, I knew Hannah well. I knew I knew all of those kids will on and off. Hannah, May, Frankie, and little Chris participated in the youth organization on Wednesday nights and Bible study. Dana seven was also doing her best at the nursing home after her death. Her boss total reporter. She was a kind and caring worker and altruistic. She occasionally brought in hamburgers and other treats for patients, even though she didn't make much above minimum wage. But she, like her kids, had a duality. A couple of people whispered to me that she could have a bad temper, and one told me she used to tell raunchy jokes at the flea market, where they had booths to make extra money. On weekends, Dana's sold pocketbooks and similar items. It seemed like she was always working to make extra money. On Thursday a she worked a double shift from the early morning until eleven o'clock PM. Sometime after getting home, she and the others in her trailer were murdered. Those in the other three homes might have already been dead. She had got off she'd work late that night and had come home. I had heard from some of the co workers she's very upset about something, and they wasn't sure. He changed the subject, and when I circled back to asked why she was very upset, he said he didn't have anything to add. That definitely added to this mystery and possibly provided motive. Maybe someone was very upset with her and decided to exact vengeance on her and her family. The others who might have been primary targets in this who done it and why done it and how done it were her sons who liked to smash up cars and gotten fights, and her ex husband who had the alleged cock fighting and chop shop operations. Plus there was what Attorney General the Wine had announced at the end of the press conference that became a massive game changer for investigators. I kept thinking that whoever was killed first was the primary target. Why don't you start with the one you hated the most in case you got stopped by someone or something, including your nerves. It was too bad the corners did not announce who was killed first. I also wondered who got the nine gunshot wounds and who got the one. That information might also be an indicator of who the primary target was. I still wanted to discover more about the Rodents, so I spent a couple of mornings at piked In High School, which Dana and her kids had attended. Staff and year books taught me a lot. Dana was a junior in the pike TONI in her last name that year was Roding and not manly, meaning she was already married. Her senior year head shot chose an innocent looking girl with a soft smile and a white scrunch in her hair, but I didn't see her in other photos, and a school employee told me she wasn't involved in extracurricular activities. The married high school student had two kids and a husband at home, so she was busy enough. That school employee said, Dana's kids, it's Frankie. Hannah May and little Chris were not involved in many school activities either, and the dearth of year book photos supports this. I did see some headshots for the two boys, although Frankie was listed as missing for a couple and a photo of Frankie welding, but nothing else for them. They stayed occupied outside school with part time jobs in Derby cars. Frankie attended the local Vocational School for a while, and Frankie's first baby mom, gave birth to their son his junior year. I saw more in the pike Tonyan for Hannah May, even though she also studied at the Vocational School for a while and took maternity leave twice. During her freshman year, she competed on the Lady Red Streaks team that won the girls state Division four or five and six powerlifting title. According to the Pike County News Watchman, the local newspaper, Hannah May placed fifteenth in her weight class with a total of five five pounds. The fifteen year old squaded a hundred fifty bench a huntret and dead lifted two five pounds. It's even more impressive considering she was likely pregnant. She gave birth eight months later to Sophia, and on a page titled Homecoming, the pike Tonian chose a photo of Hannah May wearing a strapless dress with a black top that has colorful streaks in a pink waist. A pretty corsage adorns her wrist. She's cute with light brown shoulder length hair in that photo and as a plus size, maybe because of the weightlifting. She's standing next to a boy wearing jeans, a black shirt with rolled up sleeves, a vest that matches her dress, a white tie, and a boutinear. He's several inches taller than her and slender with muscular forearms. His hair is cut short on all sides with a slight flip up in the front. The caption says, Hannah Rodin and her date. It's an odd photo. They're the only couple on the page not with their arms around each other. He's standing with his arms crossed in a smirk on his face, like he's bored or angry, and she appears to be forcing a smile. We put this in other photos on our website. Although he's not identified. In that photo, the boy looks like Jake Wagner. Jake did not attend Piked in high He was a few years older than Hannah May and regardless had been homeschooled. A school employee told me that she would have had to fill out a form to bring an outsider like him to the dance. Jake became the dad of Hannah May's daughter, Sophia. He made news after the murders because he started to go fund me account to support Sophia and pay legal bills in the wake of her mom's death. He wrote, these were not expenses I was supposed to have. I was just supposed to be able to spend time with her and give her a happy childhood. She's only two and a half years old. Then he added, Sophie and I are just asking for enough to settle the fees that we acquired due to this horrific tragedy to her mommy. Jake filed documents at the courthouse to get full legal custody, which up to them had been informal, with Hannah May having their daughter most of the time after they split up. Fortunately, she had dropped off Sophia at Jake's before she gave birth to Kylie, and he still had her when the murders happened, but the other youngest rodents were taken by Ohio's Child Protective Services. Brentley, Frankie's three year old was eventually handed over to his mom, Chelsea. To this day, though years later, orphans Kylie and Ruger reportedly remain in state custody. This story has so much heartbreak. Yet in the community and among investigators, speculations spread that those three children at the trailers survived because they were too young to later describe the killer to police. There was hope that the killer had at least that amount of humanity. Jake was also in the news shortly after the murders because he was claiming paternity of Kylie, although two other guys might have been her dad. One was hand Hazel's brother Charlie, who Hannah May had had a fling with after breaking up with Jake, and the other was Corey Holdron, her boyfriend at the time of the murders. Jake told a reporter he was sure that he was the dad because the timing of her pregnancy made sense because it looked like Kylie had a hammer toe, which was a Wagner trait. Jake said, if it turned out he was not the dad, quote, I'm not going to take her, but I will want mandatory visitation in order to see her regularly end quote. It was a bold statement. He must have already been feeling protective of the little girl and wanted her to grow up with her half her full sister. DNA tests later proved Charlie Gilly was her dad. Jake was disappointed. The other guy, Corey, hasn't spoken publicly about the potential for being Kylie's father, but Hannah May's Facebook cover photo shows Corey with his hand on her pregnant belly, so he looked supportive. It's dated April four, a couple of weeks before she gave birth. Back in October, she had updated her social media status to say she was in a relationship, and it was clear she met with him. She posted plenty of photos with Corey, including acute one of him holding her other daughter, Sophia. But with deeper research, I found out Hannah May had a second Facebook account. It's cover photos shows her kissing Charlie while dating. She began a relationship with him about two months before beginning with Corey, maybe because of the uncertainty. Kylie's birth certificate lists rode In as her last name, Sophia's last name is Wagner, and Hannah's first account her full name is Hannah May Rodin, but the U r L says Facebook dot com slash Hannah dot Rodin Wagner. As if she had married Jake She created the account in when she was fourteen and already dating Jake. Then on November, five days after giving birth to Sophia, she posted a status update that said got married. She followed that up by commenting, we really aren't married, but we might as well be married. And after the murders, a newspaper article said, Hannah May and Jake had tattoos and wedding bands on their ring fingers, and we're planning on getting married more Pink Moon murders. After a word from our sponsors, we now return to the Pink Moon murders. The young couple and their daughter, Sophia, lived with Jake's parents and brother near Peebles and with Hannah May's mom and little brother on Union Hill Road. So for a long time they were deeply in love, but then it ended. Hannah May was definitely dynamic. She was dating boys, raising a daughter, dealing with pregnancy, going to school, and working until just a few days before her April seventeenth delivery of Kylie. Was shaping up to be a fantastic month. On the seventh was her nineteenth birthday, and on the ninth was her baby shower. But then the horrific happened on the night of the one. To find out more about Hannah May, I sat down with Alex Bond, who knew her in elementary, middle and high school, and asked what she was like. Um. Definitely more on the rebels side. Like she wasn't crazy and disrespectful at the time or anything, but she definitely wasn't like the most um I'm trying to think of the word. She wasn't like a rule follower, good girl type. I'd say she was definitely more sporting than cheerleader. She definitely wasn't the cheerleader type. With Hannah May having maternity leaf during her sophomore in senior years and also taking some classes at the vocational school, Alex didn't hang out with her much in high school. She remembers more from when they were younger. In middle school. We were all fascinated with makeup and clothes and girls to the usual things. But Hannah May did like hunting, fishing, and four wheeling, and often wore boots, jeans, and sweatshirts to school. She was a southern Ohio country girl who still wanted to attract boys. After discovering a good amount about Dana and her three kids, and a little about Hannah, Hazel Gilly. With more research needing to be done on Chris, Kenneth and Gary, I drove Todd to Union Hill Road. I was interested in his insight and theories about the shootings, wanted to see what was left of the crime scenes, and needed to understand the lay of the land in person. It was my first time there, although eventually I traveled the road so many times I lost count. I would park stand at the crime scenes and just think along the way. Todd added details to some of the theories I've already mentioned and described new ones. One entailed a possible connection to the disappearance of six women in Chillakathi, a city of two from Ma to Ma. Chillicothee is thirty five miles from Union Hill Road. I later chased those leads a little, but didn't find solid connections, and a couple of his theories, he admitted might only be hearsay. All I will say about those is that they involved a lot of money that was used illegally. On Union Hill Road, we first passed the property where Dana lived with little Chris and Hannah May and Hanna May's babies, and then the property where Chris and Gary lived, and finally the property where Frankie and Hannah Hazel lived with their boys. This stretch of road, which is less than three miles long, is almost the county line separating Pike from Adams at the top and then Pike from Soda at the bottom. It cuts through hard hills and hollers on the arbitrary man made county line matches it for the most part, but zig zags through Chris's homestead with his barns being split into Pike and Soda counties, and Dana's homestead lies in Soda but touches Adams and Pike. When entering Union Hill Road off thirty two the Appalachian Highway, you first drive through Adams. To better understand the various properties in this case, I spent parts of five days in the Pike County Government Center's Property map office. The ladies are pulled up satellite images on a computer as well as historic surveys on paper, and sorted through old documents while helping me out. But it took even them a long time to get a clear understanding of where the county lines are for these three road and properties. The challenge, they said is that when the Virginia Military Survey was carried out from the late seventeen hundreds to mid eighteen hundreds, the surveyors probably created this portion of the Pike County border according to an old animal or Indian trail that didn't match perfectly with how the asphalt road was eventually paved. Today, all of this is unincorporated, regardless of the county. This rural back road is far from the county seats and small villages, eighteen miles from Piketon, and it's twenty one resident and eleven miles from Peoples. And it's so far from the prying eyes of the government officials and police. It's the outskirts the sticks. After reaching the end of Union Hill Road, I turned the car around and drove back, stopping when we arrived where Frankie and Hannah hazel It lived on. That parcel now stood some untended bushes, trees and grass, a washing machine, a rooster cage, a doghouse, a couple of rusted cars, a small American flag, and what looked like a frame for a card poard. I also saw a wooden porch with steps leading to nowhere. Its trailer long ago towed away for evidence. The porch reminded me of an orphan whose parent was missing. Todd was my tour guide. The trailers was was nothing but pure blood. I talked to the guy that hauled the trailers and he said he didn't even want to go in, and it was so bad, he said it was. Then I drove seventy five yards to where Chris and his cousin Gary lived, and it had similar ide in the yard, although a lot more cars that were old and rusted. A stone's throw from where their trailer used to be stood the clapboard house, now fading canary yellow, where Chris, some siblings and their parents had lived decades ago. And right there were the old barn and the huge new barn hidden underneath, and at another location, Roden's grew almost half a million dollars worth of illegal marijuana, according to multiple sources. It was this information the announcement of a major grow operation at the end of that press conference two days after the murders that became the game changer for investigators as well as the court of public opinion. The Rodents were now largely perceived as drug growers and possibly traffickers who might have been killed in a deal gone bad. They no longer seemed like innocent victims, but like criminals who might have gotten what they deserved. The Pink Moon Murders as a Cavalry Audio production in association with I Heart Radio, Written and narrated by David Rattam, Produced by Brandon Morgan of Cavalry Audio and Casey Whyland for Whyland Productions, Edited by Tim Mulhern, Executive produced by Dana Brunetti and Keegan Rosenberger,

This series contains adult language and descriptions of graphic violence throughout. Listener discretion is advised. Calorie audio Welcome to the Pink Moon Murders, a production of I Heart Radio and Cavalry Audio. Episode three, Black Crows and White Caskets on Creek and you Will Run to your destination. Yeah. On a cold, windy day in the late fall, I drove into Suda Burial Park with Todd, a former cop who's lived in Pike County all his life. He and A's fiancee were friends with Dana Rodin. As we turned into the cemetery, we saw a well maintained grass with hundreds of new and old tombstones. The gravel road sloped up a large hill to a summit that overlooked the creek in the larger Sada River. Near By on one side of us was farmland, and in the distance on all sides was a tranquil panorama of the Apple Chi and Piedmont. I drove an idle speed for a minute, and then stop so we could scan the tombstones for the road and family. I'm gonna glance at the date so that this tombstone says two thousand five three so I was wondering if they're like that, probably is a newer one over there. I was wondering if there might be a new an area for like two thousand sixteen burials or I put the car in neutral and let it roll down several yards. No one was in the cemetery but us and a murder of crows perched in naked oak trees not far away. These are burial I drove the car farther up the hill was pretty yeah, are all out this way for sure? Road and family right right there. My goodness, let's get up a look at that. Yeah Todd. Because of his law enforcement connections, he didn't want his real name used, so that's a pseudonym. And I walked over the grass to the family's final resting spot. A large charcoal colored tombstone stood with the words together Forever, Roding and etchings of Chris and Dana, probably from when they were married, as well as Frankie, Hannah and little Chris. Placed next to it were colorful flowers, a small American flag, and a teddy bear that looked new. Dana and Chris had divorced when their three kids were young, but she remained on the homestead. She lived in the second trailer, the one that became Frankie and Hannah Hazel's home, until Chris seemed to have better finances and bordered the trailer and land a mile up on Union Hill Road. So they had moved forward in life as a family, but also with some space between them, and that's how they're spending eternity. Then we walked to the five individual graves which had headstone setting in the grass. So there's Hannah rode And mother of Apia and Kylie, Frankie Rodin, father of Brandy, and Ruger fancy of Hannah Gilly sad mm hmm. As a cold wind blew down the big hill, making me shiver, Todd and I stood silently. I wondered what he was thinking. Eventually he spoke, you know what's funny is I've seen Dana at Walmart about a week before I always went down. He paused with vacancy in his eyes as he looked at her headstone. He hadn't talked details about Dana yet, and I wanted to learn more, but this wasn't the right time. Soon, the crows in the oak trees that had lost their leaves started calling in the wind picked up. I have to admit it was eerie standing in the cemetery on that cold, windy day in late fall, even if it was daytime. The trees looked dead in the black crows sounded ominous. Pods of dark clouds obscured the sun in the eastern sky. I look back to the graves and thought about the bodies inside. Several days after the murders, preliminary findings were released jointly by the Pike in Hamilton's county corners, since the bodies had been transported to the big city of Cincinnati for autopsies. They reported quote all sustained fatal gunshot wounds to the body, including the head, torso, and extremities. There was one victim with a single gunshot wound, one victim with two gunshot wounds, two victims each with three gunshot wounds, one victim with four gunshot wounds, two victims each with five gunshot wounds, and one victim with nine gunshot wounds thirty two gunshot wounds. Based on trajectories of the bullets and positions of the bodies at the crime scenes, investigators do not believe it was a murder suicide that means in the middle of the night at four local Asians, an intruder fired at least thirty two bullets into the bodies of eight sleeping people. That's definitely eerie and infuriating, plus almost unbelievable. Somebody sneaked past all those dogs, into all those homes and then had nerved cold enough to press the trigger that many times. I bet most of the victims, if not all, had no connection whatsoever to any payback, as some people speculated that was meted out by the killer. Of course, it's hard to imagine any offense that would call for murdering eight people in their sleep with babies nearby. The preliminary findings also reported that some of the victims showed signs of soft tissue bruising that means they were beaten right before or after death. No further details were announced, including who was shot, how many times, and the type or types of bullets used, and who was shot first or last. If that was even known, law enforcement officials wanted to keep some secrets for the time being. A little while after visiting the cemetery, I reached out to doctor Schmissa Marco, Hamilton's County's corner to see if she would answer questions I had so many. She replied she would be happy to talk with me, but unfortunately was leaving soon for a vacation in Florida. I explained I was in Florida that week and could drive to wherever she'd be, or I could ask questions over the phone or through email. But without explanation, she concluded she wouldn't be available. She's probably bound by the judge's gag order. Dr sam Marco released the body shortly after the autopsies and they were transported to funeral homes in southern Ohio. I sat down with Pastor Phil who has preached at Union Hilled Church for more than fifty years and has served as spokesman for the Road and Family. He described how Chris, Dana, and their kids, along with Chris's brother Kenneth, were buried on May third, after visitations and funerals down in West Portsmouth. That's on the Ohio River, just across from Greenup County, Kentucky, the Road and ancestral homeland. I'll never forget walk key and not to the funeral, but to the funeral home at the visitation, and I will never forget and I've never experienced the feeling to walk in to a room and see all the caskets around the wall. Uh starting if I remember right with the youngest, right on around two, Uh, Dana and Chris and Chris's brother. Surprisingly, the caskets were open. Pastor Phil said the funeral director did an amazing job with the bodies. They had the funeral in a in a very very large church. There was not a seat available in their standing room only and setting there and seeing white caskets lined up totally across and thinking this whole family was wiped down. Among the mourners was Geneva Rodin, who sat in the front pew. She was burying two sons, a putative daughter in law, a nephew, three grandkids, and the fiance of a grandson. She wailed throughout the service. Also in attendance were police officers. After all, eight family members had been killed and many Rodents were attending this funeral, no one knew if they too were targeted. Regardless the killer might be at the funeral, so it was an opportunity for police to study faces. This was shaping up as a most intense man hunt in state history. Just the day before Ohio Attorney General Mike Dwine and Pike County Sheriff Charlie Reader had announced that a hundred witnesses had been interviewed or at least contacted so far, and more than four d fifty tips had been received by b c I in the Pike County Sheriff's office. Additionally, more than a hundred pieces of evidence had been sent to the bc I Crime Laboratory for DNA, ballistic latent, print and trace analysis. After the funeral was a procession of six horses and scores of other vehicles traveling up to the cemetery. You stand up on that hill and see him with with all the hearses lined up, and one by one they they bring up the caskets and at the beverage site, from under a blue canopy tent, Geneva rode and sobbing carried throughout the hills. A newspaper reporter quoted her as crying, oh my God, my God. As Paul Bears brought the caskets to the open graves and Leonard, the patriarch of the Manly clan, sat next to his daughter Dana's casket. The reporter described him as slumped and shaking as only a broken man can. After the service, Kenneth's body was driven up to Piketon where he was interred next to his son, who had died of cancer at the age of six. They're at Mound Cemetery, which has been a burial site since the time in the early Indians who built Serpent Mound, twenty miles west as the Black Crow flies Gary Road and services were held several days earlier at Crockett L. Reid Funeral Home down in Greenup County. A lifelong hunter, he was buried in camouflage for hours. At the visitation, which was reportedly attended by eighty people, his dad embraced one loved one after another. He told them Gary had been a good son. After a reporter asked the retired farmer and railroad worker who might have killed his son, he replied, I don't know. Then he added, I'd like to take him in torture room for killing the whole family like this. Investigators had told him privately that his son had been shot three times in the head. Two days later in the rain, Hannah Hazel Gilly was laid to rest at Hackworth Hill Cemetery outside Radon. That's the village population are fifty, where she grew up. The visitation and funeral were held in nearby Otway, just like at the other services, Many mourners wore jeans and T shirts, and several war camouflage and baseball caps a few war shirts with the words in Memory of Hannah Guilly. Later that day, a charity car wash was held to raise money for her six month old son, Ruger, and the night before, a couple of thousand people showed up at the Pike County Fairgrounds for a candlelight vigil to honor all eight victims. Balloons with handwritten notes were released into the sky and money was raised to help pay for the funerals. The Pink Moon Murders will return after the break. And now back to the Pink Moon Murders. I wanted to learn more about Hannah Hazel, who twenty, so when I saw her mom one afternoon outside the Pike County Courthouse, I introduced myself and asked if she liked to talk, but she replied that she had nothing to say publicly. Then she sat down on the back of her man's Harley Davidson and they drove off while blasting a tom petty song. Months later, at Bear Creek Cash and Kerry, I met a sales clerk who said she was Hannah Hazel's second cousin. She was really friendly and we spoke for twenty minutes, but she didn't divulge too much about her relative, who she called Hazel. She said the family didn't want to publicly say words it might be misconstrued and hurt the investigation. On a different day, a sunny Sunday afternoon, I drove to Hackworth Hill Cemetery. It's small, with only a handful of graves, and right off a narrow back road. Around it are a few homes and small farms with a backdrop of forested hills. Hannah Hazel's tombstone has a photo of her with a fun loving smile, and on the ground that day were fresh flowers and little statues of owls. A nearby bench was engraved with the words looked to the sky for an angel with blue eyes. I stood for several minutes, just looking and thinking. Fortunately, her Facebook account was still active. Besides boasting of her love for Frankie and their son, she posted a lot of photos with them and with Frankie's three year old all the comments were about how cute they were. It was clear she was hyper focused on her young family. One of her last posts looked like a selfie, and Hannah may rode and replied with a smiley emoji that had hearts as eyes. Hannah Hazel replied, thanks boo. I didn't learn anything new in her obituary. I learned in Dana's, however, that she had been born in Highland County, which borders Pike. I didn't know the Manly family had lived there, but maybe it just had a good hospital. Pastor Philip told Tom didn't me about her. Dana was a good mom, very personable, flighty but hard worker, loved loved her kids and all. There was never a time when I met Dana Rudin that I didn't get a hug. Never a time i'd seen her and Hannah just probably a couple of weeks and uh of courtun round up, give me a big hug and rubbed. She rubbed Hannah's big belly and said, well, I'm gonna be grandma again, Phil and then boom. Pastor phil said Dana was religious. She was doing her best to set herself and the kids on a good course for life and for the afterlife. Dana come to church faithfully for oh a number of years, and and the kids Hannah grown up here in church. Dana's daughter, I knew Hannah well. I knew I knew all of those kids will on and off. Hannah, May, Frankie, and little Chris participated in the youth organization on Wednesday nights and Bible study. Dana seven was also doing her best at the nursing home after her death. Her boss total reporter. She was a kind and caring worker and altruistic. She occasionally brought in hamburgers and other treats for patients, even though she didn't make much above minimum wage. But she, like her kids, had a duality. A couple of people whispered to me that she could have a bad temper, and one told me she used to tell raunchy jokes at the flea market, where they had booths to make extra money. On weekends, Dana's sold pocketbooks and similar items. It seemed like she was always working to make extra money. On Thursday a she worked a double shift from the early morning until eleven o'clock PM. Sometime after getting home, she and the others in her trailer were murdered. Those in the other three homes might have already been dead. She had got off she'd work late that night and had come home. I had heard from some of the co workers she's very upset about something, and they wasn't sure. He changed the subject, and when I circled back to asked why she was very upset, he said he didn't have anything to add. That definitely added to this mystery and possibly provided motive. Maybe someone was very upset with her and decided to exact vengeance on her and her family. The others who might have been primary targets in this who done it and why done it and how done it were her sons who liked to smash up cars and gotten fights, and her ex husband who had the alleged cock fighting and chop shop operations. Plus there was what Attorney General the Wine had announced at the end of the press conference that became a massive game changer for investigators. I kept thinking that whoever was killed first was the primary target. Why don't you start with the one you hated the most in case you got stopped by someone or something, including your nerves. It was too bad the corners did not announce who was killed first. I also wondered who got the nine gunshot wounds and who got the one. That information might also be an indicator of who the primary target was. I still wanted to discover more about the Rodents, so I spent a couple of mornings at piked In High School, which Dana and her kids had attended. Staff and year books taught me a lot. Dana was a junior in the pike TONI in her last name that year was Roding and not manly, meaning she was already married. Her senior year head shot chose an innocent looking girl with a soft smile and a white scrunch in her hair, but I didn't see her in other photos, and a school employee told me she wasn't involved in extracurricular activities. The married high school student had two kids and a husband at home, so she was busy enough. That school employee said, Dana's kids, it's Frankie. Hannah May and little Chris were not involved in many school activities either, and the dearth of year book photos supports this. I did see some headshots for the two boys, although Frankie was listed as missing for a couple and a photo of Frankie welding, but nothing else for them. They stayed occupied outside school with part time jobs in Derby cars. Frankie attended the local Vocational School for a while, and Frankie's first baby mom, gave birth to their son his junior year. I saw more in the pike Tonyan for Hannah May, even though she also studied at the Vocational School for a while and took maternity leave twice. During her freshman year, she competed on the Lady Red Streaks team that won the girls state Division four or five and six powerlifting title. According to the Pike County News Watchman, the local newspaper, Hannah May placed fifteenth in her weight class with a total of five five pounds. The fifteen year old squaded a hundred fifty bench a huntret and dead lifted two five pounds. It's even more impressive considering she was likely pregnant. She gave birth eight months later to Sophia, and on a page titled Homecoming, the pike Tonian chose a photo of Hannah May wearing a strapless dress with a black top that has colorful streaks in a pink waist. A pretty corsage adorns her wrist. She's cute with light brown shoulder length hair in that photo and as a plus size, maybe because of the weightlifting. She's standing next to a boy wearing jeans, a black shirt with rolled up sleeves, a vest that matches her dress, a white tie, and a boutinear. He's several inches taller than her and slender with muscular forearms. His hair is cut short on all sides with a slight flip up in the front. The caption says, Hannah Rodin and her date. It's an odd photo. They're the only couple on the page not with their arms around each other. He's standing with his arms crossed in a smirk on his face, like he's bored or angry, and she appears to be forcing a smile. We put this in other photos on our website. Although he's not identified. In that photo, the boy looks like Jake Wagner. Jake did not attend Piked in high He was a few years older than Hannah May and regardless had been homeschooled. A school employee told me that she would have had to fill out a form to bring an outsider like him to the dance. Jake became the dad of Hannah May's daughter, Sophia. He made news after the murders because he started to go fund me account to support Sophia and pay legal bills in the wake of her mom's death. He wrote, these were not expenses I was supposed to have. I was just supposed to be able to spend time with her and give her a happy childhood. She's only two and a half years old. Then he added, Sophie and I are just asking for enough to settle the fees that we acquired due to this horrific tragedy to her mommy. Jake filed documents at the courthouse to get full legal custody, which up to them had been informal, with Hannah May having their daughter most of the time after they split up. Fortunately, she had dropped off Sophia at Jake's before she gave birth to Kylie, and he still had her when the murders happened, but the other youngest rodents were taken by Ohio's Child Protective Services. Brentley, Frankie's three year old was eventually handed over to his mom, Chelsea. To this day, though years later, orphans Kylie and Ruger reportedly remain in state custody. This story has so much heartbreak. Yet in the community and among investigators, speculations spread that those three children at the trailers survived because they were too young to later describe the killer to police. There was hope that the killer had at least that amount of humanity. Jake was also in the news shortly after the murders because he was claiming paternity of Kylie, although two other guys might have been her dad. One was hand Hazel's brother Charlie, who Hannah May had had a fling with after breaking up with Jake, and the other was Corey Holdron, her boyfriend at the time of the murders. Jake told a reporter he was sure that he was the dad because the timing of her pregnancy made sense because it looked like Kylie had a hammer toe, which was a Wagner trait. Jake said, if it turned out he was not the dad, quote, I'm not going to take her, but I will want mandatory visitation in order to see her regularly end quote. It was a bold statement. He must have already been feeling protective of the little girl and wanted her to grow up with her half her full sister. DNA tests later proved Charlie Gilly was her dad. Jake was disappointed. The other guy, Corey, hasn't spoken publicly about the potential for being Kylie's father, but Hannah May's Facebook cover photo shows Corey with his hand on her pregnant belly, so he looked supportive. It's dated April four, a couple of weeks before she gave birth. Back in October, she had updated her social media status to say she was in a relationship, and it was clear she met with him. She posted plenty of photos with Corey, including acute one of him holding her other daughter, Sophia. But with deeper research, I found out Hannah May had a second Facebook account. It's cover photos shows her kissing Charlie while dating. She began a relationship with him about two months before beginning with Corey, maybe because of the uncertainty. Kylie's birth certificate lists rode In as her last name, Sophia's last name is Wagner, and Hannah's first account her full name is Hannah May Rodin, but the U r L says Facebook dot com slash Hannah dot Rodin Wagner. As if she had married Jake She created the account in when she was fourteen and already dating Jake. Then on November, five days after giving birth to Sophia, she posted a status update that said got married. She followed that up by commenting, we really aren't married, but we might as well be married. And after the murders, a newspaper article said, Hannah May and Jake had tattoos and wedding bands on their ring fingers, and we're planning on getting married more Pink Moon murders. After a word from our sponsors, we now return to the Pink Moon murders. The young couple and their daughter, Sophia, lived with Jake's parents and brother near Peebles and with Hannah May's mom and little brother on Union Hill Road. So for a long time they were deeply in love, but then it ended. Hannah May was definitely dynamic. She was dating boys, raising a daughter, dealing with pregnancy, going to school, and working until just a few days before her April seventeenth delivery of Kylie. Was shaping up to be a fantastic month. On the seventh was her nineteenth birthday, and on the ninth was her baby shower. But then the horrific happened on the night of the one. To find out more about Hannah May, I sat down with Alex Bond, who knew her in elementary, middle and high school, and asked what she was like. Um. Definitely more on the rebels side. Like she wasn't crazy and disrespectful at the time or anything, but she definitely wasn't like the most um I'm trying to think of the word. She wasn't like a rule follower, good girl type. I'd say she was definitely more sporting than cheerleader. She definitely wasn't the cheerleader type. With Hannah May having maternity leaf during her sophomore in senior years and also taking some classes at the vocational school, Alex didn't hang out with her much in high school. She remembers more from when they were younger. In middle school. We were all fascinated with makeup and clothes and girls to the usual things. But Hannah May did like hunting, fishing, and four wheeling, and often wore boots, jeans, and sweatshirts to school. She was a southern Ohio country girl who still wanted to attract boys. After discovering a good amount about Dana and her three kids, and a little about Hannah, Hazel Gilly. With more research needing to be done on Chris, Kenneth and Gary, I drove Todd to Union Hill Road. I was interested in his insight and theories about the shootings, wanted to see what was left of the crime scenes, and needed to understand the lay of the land in person. It was my first time there, although eventually I traveled the road so many times I lost count. I would park stand at the crime scenes and just think along the way. Todd added details to some of the theories I've already mentioned and described new ones. One entailed a possible connection to the disappearance of six women in Chillakathi, a city of two from Ma to Ma. Chillicothee is thirty five miles from Union Hill Road. I later chased those leads a little, but didn't find solid connections, and a couple of his theories, he admitted might only be hearsay. All I will say about those is that they involved a lot of money that was used illegally. On Union Hill Road, we first passed the property where Dana lived with little Chris and Hannah May and Hanna May's babies, and then the property where Chris and Gary lived, and finally the property where Frankie and Hannah Hazel lived with their boys. This stretch of road, which is less than three miles long, is almost the county line separating Pike from Adams at the top and then Pike from Soda at the bottom. It cuts through hard hills and hollers on the arbitrary man made county line matches it for the most part, but zig zags through Chris's homestead with his barns being split into Pike and Soda counties, and Dana's homestead lies in Soda but touches Adams and Pike. When entering Union Hill Road off thirty two the Appalachian Highway, you first drive through Adams. To better understand the various properties in this case, I spent parts of five days in the Pike County Government Center's Property map office. The ladies are pulled up satellite images on a computer as well as historic surveys on paper, and sorted through old documents while helping me out. But it took even them a long time to get a clear understanding of where the county lines are for these three road and properties. The challenge, they said is that when the Virginia Military Survey was carried out from the late seventeen hundreds to mid eighteen hundreds, the surveyors probably created this portion of the Pike County border according to an old animal or Indian trail that didn't match perfectly with how the asphalt road was eventually paved. Today, all of this is unincorporated, regardless of the county. This rural back road is far from the county seats and small villages, eighteen miles from Piketon, and it's twenty one resident and eleven miles from Peoples. And it's so far from the prying eyes of the government officials and police. It's the outskirts the sticks. After reaching the end of Union Hill Road, I turned the car around and drove back, stopping when we arrived where Frankie and Hannah hazel It lived on. That parcel now stood some untended bushes, trees and grass, a washing machine, a rooster cage, a doghouse, a couple of rusted cars, a small American flag, and what looked like a frame for a card poard. I also saw a wooden porch with steps leading to nowhere. Its trailer long ago towed away for evidence. The porch reminded me of an orphan whose parent was missing. Todd was my tour guide. The trailers was was nothing but pure blood. I talked to the guy that hauled the trailers and he said he didn't even want to go in, and it was so bad, he said it was. Then I drove seventy five yards to where Chris and his cousin Gary lived, and it had similar ide in the yard, although a lot more cars that were old and rusted. A stone's throw from where their trailer used to be stood the clapboard house, now fading canary yellow, where Chris, some siblings and their parents had lived decades ago. And right there were the old barn and the huge new barn hidden underneath, and at another location, Roden's grew almost half a million dollars worth of illegal marijuana, according to multiple sources. It was this information the announcement of a major grow operation at the end of that press conference two days after the murders that became the game changer for investigators as well as the court of public opinion. The Rodents were now largely perceived as drug growers and possibly traffickers who might have been killed in a deal gone bad. They no longer seemed like innocent victims, but like criminals who might have gotten what they deserved. The Pink Moon Murders as a Cavalry Audio production in association with I Heart Radio, Written and narrated by David Rattam, Produced by Brandon Morgan of Cavalry Audio and Casey Whyland for Whyland Productions, Edited by Tim Mulhern, Executive produced by Dana Brunetti and Keegan Rosenberger,