Pike County murders: Court documents reveal new details

A clip from a Hollywood movie could be one of the keys to prosecuting the largest mass murder in Ohio history.

That’s according to new information News Center 7 has obtained digging through public records connected to the Pike County killings.

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Six members of the Wagner family are accused of murdering or trying to cover up the murders of eight members of the Rhoden family.

News Center 7's John Bedell has spent weeks digging through hundreds of pages of court documents filed in the case to uncover new information. The documents show a list of evidence prosecutors have handed to defense attorneys including autopsies, 3-D scans of the crime scenes, a list of guns, a picture of a burned VCR, a timeline of suspect interviews and phone records, among other items.

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The list also shows a clip from a popular vigilante justice movie is considered evidence in the mass murder.

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