Whoever did it is everyone’s guess. Joe wondered aloud about it being a hit by the Mexican cartels, a theory that’s been suggested by everyone from AG DeWine to the local media, even amateur online detectives. The area, all the way up to Dayton, is a well-trodden drug corridor. State authorities
recently announced the Sinaloa Cartel had a fentanyl scheme in the city of Middletown, and the
Cincinnati Enquirer recently won a Pulitzer for
chronicling the community’s heroin epidemic. Leonard and James weren’t shy about mentioning the absconded Wagner family.
Andrea told me, cryptically, “look who’s running the town,” before recommending I watch the documentary Gone: The Forgotten Women of Ohio. It takes place in Chillicothe, about an hour and change from where we were.