Looking back at the news stories around the time of the funerals, LE was concerned about looking for signs of criminal activity at the crime scenes, e.g. towing all the cars from Chris Sr's and Frankie's property the day of the family's funeral. But LM had told LE about the fight over custody in the first days after the murders.
Rhoden family 'beyond devastation' as funeral held for 6 slain members
Ohio AG's office: Vehicles towed 'part of investigation' in Pike Co.
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Leonard Manley, the father of shooting victim Dana Rhoden and father-in-law to her ex-husband and victim Christopher Rhoden, Sr., said officers have been taking vehicles from “Chris’s property, and some of them aren’t even his.’'
Manley voiced frustration with the investigation and said he thinks authorities are looking unfairly at his family, a sentiment he had expressed to The Enquirer early last week.
He said investigators still have not released his own son’s pickup truck, or the tools carried in it. He said he doesn’t know what authorities wanted with James Manley’s truck or his tools.
Leonard Manley said he and his family feel targeted by the investigation. He spoke during a lunch after the funeral and burial of his daughter, her three children and her ex-husband, with whom she was reconciling. Services for a sixth Rhoden -- Christopher Rhoden Sr.'s brother Kenneth -- also took place; he is to be buried separately Wednesday."
I assume Len was talking about taking cars from Chris's property that he was in the process of repairing for friends. Later, the AG's office had to admit that none of the vehicles were stolen.
End of the article, well written:
The surviving members of the family sat in front of the five caskets, under blue tents meant for rain that never came. The Rhoden children were positioned in the middle with their parents at either end.
Friends and family walked past the caskets. Several took roses, carnations and lilies from the coffins.
Most left shortly after that. Then, the hearses pulled away, and the sheriff's deputies stationed at the bottom of the hill left.
The service lasted less than 10 minutes, but some family and friends remained there for several hours.
This was their final goodbye.
BBM