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Evidence Tampering Charge in Probe of Pike Co. Killings
By: Associated Press
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Authorities have charged the brother of one of the eight victims of an unsolved Ohio massacre with tampering with evidence and vandalism, accusing him of destroying a GPS device.
The Ohio attorney general’s office on Tuesday announced the charges against 40-year-old James Manley, of Peebles, in southern Ohio.
Authorities say Manley destroyed the device being used in the investigation of the slayings. Manley is the brother of victim Dana Rhoden.
Manley’s phone is disconnected, and online court records don’t list an attorney. Manley’s father, Leonard Manley, told the Cincinnati Enquirer his son would turn himself in.
No arrests have been made in the April 2016 slayings of eight members of the Rhoden family. They were found shot at four homes near Piketon, about 70 miles south of Columbus.