A coroner says seven of the eight victims in killings targeting a southern Ohio family were shot multiple times. The father of one of the victims says he had no knowledge of marijuana growing operations at three of the four crime scenes. (Published Tuesday, April 26, 2016) 
 
 Seven of eight relatives slain in their southern Ohio homes were shot multiple times and some suffered bruising indicative of a struggle, according to autopsy results released Tuesday. 
 
 The victims — all members of the Rhoden family — appear to have been targeted. Authorities said the carefully planned slayings were carried out at four locations in the rural community of Piketon, east of Cincinnati. 
 
 Investigators uncovered marijuana growing operations at three of the crime scenes, according to Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, who cautioned that it's still too early to speculate about a motive. 
 
 "We're not ruling anything in; we're not ruling anything out," DeWine said. 
 
 He said one of the victims received a threat on Facebook but declined to go into detail. 
 
 Authorities also found evidence "consistent with cockfighting" at one of the properties, where birds were kept in "small, segregated cages," according to Jill Del Greco, a spokeswoman for Wine's office. 
 
 "Whether or not cockfighting was actually happening, we don't know, but it is part of the investigation," Del Greco said. 
 
 The victims have been identified as 40-year-old Christopher Rhoden Sr.; his ex-wife, Dana Rhoden; their three children, 16-year-old Christopher Rhoden Jr., 19-year-old Hanna Rhoden and 20-year-old Clarence "Frankie" Rhoden; Christopher Rhoden Sr.'s brother, 44-year-old Kenneth Rhoden; their cousin, 38-year-old Gary Rhoden; and 20-year-old Hannah Gilley, whose 6-month old son with Frankie was unharmed. Two other children, a 6-month-old and a 3-year-old, were also spared. 
 
 The Hamilton County coroner said Tuesday the victims — three women, four men and a 16-year-old boy — suffered wounds to their heads, torsos and other areas. 
 
 According to the autopsy report, one victim suffered a single wound, another was wounded twice, and the rest had three or more wounds. The report didn't specify which victim was which. 
 
 A woman who called 911 Friday morning reported finding "blood all over the house" and two bodies that appeared to have been badly beaten. The coroner said "soft-tissue bruising" on some of the bodies indicated a possible struggle. 
 
 Investigators have received more than 300 tips and are continuing to serve search warrants in an effort to identify the killer or killers, according to DeWine. He said 79 pieces of evidence have been sent to a state crime lab for testing and analysis. 
 
 Dana Rhoden's father, 64-year-old Leonard Manley, said Monday his daughter was not involved in anything illegal. 
 
 "They are trying to drag my daughter through the mud, and I don't appreciate that," said Manley, whose three grandchildren — Dana's children — were also among the dead. 
 
 Manley also said the assailant was able to get by his daughter's two dogs, who were wary of strangers. 
 
 "Whoever done it knows the family," Manley said. "There were two dogs there that would eat you up." 
 
 A Cincinnati-area businessman offered a $25,000 reward for details leading to those responsible. 
 
 Copyright Associated Press / NBC New York ||||| COLUMBUS, Ohio --Seven of eight relatives who were killed in their southern Ohio homes Friday had been shot multiple times, including one who was shot nine times, according to autopsy results released Tuesday. 
 
 Some also had bruising, which matched a report from a 911 caller who said two appeared to have been beaten up. 
 
 The Hamilton County coroner said the victims - three women, four men and a 16-year-old boy - had wounds to their heads, torso and other parts of the body. Dr. Lakshmi Sammarco's report said one victim had a single wound, one had two wounds, and the rest had three or more. The report didn't specify which victim had which number of wounds. 
 
 Ohio's attorney general has called the deaths carefully planned slayings carried out at four locations in Piketon, a rural Appalachian Mountain region community. Mike DeWine has also said there were marijuana growing operations at three of the locations where bodies were found. 
 
 Investigators are also looking at the possibility a Mexican drug cartel is behind the pre-planned execution of the family. 
 
 A law enforcement source confirmed to CBS News that investigators found some 200 marijuana plants. They were inside an indoor grow operation that was found in some of the homes where the eight members of the Rhoden family were executed. 
 
 The size of the operation, according to the source, indicates the marijuana was being grown for sale and not for personal use. 
 
 "There is a drug problem in most areas around here," said Pike County Sheriff Charles Reader. 
 
 Law enforcement sources estimate that the street value of the marijuana plants is nearly half a million dollars. 
 
 But Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, who is heading up the investigation, couldn't say with certainty whether that may have been a factor in the murders. 
 
 "We have no idea. I mean you know we're running those leads out, there's many different theories," DeWine said. 
 
 DeWine said Tuesday that investigators have received more than 300 tips and are continuing to serve search warrants in an effort to identify the killer or killers. He said 79 pieces of evidence have been sent to a state crime lab for testing and analysis. 
 
 Authorities have said members of the Rhoden family were targeted in the slayings. 
 
 A woman who called 911 Friday morning to report finding two of the bodies said that she saw "blood all over the house" and that the two looked like they had been badly beaten. 
 
 The victims are 40-year-old Christopher Rhoden Sr.; his ex-wife, Dana Rhoden; their three children, 16-year-old Christopher Rhoden Jr., 19-year-old Hanna Rhoden and 20-year-old Clarence "Frankie" Rhoden; Christopher Rhoden Sr.'s brother, 44-year-old Kenneth Rhoden; their cousin, 38-year-old Gary Rhoden; and 20-year-old Hannah Gilley, whose 6-month old son with Frankie was unharmed. Two other children, a 6-month-old and a 3-year-old, were also unharmed. 
 
 Leonard Manley, father of Dana Rhoden, told the Cincinnati Enquirer that he first learned about the marijuana operations from news reports. Manley, 64, said he's sure his daughter couldn't have been involved in anything illegal. 
 
 "They are trying to drag my daughter through the mud, and I don't appreciate that," said Manley, whose three grandchildren - Dana's children - were also among the dead. 
 
 Manley also noted that the assailant was able to get by his daughter's two dogs. 
 
 "Whoever done it knows the family," Manley said. "There were two dogs there that would eat you up." 
 
 Pike County Prosecutor Rob Junk told the Columbus Dispatch on Monday that the marijuana operations included a grow house sheltering hundreds of plants. 
 
 "It wasn't just somebody sitting pots in the window," Junk said. 
 
 DeWine said Monday there was also possible evidence of cockfighting at one of the properties, but he didn't know what was relevant to the investigation. 
 
 More than a dozen counselors, clergy and psychologists arrived at the local high school on Monday to help friends and neighbors cope with their grief as they remembered the victims as loyal and caring people. 
 
 Dana Rhoden "always wanted what was best for her kids," Scioto Valley Local School District Superintendent Todd Burkitt said. 
 
 The youngest victim, Christopher Rhoden Jr., was a freshman at Piketon High School. 
 
 "He was the first one that if he thought that someone wasn't being treated fairly or felt like someone wasn't being treated appropriately, he would speak up about it," Burkitt said. 
 
 Hanna and Frankie Rhoden also had attended the school. 
 
 While authorities have not released any details about a motive, the attorney general's office did confirm Monday that one of the victims had received a threat via Facebook. Authorities didn't elaborate. 
 
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 While investigators in Ohio struggled for a fifth day to find a motive and the person or people responsible for the massacre of eight members of the same family, officials said Tuesday that autopsy results revealed that some of the victims show signs of struggle before they were killed. 
 
 The Pike County Medical Examiner said the eight victims — all part of the Rhoden family — died from gunshot wounds. One victim suffered nine gunshot wounds, and some victims showed soft tissue bruising, indicating that they fought their killer or killers, according to the medical examiner. 
 
 Hannah Gilley, 20; Christopher Rhoden, Sr., 40; Christopher Rhoden, Jr., 16; Clarence "Frankie" Rhoden, 20; Dana Rhoden, 37; Gary Rhoden, 38; Hanna Rhoden, 19; and Kenneth Rhoden, 44, of Piketon, were found dead Friday across four Pike County crime scenes. 
 
 A 4-day-old, a 6-month-old and a 3-year-old survived the massacre, which authorities have described as "execution-style" and "pre-planned." 
 
 Related: Piketon Massacre: Motive Undetermined, Despite Discovery of Marijuana 'Grow Operations' 
 
 Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine and Pike County Sheriff Charles Reader said Tuesday that investigators were looking at about 80 pieces of evidence and had received more than 300 tips, but did not say whether they have identified a suspect or suspects. 
 
 On Sunday, DeWine said three separate marijuana "grow operations" were found during the searches of the crime scenes. Officials told NBC News on Tuesday that one of the grow operations was comprised of more than 100 marijuana plants, and the drugs were not for personal use by the grower. 
 
 DeWine and Reader said Sunday that the county and the state as a whole have a "drug problem." A 2011 report said that the drug trafficking threat in Ohio was on the rise. More than $6 million in marijuana was seized last year, and more than 550 plants were seized from Pike County. Some Ohio counties saw less than 10 plants seized, while some had thousands seized last year. 
 
 DeWine also said that birds in small cages were found at some of the crime scenes, which might indicate cockfighting was taking place, but the discovery was still under investigation. ||||| FILE - In this Friday, April 22, 2016 file photo, authorities set up road blocks at the intersection of Union Hill Road and Route 32 at the perimeter of a crime scene, in Pike County, Ohio. As the investigation... (Associated Press) 
 
 FILE - In this Friday, April 22, 2016 file photo, authorities set up road blocks at the intersection of Union Hill Road and Route 32 at the perimeter of a crime scene, in Pike County, Ohio. As the investigation into the killings of eight family members in rural Ohio enters its fifth day, more details... (Associated Press) 
 
 FILE - In this Friday, April 22, 2016 file photo, authorities set up road blocks at the intersection of Union Hill Road and Route 32 at the perimeter of a crime scene, in Pike County, Ohio. As the investigation into the killings of eight family members in rural Ohio enters its fifth day, more details... (Associated Press) FILE - In this Friday, April 22, 2016 file photo, authorities set up road blocks at the intersection of Union Hill Road and Route 32 at the perimeter of a crime scene, in Pike County, Ohio. As the investigation... (Associated Press) 
 
 CINCINNATI (AP) — A coroner's report released Tuesday showed new details of vicious violence in the shooting deaths of eight members of a rural southern Ohio family, finding most victims were shot three to nine times each and some of them were bruised. Meanwhile, the hunt for whoever is responsible continued to expand, with more than 200 law enforcement officials involved. 
 
 A 911 caller on Friday said the bodies of two people found in one home looked to be beaten up. Attorney General Mike DeWine has called the slayings a carefully planned and "sophisticated operation" carried out against eight members of the Rhoden family by one or more killers. 
 
 The Hamilton County coroner said the victims — three women, four men and a 16-year-old boy — had wounds to their heads, torso and other parts of the body. Dr. Lakshmi Sammarco said one victim had a single wound, one had two wounds, and the rest had three or more. The report didn't specify which victim had which number of wounds. 
 
 Some victims showed "signs of soft tissue bruising," her report stated. Sammarco's office declined to discuss its findings, citing the ongoing investigation. Funeral arrangements for the victims hadn't yet been announced. 
 
 Authorities haven't suggested a motive or suspects. DeWine has said there were marijuana-growing operations found at three of the four places where bodies were found in Pike County, a rural Appalachian Mountain region roughly 80 miles east of Cincinnati and Hamilton County. 
 
 DeWine said Tuesday that investigators have received more than 300 tips and are still serving search warrants. He said 79 pieces of evidence have been sent to a state crime lab for testing and analysis, including for DNA and fingerprints. 
 
 Ohio and Pike County authorities are leading the investigation, with help from some two dozen other agencies including other county sheriffs. The FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration are also offering assistance. 
 
 A woman who called 911 on Friday morning to report finding two of the bodies said that she saw "blood all over the house" and that the two looked like they had been badly beaten. 
 
 The victims are 40-year-old Christopher Rhoden Sr.; his ex-wife, 37-year-old Dana Rhoden; their three children, 16-year-old Christopher Rhoden Jr., 19-year-old Hanna Rhoden and 20-year-old Clarence "Frankie" Rhoden; Christopher Rhoden Sr.'s brother, 44-year-old Kenneth Rhoden; their cousin, 38-year-old Gary Rhoden, and 20-year-old Hannah Gilley, whose 6-month old son with Frankie was unharmed. 
 
 Two other children, Hanna Rhoden's 4-day-old daughter and Frankie Rhoden's 3-year-old son, also were unharmed. 
 
 Leonard Manley, father of Dana Rhoden, told The Cincinnati Enquirer that he first learned about the marijuana operations from news reports. Manley, 64, said he's sure his daughter couldn't have been involved in anything illegal. 
 
 "They are trying to drag my daughter through the mud, and I don't appreciate that," said Manley, whose three grandchildren — Dana's children — were also among the dead. 
 
 Manley also found it suspicious that any assailants were able to get by his daughter's two dogs. 
 
 "Whoever done it knows the family," Manley said. "There were two dogs there that would eat you up." 
 
 DeWine said Monday there was also possible evidence of cockfighting at one of the properties, but he didn't know if it was relevant to the investigation. 
 
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 Associated Press writers Kantele Franko, Ann Sanner and Andrew Welsh-Huggins in Columbus and Lisa Cornwell in Cincinnati contributed to this report. 
 
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 This story has been corrected to show Hanna Rhoden's daughter was 4 days old, not 6 months. ||||| PIKE COUNTY, Ohio --A Facebook threat mentioning one of the eight members of an Ohio family who were shot and killed execution-style on Friday is among the the evidence investigators are examining, CBS News has confirmed. 
 
 The threat specifically called out Christopher Rhoden Jr., who died along with seven other members of the Rhoden family, in a string of shootings at four rural locations. 
 
 "I'm aware of the Facebook threat," Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine told CBS News. "Every piece of information is valuable and our investigators are certainly taking that into consideration." 
 
 Pike County Sheriff Charles Reader, said most of the victims were targeted while they were sleeping. He said it was clear the family was targeted and that he has warned the surviving members of the Rhoden family to take precautions and arm themselves. 
 
 "I cautioned them, told them we will be there," Reader told CBS News. "I told (them) to be armed." 
 
 One member of the family, who asked not to be identified, said the relatives are "torn up" over the murders. 
 
 "And you know what I mean, kinda freaked out because we don't know. There's still killers on the loose, or killer," he said. 
 
 Authorities confirmed Sunday that marijuana grow operations were found near some of the sites where the Rhoden family members were murdered. 
 
 A law enforcement source has confirmed that investigators found some 200 marijuana plants in the executed Ohio family's indoor grow operation, CBS News senior investigative producer Pat Milton reports. 
 
 The source said the size of operation indicates it was being grown for sale not for personal use. 
 
 Each plant could produce about one pound of marijuana. A pound of high-grade quality marijuana has a street value of about $2,000. 
 
 A second law enforcement source said that investigators are looking at numerous avenues as a motive for the killings among them is whether there is a Mexican drug cartel connection or a possible drug turf war or family feud. 
 
 The Friday killings at four different homes near Piketon, Ohio, was "a sophisticated operation," DeWine said at a news conference in the small community that has been on edge since the seven adults and one teenage boy were found shot in the head. 
 
 DeWine cautioned it was too soon to determine if the marijuana grow operations and the murders were directly connected. 
 
 At the Dogwood Festival in downtown Piketon on Sunday afternoon, the crowd was smaller than usual. Courtney Boyer came with her infant daughter. 
 
 "People are scared to come out," she said. "What if that person who shot all those people is running around here. You don't know who it is. Or what they're capable of doing?" 
 
 Authorities have been scrambling to determine who targeted the clan and why. Investigators have interviewed more than 30 people in hopes of finding leads in the deaths. 
 
 The victims were identified Saturday as 40-year-old Christopher Rhoden Sr.; his 16-year-old son, Christopher Rhoden Jr.; 44-year-old Kenneth Rhoden; 38-year-old Gary Rhoden; 37-year-old Dana Rhoden; 20-year-old Clarence "Frankie" Rhoden; 20-year-old Hannah Gilley; and 19-year-old Hanna Rhoden. 
 
 It appeared some of the family members were killed as they slept, including Hanna Rhoden, who was in bed with her newborn baby nearby, authorities said. The infant was 4- or 5-days old. The baby, Hannah Gilley's 6-month-old baby, and 1 other small child were not hurt. 
 
 Since the slayings, authorities have refused to discuss many details of the crime, including any evidence or the search for the assailant or assailants. 
 
 Investigators sought tips and gave people a number to call if they had any details about the crimes. A Cincinnati-area businessman also put up a $25,000 reward for information leading to the capture and conviction of the killer or killers. 
 
 Two of the crime scenes are within walking distance of each other along a sparsely populated, winding road that leads into wooded hills from a rural highway. 
 
 The third residence is more than a mile away, and the fourth home is on a different road, at least a 10-minute drive away, said the investigation's leader, Benjamin Suver, a special agent in charge with Bureau of Criminal Investigations. 
 
 An out-of-breath caller who found two of the eight family members told a 911 dispatcher in a quavering voice that "there's blood all over the house." 
 
 "I think my brother-in-law's dead," she said, her voice rising as she adds later that it looks like someone has "beat the crap out of them." 
 
 "I think they're both dead," she said before breaking down into sobs, according to one of two 911 call recordings released Saturday by the state attorney general's office. 
 
 Phil Fulton, the pastor of Union Hill Church up the road from where some of the victims were found, described the family as close-knit and hardworking. He said they were previously part of his congregation, though not recently. 
 
 "We're just doing everything we can to reach out to the family to show them love and comfort," Fulton said. 
 
 Kendra Jordan, 20, said she often worked nights at a nursing home with the mother of the newborn and described her as outgoing, funny and always smiling. 
 
 "If you were having a bad day, she'd be the first one to come up to you to question you about what was going on," Jordan said. "She was amazing." 
 
 Jordan said the town would have difficulty recovering from the loss of a such a well-known family in the tight-knit community. 
 
 "Everyone knows that family, you can't not know that family," she said. "They're involved in everything, and they're at every event that's going on in town. Just about see them anywhere you went."
– While authorities say some of the victims of Ohio's "execution-style" killings died in their sleep, others may have put up a fight. Autopsies show some members of the Rhoden family had soft tissue bruising, suggesting they resisted their killer or killers, the Pike County Medical Examiner said Tuesday, per NBC News. A 911 caller who reported "blood all over the house" noted it looked like someone had "beat the hell out of" at least one victim. The autopsies confirmed all eight victims—three women, four men, and a 16-year-old boy—were fatally shot; one victim was shot once, one was shot twice, and the remaining victims were shot three or more times, including one person who had nine wounds. Authorities have yet to present a motive, though marijuana-growing operations were found at three of the four crime scenes. Sources say 200 plants recovered were worth about $500,000, reports CBS News. Birds were also found in "small, segregated cages," which is "consistent with cockfighting," says a rep for the Ohio attorney general, per NBC New York. A prosecutor tells the Columbus Dispatch that the family was previously known to police for "altercations with people, that sort of thing ... nothing like this." Police have received 300 tips, sent 79 pieces of evidence for analysis, and are still serving search warrants, reports the AP. (Police say the youngest victim had been threatened on Facebook.)