Ohio massacre ‘a hit’?

The massacre of eight members of an Ohio farm family has the earmarks of a “professional hit,” one expert said.

By the time the 2016 slaughter was finished, seven adults and a teen were lying in pools of blood. A baby and two toddlers were spared.

Detectives have long pinned the shocking slayings of the Rhoden family to the drug trade.

“It has aspects of a professional hit, but I don’t think it was a cartel hit or anything like that,” Dr. Jennifer Murray, a mass killings expert told WLWTTV.

“They’re not usually this cleanly done. Usually, you can see right away who did it.”

Cops previously said that patriarch Christopher Rhoden Sr., 40, oversaw a “large-scale marijuana grow operation.”

So far, police have not named any suspects although a neighbouring family has come under the spotlight.

Autopsies revealed that the murders had a sadistic aspect to them but Murray believes it’s likely whoever masterminded the deaths had professional killers behind them.

“It’s two years later and they haven’t indicted anybody. So they did a pretty good job and I don’t think the average family typically knows how to do that. So there’s a potential they may have hired someone,” she told WLWT-TV.

Investigators believe there was more than one killer.