The dramatic 911 calls that came in to the Pike County Sheriff's Office on Friday offered a chilling backdrop to the shooting deaths of members of one family — the Rhodens — that have left this small community 70 miles east of Cincinnati reeling.

The initial frantic call, from a woman who identified herself as Bobby, came in at 7:49 a.m. Friday and the second came in at 1:26 p.m., with the discovery several miles away of the last of the eight bodies.

Bobby, gasping for breath, told the dispatcher that the house on Union Mill Road in rural Pike County was locked but she had a key and had let herself in.