After more than a week of searching, a Knox County, Ohio community began to grieve as they learned the bodies of a missing mother, her 11-year-old son and a family friend were found stuffed into garbage bags and hidden in a hollow tree. The discovery came Thursday, four days after authorities found the mother’s 13-year-old daughter bound and gagged, but alive, in the basement of a home about a 15-mile drive from the wildlife area where the bodies were discovered.

“This is a homicide investigation now,” said the Sheriff. Watch the video for more…

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