COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – George “Billy” Wagner III no longer faces the possibility of the death penalty in his trial for the Rhoden family massacre. Pike County court records show Judge ...

Members of the Rhoden family, who filled the courtroom in Waverly, about 80 miles east of Cincinnati, hugged each other and wiped away tears moments after Wagner was led away in handcuffs. Tony ...

Prosecutors have long argued that Jake Wagner and Hanna Rhoden became embroiled in a custody war over their daughter, Sophia, and Jake drew his family into the feud.. BCI intelligence analyst Julia ...

Two members of the Wagner family and the mother of one of them were sentenced in the 2016 killings of another family of eight in Pike County. Angela Wagner, her son Edward “Jake” and her ...

Through these witnesses, prosecutor Angela Canepa began laying the groundwork for a motive as she questioned them about Jake Wagner. He was Hanna Rhoden's ex-boyfriend and father of their daughter ...

Hanna May Rhoden, 19, Chris and Dana Rhoden’s daughter, and mother to Sophia Wagner, then 2 years old, and Kylie Rhoden, then five days old. Sophia, the daughter of Jake Wagner, was not at the ...

George Washington Wagner IV had been convicted on all counts for his involvement in the April 2016 murders of eight members of a southern Ohio family, ...

Family matriarch Fredericka Wagner, Billy Wagner's mother, faced criminal charges, related to her purchase of bulletproof vests, that were later dropped. In the wrongful death suit, Tony Rhoden ...

Jake Wagner, 30, and his mother, Angela Wagner, 52, testified that the family killed to protect the child, whom they were convinced had been molested by a Rhoden family member.

Last month, Wagner's defense requested the trial date be pushed back. Defense attorney Mark Collins says things came up, saying another attorney had a knee replacement and just recently received ...

George Wagner IV, 31, was found guilty of eight counts of aggravated murder in the 2016 shootings of seven adults and a teenager from the Rhoden family.

Wagner family members sentenced in 2016 killings of Rhoden family Angela Wagner, her son Edward “Jake” and her mother Rita Newcomb appeared in Pike County Court of Common Pleas on Friday.