WAVERLY, Ohio — In a Pike County court room on Friday, Judge Jonathan Hein decided to eschew the prosecution's plea deal with Edward "Jake" Wagner and instead provide him an opportunity for parole.

The state of Ohio is looking for a harsher sentence for Jake Wagner, the Pike County man who admitted to his role in one of ...

WAVERLY, Ohio – With chilling detail and little emotion, Edward “Jake” Wagner on Monday admitted to shooting to death five of eight members of the Rhoden family in Pike County April 21-22 ...

The decision as Judge Jonathan Hein announced that Edward “Jake” Wagner could one day be released from prison left people in the Pike County Courtroom in disbelief. Jake Wagner had agreed to a ...

Two of the suspects charged in the Pike County massacre ... George “Billy” Wagner, his wife Angela, and their sons George and Edward “Jake” Wagner, were all accused in connection with ...

WAVERLY, Ohio — Jake Wagner continued testifying against his brother George Wagner IV on Tuesday, who is on trial for the murder of eight people in Pike County in 2016. He has opted out of being ...

Jake Wagner concluded his time on the witness stand on Friday, as George’s defense attorney, John Parker, resumed cross-examination in Jake’s fourth day of testimony. George Wagner IV ...

Prosecutors in the Pike County massacre case are urging the Ohio Supreme Court to review the sentencing of Jake Wagner.

The third day of Edward “Jake” Wagner testimony commenced in the first murder trial of the Pike County massacre. The 29-year-old convicted killer spent day three of testimony under cross-examination ...

Three members of the Wagner family were sentenced Friday for their role in the Pike County massacre in 2016. [DOWNLOAD: Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] Edward “Jake” Wagner ...

WAVERLY, Ohio — Three members of the Wagner family were sentenced Friday for their role in the Pike County massacre in 2016. Edward “Jake” Wagner, his mother, Angela, and his grandmother ...

Edward “Jake” Wagner, his mother ... the 2016 murders of eight members of the Rhoden and Gilley families in Pike County. Jake pleaded guilty in 2018 to the murders. In court on Friday ...