Prosecutors are appealing the sentence for Edward "Jake" Wagner, asking the Ohio Supreme Court for a harsher penalty.Wagner ...

Eight members of the same family were executed in a remote area of southern Ohio ... to trial after his son. In a surprise move, Jake Wagner pleaded guilty last year to multiple counts of murder ...

An appeals court will hear arguments on why the prosecution says the death penalty should not have been taken off the table ...

An Ohio man helped ... Monday in the first trial connected to the 2016 killings. George Wagner IV, 30, is accused of assisting his family in a murder plot against the Rhoden family.

George Wagner IV, 31, was found guilty on 22 counts, eight of which were for aggravated murder ... Rhoden, 38. Tony Rhoden, who is a brother, uncle, and cousin of the victims, said after the trial ...

James Manley first drove to the home of his nephew, Frankie Rhoden ... was the second day of George Wagner IV’s murder trial in Pike County Court in southern Ohio near the foothills of the ...

WAVERLY, Ohio (WCMH) — In Pike County, the first witnesses in the murder trial of George Wagner ... dispute over a child that Jake Wagner had with Hannah Rhoden. The prosecution alleged that ...

WAVERLY, Ohio (WCMH) — The Wagner family patriarch’s trial for the killing of the Rhoden family has been ... faces five charges of aggravated murder, having been accused of helping his sons ...

The first trial ... Wagner IV is charged with nearly two dozen crimes — including eight counts of murder — in connection with what’s become known as the “Pike County Murders.” It's widely considered ...

Murder of Rhoden family sent shockwaves through Ohio and beyond The trial has ... In Pike County,preparations for George Wagner IV’s trial have been underway for months. He is facing eight ...

PIKE COUNTY, Ohio — A man convicted in the killings of eight people from another Ohio family is seeking a new trial ... to the Rhoden killings, which only served to connect Wagner to criminal ...

Eight members of the Rhoden ... trial,” a lawyer for Ms. Wagner, Robert F. Krapenc, said in an interview. Image Angela Wagner in the Pike County Common Pleas Court for her arraignment in Waverly ...