WAVERLY, Ohio – Throwing out an earlier agreement that would have imprisoned Edward "Jake" Wagner for the rest of his life without parole, the judge in the 2016 Pike County massacre case on Friday ...

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 ...

WAVERLY, Ohio – Throwing out an earlier agreement that would have imprisoned Edward "Jake" Wagner for the rest of his life without parole, the judge in the 2016 Pike County massacre case on ...

Jake Wagner pleaded guilty in 2018 to the murders of eight members of the Rhoden and Gilley families in Pike County. He was in court Friday, Jan. 3, 2025. WCPO/CONTRIBUTED ...

Jake Wagner had agreed to a life sentence without parole after a deal that was approved by now-retired Pike County Judge Randy Deering. Judge Hein says that deal is not binding.

Following Wagner IV’s conviction this week, officials acknowledged the trial to come. “We got one more to go,” said Al Lewis, who led the Pike County Sheriff’s Office involvement in the case.

Angela Wagner, accused of conspiring to kill eight family members in what has become known as the 2016 Pike County, Ohio, massacre case, said in testimony that the murders were her husband's idea.

The youngest son of a rural Ohio family already convicted for his role in the murders of eight people over a child custody dispute has finished testifying against his older brother in the case. Edward ...

This Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2018, file photo shows Edward "Jake" Wagner entering the courtroom for arraignment in front of Judge Randy Deering at the Pike County Courthouse in Waverly, Ohio.

The trial of George Washington Wagner IV resumes Friday, October 28, 2022 at the Pike County Common Pleas Court in Waverly, Ohio. Eight members of the Rhoden family were found shot to death at ...

Hello from Pike County, Ohio. Day 31 of #GeorgeWagnerIV 's murder trial is about to begin. This morning's media access hearing did not go in our favor w/ regard to Jake Wagner's testimony. But the ...

Convicted killer Jake Wagner continues with his highly-anticipated testimony against his brother in the continued courtroom saga in Pike County. George Wagner IV, 30, is the first of four family ...