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Prosecutors are appealing Edward "Jake" Wagner's sentence and asking the Ohio Supreme Court for a harsher penalty.
“We got one more to go,” retired Pike County Sheriff’s investigator Major Al Lewis said of Billy Wagner, according to WCPO. “He’s next. We’re gonna win that one, too.” The case was covered by Oxygen’s ...
PIKE COUNTY, Ohio — For the first time in more than six years, George Wagner IV is sharing his account of what happened in the time before and after the deaths of eight members of the Rhoden ...
A dispute over which recordings of the Wagner family from 2018 wiretaps led to ... Billy Wagner’s trial is expected to be held in Pike County next year. Custody and control over the then-2 ...
The mother in the Wagner family — all of whom were accused ... However, they were all released and drove back to Pike County, where they stayed for a week, and then drove back to Alaska. That's where ...
An Ohio man accused of conspiring with his own family to execute eight members of a rival family – including his child's mother -- testified Monday that he "had no other choice" over fears his ...
Jake Wagner, took the stand Monday to testify against him and link him to the Pike County massacre six-and-a-half years ago. Jake agreed to testify as part of his plea deal in 2021, when he ...
Understanding the Pike County massacre Armer says she ultimately had a showdown with the family after Angela Wagner accused her ... she called a friend in Alaska to help her escape because she ...
Elizabeth Armer, who married Wagner IV's brother Jake in March 2018 after the family moved to Alaska, took the stand Friday. She read from a journal she kept during the three months she lived with ...
PIKE COUNTY — Elizabeth Armer, the woman who married Jake Wagner in Alaska and moved back with the family to Ohio, took the witness stand Friday, describing her time living in the family’s ...
The trial is in its sixth week at the Pike County Common Pleas ... Bugs were put in the Wagner family’s vehicle they used to travel between Ohio and Alaska, where they had moved in the years ...