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

Prosecutors in Ohio are pushing for a tougher sentence for Edward “Jake” Wagner, who admitted to his role in the 2016 Pike County massacre that claimed the lives of eight members ...

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

To her lawyer, she’s a God-fearing, tax-paying Pike County business owner who is being wrongly accused in helping her family ... gazing toward Wagner land. “Do you know who murdered us ...

Jake pleaded guilty to aggravated murder, conspiracy ... occurred at three trailers and a camper near Piketon. Prosecutors alleged the Wagner family planned the killings for months, motivated ...

Rita Newcomb, of South Webster, is escorted into Judge Randy Deering's Pike County courtroom in Piketon ... in the murder of the Rhoden family in 2016. Credit: AP/Robert McGraw Wagner told ...

The fatal shootings at three mobile homes and a camper near Piketon in ... Edward “Jake” Wagner, pleaded guilty to aggravated murder and other charges and agreed to testify against George and their ...

Or, with the Piketon murders especially ... and Hanna lived with the Wagner family for awhile before she and Jake broke up. "We believe that the Wagners conspired together to develop an elaborate ...

In 2018, numerous members of the Wagner family were arrested in connection with ... drives down Union Hill Road towards a roadblock at the outer perimeter of a crime scene, Wednesday, April 27, 2016, ...