Sep 21, 2020 · Charles H. Knight, the attorney for George Washington Wagner IV, said in the motion that he wants to retire and the state has informed him that the trial will not happen for at least another year....
Feb 02, 2022 · Published: Feb. 2, 2022 at 6:21 AM PST. CINCINNATI (WXIX) - A new trial date of Aug. 29 has been set for the eldest Wagner son in the Pike County Massacre case. In December, Judge Randy Deering ...
Nov 25, 2018 · For those reasons and to the relief of many in the community, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine stepped in & took over the case with the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation who had 90 agents assigned to the case, a quarter of the agency’s manpower.
Nov 14, 2018 · Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, now governor-elect, said that the case involved an "obsession" with custody and control. The Rhodens were found dead in four separate homes on the farm. Autopsies...
Sr., was shot three time in the head. Next-door to Chris Sr, were the bodies of Frankie Rhoden and Hannah Gilley. Frankie was shot three times, however, Hannah was shot five times in the face and head. Their infant son Ruger, was found alive in between his dead parents by Bobby Jo Manley.
Between the late evening hours of April 21 and early morning hours of April 22, 2016; eight members of the Rhoden family were executed at four separate residences just outside the village of Pebbles, in Pike County , Ohio.
Jake Wagner was a long-time former boyfriend of victim Hanna Rhoden and shared custody of their daughter, Sophia, at the time of the massacre. Sophia, now 5 years old, was not present at the crime scenes in 2016. Wagner was also charged with unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, for allegedly having a relationship with Rhoden when she was 15 ...
The Rhodens were found massacred on their family property, where authorities found evidence of marijuana "grow operations.". The crimes occurred in three mobile homes on Union Hill Road and at another home a few miles away, a spokesperson from the attorney general's office told NBC News.
The Wagners were indicted by a grand jury on more than 80 criminal counts, including eight counts each of aggravated murder with death penalty specifications, authorities announced at a Tuesday afternoon news conference.
Parents George "Billy" Wagner III, 47, and Angela Wagner, 48, and their two sons, George Wagner IV, 27, and Edward "Jake" Wagner, 26, were arrested by the Pike County Sheriff's Office on accusations they planned and carried out the murders of eight members of the Rhoden family in April of 2016.
Ohio BCI investigated Bobbi Jo and James Manley for the murders. James was arrested and charged with tampering with evidence in 2017 after he smashed a GPS tracking device state agents had placed on his truck. At the time, their father, Leonard Manley, said the agents had claimed James failed a polygraph exam.
Manley and her brother, James Manley, found six other members of their family shot. Frankie Rhoden and his fiancée, Hannah “Hazel” Gilley, were shot in the head in their bed. Their 6-month-old child was in the bed with them covered in blood. Frankie’s toddler son was covered in blood as well and answered the door when Bobbi Jo approached.
The little girl is now 7 years old. Jake Wagner sought full custody of the child days after ...
Five years to the day after eight members of the Rhoden and Gilley families were found murdered execution-style as they slept in rural Ohio, one of the men charged with the killings admitted he and his family committed the crimes.
Jake Wagner had been scheduled to go to trial in late August. He remains in custody at the Franklin Co. Jail in Columbus, Ohio. Wagner’s guilty plea to eight counts of aggravated murder will take the death penalty off the table.
In November 2018, then Attorney General Mike DeWine announced the Wagners had been indicted on conspiracy charges and eight counts of aggravated murder. DeWine said at the time that the Wagners were obsessed with “control and custody” of children.
Any small town will naturally be rocked by the murder of one of its own, but the massacre in Piketon, Ohio, which left eight people (seven members of the Rhoden family and one fiancée) dead and led to the arrest of six members of another family, garnered attention nationwide. The brutal nature of the crime — the family was shot to death ...
In 2018, four members of another family, the Wagners, were arrested for the killings. Two other Wagner family members would also be arrested and charged with obstructing justice and perjury. One of the victims, Hanna Rhoden, 19, shared a young child with ex-boyfriend Jake Wagner, who was one of the Wagners arrested for the murders.
Seven members of the Rhoden family and one fiancée were shot to death in April 2016. Here is a look at some of the evidence and motives law enforcement explored during the course of their investigation. Watch the Full Episode. Any small town will naturally be rocked by the murder of one of its own, but the massacre in Piketon, Ohio, ...
And despite Wagner and his mother telling the Cincinnati Enquirer that the custody agreement was amicable, family members like Leonard Manley, Dana Rhoden’s father, had a different point of view. Manley said the custody over Hanna and Jake's child actually caused an argument before the murders occurred, according to news outlet Local 12.