Prosecutors say a series of texts can help explain how bitter custody battle between two young people led to a massacre that left eight people dead in rural Ohio. George Wagner IV, 30, is standing ...

What happened to the children in the 2016 Pike County massacre case? At least five were directly impacted by one of Ohio's largest-ever murder cases – an eight-victim crime in a southern Ohio county ...

WAVERLY, Ohio — Jake Wagner was in the courthouse Monday to testify against his brother as George Wagner IV's murder trial entered its seventh week. Jake opted out of being recorded by media, so his ...

WAVERLY, Ohio – With chilling detail and little emotion, Edward “Jake” Wagner on Monday admitted to shooting to death five of eight members of the Rhoden family in Pike County April 21-22, 2016. In ...

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.

WAVERLY, Ohio – Members of the Wagner family were thieves and arsonists who distrusted the justice system, the mother of George Wagner IV said Tuesday in his murder trial in Pike County. That distrust ...

Andrea Shoemaker, Hannah Gilley's mother, gave a passionate, emotional victim impact statement Monday morning ahead of George Wagner IV's sentencing."My grandson was made an orphan in one night," ...

WAVERLY, Ohio — George Wagner IV has been sentenced to life without the possibility of parole for his part in the murders of eight members of the Rhoden and Gilley families in Pike County in 2016.

Chris Rhoden, Dana Manley Rhoden and their three children – Frankie, Hanna and Chris Jr. – are buried at Scioto Burial Park in McDermott, Ohio. At least five were directly impacted by one of Ohio's ...