WAVERLY, Ohio – George Wagner IV said he had nothing to do with the 2016 murders of Pike County’s Rhoden family. Pike County Common Plea Court Randy Deering said otherwise on Monday ...

The capital murder trial of George Wagner IV in fall 2022 drew news outlets from across the country to southern Ohio for what state officials called the biggest investigation in the state’s history.

George Wagner IV was sentenced after an emotional hearing at which the victims’ family members spoke of their devastation and grief, and urged the judge to show no mercy toward a man they called ...

George “Billy” Wagner III, accused of murdering eight members of the Rhoden family in 2016 alongside the rest of his ...

George Wagner IV reportedly stared straight ahead and exhibited no emotion as a Pike County judge read the details, according to NBC News, ordering him to serve eight consecutive life sentences ...

The case against Billy Wagner is on hold at the moment because Pike County Common Pleas Judge Randy Deering is retiring next ...

Less than a month after George Wagner IV was sentenced in the 2016 Pike County massacre case, his father will appear in the same courtroom on the same charges that earned Wagner IV a sentence that ...

George Wagner IV. “Because of the wide breadth of the media coverage … we believe this county is saturated,” said Mark C. Collins, one of two Columbus attorneys representing the older Wagner.

appeared in a Pike County courtroom for a pretrial hearing Wednesday afternoon — and for the first time since his son George Wagner IV’s trial and sentencing. The hearing, which lasted five ...