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

George "Billy" Wagner III was back in a Pike County courtroom on Wednesday for the first time in nearly a year. His lawyers ...

George Wagner IV was sentenced to serve life in prison, without the possibility of parole, on all eight aggravated murder charges and 14 related counts including burglary. The eight life sentences ...

In November, a jury found George Wagner IV guilty of 22 counts, including eight aggravated murder charges. The verdict came after less than eight hours of deliberations, ending a nearly three ...

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 ...

"However, because of the wide breadth of the media coverage of this first trial (for George Wagner IV) ... we believe that this county is saturated. It's a small residential county of viewers.

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.