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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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.