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Nov 28, 2023 · At the first crime scene, Jake Wagner wounded Chris Rhoden with a rifle as he stood outside his Pike County trailer home. Billy then shot and killed Chris and his cousin, Gary Rhoden.
Sep 14, 2022 · Authorities say the shootings of seven adults and a teenage boy stemmed from a dispute over a young girl that Jake Wagner had with one of the victims, 19-year-old Hannah Rhoden.
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Edward "Jake" Wagner, an ex-boyfriend of victim Hanna Rhoden and father of her three-year-old daughter, Sophia, pleaded guilty to all eight murders but admitted to shooting only five of the eight victims.
Sep 7, 2022 · Jake Wagner started a relationship with Hanna Rhoden when she was 13, prosecutors say. By the time Hanna was 15, Jake, who was 20 at the time, had impregnated her.
Apr 23, 2021 · Wagner pleaded guilty to killing eight people—including Hanna Rhoden, his ex-girlfriend and mother of his daughter—as the tearful surviving members of the Rhoden family looked on in court, according to The Columbus Dispatch.
- Jill Sederstrom
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Jake Wagner testified Monday that he and his family planned and carried out the murders of eight members of the Rhoden and Gilley families in 2016 because they feared his daughter would be molested. The testimony came during the trial of Wagner’s brother George Wagner IV in Pike County, Ohio.
Nov 30, 2022 · Prosecutors said Wagner and his family plotted to kill the Rhodens over a custody dispute involving Wagner’s brother Edward “Jake” Wagner and one of the victims, Hanna Rhoden, who shared...
