Movement in Legal Case Against Final Wagner Family Member in Rhoden Killings
November 22, 2024 9:50AM EST
FILE – These undated file images released by the Ohio Attorney General’s office, show, top row from left, George “Billy” Wagner III and Angela Wagner, and bottom row from left, George Wagner IV and Edward “Jake” Wagner. The four members of the Wagner family have been charged in the slayings of eight members of the Rhoden family in rural Ohio two years ago. (Ohio Attorney General’s office via AP, File)
WAVERLY, Ohio (News Talk 1480 WHBC) – Eight-and-a-half years after the Rhoden family killings in southern Ohio, there’s movement in one of the still-pending legal cases.
The judge presiding over the Billy Wagner III case is threatening to remove the death penalty option since the prosecution and defense cannot come to terms on a plea agreement.
State law would not allow the defendant to plead to charges that include the possibility of the death penalty.
The two sides have until Monday to submit an agreement to the judge on a death sentence.
Wagner is charged with killing eight people in April of 2016 in the Pike County Massacre.
His wife and two sons have already been convicted.