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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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.

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 ...

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.