Pike County Murders

“This case is so very haunting,” forensic expert Joseph Scott Morgan told Oxygen.com.

A former in-law of the Wagners, the family accused of killing the Rhodens, says that Jake and George Wagner's grandmother "would spoil them all the time."

The Pike County murders shocked a small Ohio town. Were they drug-related?

Oxygen's three-part documentary series dives deep into what led up to eight members of the same family being brutally murdered execution-style.

With eight members of one family shot dead and another family later arrested, the sprawling interpersonal ties of the Rhoden and Wagner families boosted interest in the case. 

The murder trial for George “Billy” Wagner III has been delayed multiple times, but is now set for 2024, eight years after the Pike County massacre. Here's where his case stands.

Oxygen True Crime's two-night special event investigates the lawlessness that ended eight lives and showed that small towns can harbor big secrets.    

The brutal murders of the Rhoden family in Pike County are explored in the new series premiering on Oxygen True Crime this Winter.

Loved ones read victim impact statements before George Wagner IV was sentenced to life plus 121 years for his role in the 2016 slayings that left eight people dead. 

George Wagner IV is one of four family members accused of the 2016 execution-style murders of a rival family in rural Ohio. Although he isn't believed to have ever pulled the trigger, a jury found him guilty of 22 criminal charges, including eight counts of aggravated murder. 

George Wagner IV claims he took no part in the murders of eight people in rural Ohio, as allegedly plotted out by his parents and younger brother. 

Angela Wagner, who has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder and other charges in the death of eight members of the extended Rhoden clan in Pike County, Ohio, was cross examined by her son, George Wagner IV's, lawyers.

The matriarch of the Wagner family — who are accused in the murders of eight members of the extended Rhoden family over a child custody dispute — took the stand at her son George Wagner IV's trial.

After five days of testimony against his brother, George Wagner IV, for the murders of eight member of the extended Rhoden clan in 2016, Jake Wagner was dismissively excused by George's lawyer.

In yet another day of testimony, convicted murderer Jake Wagner testified that his decision to confess to the slayings that left eight people dead was "an answer from God" inspired by his grandmother. 

Jake Wagner testified that he fatally shot Hanna May Rhoden — the mother of his then-3-year-old daughter — as she breastfed her days-old newborn. 

Prosecutors say a custody battle between Edward "Jake" Wagner and victim Hanna May Rhoden prompted four members of the Wagner family to ambush and kill seven members of the Rhoden family and one victim's fiancée.

Tabitha Claytor told jurors that her former mother-in-law, Angela Wagner, interfered with the defendant's sex life and in the custody of their young son. The claims are similar to the alleged motive behind the 2016 murders that left eight dead in rural Ohio.

The murder trial of George Wagner IV continues after testimony that the defendant's brother, Edward "Jake" Wagner — who previously pleaded guilty in the case — allegedly threatened to chop off the legs of one of the victims. 

During the opening statements of George Wagner IV's trial, prosecutors contend that the Wagner family meticulously planned the slaughter of eight members of the Rhoden family for months as part of a bitter custody feud.