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WAVERLY, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man convicted of shooting 5 of 8 family members killed in 2016 testified against his older brother, George Wagner IV, in exchange for being spared the death penalty.
George faces the death penalty if he’s convicted in the slayings of the Rhoden family.
Jake & George’s mother, Angela Wagner, also has pleaded guilty to helping plan the slayings & is expected to testify. Jake & George’s father, George “Billy” Wagner III, has pleaded not guilty.
The 2 families had been close for years, but the Wagners became obsessed with gaining control over the child that Jake Wagner had with Hanna Rhoden, 19.
Hanna vowed in a Facebook message sent 4 months before the massacre that “they will have to kill me first.”
Jake Wagner testified that Hanna's comment was his “tipping point” when he decided she had to die.
George Wagner was with his brother & his father when they drove to 3 separate locations where all 8 victims were killed, went inside with the pair & helped his brother move 2 of the bodies.
Those killed were 40-year-old Christopher Rhoden Sr.; his ex-wife, 37-year-old Dana Rhoden; their 3 children, 20-year-old Clarence “Frankie” Rhoden, 16-year-old Christopher Jr. & Hanna; Clarence Rhoden’s fiancee, 20-year-old Hannah Gilley; Christopher Rhoden Sr.’s brother, 44-year-old Kenneth Rhoden; & a cousin, 38-year-old Gary Rhoden.
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