Prosecutors are appealing Edward "Jake" Wagner's sentence and asking the Ohio Supreme Court for a harsher penalty.

Jake Wagner said he personally shot and killed five of the eight victims: Dana Rhoden, 37, and her three children Hanna May Rhoden, 19, Chris Rhoden Jr. 16, and Frankie Rhoden, 20, as well as ...

Prosecutors have long argued that Jake Wagner and Hanna Rhoden became embroiled in a custody war over their daughter, Sophia, and Jake drew his family into the feud. BCI intelligence analyst Julia ...

"Through these witnesses, prosecutor Angela Canepa began laying the groundwork for a motive as she questioned them about Jake Wagner. He was Hanna Rhoden's ex-boyfriend and father of their ...

Jake Wagner said he shot Frankie Rhoden and his fiancée, Hannah Hazel Gilley, in one trailer home in Pike County that night. He then shot Dana Manley-Rhoden; her son, Christopher Rhoden Jr ...

Editor's note: A previous version of this story incorrectly listed Jake Wagner's age when he and Hanna Rhoden began dating. The child at the center of a custody dispute authorities said last week ...

The two families had been close for years, but Canepa described the Wagners as being obsessed with gaining control over the child that Jake Wagner had with Hanna Rhoden. The Wagner family had ...

WAVERLY, Ohio — During Tuesday's proceedings, the jury heard several secret recordings of conversations between Jake Wagner and Hanna Rhoden that Jake made purchases of items that could be used ...

Prosecutors in Ohio are pushing for a tougher sentence for Edward “Jake” Wagner, who admitted to his role in the 2016 Pike County massacre that claimed the lives of eight members ...

Confessed killer Jake Wagner took the witness stand this morning in his brother, George’s, murder trial in connection with the 2016 Pike County massacre.Jake, who avoided trial by pleading ...