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

Wagner faces life in prison for the killings of eight members of an Ohio family, most shot in the head, including two mothers with infants lying next to them.

Jake Wagner, who said he feared his daughter might suffer abuse, testified Monday that Hanna Rhoden's comment was his "tipping point" when he decided Hanna, 19, had to die.

A custody battle between Jake Wagner and Hanna May Rhoden over the then-2-year-old daughter they shared inspired the crime, according to prosecutors. George Wagner IV entered a plea of not guilty to ...

A custody battle between Jake Wagner and Hanna May Rhoden over the then-2-year-old daughter they shared inspired the crime, according to prosecutors.

On the stand, Jake Wagner said his family falsified custody documents to get Jake’s daughter from Hannah May Rhoden — admitting that his mother Angela signed Hannah May’s name without her ...

Jake Wagner, who said he feared his daughter might suffer abuse, testified Monday that Hanna Rhoden’s comment was his “tipping point” when he decided Hanna, 19, had to die.

Jake Wagner said he met Hanna Rhoden at a 4H event at the Pike County Fair in 2010 when she was 13 and he was 17. “She asked me if I had wanted to pet her bunny,” he said.

Jake Wagner, who said he feared his daughter might suffer abuse, testified Monday that Hanna Rhoden's comment was his “tipping point” when he decided Hanna, 19, had to die.

Jake Wagner, who said he feared his daughter might suffer abuse, testified Monday that Hanna Rhoden's comment was his “tipping point” when he decided Hanna, 19, had to die.