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EIGHT MEMBERS OF THE RODIN FAMILY, HANNAH ROMAN’S AUNT AND TWO OF HER COUSINS TOLD JURORS JAKE WAGNER WAS CONTROLLING AND ABUSIVE.
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.
Read about the first Pike County Family Massacre trial and the texts between Jake Wagner and Hanna May Rhoden.
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 and Hanna Rhoden shared a child that triggered a custody battle, which prosecutors maintain inspired the Wagners to kill the Rhodens.
Prosecutors say the Wagners planned the execution-style murders for months so Jake Wagner could have sole custody of his daughter, Sophia, born in 2015 to one of the victims, Hanna May Rhoden.
Agents with the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigations will present more evidence gathered against a man accused of killing eight people in Pike County in 2016.
Prosecutors claimed the murders stemmed from a custody dispute over the daughter of Jake Wagner and Hanna May Rhoden, one of the victims.
Wagner family members sentenced in 2016 killings of Rhoden family Angela Wagner, her son Edward “Jake” and her mother Rita Newcomb appeared in Pike County Court of Common Pleas on Friday.
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 ...
After blasting Hanna Rhoden, 19, in the head twice, Jake Wagner "rearranged her body on her bed so her four-day-old infant Kylie "could nurse if she wanted," the prosecutor told jurors.