Jake Wagner pleads guilty to 8 counts of aggravated murder in Rhoden family slayings
Edward 바카라 게임 웹사이트Jake바카라 게임 웹사이트 Wagner will now plead guilty to eight counts of aggravated murder in the slayings of eight members of the Rhoden family five years ago.
Five years to the day after eight members of the Rhoden family were found dead in 2016, 28-year-old Jake Wagner appeared in a Pike County courtroom Thursday, taking a plea deal.
He will plead guilty to eight counts of aggravated murder.
He also agreed to plead guilty to gun specifications, conspiracy, burglary, possession of dangerous ordnance and tampering with evidence.
In exchange, prosecutors will drop the possibility of the death penalty.
Eight members of the Rhoden family -- seven adults and a teenage boy -- were shot execution-style at four homes near Piketon, about 90 miles east of Cincinnati in rural Ohio, on April 21 and 22, 2016.
Christopher Rhoden Sr., 40; Clarence "Frankie" Rhoden, 20; Dana Lynn Rhoden, 37; Gary Rhoden, 38; Hanna May Rhoden, 19; Hannah Gilley, 20; Kenneth Rhoden, 44; and Christopher Rhoden Jr., 16, were shot and killed.
The 2016 killings went without a break in the case for months. For two years, rumor after rumor circulated as to who the killers were as the largest criminal investigation in Ohio바카라 게임 웹사이트s history unfolded.
The killings terrified local residents and spawned rumors that it was a drug hit. Authorities said marijuana growing operations were found at three of the four crime scenes. While that바카라 게임 웹사이트s not uncommon in this area, it stoked rumors that the slayings were drug-related.
Finally, in November 2018, four members of the Wagner family, a prominent Pike County clan, were arrested and charged with the murders.
In addition to Jake Wagner, others charged in the case include George 바카라 게임 웹사이트Billy바카라 게임 웹사이트 Wagner III; Angela Wagner; and George Wagner IV.
The Wagner family lived in Peebles, Ohio, at the time of the killings but later moved to Alaska, returning in the spring.
Among the victims were Jake Wagner바카라 게임 웹사이트s longtime former girlfriend, 19-year-old Hanna Rhoden, who shared custody of their daughter, her parents, siblings and other relatives. Rhoden had been in bed with her newborn when she was killed. The baby wasn바카라 게임 웹사이트t hurt.
A coroner said all but one of the victims was shot more than once, including two people shot five times and one shot nine times. Some also had bruising, consistent with the first 911 caller바카라 게임 웹사이트s description of two victims appearing to have been beaten.