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WAVERLY — George Wagner IV, one of four being charged in the 2016 Rhoden Murders, returned to the Pike County Courthouse for a lengthy motion hearing on Tuesday.
WAVERLY Sometime in the next few days, Tony Rhoden will climb into his pickup truck and drive out to Scioto Burial Park to freshen up the flowers in the vases on his family’s headstone and spread some mulch around its concrete base.
He stops here often, where one of his brothers and a sister-in-law, two nephews and a niece all are buried side by side. But this next trip? This time it will be different. Because he’ll have some news to share while there.
In a stunning and last-minute development that shocked a packed courtroom, Wagner pleaded guilty Thursday to 23 charges, including eight counts of aggravated murder. He has been cooperating with investigators and has agreed to testify against his parents and older brother, who also are charged in the killings.