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.
Edward Wagner se declara culpable del homicidio de su exesposa y familiares
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Edward Wagner se declara culpable de los homicidios de su exesposa y 7 de sus familiares en EU
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Ohio Man Pleads Guilty in 2016 Killings of 8 in Same Family
Edward Wagner, 28, who prosecutors said had been in a custody dispute over his daughter, apologized for the Rhoden family murders.
Edward Wagner after apologizing to the Rhoden family during a court hearing in Pike County, Ohio, on Thursday at which he pleaded guilty to killing eight of their family members.Credit.Robert McGraw/The Chillicothe Gazette, via Associated Press
April 22, 2021Updated 11:37 p.m. ET
An Ohio man pleaded guilty on Thursday to eight counts of aggravated murder in the fatal shootings of his child’s mother and seven of her family members in 2016, a crime that spurred rampant speculation that it was tied to drug trafficking but that prosecutors said had stemmed from a bitter custody dispute.
Pike County murders: Jake Wagner pleads guilty in Ohio family massacre
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