Chilling textual content messages from brutal Ohio homicide of eight folks revealed throughout trial

Chilling textual content messages showcased through the trial of an Ohio man charged with involvement within the homicide of an adversarial household revealed particulars a couple of tense dispute within the run-up to the tragic lack of life.

Texts confirmed Edward “Jake” Wagner threatening Hannah Rhoden throughout a dispute over their relationship and child. In a single trade, he threatened to take the child by power from her. 4 members of the Wagner household have been arrested in 2018 over the homicide of eight members of the Rhoden household again in 2016.

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The textual content message revelations have been learn aloud through the trial for Jake's brother George Wagner IV, 30, by prosecutors on Thursday.

“Hanna I’m telling you proper now make a selection and make it now if u do that it’s over and I’ll take Sophie and if I've to by power,” Jake texted Hannah in 2013, per The New York Submit. “I really like u with all my coronary heart if u love me and Sophie u will make the fitting selection I need u to stay with me and Sophie."

Quarreling over their daughter continued over the following two years and worsen once they cut up. Hannah was unwilling to signal paperwork to provide Jake's brother George shared custody over the kid.

“I don’t need to be with you. You harm me,” she texted him in March 2015, seemingly referencing an obvious home altercation, in response to the report.

“They must kill me first,” she reportedly later stated in a Fb message in December of that yr.

Prosecutors allege that members of the Wagner conspired over a number of months to hold out an execution-style assault on the Rhoden household. Jake and George alongside their father, George “Billy” Wagner III, and mom Anglea Wagner have been accused of murdering eight Rhoden relations on April 22, 2016.

The deceased embody Hannah, 19, her brother Christopher Rhoden Jr., 16, and different brother Clarence “Frankie” Rhoden, 20, in addition to their mother and father Christopher Rhoden, Sr., 40, and his ex-wife Dana Manley Rhoden, 37. Different victims included Gary Rhoden, 38, a cousin of Christopher, Sr. his fiance Hannah Hazel Gilley, 20, and Kenneth Rhoden, 44, the brother of Christopher, Sr.

Authorities found a lot of the victims useless from gunshot wounds and have surmised that some have been focused by the Wagners, whereas others have been killed for basically being on the mistaken place on the mistaken time. The alleged execution befell within the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains throughout 4 houses in Pike County, Ohio.

George Wagner IV is the primary of his clan to face trial. His protection has largely hinged on an argument that he was in a roundabout way answerable for the deaths and had been pressured into aiding within the homicide spree by concern of what his father may do to his brother. His father, George Wagner III has additionally pleaded not responsible and a trial will possible happen after that of his son.

Jake entered a responsible plea final yr, and confessed to killing 5 of the Rhodens. Underneath the settlement, he will not face the dying penalty if he testifies within the trial of his father and brother, per the New York Submit. Angela additionally pleaded responsible and equally agreed to assist within the case towards her son and husband.