A woman who helped plan the 2016 slayings of eight members of another family, a crime that shook rural southern Ohio and stymied investigators for over two years.
WAVERLY, Ohio — A woman who helped plan the 2016 slayings of eight members of another family, a crime that shook rural southern Ohio and stymied investigators for over two years, says the massacre was her husband’s idea.
The slayings stemmed from a child custody dispute involving another of Angela Wagner's sons and one of the victims, authorities have said. “They’ll know, and then they come for Jake. They’d shoot him, if not all of us,” Angela Wagner said her husband told her. He also said the rest of the woman's family “had to be murdered,” she testified.
Jake Wagner pleaded guilty in April 2021 to shooting five of the victims, saying he had no choice but to kill the mother of his daughter, a toddler at the time.
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