A custody dispute between two families that erupted into the massacre of eight people in rural southern Ohio started with a plan to kill just one of them, a young mother refusing to give up her daughter.
to shooting five of the victims, and is expected to testify against his brother as part of a deal with prosecutors that spared him from being sentenced to death.
He was with his brother and father when they drove to three separate locations where all eight were killed, went inside with the pair and helped his brother move two of the bodies, Canepa said."They knew that there might be other people there and agreed they would need to be killed too," she said."People they had no issue with, they were willing to kill them indiscriminately."
He said Jake Wagner will testify that his brother didn't take part in the planning, didn't destroy evidence and didn't shoot anyone."Everyone had a motive in this case except George," Nash said. The family had pressured Hannah Rhoden to sign away custody, but she vowed in a Facebook message sent four months before the massacre that"they will have to kill me first," Canepa said.
Several discoveries, Canepa said, led investigators to the Wagners including a shell casing found outside the Wagner's home that matched one from a gun that killed five of the victims.
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