WAVERLY, Ohio — George Washington Wagner IV, one of the people at the center of eight coldblooded killings that devastated a southern Ohio family, was sentenced Monday to an equal number of consecutive life sentences with no chance of parole.
Wagner, 31, stood with his hands in the pockets of his jeans and his head tilted down as Pike County Common Pleas Judge Randy Deering imposed the sentence, which included another 121 years imprisonment on lesser charges.
“The court finds no remorse has been shown, only denial,” Deering told Wagner, who took the stand in his own defense late last month and testified he knew nothing about his relatives’ 2016 plot to kill members of the Rhoden family over the custody of a shared child.
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