The trial for a man accused in the killings of eight people from another Ohio family will be moved to a different county, a judge ruled Monday.
George “Billy” Wagner III, who has pleaded not guilty in the killings, is the last of four family members facing charges in the 2016 fatal shootings of seven adults and a teenager from the Rhoden family in southern Ohio.
Judge Jonathan Hein agreed to Wagner’s request to move the trial. “The small population of Pike County and the intense media coverage leads the court to conclude that no jury could truthfully answer that they have no prior knowledge of the horrendous facts of this case,” he wrote….