Six years after eight members were slaughtered in the Pike County Massacre following a bitter custody battle with another family, prosecutors revealed in opening statements that months prior to the slayings, the mother refused to sign custody papers, writing 'they will have to kill me first.' The first trial in the 2016 killings began Monday with George Wagner IV, who is one of multiple suspects accused of killing eight members of the Rhoden family in Pike County, on April 22, 2016.The fatal shootings terrified residents in a stretch of rural Ohio and launched one of the state's most extensive criminal investigations, which led to the Wagners' arrest more than two years later.
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