George “Billy” Wagner III is due in Pike County Common Pleas Court at 1 p.m. Wednesday for a pre-trial hearing. The hearing is the elder Wagner’s latest in the Pike County courthouse since ...

A judge has dismissed the possibility of the death penalty against Billy Wagner in the Pike County massacre trial.

Just ahead on that road waits the fourth and potentially final defendant in the Pike County case ‒ George “Billy” Wagner III. Billy Wagner, 51, was arrested along with Wagner IV and other ...

Billy Wagner has been in jail awaiting trial following his arrest in November of 2018. He’s the final defendant to stand trial in the Pike County family massacre. Over the years, his case has been ...

Billy Wagner, like his wife ... focused on Billy's defense attorney's request that his trial be moved out of Pike County, citing an unlikeliness to be able to seat an unbiased jury, particularly ...

"That's the most important thing."One year ago, defense attorneys asked then presiding Judge Alan Corbin to move Billy Wagner's trial out of Pike County, saying the case had generated a huge ...

George "Billy" Wagner III is led out of the courtroom after a pre-trial hearing in Pike County Common Pleas Court in Waverly, Ohio, on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023. Wagner III entered a plea of not ...

Early Friday, authorities brought Billy Wagner from his holding cell in Butler County to Waverly, in Pike County, for his latest court hearing. Wagner, 53, faces eight counts of murder in ...

PIKE COUNTY, Ohio (WXIX) - The change of venue request filed by Billy Wagner’s defense team has been granted, according to online court filings. George “Billy” Wagner III, 53, is the lone ...

WAVERLY, Ohio (WXIX) - Motions for a change of venue in the trial of George “Billy” Wagner in the 2016 Pike County Massacre case have been denied, court records say. The documents state that ...

PIKE COUNTY, Ohio (WXIX) - George “Billy” Wagner III was back in court Monday as the judge hearing the case heard arguments for and against moving the case. The Wagner defense team told ...

WAVERLY, Ohio — George “Billy” Wagner III, likely won’t see trial ... The retired Brown County common pleas judge was assigned the Pike County murder cases by the Ohio State Supreme ...