Pike County massacre: Jake Wagner family hacked Hanna Rhoden’s Facebook before killing her and 7 others

Pike County massacre: Jake Wagner family hacked Hanna Rhoden’s Facebook before killing her and 7 others
Jake Wagner (L) said he loved his ex-GF Hannah Rhoden (R) but believed she was dating men who would molest their daughter (Ohio Attorney General's office and Hanna May Rhoden/Facebook)

PIKE COUNTY, OHIO: During the murder trial of the Wagner family arrested in connection with 2016 Pike County massacre of eight family members, it was revealed that the family reportedly hacked into one of their victim's Facebook before the brutal murder. The alleged bitter custody feud that started over Jake Wagner and Hannah Rhoden's daughter escalated into a chilling homicide after the Wagner family saw a message Hannah sent on Facebook over their daughter's custody.

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Jake's mother Angela Wagner who pled guilty to conspiracy in the Rhoden family's killing testified during her other son George Wagner IV's trial and said, her family decided to kill Hannah and seven of her relatives only after they saw a message where she claimed "they will have to kill me first," to get custody of her three-year-old daughter, reported WLWT5. "I won't sign papers ever. It wont happen," Hannah Rhoden wrote in a private Facebook message in 2015. “They will have to kill me first."