Four members of a family were arrested today in the 2016 killings of seven adults and a 16-year-old boy in Pike County, Ohio.
Four members of the Wagner family, of South Webster, were taken into custody and charged with planning and carrying out the murders, according to a news release.
Arrested were 47-year-old George "Billy" Wagner III, Angela Wagner, 48, George Wagner IV, 27 and 26-year-old Edward "Jake" Wagner.
Early reports of the deaths describe a devastating scene in rural Pike County on April 22, 2016.
Authorities said the eight members of the Rhoden family were found shot in the head - "execution style" - and that their bodies were strewn in four different homes within kilometres of each other. Some of them were still sleeping when they were killed, authorities said.