Rita Newcombe is somebody we've known about since the arrests were made in this case back in November of 2018.

And Rita is Angela Wagner's mother. She claimed that Angela told her that if you don't do this, they're going to hurt me.

Can you imagine your daughter is basically begging you not to turn her in?

And then you come to find out that she's essentially bringing you into a murder investigation and leaving you under the bus.

You know, a lot of times in this case, it feels like they're doing more to convict Jake and Angela than they are George.

Regarding custody of his son, what do you want you to do?

Get custody.

This is the Pights and Massacre, season four, episode 16, Relevancy.

I'm Courtney Armstrong, the television producer at KT Studios with Stephanie Leidecker and Jeff Sheaan.

We're picking up after last episode's testimony from Chris Newcombe, Angela Wagner's half-brother, and Uncle to George and Jake Wagner.

On the stand now is Chris Newcombe's partner Miranda Hughes. She opted out a video recording but allowed audio recording of her testimony.

It's important to note that George Wagner IV has pleaded not guilty on all counts. As has his father Billy Wagner, whose trial is upcoming.

Thank you, Gunner. This date would call this reunion that Hughes keeps standing.

Good morning. How are you?

There was a...

I'm very... You get that a lot from that chair.

Miranda opted out of being videotaped but allowed her verbal testimony to be recorded.

Miranda echoed much of Chris Newcombe's testimony about Jake and George Wagner's disconcerting die job.

Were there any conversations about that at that time when you saw them with their hair dyed?

Yes.

And what was that?

Well, why did they do it? And Jake said he wanted to look like... I think it's an engineer Norman Reed's.

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