The Piketon Massacre: 8 Dead. 4 Crime Scenes. 1 Night. What REALLY Happened!
Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan
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🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Revisiting the Piketon Massacre, Ten years later. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the case that can best be described as: 8 Murders. 4 Crime Scenes. 1 Night. Ten years since the murders took place, eight years since the arrest of the Wagner family. The case isn't over yet.
Transcribe Highlights
00:00.09 Introduction: Timelines
05:13.71 Jake Wagner, 18 dating Hanna Rhoden. 13
10:19.50 Billy Wagner 6'6" 275 lbs
15:16.31 Forgive but don't forget
20:39.38 Toddler "mommy and daddy playing zombie"
25:05.27 Custody of Baby Sophia
30:17.03 Dark, no light, suspects had to be familiar
35:29.91 Execution of Rhoden Family
41:08.15 Vengeance and Hatred
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.7 | Quality facts with Joseph Scott Moore. |
| 0:10.8 | Professionally, I found it interesting about marking your life or timelines in your life professionally. |
| 0:22.2 | I know we do it in our private lives, that sort of thing, you know, with, you know, births and marriages and deaths and, you know, things like that. |
| 0:31.4 | But professionally, some things get, I don't know, kind of jumbled up many times. |
| 0:39.0 | You know, there are a lot of beginnings and ends. |
| 0:42.2 | Sometimes you forget about the middle. |
| 0:44.6 | At least I do. |
| 0:46.7 | But something caught my eye. |
| 0:50.2 | I guess it was probably about a month ago. |
| 0:53.4 | And it was one of those moments where he thought, wow, that happened 10 years ago. |
| 1:02.1 | And I had the privilege of commentating on this event. |
| 1:11.2 | And I'm looking back reflectively now about what I bore witness to or, you know, kind of |
| 1:18.8 | had an insight into, and it was a privilege. |
| 1:25.7 | And still, you know, I've come away, still being marked by these events in the sense |
| 1:33.8 | that I'll never forget the people and the landscapes that I bore witness to. Because those landscapes are not too different |
| 1:47.3 | than locations that I grew up in |
| 1:49.1 | and spent time even as an adult. |
| 1:51.3 | What I'm referring to is down in |
| 1:54.3 | southeastern Ohio |
| 1:56.6 | and a little place, a flee speck of a place where arguably the most brutal homicide that the country has ever witnessed brutal homicides, may I say, has ever witnessed, and certainly the largest homicide investigation in the history of the state |
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