The Piketon Massacre - The Trial of Billy Wagner
Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan
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🗓️ 4 December 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
The Piketon Massacre happened when 8 members of the Rhoden family were wiped out in one night at four different locations. Billy Wagner, the patriarch of the Wagner family, and the accused leader of the murderous rampage, is finally going to trial next month. With 8 murders and four crime scenes, Joseph Scott Morgan has a lot to explain. He will take you inside the trailers and talk about how forensic evidence was damaged by law enforcement. As in all cases a person is innocent until proven guilty and Billy Wagner continues to plead not guilty to all 22 charges including eight counts of aggravated murder from the execution-style slayings of his son’s ex-girlfriend and seven of her family members in April 2016.
Transcript Highlights
00:02.98 Introduction
02:12.91 The Piketon Massacre
05:32.43 Who Could have pulled off killing 8 people in one night
10:04.49 Killer lays baby next to dead mothers' breast so he wouldn't go hungry
15:02.77 Billy Wagner trial coming up next year
19:53.21 Wagner's in Alaska,, woman escapes in fear
25:02.16 Baby Sophia was not in trailer, she was with grandmother
30:08.95 Billy Wagner had moved away from family
35:09.77 So many oddities in the Piketon Massacre
40:13.85 How will Billy Wagner be defended
42:33:26.Conclusion
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