13 O’Clock Episode 440: The Pike County Massacre

23 Jan 2025 / Jenny Ashford / Leave a comment

The Pike County massacre refers to the grisly killings of eight members of the Rhoden family in rural Pike County, Ohio, on April 21-22, 2016. The victims, spanning three generations, were shot execution-style at four separate homes, sparking one of Ohio’s largest murder investigations. The case involved family disputes, custody battles, and accusations of premeditated violence. In 2018, four members of the Wagner family—George “Billy” Wagner III, Angela Wagner, and their sons, George Wagner IV and Edward “Jake” Wagner—were charged with the murders. Authorities alleged the Wagners meticulously planned and carried out the killings due to a custody conflict over Jake Wagner’s daughter with one of the victims, Hanna Rhoden. The investigation involved extensive evidence, including surveillance footage, firearms, and forensic data. Jake Wagner eventually pleaded guilty in 2021, admitting his role in exchange for avoiding the death penalty, and implicated his family members. Trials for the others, including George Wagner IV, followed, drawing national attention.

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Episode 285 LIVE: James Ruppert and the Easter Sunday Massacre

3 Feb 20224 Feb 2022 / Jenny Ashford / Leave a comment

It was Easter Sunday, 1975, in Hamilton, Ohio. The Ruppert family was spending it as many families did, preparing a festive meal in the kitchen and having an Easter egg hunt on the front lawn. Suddenly, unassuming James Ruppert, who had spent the previous night drinking in his favorite bar, emerged from an upstairs bedroom bearing several firearms, and began to open fire on his celebrating family members, ultimately killing eleven people, including several children. What made this supposedly quiet man snap and wipe out his family? Join Tom and Jenny on this disturbing tale of mass murder on a tragic and terrifying episode 285.

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13 O’Clock Episode 85 – The Clutter and Walker Family Murders (In Cold Blood)

3 Apr 2018 / Jenny Ashford / Leave a comment

Returning to the true crime fold with perhaps the best known of all the infamous multiple murders in American history, this episode of 13 O’Clock sees Tom and Jenny examining the brutal slayings of the Clutter farm family in Kansas, the crime on which Truman Capote based his classic book, In Cold Blood. Besides discussing the crime itself as well as the book that was written about it, we also delve into a far less known family massacre, that of the Walkers in Florida in 1959, which may or may not have been committed by the same men who killed the Clutters. All this, plus a couple of weird news stories about the Romanian living dead, and why you should probably look at your cashews before popping them in your mouth hole. Lock your doors and gird your loins for a grim, grisly, and gore-soaked episode 85.

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Clip at the beginning taken from the movie In Cold Blood (1967).

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