Horrifying Details Emerge at Trial in Ohio’s Most Complex Murder Case

Two young mothers were slain as they nursed infants

Pike County massacre defendant George Wagner IV, 30, wears a stun vest as he stands with his attorneys, John Parker (L) and Richard Nash in Pike County Common Pleas Court in Waverly, Ohio, Sept. 12, 2022. Liz Dufour/The Enquirer/Pool

Among the eight homicide victims scattered across four rural Ohio crime scenes, two young women were nursing infants when they were gunned down.

The gunmen spared the babies’ lives. But, at one scene, a singularly sickening scenario unfolded, a prosecutor says.