A spokesman also said neither Trout nor Pike County Sheriff Charles Reader, who is on suspension pending the resolution of criminal charges against him, had testified before the grand jury that indicted the four members of the
Wagner family in November and charged them with eight counts of aggravated murder in the deaths of Rhoden family members.
“Over 30 law enforcement agencies inside Ohio and nearly two dozen law enforcement agencies from 10 different states, along with federal partners and Canadian authorities assisted with the Pike County investigation — a review of the agent’s work in a different role after the (Rhoden) investigation completed has no bearing on the pending cases brought against the Wagner family,” the attorney general’s office said in a statement Wednesday afternoon.