FREDERICKA WAGNER MSM QUOTES:
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"...And she "passionately and fervently believes in the innocence of her son, her daughter-in-law and her two grandsons,” said her attorney, James Owen, at her arraignment earlier this month. “She’s a tough old bird and willing to express her opinions. … But right now, she’s presumed innocent.”
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"George is innocent. My whole family is innocent. That’s all I have to say. It will all come out eventually,” Fredericka Wagner said after the hearing. “He’s lost a lot of weight. But he’s strong and he’s got a strong faith in God. So have I and so did Jacob. Our whole family and we just believe, I know Christ is with him. The boys are hanging on to Jesus and that’s what we’re going to keep on doing.”
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3. A grandmother said the family has nothing to do with the murders
Investigators searched the Wagner family’s current and former Ohio property — including grandmother Fredericka Wagner’s Flying W Farm — last month.
“They have nothing,” Fredericka Wagner said Tuesday in a Dayton Daily News interview. “Their searches have turned up zilch. Nothing. And they aren’t going to either because Jake had nothing to do with it.”
A matriarch's fight: Fredericka Wagner denies charges, allegations in Pike County mass murder
Fredericka Wagner bristled at the allegations against her family.
But Wagner said "she
wonders about the accuracy of the investigation into her family,
based on the errors that she said are evident in her case."
Wagner said "she told the grand jury the
names of the people she suspected killed the Rhodens." As she spoke with The Plain Dealer, Wagner wouldn’t elaborate. But she repeatedly, and vehemently, "stressed the innocence of her family."
At one point, she pushed the issue, and said, “Go ahead and ask.” Then she responded to the question of whether her family was involved in the murders by quickly turning and grabbing the Bible and putting her hand on it.
“Absolutely not,” Wagner snapped. “
None of us was even near that place that night.”
Wagner said "her family is innocent. She said she believes that
cooperating informants provided erroneous information."
But if allegations are correct and her family did, in fact, commit the crimes, how would Wagner react?
“I wouldn’t stand up for them,” she said resolutely. “I would still love them. But I wouldn’t defend them. I wouldn’t in any way if I thought that. But I don’t believe that. "
“I believe with all my heart and soul that they didn’t do it.”