I have often wondered if it was related to this:
Canepa said Jake Wagner pressured Rhoden to put his name on her second child's birth certificate, even though he was not the father.
Prosecutors in the Pike County massacre case laid out new evidence to paint the Wagner family as a "criminal enterprise" during a hearing on what could be allowed at trial Monday, including that the family allegedly took a vote to commit the murders and then set up a fake drug deal as an ambush.
www.wcpo.com
Either way, in my opinion, I believe it was as close to the date she came home from the hospital as possible. She did bring another child into this world. That child WAS NOT Jake Wagners, and I feel the Wagner ego and mind was not willing to accept that. I feel HR made it clear (in her own way) that she was not property, and no one would own her. Her body, and the fruits it would be used for were not Jake or Angela’s to control.
I have often wondered about the timing of the murders also, according to Canepa:
Canepa said she (Hanna) signed her death warrant by saying she would never sign, "they will have to kill me first."
And Canepa said that when Angela showed this Facebook messenger conversation to Jake they killed her only 4 months later.
I think the timing was simply based on when they were ready to do it. I mean once they decided to do it they started preparing and bought the murder kit items and then when they were ready they made sure Hanna had delivered her baby, not wanting to kill her while pregnant.
So they were ready to do it as soon as Hanna got home from the hospital and then set up the fake drug deal with Chris as well as spying on the Rhodens making sure they were home that night.
So I think it was, ok, let's vote on this, ok, we are going to do it, let's start getting ready then do it as soon as possible. As soon as possible was right after Hanna had her baby. They specifically picked the time right after Hanna had her baby because they were ready at that time to do it.
They saw the Facebook message, voted, planned, then did it as soon as they could. The soonest they could do it was after Hanna had her baby.
If Hanna had not been pregnant they probably would have done it sooner.
But we don't know for sure how much of Hanna's being pregnant with another man's baby influenced their vote to kill her. Had she never gotten pregnant would it have made a difference?
This was about her not signing any papers for Jake's daughter, it wasn't about the new baby, so I think they would have killed her anyway. Possibly sooner.