WATCH: Angela Wagner up next. She has opted "out" but we will have a feed of
#GeorgeWagnerIV and any exhibits presented
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LUNCH BREAK IN OH v.
#GeorgeWagnerIV: Angela Wagner enters the courtroom handcuffed a striped, jail outfit. She does NOT look at her son. She only glanced at George briefly as she scanned the room when ready for break
Wagner says she is 52 and has currently been incarcerated for nearly 4 years "on murder charges." Canepa: Are you guilty of planning these murders? Angela: Yes. Canepa You helped plan that? Angela: Yes. Canepa: You helped prepare for it. Angela: Yes
Angela W. says when asked "my husband, Billy, and my sons, Jake and George" took part in planning the murders. "Yes", they helped plan it and prepare for it, she says
Canepa: Suffice it to say, all four of you were involved that night? Angela: Yes. Canepa asks her q's about when she married Billy, etc. 1991. "Jacob was almost six months old" when they moved to Bethel Hill Rd.
Angela says the boys only went to public school for 2 or 3 weeks. The boys wanted to go to public school but Angela said "It was really, really crowded... I didn't think they were getting the one-on-one attention they needed.”
Boys went to diesel mechanic school in 2009-2010. The boys were "closer to me." Billy taught boys "survival skills" stealing things. Angela says they set intentional fires.
"Me, my husband and my sons knew" fires on Bethel Hill Rd. would be intentionally set. The "new house" fire: me, my husband, and my two sons. Chris Rhoden was in on that one with us.”
They burned the new house, Angela says b/c Fredericka was going sell the property. Angela seemed annoyed by this. Also, she worked at the Flying W cleaning stalls and at Fredericka's Crystal Springs House "Howver long I could take working there.”
Angela talks about the intentional crashing of George's truck after the homicides. Her half-brother, Chris Newcomb, was supposed to spilt whatever he got. He didn't. They used money from crash to pay off truck. Too expensive to repair engine work
When she worked for Fredericka, she had to work 16 hour days, 3rd shift and then take Crystal Springs clients to appointments. Angela, Billy, George and Jake shared money. "I always asked" if she was going to use one their credit cards
This is important b/c state says Angela tried to use George's Cabela's VISA to buy the signal jammer. But, the fraud dept called George and the sale didn't go through.
"Jacob" had the BassPro Rewards Card. They bought stuff using it b/c at the end of the year you got money and they used it for Christmas shopping. Angela had been convicted of receiving stolen property maybe in 2009 for shoplifting.
Angela acted as a lookout when Billy stole fuel. He also stole Rocky boots. "He stole some couches. I was there... can't think of anything else.”
Billy and Chris grew marijuana but Angela wasn't allowed in there. Billy also didn't want Angela talking to Chris Sr. because they did business together.
Billy had a pill problem. Started taking diet pills to stay awake while driving a semi. Angela and GW4 got the same pills. Tabi lived with them at Peterson Rd. She says Tabi was concerned it was taking so long to get pregnant
She had Bulvine in July 2013. Sophia born 4 months later. When asked whether she suspected Tabi poisoned them, she said adamantly "yes". "She put things in George's cherry Kool-Aid and he was sick for days.”
Angela then said "she put some kind of pill in Bulvine's baby bottle" and "she put dog hair in our coffee one time" and was laughing about it. Tabi denied these things.
Angela said she said to Jake, "Oh my gosh, Jake. There's dog hair in this coffee.”
On the night Tabi left Peterson Rd. for good "she had an episode. She would have them often. Who knows why. She was yelling and screaming and hitting the walls.”
Angela said Tabi said "give me my baby and I said, no, Tabitha. I'll give you your baby when you calm down." Bulvine would get hurt during the episodes, she says.
Angela says Tabi walked out the house and she threw a board at her. She said she told her that she was going to get a gun to "snap her out of it" but didn't plan to do anything with it and never got the gun
Angela says she and Jake went looking for Tabitha. It was dark and they saw her pushing her bike up hill. Jake and George then went to find her to try to calm her down. Angela said she told George to call the cops and let them settle it.
George met Tabi at the courthouse and paid a fine for her. Ultimately, he won custody of Bulvine and Tabitha got supervised visits by George whenever they could work out a time.
Hanna May and Jake met at the Piketon Fair. Hanna May said "do you want to pet my rabbit?" They started dating. It was serious, Angela says, way before Hanna got pregnant. Angela said she came home from work one day and Jake wanted her to buy a pregnancy test.
Angela says Dana Rhoden was upset that Hanna May took her to the clinic when she was pregnant and not Dana.
More later.
AFTERNOON BREAK IN OH v.
#GeorgeWagnerIV: "We had to protect Sophia", says Angela Wagner. She says she became concerned after Hanna started seeing other men when she broke up with Jake
