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Dateline: True Crime Weekly · A mom's desperate search to find her daughter. Tears and fury in an Ohio courtroom. And the latest in the Karen Read case. · 9 Jan 2025 podcast

Here to catch us up on this case that he's been covering for years is Dateline producer Jay Young. Jay, thanks for joining us.

So the scope of this crime spree is really unlike anything a lot of us have ever seen before.

Jay, police zeroed in on the Wagner family. Who are the Wagners?

So what went wrong?

Just sounds so unbelievable.

So the Wagners alleged that the rodents were abusing Sophia, but investigators found no evidence of that.

Okay, so it took more than two years for investigators to make arrests in the case. Jake Wagner, along with his parents and older brother, were charged with multiple counts, including aggravated murder. Jay, what evidence did the prosecutors say they had against them?

So we should say that Jake's dad, Billy Wagner, has consistently denied having anything to do with the murders or any plot. He is still in custody awaiting trial. And Jake's brother also denied being a part of the plot, but he was convicted at trial in 2022. A big twist to this case, Jake and his mom, Angela, did something that surprised everyone.

They decided to plead guilty and they started cooperating with investigators.

So take us inside the courtroom last week. Who was being sentenced?

Before they were sentenced, the victims' families got to talk.

What were the sentences then?

So this all leaves Billy Wagner, the father. He was supposed to go to trial this week. What happened?

Okay, so this trial is supposed to be sometime this year?

Okay, Jay Young, thank you for breaking down this extremely horrific story and also complicated story.

Next, it's time for Dateline Roundup. We've got the latest from the courtroom as Karen Reid's defense team gears up for her second trial. And more on the new chapter in what's been called the real-life Gone Girl case. Plus, what do you need to know if you get a jury summons? We've got tips from a jury consultant.

Joining me for this week's Roundup is Dateline producer Sue Simpson. Hey, Sue. Hey, Andrea. Happy New Year. Yeah, happy New Year. So, Sue, our first story is something very familiar to both of us, the Karen Reid case. For anyone who doesn't know, she's the Massachusetts woman accused of killing her police officer boyfriend, John O'Keefe, by backing her car into him after a night of drinking.

She denies doing that, of course, and a jury deadlocked at her trial last year that you were at, Sue, every day.

Yeah, so this week, there was the second part of a hearing about something pretty crucial to the case.

Yeah, important, obviously, because Karen Reed's defense says that John O'Keefe wasn't run over. He was beat up by people at a house where she says she dropped him off. The people there at the house, they deny that. But at this house, there was a dog. She was a German shepherd named Chloe. So how did this expert do on the stand?

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