The Wagners moved to Kanai, Alaska, from Adams County, Ohio, in June 2017, telling The Enquirer the speculation of their involvement in the Rhoden deaths drove them to move 4,107 miles.
“Really the point to moving up here was to basically get into a better environment so they wouldn’t talk about us. Sophia is getting older, so she wouldn’t hear it,” Jake Wagner told The Enquirer in June 2017, standing on the family’s front porch in Kanai. “And then it followed us here.”
Sophia is the 3-year-old daughter of Jake Wagner and victim Hanna Rhoden.
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