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Prosecutors in the trial of George Wagner IV, one of the men accused of executing members of an Ohio family in 2016, called a detective to testify Monday that Wagner may have been inspired to kill based on scenes from his favorite film series, The Boondock Saints.
Screen grabs from the films were displayed in court as the case’s lead investigator, Ryan Scheiderer, laid out parallels between the films and the slaying of eight people from the Rhoden family.
Jake Wagner, who has already pleaded guilty in the murders, testified in October that he watched The Boondock Saints to “psych himself up before the killings,” reported FOX 19. Scheiderer made no mention of this statement Monday, but prosecutors referred to it during a recess in which they convinced Judge Randy Deering that Scheiderer’s testimony was relevant to the trial.
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