Jury: Send Serial Killer Back to Death Row

Portland, Ore. -- A jury recommended Friday that Oregon's most prolific serial killer be sent back to death row for a third time.

Dayton Leroy Rogers tortured and killed a total of eight women in 1987, binding them with dog collars and coat hangers, stabbing them repeatedly and mutilating them — possibly while some were still alive.

The Clackamas County jury was unanimous in its death sentences for six of those murders.

Judge Ronald Thom will decide later whether to accept the recommendation, after hearing from families of the victims.

Two previous juries had sentenced Rogers to death but the Oregon Supreme Court overturned the sentences, in one case ruling that the jury must be given the option of sentencing Rogers to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Under Oregon law, a conviction for aggravated murder requires a separate sentencing trial and jury verdict on whether to impose the death sentence, life without parole, or life with a chance for parole after 30 years.

The jury ignored Rogers' claim that he was a changed man after 18 years in prison.

No it's not a vigilante site, you are a vigilante for defending a thrice convicted murderer. We post our own opinions, not the site owner's.

I've yet to see anyone on this thread angry besides you. You got your ass handed to you by folks who deal with reality and you are living in a fantasy world.

At least the murderer whom we're talking about won't have the chance to murder an innocent again. No one here mentioned the pope.

I think God needs to help you face reality lady. You are defending a thrice convicted murderer. I actually pity you for the fool you are. It's going to be a tough life.

SZ

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The Impressions of a Man:
An Objective Forensic Guideline to Profiling
Violent Serial Sex Offenders

by
Brent E. Turvey
March, 1995

Note: Brent E. Turvey, MS is a full partner of Knowledge Solutions, LLC.
He can be reached for comment or consultation by contacting:
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Author's Note: The following paper is done out of respect for, and in addition to, the important body of work generated by the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime, at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. Also, the use of the generic term "he" to describe the violent serial sex offender is with the full awareness that a population of female serial offenders has been documented.

. . .Consider the case of Dayton Leroy Rogers of Portland, Oregon. By the late 1980s, Rogers is known to have killed eight women, all prostitutes. He had just married his first wife, when after an attack on a 15 year old girl with a knife, he was put into a sex offenders program. There, his fantasies grew and became more violent. He used narcotics, he drank heavily, he masturbated chronically, and he admits to having violent sexual bondage fantasies while engaging in intercourse with his second wife. He claims this heightened his sexual arousal. He would pick up prostitutes late at night and drive them to a remote location in Molalla forest. Once there, he would coerce them into letting him tie them up, but the nature of the bondage would be extreme and methodical. At some point he would engage in masturbatory acts with their feet. He would also torture them intermittently by slicing their feet, and biting or cutting their nipples. This would last until the early hours of the morning. According to some of the victims who escaped, he would regularly pause his assaults, leaving them in his truck to urinate outside, as he was consuming alcohol during the entire ordeal. Rogers would also script his victims by calling one of them "Maureen" after Maureen Ann Hodges, a favorite prostitute and eventual victim. Moreover, while Rogers had them tied up, tightly and painfully, he would threaten to strangle them, over and over, if they didn't verbally submit to his requests. Unless his victim could escape, he would kill them and dump their bodies in the forest. The decomposed bodies would not be found for some time, generally by hunters (King, [15]). Rogers would seek out his victims, take them to a location where he could gain control, and force them to play the object role in his fantasy.
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