Posted on 02/25/2003 2:10:14 PM PST by Coleus
Say he moved in - and killed mom
By ROBIN HAAS and RICHARD WEIR DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Houseguest Tony Sexton confessed to killing Marie Rogers on Valentine's Day.
A 33-year-old drifter has been busted for killing a Queens woman after her daughter invited him into their home - and he became the guest from hell, police said yesterday.
Tony Sexton, who claimed to be a poet, confessed to detectives how he beat and suffocated Marie Rogers, 57, on Valentine's Day, wrapped her body in a plastic couch cover and stashed it in the back of her car, police said.
Rogers' bludgeoned body was found Sunday after Sexton led cops to her car, parked several blocks from the Jamaica home she shared with her daughter, Rosanna, 33.
Rosanna Rogers said she was angry at herself for being duped into falling in love with Sexton and allowing him into their home despite her mother's objections.
"It was poor judgement, stupidity and selfishness on my part," said the daughter, who was on vacation in Florida when her mother was killed. "My mother is gone."
Rosanna Rogers, a billing clerk in Brooklyn, met Sexton in July in a Brownsville park during her lunch hour. He wooed her with his poetry, and within a month, the unemployed writer and wood sculptor persuaded her to let him move into the three-bedroom condo that she co-owned with her mom.
Rosanna Rogers' younger sister, Laurie, said Sexton became the houseguest who wouldn't leave.
She said her mother, a home health aide, quickly realized Sexton was a sweet-talking loafer who was using her daughter, the single mother of a 9-year-old boy.
"I don't know if it was her gut instinct or just seeing his true colors, but she just wanted him out," Laurie Rogers said.
She said she and her mother pleaded with her sister to show Sexton the door, but Rosanna Rogers was too smitten to let him go. She said her mother even hired a lawyer to help her evict Sexton.
Laurie Rogers said that when she began nagging Sexton to leave, he got a restraining order against her. On Sept. 21, Sexton got her arrested when she called him on his cell phone, a violation of the order.
Laurie Rogers reported her mother missing Feb. 19 after trying frantically to reached her. Two days later, her sister returned home from vacation to find her home askew and the plastic slipcover missing from the couch.
Then cops found a bloodstain on the living room carpet Saturday, and when they grilled Sexton about it, he confessed.
"I hate him at this point," Rosanna Rogers said. "He really deserves the chair."
I wonder why the reporters didn't print the judge's name?
I'd like to read that order. I think there is more to this than what's in the article. Might have something to do with Marie Rogers only being a co-owner. Rosanna Rogers must have been involved in obtaining the order.
That's her story today, but tomorrow she'll call Psychic Hotline and hear that he really really really loves her, and she'll be schlepping big cakes filled with hacksaws to jail so poet-boy can come back to her.
He didn't get a restraining order on Marie, he got a restraining order on Marie's other daughter, Laurie.
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