The penis eating serial killing minister
Bo Raxo
I don't know about Satan worshippers; Geragos might do better to try and
blame rogue Christians. Though not this guy, since he liked victims who
provided a special sausage breakfast for him.
Hey, we've gone weeks without a weird penis crime story, we're overdue!
Bo Raxo
http://www.showmenews.com/2003/Nov/20031119News002.asp
Grisly details cited in case of Fulton man
Affidavit questions search 'oversight.'
By JAMES GOODWIN of the Tribune's staff
Published Wednesday, November 19, 2003
New allegations against Jack Wayne Rogers describe a dark world of genital
mutilation and murder, while a delay in the search of the Fulton man's
property raises the question whether evidence could have been destroyed.
The former lay minister pleaded guilty in federal court last week to
possessing child pornography. But records filed Monday in Callaway County
Circuit Court suggest that Rogers, 58, also might have acted on other sordid
fantasies.
People interviewed by the Missouri State Highway Patrol have said that
Rogers has admitted to multiple murders and has surgically removed the
genitals of willing subjects and unwitting victims in Columbia and
elsewhere.
"Rogers called it 'communion' " when he consumed body parts of a victim,
Sgt. David Merrill, a criminal investigator with the highway patrol, wrote
in a court affidavit.
The document, which led Monday to a third search of Rogers' property and a
travel trailer at 707 Nichols St., outlines alleged acts of genital
mutilation, cannibalism and murder. But if evidence suggests Rogers
participated in any of the crimes, county prosecutors have yet to press
charges.
Merrill wrote in the 17-page affidavit that "due to an oversight and despite
the fact that I believed that probable cause existed to search . for human
remains," investigators did not look for remains in flower beds, under
paving stones or elsewhere in Rogers' front and back yards during the first
two searches.
Instead, investigators concentrated on finding the child pornography Rogers
admitted last week in federal court to possessing.
There was a three-week span between the first search of Rogers' property on
March 18 and his arrest on April 9. The gap between those searches is
provocative for investigators.
"I believe," Merrill wrote, ". that after the execution of the first search
warrant and before being taken into custody, that Jack Rogers destroyed
evidence which may have implicated himself" in the disappearance of Brandon
K. Perry, 20, of Skidmore and other "yet to be discovered crimes" as well as
the "illegal" genital surgeries.
Rogers' lawyer in the pornography case, Valerie Leftwich, declined to
discuss Merrill's affidavit. "I would have no comment on that," she said.
Investigators have seized surgical tools and other materials from Rogers'
home that could lend credibility to accounts that he performed at least one
genital surgery in Columbia.
In his affidavit, Merrill recounts the story of an unnamed man who told
investigators that he paid Rogers to surgically remove his genitals. The man
met Rogers over the Internet and later arranged to meet him in person at a
Columbia motel, Merrill wrote.
The man and his wife met with Rogers and an unnamed associate, according to
the affidavit. Rogers conducted the procedure as his associate handed him
the surgical utensils and took photos, Merrill wrote.
Investigators later found the associate, who said he had known Rogers for a
few years and had helped him perform the same operation on three other men.
"The individual told officers that the standard agreement between Jack
Rogers and individuals undergoing Jack Rogers' surgical procedures was that
Jack Rogers would retain the severed and removed body parts for his own
use," Merrill wrote. "The individual reports that Jack Rogers told him that
Jack Rogers would on occasion eat" the body parts and that "on one occasion
Jack Rogers asked if he wished to try it."
The man who underwent the procedure at the Columbia motel has identified
himself in a digital image taken from a computer confiscated in April from
Rogers' now-defunct business, according to the Merrill affidavit.
That business, Deck & Decker Personnel Service, was located in a suite at
1900 N. Providence Road. A sex chamber and a manual describing the procedure
for removing genitals were also found at the business, Merrill wrote.
Another man interviewed by state investigators said Rogers told him he "had
killed a number of individuals and that they talked frequently about Jack
Rogers' involvement in performing surgeries involving the removal of male
genitalia," Merrill wrote.
The man told investigators that Rogers once mentioned that one man had died
during such a procedure. The man also reported that Rogers said he "would
keep the teeth of victims and throw their teeth out of his car window while
he drove to hide and dispose of the body," Merrill wrote.
In his affidavit, the investigator said he sought a third search warrant for
Rogers' home to look for human remains. Police confiscated a backpack, couch
cushions and a blue plastic tub found in a travel trailer on Monday.
But an inventory of seized items makes no reference to human remains.