King - Blood Lust: Portrait of a Serial Sex Killer

"Tracie screamed, 'please, this wasn't partof the deal!' Her tormentor seemed to revel in her pain, and hisbreathing became faster and heavier as he bit the teenager evenharder. She screamed again. She begged him to stop. But he becamemore brutal. There was no stopping him until he had satisfied hislust for blood."

The 16-year-old was lucky. She at leastsurvived her encounter with Dayton Leroy Rogers to detail itshorrors. But a long list of other women were not as fortunate.Their stories had to be painstakingly pieced together by policefrom the corpses on the most shocking trail of terror ever left bya serial killer.

BLOOD LUST:

PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL SEX KILLER

Gary C. King

Accolades for Gary C. King

"Using the most intimate of facts, King drawsreaders as far inside the mind of murderers as rational, moralpeople can go--the rest of the journey, thank the gods, is beyondour knowing. King's talent and faithful service does honor to thedogged truth-seekers who finally bring justice for those whoselives were stolen." Noreen Ayres, author of the Smokey Brandonmystery series.

"A page-turner for true crime fans." VincentBugliosi, author of HELTER SKELTER and THE PROSECUTION OF GEORGE W.BUSH FOR MURDER.

"Gary C. King is one of the best true crimewriters on the scene today." R. Barri Flowers, Author of THE SEXSLAVE MURDERS.

"You will never want to walk alone againafter reading this book." Dr. Maurice Godwin, Criminal Psychologistand Author.

In a serial murder case almost too ghastlyto comprehend, skilled true crime researcher (and writer) Gary C.King leads the reader deep into a world of unimaginable depravity,to meet a savage killer unlike any before him, who literally fed ondozens of helpless young womenwhose defiled bodies thensimplydisappeared. This book will jolt youa page-turner. ClarkHoward, author of City Blood and Love's Blood.

"Writer Gary C. King knows the dark side ofthe Northwest as well as anybodyan unflinching account of one ofthe most vicious reigns of terror by one of the sickest psychopathsin the annals of crime."--Official Detective

"Effective account of the worst serial killerin Oregon's history."--Publishers Weekly

Also by Gary C. King

Driven to Kill

Web of Deceit

Blind Rage

Savage Vengeance

An Early Grave

The Texas 7

Murder in Hollywood

Angels of Death

Love, Lies, and Murder

An Almost Perfect Murder

Butcher

Rage

The Murder of Meredith Kercher

Copyright Gary C. King Enterprises 2011

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For my mother and father

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank the following peoplefor their support and assistance during the writing of this book:Teresita U. King, my more than significant "other"; MichaelaHamilton, my editor, and all those involved at NAL/Dutton; PeterMiller, my agent; Sheriff Bill Brooks, John Turner, Mike Machado,W. Risley Bradshaw, John Gilliland, Lynda Estes, Jim Strovink, andeveryone else at the Clackamas County Sheriff's Department, withoutquestion the finest law enforcement agency in Oregon; RoseMandelsberg-Weiss at True Detective magazine; the courage ofMichael Fielding to come forward with his information andidentification of Jenny Smith's killer; the courageous and valiantefforts of Richard Bergio, James Dahlke, Stan Conner, CharlesGates, Kurt Thielke, and Mike Travis; all of the surviving victimswho had the strength and courage to face the juries and painfullyrecount the violence that was inflicted upon them; Don Moody, myfriend and my brother, for his inspiration and encouragement; andreporter Ray Pitz, for freely sharing his clips and notes. Last,but definitely not least, a very special thank-you to Kirsten andSarah for their continuing love, patience, and understanding fortheir father, who regrets not always having enough time for the"required" hugs and kisses.

Author's Note

This is a complex story of torture,mutilation, and serial murder, based on hundreds of hours ofresearch of police files, trial accounts, psychological reports,and dozens of interviews. The story is presented in the order thatit unfolded during the investigation for purposes of clarity and, Ihope, to enable the reader to visualize it from the investigators'perspective.

Every incident presented herein is true, andnone of the characters portrayed are fictional or are compositesfrom my imagination. Although I have elected to change the names ofseveral people to spare them further embarrassment and shame,particularly the survivors of sexual violence and torture as wellas those who had no direct connection to the crimes, I have made nofabrications; the dramatizations stand on their own. Everythingpresented here is as historically accurate as possible. An asterisk(*) appears after a fictitious name at the time of its firstoccurrence.

G.C.K.

Murder most foul, as in the

best it is;

But this most foul, strange

and unnatural.

William Shakespeare,

Hamlet, Act I, Scene 5

Whoso sheddeth man's

blood, by man shall his blood

be shed.

Genesis, IX, 6

Preface

As a detective story writer of the true-crimegenre, it was inevitable that the strange serial murder case ofDayton Leroy Rogers, also known as the Molalla Forest Killer, wouldcome to my attention. Such cases always do, but unless theinvestigative work is particularly fascinating or the crimes areinherently interesting, they don't always get written. But theRogers case grabbed my interest from the probe's outset in August1987, in part because of the lurid nature of his crimes but more sobecause of my seemingly never-ending preoccupation with trying tounderstand what creates such people or otherwise causes them to dowhat they do. Studying a cold and calculating psychopathic sexmurderer, a man addicted to power and control over others, can beunsettling at times, often disgusting, even frightening, but neverdull.

Not surprisingly the Rogers homicide probe,which came to a head in midsummer 1987, would be remembered as theworst serial murder case in Oregon's history. Before then,residents and law officers alike had never even realized that asadistic serial killer had been operating in their midst. Rogershad been slick, as such killers often are, at literally pluckingwomen off Portland's streets, some never to be seen again alive. Bythe time the authorities had Rogers in custody, the killer hadclaimed the lives of at least eight young women, allprostitutes.

Unlike those of many serial killers, Rogers'crimes were not committed over a large geographical area, withbodies scattered here and there. If they had been, and if corpseshad begun to turn up one by one, police agencies would at the veryleast have been aware that a serial killer was at work and theycould have duly enlightened the public.

They could have warned people to be on thelookout for certain characteristics, such as the killer's method ofoperation, the type of vehicles he was believed to have beendriving, and, if authorities were lucky enough to have found one ormore eyewitnesses, a physical description. The police could havetaken steps that, ideally, would have eventually led to thekiller's identification and apprehension, preferably before ratherthan after he'd chalked up such a large number of victims. Butbefore they could have even hoped of doing anything about it, thepolice needed evidence that the crimes were being