Judge rules gay prey serial killer Richard Rogers jury will hear similar slayings
A judge ruled today that the slayings of two gay men in New York and Pennsylvania were so similar to the deaths of two dismembered bodies found in New Jersey that a jury should consider whether all four were horribly murdered by the same person. The ruling was a victory for prosecutors in their case against Richard Rogers, the former nurse accused of killing two men and leaving their body parts wrapped in double-knotted plastic bags at highway rest stops. Rogers was arrested in May 2001 after forensic scientists said they matched his fingerprints to those found on plastic bags in New Jersey containing two victims' body parts.
Gay computer salesman Thomas Mulcahy, 58, disappeared in July 1992 and his remains were found in New Jersey two days later in Woodland and Stafford. In May 1993, gay prostitute Anthony Marrero, 44, disappeared from New York and his remains were found in a bag along a New Jersey highway. Three out-of-state slayings are so similar Superior Court Judge James Citta ruled that two of the slayings, Michael Sakara, 55, of New York, and Peter Anderson, 54, of Philadelphia that jurors should be allowed to hear about them.
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