Dayton Leroy Rogers

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Dayton Leroy Rogers
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Background information
Birth name:	Dayton Leroy Rogers
Born:	September 30, 1953 Moscow, Idaho
Penalty:	capital punishment
Killings
Number of victims:	six confirmed
Span of killings:	1983 through 1987
Country:	U.S.
State(s):	Oregon
Date apprehended:	1987

Dayton Leroy Rogers (born September 30, 1953) is a serial killer presently residing on Oregon's death row at the Oregon State Penitentiary for three murders.

He has been tied to the murders of six women, one unidentified. His last victim was Jennifer Smith, a prostitute. She was in his truck, turning a trick, and he began to stab her in the legs and vagina before she fell out of the truck. Two men eating at a Denny's saw the scene.

His modus operandi was to pick up prostitutes and take them to secluded areas. He took at least six of them into the forest where he cut their feet off with a hacksaw, some while still alive.

He was married and had a child. He was an auto mechanic by trade and he was deeply in debt. He was connected to the bodies due to his habit of drinking vodka out of the little bottles similar to alcohol bottles found on airplanes, and pouring them into an orange juice bottle to make a screwdriver. Rogers was convicted in May 1989 for all six murders.^[1]