Blood Lust: Portrait of a Serial Sex Killer by Gary C. King

Author:Gary C. King [King, Gary C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: murder, True Crime, serial killers, serial murder, gary c king, blood lust, dayton rogers, oregon, forest, portland, eugene
Publisher: Gary C. King
Published: 2011-07-22T09:00:40+00:00

Chapter 11

Unfortunately, before Clackamas County Sheriff's Detective Sergeant W. H. Burnum could interview Anna Buchanan and put two and two together to come up with Dayton Leroy Rogers as his prime suspect in Anna's case, Dayton, driving his wife's yellow Mustang, was trolling Salem's streets again. It was ironic that Dayton would add two more young victims to his growing list while Burnum and Marion County Sheriff's Detective Jan Cummings interviewed Anna on February 24, 1976.

By 3 P.M. Anna had finished relating her terrifying ordeal to the two detectives, and they had only a few more questions for her. When they walked out of the interview room at the Marion County Sheriff's Office, located in the basement of the county courthouse, Burnum and Cummings were alerted to the two new sexual assaults. The reports, taken a couple of hours earlier, hadn't even had time to filter down through the law enforcement bureaucracy. If not for the astuteness of an inquisitive deputy who recognized the similarities between the new reports and the one Burnum and Cummings were investigating, not to mention the one Burnum had already cleared involving the alleged rape of Cindy Jones, it might have taken a couple of days to reach the detectives. As it turned out, they heard about it almost immediately and scheduled interviews with the two new victims for midmorning the following day.

The girls showed up shortly past 11 A.M. and were led to the austere interrogation room. Both seemed nervous and were still visibly upset over their violent encounters with the man in the yellow Mustang a day earlier. Linda Morris,* fifteen, and Janine Phall,* sixteen, took seats next to each other, facing the detectives. Shamefaced and embarrassed, they cast their eyes downward and nervously played with their hands as they told what happened.

"I went outside my house to start my car to go to school," said Janine. "It was about 8:30 A.M. Linda called me and told me that she had missed the bus and asked if she could have a ride. But my car wouldn't start."

Janine explained that she called Linda back and told her she would walk over to her house, located in the 4100 block of Pentiction Court Northeast in Salem. She arrived at Linda's house fifteen minutes later, at 8:45 A.M. After deciding to skip their first two classes of the day, they finally left Linda's house at 10:30 A.M. and began walking to McNary High School. They got as far as the Chemawa Indian School on Chemawa Road, near where Chemawa Road crossed Interstate 5 and less than a mile from Linda's home, when the yellow Mustang fast-back pulled alongside them from behind.

"I hadn't seen him pass prior," said Janine.

"He just came from nowhere. It was pouring down rain. He asked if we needed a ride. We told him yes. After we got into the car, we told him we wanted to go to McNary High. He said he wanted to stop at Bob's Big Boy first 'cause he was hungry.

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