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Forensic Files

Prints Among Thieves

Forensic Files

HLN

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.63.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

This episode originally aired May 9, 2019. The murder of an eccentric millionaire was not entirely unexpected; he flaunted his wealth and cared little for personal security. The evidence at the crime seemed to indicate robbery, but investigators wondered if there was something more.

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0:00.0

The murder of an eccentric millionaire was not entirely a surprise.

0:08.1

He flaunted his wealth and cared little about personal security.

0:12.3

The evidence clearly indicated robbery.

0:15.5

But investigators wondered if there was more.

0:28.3

Yeah. wondered if there was more. Battle Creek, Michigan, is home to one of the largest breakfast food makers in the world.

0:34.9

Some call it cereal city.

0:41.8

80-year-old Robert Rogers lived his entire life in Battle Creek.

0:47.5

Through some real estate investments and his ownership of a small trucking business, he was a millionaire many times over. He was a tough old bird. He never pulled any punches. He was always a son

0:53.6

of a bitch to me. Rogers was pulled any punches. He was always a son of a bitch to me.

0:55.3

Rogers was stubborn, too. He always carried large sums of money and didn't care who knew it.

1:01.7

He would joke that he would have several thousand in this pocket, several thousand in a pants pocket,

1:07.5

and a couple more thousand in his back pocket and he generally did not surprisingly

1:12.1

rogers became a target for local drug gangs and petty thieves he was a victim several times of robberies

1:20.5

they would take his money from him beat him up his house had been broken into a few times also so yeah, yeah, it was a problem for him, but he didn't change his pattern, it seemed like.

1:32.3

He still carried the large sums of money.

1:34.3

Sharon Zachary lived next door to Rogers and acted as his caretaker.

1:40.3

Sharon Zachary had become almost like a daughter to him.

1:43.3

She would take care of him. She would look in to him. She would take care of him.

1:44.3

She would look in on him.

1:45.7

She would come and visit him.

1:47.8

It worked out nicely until the day Sharon Zachary stopped by Rogers' home and found that it had been broken into.

1:56.8

What's the problem?

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