For the majority of the 8 million residents of New York City, May 28, 2001 was a day like any other.

Rain covered the island of Manhattan as the twin towers the highest structures on the horizon looked out over the city.

At Mount Sinai Medical Center on the upper east side of Manhattan just steps away from the historic Central Park and Madison Avenue.

New York police officers approached one of the long time nurses in the middle of his shift.

At that moment, Richard Westall Rogers Jr. was unaware that a task force from New York, New Jersey,

in Pennsylvania had been tracking him for three weeks.

And Richard did not know that eight years of investigation and advancements in

forensic technology had finally identified his fingerprints on green

garbage bags found on the side of the road in all three of those states,

garbage bags containing the remains of four different men.

Perhaps Richard Rogers believed that enough time had passed. Perhaps his experience with the law thus far had made

him believe he would and could get away with anything. After all, Richard Rogers had been

on trial before, for murder even, and he got off scot-free.

But his arrest for that confessed killing would eventually play a big role in finally

tracking him down 28 years later.

I'm Kylie Lowe and these are the stories of Peter Stickney Anderson, Thomas Mulcagee, Anthony

Edward Morero, and Michael Secara, on Dark Down East. Richard Westall Rogers knew that Orrno-main was a small town in the middle of a close-knit state.

After he confessed, but then was acquitted for the murder of his roommate Frederick

Alan Spencer Richard disappeared from Maine to create a new life.

Though Rogers had pursued the study of French in both his undergraduate and graduate education,

something seemed to change for him.

Rather than returning to the occupation or locations that he had previously known, like his childhood home in Massachusetts,

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