On May 12, 1983, 49-year-old Bob Neal Rogers died when a fire destroyed his mobile home in Bay City, Texas. The blaze initially had unclear origins. Years later David Martin Long, born in 1953, told police he had intentionally set the fire after finding Rogers passed out from intoxication and taking most of several hundred dollars from his billfold, leaving twenty dollars to obscure a robbery motive. Long said he was under the influence of heroin and other substances and that he had ‘‘snapped.’’

Long was arrested soon after the 1983 fire but a grand jury declined to indict for Rogers’ death; no formal charges or trial followed for this case. Long later was convicted in 1986 of other murders and made additional confessions while in custody, including the admission about Rogers.

If anyone knew Bob Neal Rogers or has information about the 1983 fire, please share what you remember.