Dayton Leroy Rogers: The Molalla Forest Killer
Early Life and Background
Dayton Leroy Rogers was born on September 30, 1953, in Moscow, Idaho, and grew up in Oregon�s Willamette Valley. By the early 1980s he was a married small-engine mechanic, but mounting debt and a lifelong pattern of violence set the stage for murder.
Modus Operandi & Victimology
Rogers cruised Portland�s 82nd Avenue red-light corridor in a blue Nissan pickup, luring vulnerable �street� women�runaways, sex-workers, and addicts�into remote timberland. Once isolated, he bound his victims with coat-hanger ligatures or dog collars, tortured and repeatedly stabbed them (often focusing on their feet because of a fetish), then concealed the bodies beneath brush.
Discovery of the Molalla Forest Dump Site
On August 31, 1987, a hunter stumbled upon a decomposed body off South Molalla Forest Road, about 30 miles south of Portland. Detectives soon uncovered six additional female remains scattered within a one-mile radius�one of Oregon�s largest homicide scenes.
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