LOCAL : Northridge Writer Found Slain
The stabbing death of a Northridge writer is under investigation after a neighbor became suspicious when a back yard sprinkler was left running for two days and called police.
The body of Douglas Scott Rogo, 40, was found at 1 p.m. Thursday on the floor of his home in the 18100 block of Schoenborn Street.
Officers responding to the unidentified neighbor’s call, turned off the sprinkler and found a side door partially open, Los Angeles Police Lt. L. A. Durrer said. There were no signs of struggle and the home where Rogo lived alone was not ransacked, police said.
Durrer added there are no suspects nor a known motive.
Rogo was author of about 30 books on parapsychology, the investigation of psychic phenomena, police said. He worked at home in an office with shelves containing several books on telepathy, clairvoyance and other areas of extrasensory perception.
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