Rogers Reportedly Speaks of 70 Victims

Suspected serial killer Glen Rogers told--or joked with--an investigator that he killed as many as 70 people, a television station reported Friday.

In an affidavit obtained by WTVQ-TV in Lexington, Kentucky State Police Detective Robert G. Stephens said he and Detective Floyd McIntosh interviewed Rogers on Monday, after Rogers was arrested following a chase by state police officers.

“I advised him that we were looking at him concerning the murder of five people, and we had five bodies,” Stephens wrote in the affidavit, which was submitted to a judge to obtain a search warrant.

Stephens said Rogers told McIntosh “that’s it’s more like 70 bodies, and laughed as he said this.”

Police already suspect Rogers, 33, of killing four women--in Van Nuys, Jackson, Miss.; Tampa, Fla., and Bossier City, La. Rogers also is wanted for questioning in the slaying of his roommate, Mark Peters, 73, of Hamilton, Ohio, in 1993.

He was indicted Thursday on Kentucky charges of first-degree wanton endangerment and criminal mischief stemming from a chase with police before he was arrested. A hearing is expected next week, although the date had not been firmly set on Friday.

The detective’s affidavit was to justify a search warrant seeking hair and blood samples from Rogers, and authorization to search the car Rogers was driving when he was arrested.

The Preble County (Ohio) Sheriff’s Department said Thursday that Rogers’ first victim may have been Kelly Ann Camargo of Hamilton, Ohio, the Dayton Daily News reported Friday.

Camargo’s decomposed body was found in Camden, Ohio, in September, 1993, two weeks after she was last seen getting into a car with a stranger outside a Hamilton bar. Preble County Sheriff Tom Hayes said an investigation began this week to explore any link between Camargo’s death and Rogers.

“We’re going on the information that he was from Hamilton and she was from Hamilton, and it was reported that he picked up his victims in bars,” Hayes said.

Peters was reported missing Nov. 1, 1993, two months after Camargo’s body was found, Hamilton Detective Dan Pratt said.

Rogers and Peters, who had been roommates for several months, were seen together shortly before Peters disappeared sometime between Oct. 18 and Nov. 1, according to a missing person report.

Peters’ decomposed body was found wrapped in a sheet and tied to a chair in a Kentucky cabin that Rogers’ family owns, in the same area where Rogers was arrested last week.