June 16, 1950 - Richard Rogers
Operating across multiple states over roughly two decades, Rogers evaded detection in part because his crimes were geographically dispersed and forensic technology had not yet caught up to the evidence he left behind. His arrest came only after a new fingerprint recovery technique was applied to packaging used to dispose of his victims' remains — a detail that underscores how procedural advances in forensic science can close cases long thought cold. He has never spoken about the killings, leaving the full extent of his actions unresolved.
From Wikipedia
Richard Westall Rogers Jr. (born June 16, 1950), known as The Last Call Killer, is an American serial killer. After being acquitted for the murder of a college student in Maine, he moved to New Jersey, where he murdered and dismembered two gay men in 1992 and 1993. His modus operandi consisted of luring the men from piano bars in Manhattan, murdering and dismembering them at an unknown location, and dumping their bodies in garbage bags along highways in New Jersey.
Rogers was not arrested until 2001, when a new forensic technique was used to uncover his fingerprints from the bags he wrapped his victims' body parts in. Rogers was later convicted of two counts of first degree murder and two counts of hindering apprehension. He is now serving two consecutive life sentences in New Jersey State Prison and has never spoken about the murders. Along with the murders he was convicted for, Rogers is suspected of murdering several other men in several other states from the 1970s to the 1990s.
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