'Last Call': Book Reviss Serial Slaygs of Gay Men '90s N.Y.C.

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Learn more about New York's "The Last Call Killer" Richard Rogers, who was found guilty of murrg four gay men.

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‘LAST CALL’ TE STORY: HBO DOC IS ABOUT THE SERIAL KILLER RICHARD ROGERS, WHO TARGETED MANHATTAN’S GAY BARS

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The four-part seri vtigat the stori surroundg a serial killer who targeted gay men a seri of btal murrs and dismemberments the 1990s. "Like his victims, who were bisexual and gay, Rogers is a gay man, per his trial ’s book go over some of his bgraphil tails: Rogers was the elst of five children born to a fay Plymouth, had had n-s wh the law before for siarly morbid allegatns.

HOW RICHARD ROGERS, A MILD-MANNERED STATEN ISLAND NURSE, TURNED OUT TO BE A SERIAL KILLER WHO DISMEMBERED GAY MEN

A total of four murrs were brought up at his trial, but he was only charged Thomas Mulhy and Anthony Marrero’s four victims were middle-aged, gay or bisexual men, last seen at gay bars Manhattan.

In July 1993, Michael Sakara, a gay man his 50s, left Five Oaks Piano Bar, where he was a regular, wh Rogers and was never seen aga.

WHY DID SERIAL KILLER RICHARD ROGERS DISMEMBER GAY MEN? A FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGIST WEIGHS IN

In the early 1990s, fear and mor swirled through New York’s LGBT muny about a serial killer who targeted ebriated men leavg the cy’s gay bars late at night.

WHY DID SERIAL KILLER RICHARD ROGERS DISMEMBER GAY MEN? A FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGIST WEIGHS IN

A year earlier he had separated om his wife, wh whom he had two children, after g out as a gay man. On May 3, he went to the Townhoe Bar on East 58th Street, an upsle rtrant known for havg a gay male clientele. Michael Sakara was a 56-year-old gay man who worked as a typetter for the New York Law Journal and lived Manhattan.

Though remas were found three different stat, the four s shared both murr and disposal methods and the victims f the same profile: middle-aged gay men.

FOUND MURRED AND DISMEMBERED, THE BODI OF 4 GAY MEN PUT POLICE ON THE TRAIL OF A SERIAL KILLER''

" Police told him they were actually vtigatg the murrs of four gay or bisexual men the early ‘90s, and when shown photos of the victims, Rogers said he regnized Sakara om the Five Oaks. Rogers was given that moniker bee his victims were gay men he picked up om bars.

A dismembered body belongg to puter salman Thomas Mulhy, who was seen at the Townhoe Bar, an upsle tablishment equented by gay men, set off the vtigatn. Te Crime We Bged 2022For gay New Yorkers 1991, there were still plenty of reasons to not put much fah law enforcement. Jt 22 years after clash wh police outsi the Stonewall Inn Greenwich Village opened a promisg new ont the ongog fight for LGBTQ+ rights, AIDS was cimatg the queer muny and hate crim were on the rise, no small part due to the tragilly wispread misperceptn of the vis as a gay disease and lack of unrstandg about how was transmted.

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