Mike Rogers

Michael "Mike" Rogers was a 19-year-old male whose killing became the crime most closely associated with the legend of the "Mad Butcher of Fayette County." Online accounts describe Rogers as a ward of the state who had lived with his foster parents, the Dilleys, on Salem Road since he was about three years old. He stood roughly 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighed about 215 pounds, and people who knew him remembered him as gentle and agreeable. On the evening of December 19, 1962, Rogers told his f ...