✝️ Maureen Ann Hodges, age 26 – July 7 1987, Portland, Oregon, USA 🇺🇸💔
Maureen was mother of a five year old son and addicted to drugs.
She was murdered by serial killer Dayton Leeroy Rodgers („The Mollala Forest Killer“)
VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT FROM IRENE JAMES
I am the mother of Maureen Ann Hodges. Maureen was my only child. She was brutally tortured and murdered by Leroy Dayton Rogers.
Even though Maureen’s remains were buried in Molalla after Mr. Rogers severed her feet and murdered her, we will never know the exact extent of the additional torture he inflected upon her. We know that he had to bring the young women where no one could hear their screams.
I spent nearly 100 days in court hearing of the worst pain anyone could do to another human being. Women who escaped his “executions’ told of the torture and pain he continually caused them until they escaped.
If Maureen were still alive, she would be 54 years old. She was just 26 years old when the worst nightmare that could happen to a human being was inflicted upon her. She has been dead for 28 years.
Maureen had a five-year-old son when she was murdered. He will never get to know his mother and she will never get to know her wonderful 10-year-old grandson. All our lives are impacted by the absence of Maureen. (Full Statement)
An all-woman jury took six hours to convict Dayton Leroy Rogers of Molalla Forest torture slayings of six prostitutes. The Clackamas County Circuit Court jury convicted Rogers on all 13 counts of aggravated murder, aggravated felony murder and felony murder. He was charged with killing the women during the course of kidnapping, intentional torture and, in one case, sexual abuse.
On November 16, 2015, a Clackamas County jury sentenced Rogers to death for the fourth time. According to his defense attorney, Rogers would have waived all future appeals and allocuted to his crimes in exchange for a true life sentence instead of the death penalty.
On November 12, 2021, his death sentence was overturned for the fourth time. This was due in part to a new law signed by Governor Kate Brown, which limited the amount of aggravating factors required for seeking the death penalty. On December 13, 2022, Governor Kate Brown commuted the death sentences of everyone on Oregon’s death row to life without parole.
Rogers is currently incarcerated at Two Rivers Correctional Institution in Umatilla.
