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New York, New York--A registered Staten Island-based nurse has been charged
with the murders of Thomas R. Mulcahy, 57, of Sudbury, Massachusetts (July, 1992) and of
Anthony E. Marrero, a 44-year old hustler and crack addict who turned tricks at
Manhattan's Port Authority Bus Terminal (May, 1993).
Both victims had been dismembered. Their murders sent jitters through the New
York/New Jersey area.
The suspect, Richard W. Rogers Jr., 50, works at Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital
in Manhattan. Traced, reportedly, through enhanced fingerprint technology, Rogers
was arrested early this week while being interviewed at Headquarters by Manhattan police.
Thomas R. Mulcahy and Anthony E. Marrero were two of five cases of bisexual or gay men
murdered between 1991-1993 and whose killings have long been believed by police
to be linked.
Police in New Jersey pointed to "significant similarities in the deaths of Messrs. Mulcahy
Marrero" and authorities in other states are said to be taking a second look at unsolved cases bearing
like methods of operation. Information about the suspect is currently being shared with Maine.
All of the male victims have been middle-aged. Four were last seen in New York's gay bars.
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One dismembered body, that of 56-year-old Michael J. Sakara, a ^New York Law Journal employee,
was discovered in two Rockland County, New York locations. A second body, that Peter S. Anderson,
54, an investment banker, was divided between eight plastic bags found at a Pennsylvania Turnpike
rest stop.
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