Cut-'Em-Up Killer Sentenced To Two Life Terms

TOMS RIVER, NEW JERSEY - A Staten Island nurse convicted of murdering and dismembering two men and dumping their remains along New Jersey highways was sentenced to consecutive life sentences yesterday.
But Richard Rogers, 55, a former surgical nurse at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan, refused to explain what drove him to kill.
"You are an evil human being," New Jersey Supreme Court Judge James Citta told Rodgers as he handed him the maximum penalty in Toms River, N.J.
The judge said he hoped "that you die in some hole in some prison without ever having freedom again."
Rogers was convicted of killing Thomas Mulcahy, 56, of Sudbury, Mass., and Anthony Marrero, 44.
"He did it because he could, and because he wanted to," said Tracey Mulcahy, 32, Mulcahy's daughter, her voice breaking as she stood about 10 feet from Rogers in court.
Rogers was caught in 2001 after investigators matched fingerprints taken from the plastic bags containing the remains.
Mulcahy disappeared July 8, 1992, while in New York for a business meeting. One of the last places he was seen was the Townhouse, a gay bar Rogers frequented.
His remains were found a month later - some at a state Department of Transportation maintenance yard in Burlington County, others in a trash barrel at a Garden State Parkway rest stop.
The remains of Marreo, a gay prostitute, were found the next year near a road in Manchester, N.J., also in double-knotted plastic bags.
"We're done. Take him out of here," a visibly upset Citta told sheriff's deputies.
from The Daily News