Man blames girlfriend's threesome for murder
Monday, Oct. 6 2008 @ 9:02PM
Mack Ray Edwards was a monster. He was the boogeyman, the creature with a human form that your parents tried to warn you about.
When he was arrested by the LAPD in 1970, Edwards confessed to six murders. All the victims were children. All were molested prior to death.
Police recovered 3 bodies. Edwards pleaded guilty to killing Stella Nolan, Gary Rochet and Donald Todd and headed off to death row.
I guess the s.o.b. lost his patience with the system, though. Edwards killed himself on the day before Halloween in 1971.
Three of Edwards's victims were never found, and though it's been nearly 40 years, police in California today began the process of trying to recover one of them.
LA Weekly's "LA Daily" blog reports that "dozens of law enforcement and forensic experts" began digging today to try and find whatever may be left of Roger Dale Madison. Investigators believe that Mack Ray Edwards killed the 16-year-old and then buried the teen's body near the 23 Freeway in Moorpark, CA. They're focusing on an area where "four corpse sniffing dogs" have alerted to what may be buried human remains. The assembled techs and cops are also using ground-penetrating radar to try and zero in on anomalies that might indicate a given body's location.
The dig in Moorpark may last as long as 10 days, and as Christine Pelisek writes in her post, titled "Body Dig Underway for Boy Who Disappeared 40 Years Ago," the area "will look like a makeshift archaeological dig replete with tents, trailers and dozens of police vehicles."
Christine also linked the LAPD's live video feed of the dig -- you can check it out here. LA Weekly had photographer Ted Soqui on the scene when the dig began, and you can see a slideshow of Ted's shots from this morning by either clicking the image above and on the right, or by clicking here.
Hi. my name is as you see it . I was rogers best friend between 1966 to the day he went missing.I also lived in sylmar. roger and were pretty close, like brothers. the last tim i saw him, was 12-14-68. i also knew that sick animal. if not for my parents and older sister, i would have one of his victems to. more questions? send an emil to me. it's also taken 40 years for some closer for me. this is for real. thank you for reading this. bob.
Posted 01/08/2009 at 12:05:15 AMHi. my name is as you see it . I was rogers best friend between 1966 to the day he went missing.I also lived in sylmar. roger and were pretty close, like brothers. the last tim i saw him, was 12-14-68. i also knew that sick animal. if not for my parents and older sister, i would have one of his victems to. more questions? it's also taken 40 years for some closer for me. this is for real. thank you for reading this. bob. post more coments
Posted 01/08/2009 at 12:09:09 AMthis is bob again, just a couple more comments,my last comment, i goofed,i last saw roger on 12-16- 68, the sane day he went missing. he came up to olive vista jr. high in sylmar to talk to me. he rode hi moter cycle there. he told me he had a fight with his dad.(jim). roger said to me he was gonna run away. i told him, wait, meet me at my house after school, we will talk about it, he said, ill see you then. but, he never showed. i never saw him again. where did he go????????????????????????? bob.
Posted 01/09/2009 at 02:32:26 PMs mary fitzpatrick bobs sister. i have something to say too. its hard to say, but if rodger wouldnt have disapeared him and i most likely would be together still today. i was only 12 years old at the time he dissapered,but we were very close.its very scary still to me because all of us that hung out at rodgers house used to go to mr. edwards house to go horseback riding several times. never would i have thought he would have hurt roger or any else. i would really like to talk to mr. dewalt for our part of the story,also i would love to hear from any of rogers family.
Posted 01/10/2009 at 02:02:01 PMto any one out there,if you have any comments, i would like to hear them. thanks. also, i would love to hear from any of rogers family. thanks bob
Posted 09/25/2009 at 08:04:59 PM