A call came in to the Pueblo Police Department’s dispatch center just after midnight on August 3, 2005.
Dwayne Rogers
Dwayne Kelly Rogers was on the phone. The 28-year-old man lived in Falcon, but he was staying in Pueblo while he worked on a construction job.
“I’m the one who killed the girl in Pueblo,” he told a dispatcher.
“Which girl?” the dispatcher asked.
“That one who died in the strip club,” Rogers said.
Rogers seemed to know how shocking his late-night call would appear, even to a police dispatcher who is accustomed to receiving terrifying and bizarre calls.
“Kind of unusual,” he told the dispatcher.
Then he laughed.
Rogers agreed to turn himself in to police. He went to the Pueblo Police station. Detectives arrested him for investigation of first-degree murder and questioned him.
Soon, Pueblo police received another peculiar call.
Apparently, Rogers felt particularly forthcoming that night.
Chuck Burnett explained to police that Rogers, his friend, had been calling everyone close to him and telling them about the terrible crimes he had committed.
Rogers had called Burnett, who lived in Peyton, a few hours before he called Pueblo police.
Rogers revealed even more to Burnett than he did to Pueblo detectives.
He told Burnett that he also had killed two women in Colorado Springs.