Two Houston police officers had been called to the home of Fred and Edwina Rogers to do a welfare check, after a neighbor reported that she had not heard from the elderly couple for several days. That was when the bodies were discovered.
As Houstonia reported, the two officers kicked down the door to the home, and in the kitchen, were treated to a gruesome sight: stacks of meat, which the police initially thought was butchered hog meat, in the refrigerator. It was not hog meat.
"On all the shelves and in the freezer compartment were the dismembered bodies, cut in unwrapped, washed-off pieces smaller than individual joints," read a contemporary account of the grim discovery. When the police discovered the severed heads of the elderly couple in the appliance's vegetable drawer, they knew they had a homicide on their hands.
According to Culture Map Houston, the murderer had also removed the victims' organs, cut them up, and flushed them down the toilet and into the city's sewer system, where parts were later found. Other remains have never been found.
