Roger Rogerson: Cold-blooded killer linked to nearly a dozen unsolved murders

SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Roger Rogerson is officially Australia’s first serial killer with a badge: he’s killed four people the police and public know of and can be linked to many, many more. PART ONE: BEHIND THE GRIN WAS A BLOOD THIRSTY KILLER | FROM CHOIR BOY TO DIRTY HARRY | A DEAL WITH THE DEVIL | NO ONE’S SAFE AS THE HEAT RISES | GOOD COP CAUGHT IN LINE OF FIRE | THE NOOSE TIGHTENS

• PROLOGUE: Behind the grin was blood thirsty killer
• PART ONE: From choir boy to Dirty Harry
• PART TWO: How Rogerson made a deal with the devil
• PART THREE: No one’s safe as the heat rises

ROGER Rogerson, convicted yesterday of the murder of Jamie Gao, is officially Australia’s first serial killer with a badge. The cold-blooded killer is linked to nearly a dozen unsolved murders.

After six-and-a-half days of deliberation, the jury delivered their verdicts — guilty for both Rogerson and co-accused Glen McNamara on charges of murder and taking part in the supply of 2.78kg of ice.

Superintendent Clive Small while heading up the Ivan Milat backpacker murders investigation.

Former NSW Police Commissioner Tony Lauer.

But the student drug dealer Gao is just the tip of the iceberg.

Roger Rogerson has killed four people that the police and public know of — but there are many more, including two women, that he has been linked to.

PART FOUR: The good cop caught in the line of fire

PART FIVE: Noose tightens on ‘Roger Dodger’

It can also be revealed for the first time that police believed Rogerson was going after the Police Commissioner Tony Lauer and Superintendent Clive Small in 1990 because of their pursuit of him over the attempted murder of undercover officer Michael Drury in 1984.

Detective Mike Drury. The undercover officer was shot and wounded in his own home.

Rogerson was acquitted of conspiring to kill Drury in 1989.

Drury has revealed for the first time that there was another plot to have him killed.

Within days of his arrest for the murder of Jamie Gao, the NSW Police Integrity Unit approached his legal advisers to see if Rogerson would give up the secrets of Sydney’s underworld and possibly even do a deal.

Likewise, Western Australian police said they wanted to talk to Rogerson over suspicions he had information about the murder of a prostitute in 1974.

Roger’s web

Neither organisation have spoken to him yet.

The Telegraph has also uncovered that the file of a Sydney woman who disappeared before giving evidence about Rogerson has vanished

The young prostitute Lyn Woodward vanished after giving preliminary evidence into the shooting of Warren Lanfranchi.

Sydney prostitute Sally-Anne Huckstepp, she was Warren Lanfranchi’s partner.

Drug dealer Warren Lanfranchi. was shot dead by then Detective Sergeant Roger Rogerson in Chippendale in 1981.

Police stand over the body of Huckstepp following her death in Centennial Park in 1986. Her murder has never been solved.

Homicide detectives as recently as three years ago questioned Neddy Smith over accusations he knew who killed the 31-year-old and buried her on beach between Sydney and Wollongong.

The file relating to an inquest held in 2001 into her disappearance is missing from the coroner’s office.

Rogerson was caught by a senior legal officer in the early 80s in the coroner’s office early one morning going through documents.

Arthur (Neddy) Smith is driven in for questioning. He is now serving a life sentence.

A Daily Telegraph investigation into the life and killings of Roger Rogerson has uncovered a number of deaths linked to him and his links to various crimes in Australia.

You name it and Rogerson was up to his ears in it.

Roger Rogerson is taken away by Corrective Services after being found guilty for Murder of Jamie Goa . Picture Craig Greenhill