‘Ottawa’ Cops investigate double homicide near Meadowlands Drive
The bodies of a husband and wife were found behind a shed at their Carleton Heights home after their son allegedly confessed to killing his parents in a fit of a rage.
Ottawa police major crime detectives are investigating the double homicide of former Citizen reporter Dave Rogers and his wife, Merrill Gleddie Rogers. Their son Cameron Rogers, 22, is in police custody in Montreal. Police expect to charge him with murder.
Late Monday night, Montreal police contacted Ottawa police with information that a man in their custody had confessed to killing his parents. Ottawa patrol officers responded to the Rogers family home at 1614 Apeldoorn Avenue just after 10 p.m. and found the couple’s bodies behind a shed outside. One was covered by a tarp, the other appeared to be in a suitcase. Police believe both had been dead for some time.
Dave Rogers, an only child, first had his byline appear in the Citizen in 1988 when he wrote about the doubling of the Kanata Town Centre. As a general assignment reporter, he wrote about death inquests, elections results, murder trials, drug raids, development in Old Chelsea. He lent his touch to everything from a Gatineau man who twice used a teddy bear to sneak into the carpool lane to towing kick-backs and tax hikes. He left the Citizen in 2010.
His wife, Merrill, was one of four children and grew up in an Air Force family.
In 2012, she advocated for healthier snacks in school vending machines partly because of the effect unhealthy options were having on her son’s physical wellness, according to a report to the school board.
The Rogers’ deaths mark the city’s 18th and 19th homicides of 2016.
More to come.
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