Early Life
Rogers was born and raised in Hamilton, Ohio, as one of seven children born to Edna and Claude Rogers. Claude was a pump operator at the local Champion paper company. The family lived in a rough part of town, but Rogers had an unremarkable childhood. As a teenager, he began to be known as a troublemaker with a quick temper. By the time he was 16, he was expelled from Wilson Junior High School and married his pregnant childhood sweetheart, Deborah Ann Nix. Although the child wasn't his, Rogers adopted him and moved with his family to Southern California, where Rogers got a job at the Highland Press printing company in Pasadena. Debbie and Rogers had a second child together but later divorced in 1983. Debbie became the first of many women to accuse him of physical abuse. Rogers returned to Hamilton in 1986 or 1987, where he became stuck in a pattern of holding down menial jobs and accumulating a criminal record including public drunkenness, theft, assault and arson.
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