Hohenberger, who had served as a sheriff's deputy in California beforeįleeing a rape charge there, used his badge to induce his victims to
Mary Parish detective thenĪrthur said he and other investigators theorized that He knew what it took to getĬontrol of someone," said Duval Arthur, a St. Her captor called her parentsĭemanding money and let her tell them she was all right. Mary Leah Rodermund disappeared on her way to a "For three or four months it was sheer terror." There years ago, soon after their 16-year-old daughter's disappearance. "Everybody was pretty much afraid to go out in theĮvenings," Rodermund said recently from Houston.
Mary Parish that year when Hohenberger, a formerĬalifornia lawman, is believed to have kidnapped and killed five In Washington state where he fled after a killing spree in spring 1978,ĭoug Rodermund remembers the uncertainty and fear Michael Newton - An Encyclopedia of Modern Serial As an afterthought to the case, city councilmen passed an ordinance requiring all transients to register and have their fingerprints taken by police, in an effort to "discourage the criminal element from coming down here and looking for a job." Still missing at the time of Hohenberger's identification were 14-year-old Bertha Gould, vanished from a high school fair on May 11, and 16-year-old Leah Rodermund, lost on a trip to the neighborhood drugstore.įBI agents described sex as the motive for slayings committed by Hohenberger, a drifter since his release from prison who found temporary employment around Morgan City. Two of the victims were discovered on May 25, their bodies secured to weights and dumped in a septic tank a third was found two days later, with all three reportedly strangled after sex. Committed suicide when officers attempted to arrest him in JuneĪn ex-convict and one-time California sheriffs deputy, Hohenberger was linked with the abduction, rape and murder of five Morgan City, Louisiana teenagers over a three-month period of 1978.
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