Legendary voice names killer in 911 call
The murder of Rube Rogers
ON AUGUST 14, 2010, a white pickup truck swung into the parking lot of a Days Inn in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee. Seventy-five miles west of Nashville. The man behind the wheel signed the registry as “Rube Rogers” and paid with a credit card in that name.
In his room, he rolled a marijuana cigarette. Then he picked up the phone and called the ranch of Country Music legend Loretta Lynn.
The man’s name was Eric Maurer. He was 31 years old. And less than twelve hours earlier, he had shoved Rube Rogers down a stairwell and drawn a kitchen knife across his throat.
If you’ve spent any time at all in southeast Louisiana and you haven’t heard the name Rube Rogers, you haven’t been listening.
Cash Box Magazine caught wind of him first. September 24, 1960:
“We just got wind of an interesting incident that happened out Louisiana way. It seems…
