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Ladysmith Wisconsin- It turns out that ex DA Robert Rogers, a pot smoking swaggering outlaw prosecutor, was the mastermind of a 1979 murder. He enlisted the aid of his brothers to murder one Roger Pfeil who had threatened to kill Rogers. Rogers instead used his brother's aid and preemptively struck Pfeil first.

Rogers' brother is doing time for the crime. Rogers committed suicide in Marin in 1984 at age 38, after killing a man who was romantically involved with his estranged wife.