The Surgeon of Sin: Inside the Twisted Mind and Crimes of Jack Wayne Rogers
The Surgeon of Sin: Inside the Twisted Mind and Crimes of Jack Wayne Rogers
He stood at the pulpit preaching purity.
He knelt at hospital bedsides offering prayer.
He walked into motel rooms carrying a duffel bag of knives.
By day, Reverend Jack Wayne Rogers was a small-town Missouri minister, Boy Scout leader, and self-styled "healer of souls." By night, behind locked doors and anonymous screen names, he became something else entirely-a man obsessed with pain, control, and "surgical" mutilation conducted far from any operating room.
When federal agents finally knocked on his door, what they uncovered shocked even seasoned investigators: hidden hard drives packed with child exploitation images, meticulous chat logs describing illegal "operations" on desperate men, and a cache of crude surgical tools stained with the past. Rogers insisted it was all misunderstood fantasy-research into "human depravity." Survivors and evidence told a very different story.
The Surgeon of Sin takes readers inside one of the most disturbing cases of clerical abuse and medicalized violence in recent history. Drawing on court records, law-enforcement files, and interviews, Linda Davidson reconstructs:
The trusted pastor's double life as an underground "surgeon"
The motel-room procedures that nearly cost a victim his life
The digital trail that exposed his secret world of sadism and control
The high-stakes investigation and trial that finally brought him down
The lasting spiritual and psychological scars left on his victims and community
More than a catalogue of crimes, this book is a stark examination of how authority can be weaponized, how online "fantasy" can cross into real harm, and how faith communities can rebuild trust without closing their eyes to danger.
For readers of Ann Rule and Kathryn Casey, The Surgeon of Sin is a chilling, meticulously researched true-crime account-and a sobering warning about the predators who hide behind collars, credentials, and the language of God.
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