Chet Hopper: Tony’s various stories to Detective Tony Miller are contained in the transcript of Miller’s testimony in Tony’s murder trial, pp. 130–44.
“My wife, man, did not murder anybody”: Tony’s quote is in Detective Miller’s interview with him, introduced as evidence in Tony’s trial for murder, in transcript, p. 118.
Tony broke and said he alone: Tony’s admission is in Detective Miller’s interview with him, in trial transcript, p. 173.
“Do you have any feelings”: Interview by Detective Miller with Tony, in trial transcript, p. 213.
“My wife and I gave some false statements”: Tony’s conversation with the guard is included in the trial transcript, pp 136–84.
“Back in Reno all I wanted to do”: Tony’s conversation with Detective Miller in the Pima County Jail is contained in the trial transcript, pp. 119–44.
“Chief tried to rape me”: Paula changing her statement about her role in the crime is from Detective Miller’s transcript of his interview with her on December 18, 1991, included in the trial transcript for Tony in a separate file, marked “Paula Bogle Video Tape Transcription,” pp. 1–84.
If Paula had accepted a suggestion: Interview with David Sherman.
“He was a cop’s prosecutor”: Interview with Tony Miller.
Peasley had an extraordinary record: See the Arizona Daily Star, September 9, 2011, and Jeffrey Toobin’s profile of Peasley in The New Yorker, January 17, 2005.
“It’s not fair that my husband”: Paula at her trial for theft, The Arizona Star, February 10, 1994.
“I didn’t really need to figure out”: Interview with Kenneth Peasley.
“An analysis of the statements”: This petition by James Cochran, dated January 29, 1992, is in the transcript of Tony’s murder trial, as part of a series of loose legal documents filed with Judge Veliz with no page numbers.
“During an interview”: Affidavit by Richard Bozich, June 17, 1992, in trial transcript, ibid.
“his orientation to reality was off”: Interview with David Sherman.
“Don’t worry”: Ibid.
“Now, let me tell you”: Sherman’s opening statement to the jury was on the second day of the trial, in transcript, pp. 20–29.
“the cause of death”: From the testimony by the medical examiner, Dr. Ann Hartsough, on the second day of the trial, in transcript, pp. 104–40.
a chance of getting Tony acquitted: Interview with David Sherman.
“When you went in the apartment”: Peasley’s cross-examination of Tony, on the third day of his murder trial, in transcript, pp. 222–64.
“We may never know”: Sherman, in his closing argument to the jury, on the fifth day of the trial, in transcript, pp. 40–55.
“there have been many lies”: Judge Veliz speaking to the jury after Tony testified on the third day of the trial, in transcript, pp. 26–28.
“the most evil human being”: Bert Wilson’s testimony, on the fourth day of the trial, in transcript, pp. 12–44.
“This man had an unusually disturbing childhood”: Report by Dr. Martin Levy, on p. 5 of the Defense’s Mitigation Memorandum, in the trial transcript.
“If you were going to go out and create”: Interview with David Sherman.
developed a program of meetings: For a description of the Jacksonville program, see Fox Butterfield, “Aggressive Justice System in Jacksonville, Fla., Intervenes to Ward Off Juvenile Court,” The New York Times, October 4, 1997.
“Flip a coin”: Interview with Tony.
9 Tammie: Walking with Jesus
“Too mean to die”: Interview with Louis Bogle.
“I asked him who it was”: Interview with Tammie.
Tammie’s three children: Information on Jason, Shannon and Amy is from interviews with Tammie.
“I am walking with Jesus”: Interview with Tammie.
“Jesus is as real to me”: Ibid.
“Throughout our family”: Ibid.
“This patient will”: Report by Dr. R. F. Hyde, June 17, 1960.
“shade-tree mechanic”: Interview with Tammie.
“We begged our mother”: Ibid.
“Take off and run”: Ibid.
He was eventually sent to jail: Ibid.
“It was okay to beat me”: Ibid.
Tammie soon met and married her second husband: Ibid.
A Danish criminologist: Lars Hojsgaard Andersen, Rockwell Foundation Research Unit, Study Paper 119, June 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark.
His name was Steve Silver: Interviews with Tammie and Steve Silver.
“I just laughed at that”: Interview with Tammie.
He planned to turn: Information about Steve Silver’s plans for opening a halfway house for newly released sex offenders is from interviews with him and Tammie.
He ended up in prison: The details of Steve Silver’s difficult, abused childhood and his teenage crime spree are from interviews with him.
Flory Bogle Black: The details of Flory being molested by her father and her troubled life are from interviews with her and Tammie, as well as her Oregon Department of Corrections criminal record.
Tammie’s other brother, Mark Bogle, and his wife, Lori: Information on Mark’s and Lori’s criminal histories are from interviews with them and from their Oregon Department of Corrections criminal records.
one widely respected academic study: Mark A. Cohen and Alex Piquero, “New Evidence on the Monetary Value of Saving High Risk Youth,” Vanderbilt University Law School Law and Economic Working Paper, no. 08-07, and also an interview with Professor Cohen.
Her name was Sue Willard: For the dispute between Sue Willard and Steve and Tammie Silver over Stepping Out Ministries, I have relied on extensive interviews with the three of them and a spokesman for the Oregon Department of Corrections.
10 Ashley: The First to College
Ashley was born into a marriage: This account of the marriage of Tim Bogle and Chris Kanne comes from extended interviews with Tim and Linda Bogle as well as Chris.
forge new birth certificates: Tim showed me the forged birth certificates, which he still keeps.
the marriage-license application: Tim also showed me their marriage license, issued on March 6, 1989, by Marion County, and their marriage certificate, signed by the Rev. Art Cooper, an old family friend.
Tim was charged: The petition against Tim was filed by the Marion County Court Juvenile Division on March 22, 1989.
Tim and Chris were taken to juvenile court: Their punishment by Judge Connie Hass is in the records of the Marion County Court Juvenile Division for March 22, 1989. Tim also provided me with a confession he signed on May 15, 1989, and gave to Judge Hass.
“You need a job”: Rooster’s scheme to get Tim a job as a welder and to pass the ironworkers’ union test is from an interview with Tim.
“When Ashley was born”: Interview with Tim.
what Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck had discovered: John L. Laub and Robert J. Sampson: Crime in the Making: Pathways and Turning Points Through Life (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993).
“I always loved going to school”: Interview with Ashley Bogle.
Ashley’s motivation: Interviews with Tim, Linda and Ashley Bogle.
“I didn’t want to stand out”: Interview with Ashley.
It was also hard for Ashley: Ibid.
eventually diagnosed with bipolar disorder: Interviews with Tim and Linda Bogle.
“I was very shy”: Interview with Ashley.
Ashley had a perfect 4.0 grade-point average: Based on Ashley’s high school records.
“Fewer than one percent of all high-achieving”: From a copy of the invitation, which Tim Bogle provided.
“The whole Bogle stigma didn’
t apply to me”: Interview with Ashley.
her GPA dropped: From Ashley’s final North Salem High School transcript on June 6, 2010.
Tim had been caught speeding: That Tim Bogle was arrested for speeding is from the Salem Police Department report on November 4, 2009, and the Marion County Correctional Facility inmate roster on the same date.
She soon discovered she was pregnant: Interview with Ashley.
Her younger sister, Britney: Interviews with Ashley and Linda Bogle.
was soon diagnosed with bipolar disorder: Interviews with Debbie and Linda Bogle.
she was kept in jail: Interviews with Debbie and Linda Bogle, and Oregon Department of Corrections file on Debbie, August 13, 2002, and April 27, 2005.
Jorden was first sent to prison: From the indictment of Jorden Bogle in Marion County Circuit Court, April 29, 2009, and the Oregon Department of Corrections record on Jorden’s admission to prison, April 23, 2009. For Jorden’s second prison sentence, see the Oregon Department of Corrections inmate roster for Jorden on April 16, 2017.
Kaleb was sentenced to prison: Salem Statesman Journal, June 21, 2013. Also see the Oregon Department of Corrections inmate roster for Kaleb on April 17, 2017.
Dr. Satyanarayana Chandragiri: Interview with Dr. Chandragiri.
“She is still pretty shy”: Interview with Tim Bogle.
Epilogue
“My brothers always end up here”: All the discussion in the epilogue is based on a series of interviews with Bobby Bogle, Jeremy Vanwagner and Bobby’s mother, Kathy.
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Fox Butterfield is the author of All God’s Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He was also the author of China: Alive in the Bitter Sea, which won the National Book Award. He was a member of the New York Times reporting team that won the Pulitzer Prize for the paper’s publication of the Pentagon Papers. During almost four decades at the Times, he was based in South Vietnam, Japan, Hong Kong and China—where he opened the paper’s Beijing bureau in 1979—as well as in Boston, New York and Washington, D.C. He now lives with his wife in Portland, Oregon.
Louis Bogle as a baby sitting on the lap of his grandmother Narcissa Harding, in front of her log cabin in Daylight, Tennessee, about 1900
Narcissa Harding (left) with her daughter Mattie Bogle, Louis’s mother, circa 1890. Narcissa unsuccessfully petitioned the federal government for years to get her late husband’s Civil War pension.
Sarah Hardin (right), the grandmother of Louis’s future wife, Elvie Morris, in a photo said to be taken in 1915 in Sherry, Texas. The girl on the left is not identified. The free-spirited Hardin was a major influence on young Elvie.
A photo studio shot of Louis Bogle taken for his wedding to Elvie in 1921 in Paris, Texas
Elvie Morris (right) with her mother, Florence Morris, 1919. Elvie’s father had just died of influenza, and Florence used his small life insurance policy to buy new clothes for herself and her daughter after they moved from the rural crossroads hamlet of Sherry into the big town of Paris.
Louis and Elvie with their first two children—John, standing, and Dude. On the right is Elvie’s mother. This photo was taken in 1925, shortly before Elvie had her mother committed to the North Texas State Asylum in Wichita Falls, Texas.
Circa early 1930s, the growing family of Louis and Elvie—John, the oldest, is in the back left; Charlie is in front of him; Dude is standing in front of his father; Babe is in front of him. Peggy is being held by her mother. Everyone is barefoot.
Charlie Bogle in 1946, at age eighteen but looking much older. The dog is doing a trick Charlie had taught him in the carnival where his parents worked for years.
John Wesley Hardin, a legendary nineteenth-century Texas outlaw, who killed many. Charlie, thinking him to be his mother’s uncle, kept a photo of him in his trailer and identified with him.
Mattie Bogle standing in front of the shack Louis had built for his family to live in, in Amarillo, circa 1960. The shack was made of old battery crates, stained with oil, that Louis salvaged from the junkyard where he worked.
Louis, in his junkyard uniform, with an aged Mattie
A mug shot of Dude Bogle on being admitted to a Kansas prison in 1950 for statutory rape. Dude had recently come back from serving in World War II in India and Burma in the Army Air Corps. He had risen no higher than the rank of buck private because of constant fights.
A mug shot of Rooster, the youngest child of Louis and Elvie, taken in 1960 when he was sentenced to the penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas, after joining with his older brothers in the burglary of an Amarillo grocery store
Rooster with his two wives, Kathy (left) and Linda, probably in the late 1960s when Rooster was living with both women
Tony Bogle, Rooster and Kathy’s son, when he was seven years old, before a lifetime of being locked up in a succession of juvenile reformatories and adult prisons
Tony in 2007 in an Arizona prison, where he is serving a life sentence for murder
Paula Bogle, Tony’s wife, who was convicted for the same murder but received a lesser sentence
A document regarding Tracey Bogle produced by the Oregon Department of Corrections while he was serving a sixteen-year sentence for kidnapping, sodomy, assault and robbery, a crime he committed with his brother Bobby
Bobby Bogle on the right with his cellie at the Oregon State Penitentiary, Jeremy Vanwagner—his son. For the Bogles, crime was often a family affair.
Bobby Bogle on the left and Tracey Bogle on the right in the yard of the Oregon State Penitentiary, showing off their well-developed bodies and tattoos
Stepping Out Ministries in Salem is a Christian-based halfway house for sex offenders coming out of prison in Oregon. On the right is Tammie Bogle, its codirector. On the left is Tracey Bogle, her cousin, who was required to live there after his release from prison.
Tracey with the car he bought after his release from prison, though driving it was against the conditions of his parole. He did not have a driver’s license or insurance.
Tracey Bogle with his mother, Kathy, after his release from prison. Kathy was about to go to jail for a year for Medicaid fraud.
Ashley Bogle, in a selfie she took at her college graduation, making her the first member of the Bogle family to graduate from college
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