Per The Spokesman-Review, Hoff was only 19 (other reports say he was 20) when he brutally assaulted and murdered Rogers. USA Today writes that he lived in the same area as she did. When he was 17, a troubled Hoff joined the military. However, 1959 marked the beginning of his violent crimes. The Spokane Police Department reports that after Rogers’ murder, he assaulted another woman in 1961. Hoff took off her clothes, tied her, and then proceeded to strangle her. The modus operandi was very similar to the way Rogers was killed.
This time, his victim survived and Hoff was subsequently jailed for 6 months for the crime. After his release, he was discharged from the military. Hoff also eventually got married (via a different article from The Spokesman-Review). He worked as a salesman, in a lumberyard, and in a meatpacking plant. In 1971, Hoff committed suicide when he was 31 years old. His daughter, Cathie, stated, “He was evil, he was evil, it was an escape in a way from it” (per KXLY).
