Background
Rogge was born in Seattle, Washington.
Rogge was born in Seattle, Washington.
He is the first Federal Bureau of Investigation Top Ten criminal to be apprehended due to the internet. Rogge was imprisoned at the United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, in the 1970s for car theft and grand larceny. He was later convicted and sentenced to 25 years for a 1984 bank robbery in Key Largo, Florida.
In September 1985, he bribed a corrections officer and escaped from prison in Moscow, Idaho.
Following his escape, he went on to commit additional bank robberies, including one at an Exchange Bank branch in El Dorado, Arkansas, and at a bank in High Point, North Carolina, in 1986. On January 24, 1990, Rogge became the 430th Fugitive to be added to the Federal Bureau of Investigation Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, where he remained for the next six years.
He was featured on the television program Unsolved Mysteries and on America"s Most Wanted five times. In 1991, he also robbed a bank in Webb City, Missouri.
On May 19, 1996, Rogge surrendered at the United States Embassy in Guatemala, after Guatemalan authorities had launched a manhunt upon being tipped off by someone who saw Rogge"s photo on the Federal Bureau of Investigation website.
While on the run, he also spent time in Antigua where he went by the name Bill Young. Rogge stole more than $2 million and robbed approximately 30 banks in all, and is currently serving a 65-year sentence at Federal Correctional Institution in Beaumont, Texas. He cannot be released until 2048, when he turns 108.
