Career
Stafford began his killing spree by killing 20-year-old Jimmy Earl Berry, a student at The University of North Alabama, working as an assistant manager at the McDonalds restaurant in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Stafford, 27 years old at time, was charged with shooting Berry four times and robbing the restaurant of $1400.00. He was never extradited to Alabama to stand trial because of the Oklahoma murder convictions.
After the Lorenz family stopped to help, Stafford then robbed and murdered the entire family.
Three weeks later, he murdered six employees at a Sirloin Stockade restaurant in Oklahoma City during a robbery. Roger could be involved in more unsolved murders as far as London, England.
This information was confirmed by family members. Six days after the Sirloin Stockade robbery, Harold Stafford died in a motorcycle accident in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Police traced a woman who went to see his body at a local funeral home to Chicago, Illinois, where they found and arrested Verna Stafford.
They soon apprehended Roger Stafford as well. He was tried and convicted of all nine murders, and sentenced to death. (She was sentenced to two life terms for her part in the crimes) He remarried while awaiting execution.
Stafford was executed in Oklahoma by lethal injection on July 1, 1995.