his entire life in battle creek. through some real estate investments and his ownership of a small trucking business, he was a millionaire many times over. over. >> he was a tough old bird. he never pulled any punches. he was always a son of a bitch to me. >> rogers was stubborn too. he always carried large sums of money and didn't care who knew it. >> he would joke that he would have several thousand in this pocket, several thousand in a pants pocket even a couple more thousand in his back pocket and he generally did. >> not surprisingly, rogers became a target for local drug gangs and petty thieves. >> he was a victim several times of robberies. they would take his money from him, beat him up, his house had been broken into a few times also. so, yeah, it was a problem for him. but he didn't change his pattern it seemed like. he still carried large sums of money. >> sharon zachary lived next door to rogers and acted as his caretaker.