The ChillX Zone

Murder of Researcher Still Unsolved Decades Later

August 18, 2025 — Los Angeles—On this date in 1990, the life of parapsychologist D. Scott Rogo ended in violence inside his Northridge home. Neighbors first noticed something odd: a sprinkler running for two straight days. When officers entered, they discovered Rogo stabbed to death, the side door ajar, his wallet missing. Yet his extensive collection of paranormal research remained untouched.

Rogo, 40, had spent his career chronicling unexplained phenomena—from poltergeists and psychic projections to “phone calls from the dead.” The strange overlap between his life’s work and the unexplained circumstances of his death was not lost on those who followed the case. Many asked whether Rogo’s obsession with the afterlife had finally drawn something back across the line.

Soon after, psychics claimed to reach Rogo’s spirit through personal objects. Some described his killers in detail, while others insisted the house itself still carried the weight of his presence. In a twist that deepened the mystery, investigators admitted the scene bore no signs of forced entry, leaving open the unsettling thought that Rogo may have welcomed someone, or something in—willingly, or otherwise.

Speculation ran rampant. Was the murder a crime of chance, or did the very forces Rogo studied somehow play a role in his end? Friends reported he had spoken in the weeks before about feeling “watched” and “drained,” though he dismissed it as fatigue. For believers, it was an omen ignored.

Though an arrest was made two years later, the conviction was overturned and no forensic link was ever found. Thirty-five years later, the crime remains unsolved, lingering in memory like the phenomena Rogo documented. His death, to many, is now part of paranormal lore—an unanswered question that seems less like a homicide and more like a haunting.