June 12, 2026
San Diego Charges Suspected Serial Killer With Four Murders. That May Be Just The Beginning
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RSS Feed 74-year-old Dwight William Rhone has pleaded not guilty to murdering four men over the span of 30 years and detectives believe there may be even more victims out there. Rhone was in custody for the 2023 murder of Bernardo Moreno when they found human remains of Michael Brown buried under a home where Rhone was previously a tenant. After that, investigators were able to link two more unsolved murders to Rhone from 1993 and 2002 and are actively looking at Rhone in connection with at least two other dead or missing people.
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00:00:02
Speaker 1: Hey, the folks. It is Friday, June twelfth, and folks in California think they may have a serial killer on their hands. And he is accused of committing murders that were decades apart. And the guy is sitting in jail right now at the age of seventy four. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy t Chaking It out Age.
00:00:25
Speaker 2: It's a wild story because the story's while yes, he's seventy four, these we go back to what ninety three is it that these murders were taking place? There were twenty years in between one of them, ten years between another, and robes there's another one. They're not even sure when the murder might have taken place, but they got their guy.
00:00:45
Speaker 3: They think, here's the count right now, seventy four year old Dwight William Rohan has been charged with four murders, but there are two other cases that they believe are linked to him, so he could be up to six and they think they're mad, maybe more than that. And that is this is a developing story.
00:01:04
Speaker 2: Bro.
00:01:05
Speaker 1: When you hear when you hear the details of some of these crimes, it sounds like, oh, he never stopped.
00:01:11
Speaker 3: No, and they don't think he did. H and I just get chills hearing about this and reading about how they figured this out. But he is in custody right now. He was brought in custody on suspicion of committing a twenty twenty three murder. But yes, now he's been charged with three more murders. He pleaded not guilty to all of them. But these are four separate San Diego County killings. And yes, the dates they have nineteen ninety three, twenty two, twenty twenty three, and yes, an unknown year because they found human remains just a few months ago underneath the home he lived in. So this is what we're talking about. We'll start with the most recent crime, the one he was initially arrested for. He was charged with the murder for shooting fifty four year old Bernardo Moreno in the head and then setting his body on fire. This happened in October of twenty twenty three. He was arrested for that murder.
00:02:07
Speaker 1: Okay, so again, so this guy has been sitting he's been off the street for a little while. But Robes and I didn't mention this at the top. All the victims, at least confirmed right now they think are attached to him. Are all men? Is that correct?
00:02:22
Speaker 3: Yes? And yes, this is just fascinating. It's not anything what you would think. Just a seventy four year old serial killer who is now being linked to all these murders.
00:02:33
Speaker 1: So even though some of the crimes robes go back to the early nineties, twenty twenty three, he was what seventy one, you're.
00:02:42
Speaker 3: Still killing still, according to police. They so while he's in custody, this is when they find the human remains. They finally identified them as a man named Michael Brown, underneath the home where he lived, where he was renting. Okay, so they believe he murdered gy and buried his body under the home. They don't even know how old Michael Brown is. They don't know what year he was killed. They're still trying to figure that out. So while they're piecing that together, then they're able to link him to a September two thousand and two murder of Ronald Jenkin blunt forced trauma to the head. He was found in a creek. And all of this is important because there are other cases that are linked to these same areas where these bodies have been dumped. He has a dumping ground basically, but he.
00:03:29
Speaker 1: Also has he doesn't have an mo brob you just mentioned already. Somebody was shot and burned somebody else.
00:03:38
Speaker 3: We don't know how he died.
00:03:39
Speaker 1: Blunt force trauma, yes, and then there's enough the methods were all different.
00:03:42
Speaker 3: And then strangulation yes. So December of nineteen ninety three they have now charged him with the strangulation of Aberto Ruiz. His body was found in an alley. Okay, So those are the those are the four murders. So he's he's being charged with the murder of Bernardo Morena. He shot him, according to police, don't know how he killed Michael Brown, but put him underneath the house. Then they say he killed Ronald Jenkin blunt force trauma the head. And then they say he strangled Erberta Riez. Okay, So that's not it. You want to hear about the other two cases they believe he is now directly linked to and they expect charges to be filed. This one is Dannis Galloway, found in an alley less than a mile from where Ruiz was found. So he liked to dump bodies in alleys. And then a guy as well, Dannis Galloway, Dennis Yes. And then there's another one and I'm gonna butcher this name, but it's Anten Ginnis Gomez Valasquez. He's missing. Never found him, but he's been missing since twenty twenty one. But here's the catch. He lived on the same street that Ron lived on the same street where that house where he buried Michael Brown's body, according to police, So they've they've got they think it's at least six people right now over a span of what is that twenty something years and they're just now piecing this all together.
00:05:12
Speaker 1: So we go back thirty years almost, and these are six potential victims of his Yes, so that's one he wants to kill once every five years, we're supposed to believe is his average. Doesn't make average, But bro, over thirty year period, kill stop, don't want to kill again for twenty years? Do they believe that is possible? That doesn't even sound right.
00:05:36
Speaker 3: No, And here's the deal. Right now, because this is all breaking and all of these charges are accumulating and coming out in court, we don't know the motive. There has not been any anything written about why he murdered these men, and just like how he's connected to these men. There's not a lot of information, And I guess perhaps how serial killers get away with this for so long is it is so random. It isn't anything where a detective would connect the dots or tie these people back to you if you don't have a personal connection. Most people who are murdered are murdered by someone who they know, murdered by someone who they even love, or like there's some sort of crime of passion or money, there's some connection that brings you back to the suspect. When you have a serial killer, there's nothing, there's no motive, there's no reason, and unless you can establish a pattern, it's actually really hard to connect the dots and pin it on somebody when they choose to murder somebody for no reason whatsoever.
00:06:42
Speaker 1: But he did have. It seemed like he operated in a fairly.
00:06:46
Speaker 3: Small area San Diego County, with an a fairly limited square and I think the logistics, the locations of these bodies and where he was living, that's pretty much how they were able to try and piece this all together because one.
00:07:00
Speaker 1: Area killing what's the guy the beach killing guy, Oh, the Kilgo beach. Yeah, it wasn't that all in the same area as well, and he's lived in that area and was I don't know, maybe you have more background on this guy, but it sounds like he wasn't transient, he wasn't moving. There are so many serial killer cases we know of where they did bounce around a little bit. They go from one area to another. You can see the trail really of death and also Rodes. I'm trying to think of ah as a very famous one. You can help me if I can't remember. But serial killers often they're killing women like this is rare we see a case he was exclusively possibly killing men.
00:07:38
Speaker 3: That is what we've seen so far, And you're right, I'm trying to think of another. I mean, the only John Wayne Gacy is the only person I can think of, and he was a pedophile, but he went after little boys and he definitely sexually assaulted them and murdered them, so he had a pension for little boys. But it is odd to think about a serial killer going after grown men. I'm trying to think of another scenario like that where it's one.
00:08:03
Speaker 1: Famous one that's slipping my mind for whatever reason, but I'll come up with it later. But again, that's you said, Robes, there are so many things you can add to or add up in this case. They go, wait a minute, what and what and what that All the details are just from his age, from his victims, from the years, from the sex of the victims. It all adds up to just a this is a big story developing out there, Robes to where we're potentially dealing with six victims. We know four. We're potentially dealing with six victims from one guy. But over thirty years, Robes, there's a lot of police work that needs to be done.
00:08:38
Speaker 3: There's a lot of police work that needs to be done, but there was a lot of police work that was credited to one young detective. And I think that's the really cool story. When you hear about how some of these cases break open, oftentimes it just takes one person, one detective who's passionate about a cold case, and it can lead to something like this where you just break it. Not that case up, but you break several cases wide open based on just really good police work. And that is what happened in this case. When we come back, we're gonna tell you about a San Diego deputy prosecutor who brought this story to her bosses and was able to crack this case wide open. And welcome back everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ. We are talking about a suspected San Diego serial killer who has just been charged now with four murders. They believe there are two more victims at least, but there may be even more. And this is all happening in a San Diego county. The district attorney this week making the announcement about these new charges filed against Yeah, seventy four year old Dwight William Rohan. But she credited a just a an eager deputy prosecutor who really dug into this case, and her quote was her persistence and attention to detail helped uncover critical connections between this defendant and multiple victims, including victims whose cases had gone cold. Think about all these folks who had families, and especially the young man who is missing still they don't know where he is last seen in twenty twenty one, but to know that he was last seen on the street where Ron lived, on the street where they believe Ron killed and buried a body under the home he was living in, that just seems like too much of a coincidence that Roan wouldn't have been responsible for his just vanishing. I mean, they don't know where he is and the unknown is so difficult for families.
00:10:50
Speaker 1: In robes. Now they have to be putting so much energy and effort into every missing person's case or every unsolved murder in southern California.
00:11:01
Speaker 3: That is exactly what they're doing right now. No, they said that, they said, right now, what are we doing? We are now going through all of our cold cases, are missing folks, unsolved murders. They said that they are investigating Row in connection with several missing people, several deceased people. They don't know what his body count could be. In the end, they believe that he may be a prolific serial killers.
00:11:30
Speaker 1: To see this happening is in front of us right There's so many cases we didn't necessarily live through. I heard about it after the fact, after the person was arrested. They've gone through trial, the Dahmers of the world.
00:11:41
Speaker 3: And John Wayne Gacy's and the Ted Bundy.
00:11:44
Speaker 1: He is what I'm thinking about. To see this kind of it's happening right before us, where things are starting to add up to where this could really potentially Robes, this goes back thirty years. Who knows what we're really frightening with. I can't remember the numbers of a of a Ted Bundy. We've covered that story not too long. I can't remember that.
00:12:04
Speaker 3: They think he may have victims in the in the hundreds. Well, I think we only know. I say only we only know about thirty or so. But they believe he may have so many more women who who he murdered, who we just can't and haven't connected him to yet.
00:12:19
Speaker 1: Dahmer was the one right with the glasses. He was the one with the men because he was he was luring them.
00:12:24
Speaker 3: You're right, right, you're right, he did, he did, and of course he had other things he liked to do, to mental to yes, yeah he yet. Look, that was a complicated, disturbing case, but the fact that he was a cannibal on top of it is just beyond anything I can get my head around.
00:12:44
Speaker 1: And I think his were He had seventeen victims, so we're possibly we hear that and those people go down in the history of this country as serial killers. Robes with this dude and what they're saying he has done and what he has gotten away with for so long rogues. I am fascinating. I've had a bunch of families down there like calling up say hey, my person's been missing, Yeah went missing it you can go back to the nineties.
00:13:08
Speaker 3: Now at ninety three is right now the earliest known murder they're linking to him, and so yes, if convicted, they say he will face either life in prison without the possibility of parole, or he is actually eligible for the death penalty, although California not necessarily known for following through on any sort of a death penalty case, but he would be eligible for a prosecutors say, I also thought this was interesting. His next court date is listed as March twenty fourth, twenty twenty seven. They're given themselves almost a year, and you know what that might be by design. That might speak to just how much work they know they have to see if they can find or connect or link any of these other cold cases, missing persons cases to him before he goes to court. They probably want to make sure they have uncovered or at least dug into as many possible victims that he might have out there month March of twenty twenty seven. So yeah, it's like that's a.
00:14:03
Speaker 1: Long ways away, But I mean, I don't know if his side is requesting that. And okay with as well, But bro, this is this is one that I am fascinated by because we might be seeing the start and the development and the discovery of one of the most prolific serial killers in the country. That's not a stretch in what we're saying. It's given the circumstances, given what we know already, and given the timeline. Rhodes the seventy four year old man, So what was that thirty years ago? You've been in his mid forties or something. It's hard to think he started then, you know. I mean, look, when you talk to FBI profilers, you talk to folks who understand these types of monsters, truly, they all do have a similar mo and it's not something that they usually start and stop and start. There's a pattern they and especially when they get away with it, they they don't just stop killing.
00:14:55
Speaker 3: That's a very rare phenomenon. So that certainly doesn't seem to be the case with this this man. And look, I think more details this just broke open this week in court, so we're going to start to hear a lot more. Remember the name because We are going to be talking about him quite a bit. Dwight William roan out of San Diego, California. We will of course continue to follow this developing story for you, but as always, we appreciate you listening to us. I'm Amy Roboch alongside TJ. Holmes. We will talk to you soon
Speaker 1: Hey, the folks. It is Friday, June twelfth, and folks in California think they may have a serial killer on their hands. And he is accused of committing murders that were decades apart. And the guy is sitting in jail right now at the age of seventy four. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy t Chaking It out Age.
00:00:25
Speaker 2: It's a wild story because the story's while yes, he's seventy four, these we go back to what ninety three is it that these murders were taking place? There were twenty years in between one of them, ten years between another, and robes there's another one. They're not even sure when the murder might have taken place, but they got their guy.
00:00:45
Speaker 3: They think, here's the count right now, seventy four year old Dwight William Rohan has been charged with four murders, but there are two other cases that they believe are linked to him, so he could be up to six and they think they're mad, maybe more than that. And that is this is a developing story.
00:01:04
Speaker 2: Bro.
00:01:05
Speaker 1: When you hear when you hear the details of some of these crimes, it sounds like, oh, he never stopped.
00:01:11
Speaker 3: No, and they don't think he did. H and I just get chills hearing about this and reading about how they figured this out. But he is in custody right now. He was brought in custody on suspicion of committing a twenty twenty three murder. But yes, now he's been charged with three more murders. He pleaded not guilty to all of them. But these are four separate San Diego County killings. And yes, the dates they have nineteen ninety three, twenty two, twenty twenty three, and yes, an unknown year because they found human remains just a few months ago underneath the home he lived in. So this is what we're talking about. We'll start with the most recent crime, the one he was initially arrested for. He was charged with the murder for shooting fifty four year old Bernardo Moreno in the head and then setting his body on fire. This happened in October of twenty twenty three. He was arrested for that murder.
00:02:07
Speaker 1: Okay, so again, so this guy has been sitting he's been off the street for a little while. But Robes and I didn't mention this at the top. All the victims, at least confirmed right now they think are attached to him. Are all men? Is that correct?
00:02:22
Speaker 3: Yes? And yes, this is just fascinating. It's not anything what you would think. Just a seventy four year old serial killer who is now being linked to all these murders.
00:02:33
Speaker 1: So even though some of the crimes robes go back to the early nineties, twenty twenty three, he was what seventy one, you're.
00:02:42
Speaker 3: Still killing still, according to police. They so while he's in custody, this is when they find the human remains. They finally identified them as a man named Michael Brown, underneath the home where he lived, where he was renting. Okay, so they believe he murdered gy and buried his body under the home. They don't even know how old Michael Brown is. They don't know what year he was killed. They're still trying to figure that out. So while they're piecing that together, then they're able to link him to a September two thousand and two murder of Ronald Jenkin blunt forced trauma to the head. He was found in a creek. And all of this is important because there are other cases that are linked to these same areas where these bodies have been dumped. He has a dumping ground basically, but he.
00:03:29
Speaker 1: Also has he doesn't have an mo brob you just mentioned already. Somebody was shot and burned somebody else.
00:03:38
Speaker 3: We don't know how he died.
00:03:39
Speaker 1: Blunt force trauma, yes, and then there's enough the methods were all different.
00:03:42
Speaker 3: And then strangulation yes. So December of nineteen ninety three they have now charged him with the strangulation of Aberto Ruiz. His body was found in an alley. Okay, So those are the those are the four murders. So he's he's being charged with the murder of Bernardo Morena. He shot him, according to police, don't know how he killed Michael Brown, but put him underneath the house. Then they say he killed Ronald Jenkin blunt force trauma the head. And then they say he strangled Erberta Riez. Okay, So that's not it. You want to hear about the other two cases they believe he is now directly linked to and they expect charges to be filed. This one is Dannis Galloway, found in an alley less than a mile from where Ruiz was found. So he liked to dump bodies in alleys. And then a guy as well, Dannis Galloway, Dennis Yes. And then there's another one and I'm gonna butcher this name, but it's Anten Ginnis Gomez Valasquez. He's missing. Never found him, but he's been missing since twenty twenty one. But here's the catch. He lived on the same street that Ron lived on the same street where that house where he buried Michael Brown's body, according to police, So they've they've got they think it's at least six people right now over a span of what is that twenty something years and they're just now piecing this all together.
00:05:12
Speaker 1: So we go back thirty years almost, and these are six potential victims of his Yes, so that's one he wants to kill once every five years, we're supposed to believe is his average. Doesn't make average, But bro, over thirty year period, kill stop, don't want to kill again for twenty years? Do they believe that is possible? That doesn't even sound right.
00:05:36
Speaker 3: No, And here's the deal. Right now, because this is all breaking and all of these charges are accumulating and coming out in court, we don't know the motive. There has not been any anything written about why he murdered these men, and just like how he's connected to these men. There's not a lot of information, And I guess perhaps how serial killers get away with this for so long is it is so random. It isn't anything where a detective would connect the dots or tie these people back to you if you don't have a personal connection. Most people who are murdered are murdered by someone who they know, murdered by someone who they even love, or like there's some sort of crime of passion or money, there's some connection that brings you back to the suspect. When you have a serial killer, there's nothing, there's no motive, there's no reason, and unless you can establish a pattern, it's actually really hard to connect the dots and pin it on somebody when they choose to murder somebody for no reason whatsoever.
00:06:42
Speaker 1: But he did have. It seemed like he operated in a fairly.
00:06:46
Speaker 3: Small area San Diego County, with an a fairly limited square and I think the logistics, the locations of these bodies and where he was living, that's pretty much how they were able to try and piece this all together because one.
00:07:00
Speaker 1: Area killing what's the guy the beach killing guy, Oh, the Kilgo beach. Yeah, it wasn't that all in the same area as well, and he's lived in that area and was I don't know, maybe you have more background on this guy, but it sounds like he wasn't transient, he wasn't moving. There are so many serial killer cases we know of where they did bounce around a little bit. They go from one area to another. You can see the trail really of death and also Rodes. I'm trying to think of ah as a very famous one. You can help me if I can't remember. But serial killers often they're killing women like this is rare we see a case he was exclusively possibly killing men.
00:07:38
Speaker 3: That is what we've seen so far, And you're right, I'm trying to think of another. I mean, the only John Wayne Gacy is the only person I can think of, and he was a pedophile, but he went after little boys and he definitely sexually assaulted them and murdered them, so he had a pension for little boys. But it is odd to think about a serial killer going after grown men. I'm trying to think of another scenario like that where it's one.
00:08:03
Speaker 1: Famous one that's slipping my mind for whatever reason, but I'll come up with it later. But again, that's you said, Robes, there are so many things you can add to or add up in this case. They go, wait a minute, what and what and what that All the details are just from his age, from his victims, from the years, from the sex of the victims. It all adds up to just a this is a big story developing out there, Robes to where we're potentially dealing with six victims. We know four. We're potentially dealing with six victims from one guy. But over thirty years, Robes, there's a lot of police work that needs to be done.
00:08:38
Speaker 3: There's a lot of police work that needs to be done, but there was a lot of police work that was credited to one young detective. And I think that's the really cool story. When you hear about how some of these cases break open, oftentimes it just takes one person, one detective who's passionate about a cold case, and it can lead to something like this where you just break it. Not that case up, but you break several cases wide open based on just really good police work. And that is what happened in this case. When we come back, we're gonna tell you about a San Diego deputy prosecutor who brought this story to her bosses and was able to crack this case wide open. And welcome back everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ. We are talking about a suspected San Diego serial killer who has just been charged now with four murders. They believe there are two more victims at least, but there may be even more. And this is all happening in a San Diego county. The district attorney this week making the announcement about these new charges filed against Yeah, seventy four year old Dwight William Rohan. But she credited a just a an eager deputy prosecutor who really dug into this case, and her quote was her persistence and attention to detail helped uncover critical connections between this defendant and multiple victims, including victims whose cases had gone cold. Think about all these folks who had families, and especially the young man who is missing still they don't know where he is last seen in twenty twenty one, but to know that he was last seen on the street where Ron lived, on the street where they believe Ron killed and buried a body under the home he was living in, that just seems like too much of a coincidence that Roan wouldn't have been responsible for his just vanishing. I mean, they don't know where he is and the unknown is so difficult for families.
00:10:50
Speaker 1: In robes. Now they have to be putting so much energy and effort into every missing person's case or every unsolved murder in southern California.
00:11:01
Speaker 3: That is exactly what they're doing right now. No, they said that, they said, right now, what are we doing? We are now going through all of our cold cases, are missing folks, unsolved murders. They said that they are investigating Row in connection with several missing people, several deceased people. They don't know what his body count could be. In the end, they believe that he may be a prolific serial killers.
00:11:30
Speaker 1: To see this happening is in front of us right There's so many cases we didn't necessarily live through. I heard about it after the fact, after the person was arrested. They've gone through trial, the Dahmers of the world.
00:11:41
Speaker 3: And John Wayne Gacy's and the Ted Bundy.
00:11:44
Speaker 1: He is what I'm thinking about. To see this kind of it's happening right before us, where things are starting to add up to where this could really potentially Robes, this goes back thirty years. Who knows what we're really frightening with. I can't remember the numbers of a of a Ted Bundy. We've covered that story not too long. I can't remember that.
00:12:04
Speaker 3: They think he may have victims in the in the hundreds. Well, I think we only know. I say only we only know about thirty or so. But they believe he may have so many more women who who he murdered, who we just can't and haven't connected him to yet.
00:12:19
Speaker 1: Dahmer was the one right with the glasses. He was the one with the men because he was he was luring them.
00:12:24
Speaker 3: You're right, right, you're right, he did, he did, and of course he had other things he liked to do, to mental to yes, yeah he yet. Look, that was a complicated, disturbing case, but the fact that he was a cannibal on top of it is just beyond anything I can get my head around.
00:12:44
Speaker 1: And I think his were He had seventeen victims, so we're possibly we hear that and those people go down in the history of this country as serial killers. Robes with this dude and what they're saying he has done and what he has gotten away with for so long rogues. I am fascinating. I've had a bunch of families down there like calling up say hey, my person's been missing, Yeah went missing it you can go back to the nineties.
00:13:08
Speaker 3: Now at ninety three is right now the earliest known murder they're linking to him, and so yes, if convicted, they say he will face either life in prison without the possibility of parole, or he is actually eligible for the death penalty, although California not necessarily known for following through on any sort of a death penalty case, but he would be eligible for a prosecutors say, I also thought this was interesting. His next court date is listed as March twenty fourth, twenty twenty seven. They're given themselves almost a year, and you know what that might be by design. That might speak to just how much work they know they have to see if they can find or connect or link any of these other cold cases, missing persons cases to him before he goes to court. They probably want to make sure they have uncovered or at least dug into as many possible victims that he might have out there month March of twenty twenty seven. So yeah, it's like that's a.
00:14:03
Speaker 1: Long ways away, But I mean, I don't know if his side is requesting that. And okay with as well, But bro, this is this is one that I am fascinated by because we might be seeing the start and the development and the discovery of one of the most prolific serial killers in the country. That's not a stretch in what we're saying. It's given the circumstances, given what we know already, and given the timeline. Rhodes the seventy four year old man, So what was that thirty years ago? You've been in his mid forties or something. It's hard to think he started then, you know. I mean, look, when you talk to FBI profilers, you talk to folks who understand these types of monsters, truly, they all do have a similar mo and it's not something that they usually start and stop and start. There's a pattern they and especially when they get away with it, they they don't just stop killing.
00:14:55
Speaker 3: That's a very rare phenomenon. So that certainly doesn't seem to be the case with this this man. And look, I think more details this just broke open this week in court, so we're going to start to hear a lot more. Remember the name because We are going to be talking about him quite a bit. Dwight William roan out of San Diego, California. We will of course continue to follow this developing story for you, but as always, we appreciate you listening to us. I'm Amy Roboch alongside TJ. Holmes. We will talk to you soon