SCOTT COUNTY GRAND JURY INDICTS TWO

BENTON -- A Scott County grand jury on Thursday indicted the man suspected of killing a Southeast Missouri State University student late last year.

Joshua C. Kezer, 19, of Kankakee, Ill., pleaded not guilty to charges of first degree murder and armed criminal action in the shooting death of Angela Mischelle Lawless on Nov. 8, 1992.

Kezer is alleged to have killed Lawless, 19, on an Interstate 55 off-ramp near her home town of Benton.

The judge ordered Kezer to appear Aug. 12 for a trial setting.

The grand jury also indicted a Scott City man on six counts of sodomy, one count of incest and a single count of sexual abuse in the first degree.

The grand jury alleges that Jeff Rogers sodomized six boys and sexually abused one girl.

Scott County Assistant Prosecutor Bob Gowen said that all the victims are Scott City residents, but refused to divulge any further information in the case.

Rogers is being held in the Scott County Jail, in lieu of $100,000 bond.