Jackie Jerome Rogers, 36, received the maximum possible sentence of 26 years to life, for the murder of his married lover in 2016
Rogers, then a 33-year-old nursing student, attacked Lisa Naegle in Dec 2016, beating the nursing teacher to death with a hammer before burying her body
Rogers fell in love with Naegle, 36, who was his nursing instructor, his attorney said and was frustrated she wanted to break up with him and go back to her husband
He then destroyed all her belongings and tried to cover up the crime
Rogers, from Lennox, LA, eventually confessed and was found guilty in Sept of first-degree murder in the slaying of 36-year-old Lisa Marie Naegle
A special circumstance allegation that he used a hammer during the killing was also “found true”
Naegle starred in the E! reality show Bridalplasty, which sees women competing to win a wedding and plastic surgery, in 2010
Jackie Jerome Rogers, from Lennox, in Los Angeles, has been sentenced to a minimum of 26 years in prison for bludgeoning his reality TV contestant lover to death
Jackie Jerome Rogers, from Lennox, in Los Angeles, bludgeoned former Bridalplasty star Lisa Marie Naegle, 36, to death in December 2016.
Rogers struck Naegle with the hammer eight times as the pair sat in his car on Dec. 18, 2016, according to prosecutors.
He then took her to the backyard of his home in the 5000 block of West 106th Street, hitting her twice more with the hammer to make sure she was dead, authorities said. After, he buried her body in a shallow grave.
Rogers destroyed all her belongings and cleaned the murder weapon and his car to cover up the crime, but eventually confessed.
He said he killed her after she told him she wanted to end their romance to patch things up with her husband.
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Rogers hit Lisa Marie Naegle [photo] at least eight times with a hammer in his car. He then took her to his home before hitting her twice more to make sure she was dead and burying her body in his backyard
Rogers said he killed her after she told him she wanted to end their romance to patch things up with her husband Derek Harryman [pictured together]
Defense attorney Jeremy Lessem said that Rogers fell in love with Naegle, from San Pedro, who was his nursing teacher. He helped out in her classroom and the two would go out for lunch.
He said his client finally ‘broke’ after months of being ‘toyed’ with by Naegle, according to NBC4.
Naegle flirted with him and when Rogers passed his nursing certification she took him and friends to Las Vegas in June 2016 where they slept together.
Naegle was on the 2010 edition of the E! reality show Bridalplasty, where women compete for a dream wedding and plastic surgery.
Lisa Neagle appeared to be having a good time at the birthday party, just hours before her death
Lisa and Rogers at the party on the fateful night
Rogers destroyed all her belongings and cleaned the murder weapon and his car to cover up the crime, but eventually confessed
At first Rogers told police he dropped Naegle off at a bar past midnight following the party. But surveillance footage showed her getting into his SUV around 2am.
Rogers said in the car she started to hit him and he started to cry and then attacked her.
A jury of 12 convicted Rogers following a two-week trial in September 2018.
Naegle starred in the E! reality show, which sees women competing to win a wedding and plastic surgery, in 2010. She lost in episode seven.
Naegle called her husband, pictured together, at around 2.45am to say she was getting food and coming home – but never returned
Defense attorney Jeremy Lessem [left], said that Rogers fell in love with Naegle, who was his nursing instructor. He said his client finally ‘broke’ after months of being ‘toyed’ with by Naeglee.
Naegle, a registered nurse who once appeared as a contestant on E! Television’s “Bridalplasty,” was reported missing after she vanished following a birthday party at the Alpine Village restaurant in an unincorporated area of Torrance, Los Angeles Police Department officials said at the time.
After leaving, she called her husband to let him know she was going to stop for food before going home. She never returned.
Rogers and Naegle were seen leaving a party together on surveillance footage in the early morning hours of December 18, 2016, in Torrance, California, before she went missing
The next morning, Naegle also failed to show up to a nursing class she was supposed to teach at West Los Angeles College in Culver City, further raising suspicions that something had happened to her.
Rogers was a student at the college and studied under Naegle, who taught part-time. Prosecutors said the two were involved in a romantic relationship.
Naegle’s relatives contacted Rogers and pressed him for details about the disappearance of their loved one. He initially told them he attended the party before changing his story when they continued to pepper him with questions.
Family members then called police, leading to his arrest.
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