Editing Mark Rogowski (section)

==Murder of Jessica Bergsten==
Following the end of his relationship with McClain, Rogowski was jealous: he entered her home to steal gifts he had given her, he made threatening telephone calls to McClain's new boyfriend, and he also threatened McClain directly.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |url=https://crime-in-sports.simplecast.com/episodes/188-killing-in-the-name-of-the-senselessness-of-mark-gator-rogowski-qHQV_U0e |access-date=2024-04-13 |website=crime-in-sports.simplecast.com}}</ref>

On March 20, 1991, Rogowski talked with 22-year-old Bergsten for the first time in years. Bergsten asked Rogowski to show her around [[San Diego]]. They spent a day together on March 21, 1991.<ref name="CBS News">{{Cite web |title=Mark "Gator" Rogowski, Former Pro Skateboarder, Denied Parole for 1992 Calif. Murder-Rape |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mark-gator-rogowski-former-pro-skateboarder-denied-parole-for-1992-calif-murder-rape/ |last=Caroline Black |date=February 9, 2011 |publisher=[[CBS News]] |access-date=July 28, 2019}}</ref> According to Rogowski, he and Bergsten then went back to his condo to watch movies, smoke weed, and drink wine. He then came up behind her and hit her in the head with a [[The Club (automotive)|Club]], a metal auto anti-theft device. After [[Altered state of consciousness|knocking her into semi-consciousness]] with several strikes, he handcuffed her, dragged her to his bedroom on the second floor, and raped her while she was shackled to his bed.<ref name="paper" /> Afterward, he placed her in a surfboard bag because he was concerned about the neighbors hearing the noise. Rogowski then either strangled or suffocated her and drove the body to the Shell Canyon desert, where he disposed of her corpse in a shallow grave.<ref name="paper" />

Concerned when his daughter failed to answer phone calls, Bergsten's father reported her missing and put up posters with her photo requesting information all over the city of San Diego. While out with his spiritual advisor and friend Auggie Constantino, Rogowski saw one of these posters. Though he did not say anything incriminating at the time, Constantino later said that Rogowski's demeanor changed after seeing the poster.<ref name=":1" />

Bergsten's body was found by campers on April 10, 1991, but it was so decomposed that it could not be identified.<ref name="paper" /> Shortly thereafter, Rogowski confessed to his friend Constantino that: "Remember that girl from the poster? She was the one I killed."<ref name="paper" /> Constantino encouraged Rogowski to confess his crime to the police.<ref name=":0" />

Rogowski turned himself in on April 11, 1991, and led police to where he had disposed of Bergsten's body.<ref name="paper" /> Police searched his home and found blood that soaked through the carpet padding and into the floorboards in two small spots, adjacent to where Bergsten's head allegedly rested. In his confession, Rogowski claimed that he had killed Bergsten in a misplaced act of revenge toward McClain, saying that Bergsten was made from the "same mold Brandi was made out of".<ref name="paper" />