Postal Worker Nancy Rogers

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HAYWARD, Calif. — On the two-year anniversary of the violent death of a longtime U.S. Postal Service worker in Hayward, authorities today are asking for the public’s help and offering a $100,000 reward for any information that might solve the case.

Nancy Rogers, 61, was found dead in a dump in San Leandro at about 8 a.m. on June 14, 2010, after her co-workers at the post office at 24438 Santa Clara St. in Hayward reported her missing.

Rogers was an opening clerk who regularly arrived at the post office in Hayward early in the morning to prepare mail for carriers to deliver later in the day, Rickher said. On Monday, Rogers came to work at 1 a.m. Several hours later, the small group of employees who worked with her that day noticed that she was missing and called their supervisor, Rickher said. The supervisor then called police. The early morning employees “are a very close-knit group” and it was “out of the ordinary” for Rogers to disappear, Rickher said. Orrey said officers who responded to the post office determined that its Dumpster had recently been emptied. They contacted Waste Management of Alameda County and discovered that a trash collector had picked up the Dumpster’s contents sometime before the employee was reported missing, Orrey said. Officers next went to Waste Management’s transfer center at 2615 Davis St. in San Leandro and determined where the trash from the post office had been unloaded. The piles were searched, and amid the trash officers found a body that matched Rogers’ description,

Rogers worked at the Santa Clara Street post office in Hayward for 43 years, and was considered “an institution” there.

Authorities are still not releasing how Rogers died because of the ongoing investigation, but an autopsy on her body determined that the death was a homicide, Hayward police said.

U.S. Postal Inspector Jeff Fitch said on today’s two-year anniversary of Rogers’ death, investigators from the postal service and Hayward police are hoping someone will come forward with new information about the case.

The postal service has put up the $100,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in connection with the death, Fitch said.

“This has always been one of our high-priority cases,” he said. “It’s not a cold case at all.”

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