WARNING: Roger Hueber

In January 2005 in Lockport, New York, a special education student's journal mentioned that her 17-year-old friend Megan was in a relationship with an adult named Roger who worked in law enforcement. A school administrator traced the name to Roger Huber, a 41-year-old corrections officer at the Niagara County jail, and Investigator Joe Taylor opened a case. The picture that emerged was a cycle of grooming: Huber's live-in girlfriend Cheryl Rucci, a developmentally disabled 33-year-old, had herself started babysitting his kids as a teenager. When Cheryl left him, she handed investigators a bombshell — in 1999, she and Roger had together sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl.

Cheryl's statement got Huber indicted on 21 counts, with a plea deal on the table if she testified. On August 9, 2005 — the same day deputies came to her apartment complex trying to serve her a grand jury subpoena — Cheryl disappeared. Her shoes and purse were still inside her apartment; she had no phone, credit cards, or driver's license. The same sheriff's office that employed Huber handled the case and initially labeled her a fugitive; a detective allegedly called her a 'crackhead whore' to her sister. Huber pleaded guilty to attempted rape and endangering the welfare of a child, served his 16-month-to-four-year sentence, and later married Megan.

Ashley Flowers reports details that have never aired before. Huber's long-standing alibi — a movie night with his daughter — collapsed when the daughter told the show it was canceled and she was dropped at her grandmother's instead. A witness the show calls Amy describes stopping that night on a rural road near Route 78 for a teal sedan where a frightened dark-haired woman mouthed 'go, go, go' while a hulking man emerged from the brush; she says police told her Cheryl 'wasn't worth looking for,' and weeks later she noticed a foul odor from those same woods. A trained search team finally covered part of that area in November 2024 and wants to go back. Court records show original case-file materials were pulled and reviewed in July 2025, and a prosecutor declined an interview citing a pending matter related to the criminal case against Huber — suggesting something is moving in Niagara County after 20 years.