In 1980, 25 year old nurse Ann Marie Roche was kidnapped from the parking lot of Wake Medical Center where she worked by Rook. Miss Roche was then driven to a vacant field, where she was raped and then murdered by Rook, who subsequently drove his vehicle over her body. He =tried to blame society for the murder. Because he didn't get the "help" he needed as a kid. And when we started paying attention to him (for breaking the law) everything that was done just made it all worse.
During execution John William Rook, 27 years old, said, 'Freedom, freedom at last, man - it's been a good one,' and died at 2:11 A.M., said Renee McCoy, a spokesman for the Correction Department. He was allowed to wear western boots and a Harley-Davidson T-shirt. His last meal: 12 hotdogs (with mustard) and a can of Coke