Firefighters battling an arson blaze in a residential neighborhood of Gary, Indiana early Saturday morning, June 6th, came upon a grisly discovery. Among gas cans strewn about the smoldering residence, a dead body was found with hands cuffed and throat slashed.

The body has been identified as that of Gerald Yager, age 68. Lake County Sheriff John Buncich has ruled Gerald Yager's death to be a homicide. Buncich said that investigators, including federal authorities, are looking into claims made by a relative of the deceased that Gerald Yager had been receiving notes containing death threats which he believed were coming from his younger brother, Randy Yager, aged 59.

Randy Yager is the former leader of the Chicago-area Outlaws Motorcycle Club and was known locally in Rosarito as "Steve Rothman" during the seventeen-year period in which he lived under cover with his girlfriend, known as Margie.

The Yager brothers and Margie were natives of Gary, Indiana, a tough, rust belt steel town, less than a thirty-minute motorcycle ride from downtown Chicago. The town, most famous as the birthplace of Michael Jackson, has lost half its population since the steel industry shut down in the 1960's and is marked by boarded-up storefronts, massive unemployment, racial tension, and turf war between rival motorcycle gangs riding the high octane of drugs and violence.

The two Yager brothers were both members of the Outlaws. Sheriff Buncich said that the older brother Gerald Yager was "affiliated, but not as heavily as his brother." ]Randy Yager had been the regional president of the Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana territory of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club. He and sixteen other Outlaw members were indicted and federal warrants issued on June 2, 1997 for Racketeering: including murder, firearms and explosives violations, arson, and narcotics trafficking.

According to the 1997 indictment for his arrest, many of those acts were committed with the intent to control Outlaw territory and keep rival motorcycle gangs, including the Hell's Angels, from gaining a foothold in the Midwest. The sixteen defendants either plead guilty or were found guilty and are serving up to life in a federal prison.

But Randy Yager, also known as "Mad", vanished without a trace and so did Margie Jelovcic, a local Gary, Indiana girl ten years his junior. In 2004 the U.S. Marshals Service placed Randy Yager on their Most Wanted List. Margie Jelovcic also landed on numerous lists including the North American Missing Persons Network where she was named as having been last seen on September 2, 1998.

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All this time, within the Rosarito Beach community, they were known as Steve and Margie Rothman, who worked fixing up houses and doing odd jobs for the locals, many of whom are retired ex-pats from the United States. But Steve/Randy was never seen without a long-sleeve shirt and no one knew he was covered with neo-Nazi and biker tattoos. No one suspected them of living a double life until Randy Mark Yager made international headlines in late October, 2014 when he was arrested by Mexican law enforcement officials in a Rosarito bar.

On the night of Randy Yager's arrest in Rosarito, Margie flipped her SUV in a high-speed chase with Mexican authorities and crashed opposite the bar where her husband was being arrested. She was found lying near her vehicle with a fake ID on her person, a gun nearby, and what officials described as a self-inflicted bullet wound to the head. She was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital in Rosarito.

Early the following morning, Randy Yager was turned over to US Marshalls at the San Ysidro border crossing for processing and transfer to federal lock-up facilities in Wisconsin, where he has remained incarcerated ever since.

On May 22, 2015 Randy Yager was re-arraigned in a Milwaukie federal courtroom to ultimately face charges based on the original indictment from 1997, including racketeering, murder, arson, and trafficking narcotics.

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