Ready To PrintBorn as William Bruce Rose Jr. in Lafayette, Indiana, a Midwestern city in the United States, near the Canadian border. Rose would be the eldest son of Sharon Elizabeth Falkenhörst Leitner, 16 years old and still in high school, and William Bruce Rose Caulfield, 20, in 1962.8 Rose is of Scottish descent on the paternal and German side of the mother.

His parents separated when Rose was just three years old. His mother remarried Stephen L. Bailey, and changed the name of his son to William Bruce Bailey. Rose has two brothers on the mother's side, born of this second marriage, Amy and Stuart.8 The Bailey family was very religious, and together with Rose they attended a Pentecostal church, three to eight times a week, although they also attended a Sunday school. TO