STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A suspected serial killer as soon as scrutinized for a attainable hyperlink to the O.J. Simpson case that riveted the nation within the mid-Nineties is scheduled to be executed Thursday in Florida for the homicide of a girl in a Tampa motel room.
Glen Rogers, 62, is about to obtain a deadly injection at Florida State Jail close to Starke, barring a last-day reprieve. He was convicted in Florida of the 1995 homicide of Tina Marie Cribbs, a 34-year-old mom of two he had met at a bar.
The U.S. Supreme Court docket denied Rogers’ closing appeals on Wednesday with out remark.
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This picture offered by Florida Division of Corrections reveals dying row inmate Glen Rogers. (Florida Division of Corrections through AP) -
FILE – On this July 8, 1996 file picture, convicted assassin Glen Rogers, proper, stares at Public Defender Joan Corces throughout a listening to in Tampa, Fla. (AP Picture/Chris O’Meara, File)
Rogers can be the fifth inmate put to death in Florida this 12 months. As of Could 1, 15 people have been executed this year within the U.S. in eight states, in line with the Death Penalty Information Center’s website. That compares with 25 individuals in all of 2024, the middle reported.
He additionally drew a separate dying sentence in California for the 1995 strangulation killing of Sandra Gallagher, a mom of three whom he had met at a bar in Van Nuys in that state. That killing got here weeks earlier than the Cribbs homicide. Rogers was stopped after a freeway chase in Kentucky whereas driving Cribbs’ automobile quickly after her dying.
Rogers was named as a suspect however by no means convicted in a number of different slayings across the nation, as soon as telling police he had killed about 70 individuals. He later recanted that assertion, however had been the topic of documentaries together with one from 2012 referred to as “My Brother the Serial Killer” that featured his brother Clay and a prison profiler who had corresponded extensively with Rogers.
The documentary raised questions on whether or not Rogers might have been liable for the 1994 stabbing deaths of Simpson’s ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her good friend Ron Goldman.
Throughout a 1995 homicide trial that drew intense media consideration, the previous soccer star and movie star Simpson was acquitted of all prices. Los Angeles police and prosecutors subsequently stated after the documentary’s launch that they did not suppose Rogers had any involvement within the Simpson and Goldman killings.
“We all know who killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. Now we have no purpose to imagine that Mr. Rogers was concerned,” the Los Angeles Police Division stated in a press release on the time.
Simpson had all the time professed innocence however was later discovered accountable for the deaths in a separate civil case, after which served 9 years in jail on unrelated prices. The 76-year-old Simpson died in April 2024 after battling most cancers.
Rogers, initially from Hamilton, Ohio, has additionally been labeled the “Casanova Killer” or “Cross Nation Killer” in varied media experiences. A few of his alleged and confirmed feminine victims had comparable traits: ages of their 30s, a petite body and purple hair.
Rogers’ legal professionals have filed a number of appeals with state and federal courts, none profitable. One argument was that newly enacted state laws authorizing the dying penalty for trafficking in younger kids makes clear the abuse he suffered as a toddler is now taken severely and will lead to a life jail sentence for Rogers. That argument was rejected.
Florida makes use of a three-drug cocktail for its deadly injection: a sedative, a paralytic and a drug that stops the center, in line with the Corrections Division.
Anthony Wainwright is the subsequent Florida inmate scheduled for execution — on June 10 — below a death warrant signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. Wainwright, 54, was convicted of kidnapping a girl from a grocery store parking zone in Lake Metropolis in 1994 and raping and killing her.
