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USA - Florida. Glen Rogers, 62, White, was executed on May 15
May 15, 2025: May 15, 2025 - Florida. Glen Rogers, 62, White, was executed on May 15.
A suspected serial killer dubbed as the "Casanova Killer”.
Glen Rogers, 62, received a lethal injection at Florida state prison near Starke and was pronounced dead at 6.16pm.
Rogers killed Tina Marie Cribbs after the two were seen leaving a bar in Gibsonton in November 1995. The 34-year-old was found stabbed to death in a Tampa motel room two days later. Authorities later tracked down Rogers in Kentucky, where he was driving Cribbs’ car. He claimed she had lent him the vehicle.
Rogers was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 1997. He later received another death sentence in California in 1999 for the September 1995 murder of Sandra Gallagher, which occurred weeks before Cribbs' murder.
Authorities connected five victims to Rogers. Three of the murders happened within a six-day period. The victims were:
Mark Peters, a 72-year-old retired electrician in Hamilton, Ohio, with whom Rogers lived with briefly, was found dead in a shack owned by Rogers' family in January 1994 in Kentucky.
Sandra Gallagher, 33, on Sept. 28, 1995 in California. Her body was found in her burning vehicle. She had met Rogers in a bar the night of her murder.
Linda Price, 34, found stabbed to death in the bathtub of her home in Mississippi, on Nov. 3, 1995.
Tina Marie Cribbs, 34, found stabbed to death in a Florida hotel bathtub on Nov. 7, 1995. Like Gallagher, she had met Rogers at a bar on the night of her murder.
Andy Lou Jiles Sutton, 37, who was found stabbed to death in her bed on Nov. 9, 1995 in Louisiana. Sutton and Rogers met before her murder and are believed to have slept together.
Authorities in multiple states have linked Rogers to more killings, although not all resulted in convictions. At one point, he claimed responsibility for up to 70 murders, though investigators consider many of those claims to be exaggerated or false.
He even claimed to be responsible for the 1994 murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman (the O.J. Simpson case), according to a 2012 documentary, but the Associated Press says the Los Angeles Police Department dismissed that claim.
Rogers has been called the "Casanova Killer" because, according to investigators, he had a habit of meeting women in bars and getting them into his car before attacking them.
Rogers’ lawyers filed several appeals with state and federal courts, none successful. One argument was that newly enacted state legislation authorizing the death penalty for trafficking in young children makes clear the abuse he suffered as a child is now taken seriously and should result in a life prison sentence for Rogers. That argument was rejected.
The US supreme court denied Rogers’ final appeals on Wednesday without comment.
In a final statement, Rogers thanked his wife, who visited him earlier in the day at the prison. Rogers used his last words to shout-out President Donald Trump and address the families of his victims, according to execution witnesses.
“I know there’s a lot of questions that you need answers to. I promise you in the near future the questions will be answered and I hope in someway will bring you closure," he said. "President Trump, keep making America great. I’m ready to go.”
Rogers becomes the 5th prisoner executed this year in Florida, the 111th since Florida resumed capital punishment in 1979, the 16th inmate put to death this year in the USA, and the n° 1,623 overall since the nation resumed executions in 1977
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/15/florida-execution-glen-rogers-oj-simpson-case (Source: The Guardian, 15/05/2025)
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