Glen Rogers | |
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Born | Hamilton, Ohio, U.S. | July 15, 1962
Other names | The Cross Country Killer The Casanova Killer |
Height | 6 ft (1.83 m) |
Criminal status | Incarcerated |
Conviction(s) | Florida First degree murder Armed robbery Grand theft auto California First degree murder with special circumstances Arson |
Criminal penalty | Death |
Details | |
Victims | 2 convictions, 3+ more suspected, 70 claimed |
Span of crimes | 1993 –November 9, 1995 |
Country | United States |
State(s) | California Florida Kentucky (suspected) Mississippi Louisiana |
Date apprehended | November 13, 1995 |
Imprisoned at | Union Correctional Institution |
Glen Edward Rogers (born July 15, 1962), [1] is an American convicted serial killer. He was also convicted of related crimes in Florida and California, such as armed robbery, grand theft auto, and arson.
Also known as "The Cross Country Killer" or "The Casanova Killer", he was convicted of first-degree murder at two separate trials in the deaths of two women (the first in Florida in 1997 and the second in California in June 1999). He is a suspect in numerous other murders throughout the United States. After a crime spree that began on September 28, 1995, with Rogers's first authoritatively established murder, he was featured on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. [2]
He was sentenced to death in both Florida and California. He has been incarcerated since 1997 at Union Correctional Institution in Raiford, Florida, where he is held on death row.
According to a 2012 cable-TV documentary, Rogers claimed that he committed the 1994 murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, though O. J. Simpson was acquitted in a criminal trial. [3]
Rogers was born and raised in Hamilton, Ohio. He was one of seven children born to Edna (née Sears) and Claude Rogers. Among his siblings is a brother Clay. Their father Claude was a hydro pulp operator at the local Champion paper company. Rogers was expelled from his junior high school before he was 16.
Sometime after his expulsion, his 14-year-old girlfriend Deborah Ann Nix got pregnant. The young couple married. They had another child together in 1981. In 1983, Nix filed for divorce, alleging physical abuse by Rogers. [4]
Authorities in Hamilton, Ohio suspected Rogers of fatally stabbing or strangling an elderly man in that city in 1993. Later Rogers moved away from Ohio, surfacing in California.
In 1995, he was named as a suspect in the murders of four women that year: in California, Mississippi, Florida, and Louisiana, respectively.
After being arrested in Kentucky on November 13, Rogers originally told police he had committed nearly 70 murders. He recanted his statement. He said he was joking and had not committed any murders. [5]
His brother Clay reportedly led police to search the family cabin for clues. Peters's remains were found there, bound to a chair and hidden by a pile of furniture. [6] [7]
On June 22, 1999, Rogers was convicted in California of murdering Gallagher. He was already serving time in Florida for the murder of a woman there. [2] On July 16, 1999, California sentenced him to death. [8]
The last time Carroll saw her sister was the night before Halloween 1995. The two planned to have Carroll's grandchildren go trick-or-treating at Price's apartment. But Price did not answer her door on Halloween, and Rogers appeared to have left. Similar to his other suspected female victims, Price was in her 30s and had red hair. She was found dead in a bathtub in her apartment. [2]
On November 5, Rogers had paid for an extra night and asked that his room not be cleaned. The clerk saw Rogers putting his belongings into a white Ford Festiva. The next day, Cribbs's wallet was discovered at a rest area in North Florida. Police found that fingerprints lifted from her wallet and the motel room matched those of Rogers. On November 13, Rogers was arrested in Kentucky while driving Cribbs's car. He claimed that Cribbs had loaned it to him and that she was alive when he left Tampa.
On July 11, 1997, Rogers was convicted in Florida and sentenced to death for the murder of Tina Marie Cribbs. [9] He was incarcerated in Union Correctional Institution on death row.
The four women shared similarities in appearance. Each had reddish hair and was in her 30s.
Rogers drove north from Louisiana and was arrested in Waco, Kentucky after a 13-mile (20 km) chase on November 13, 1995. [10] Kentucky State Police Detective Bob Stephens noticed a man driving Cribbs's stolen car. He chased him, followed by rookie Irvine, Kentucky police officer Charles Cox. Trooper Ed Robinson and other officers set up a roadblock to stop Rogers. Robinson fired a shotgun blast that hit the rear tires but it didn't stop Rogers. Robinson joined the pursuit. Sgt. Joey Barnes (who formerly served with Florida Highway Patrol) rammed his patrol car into Cribbs's stolen car and spun Rogers off the highway into a ditch. Stephens, Cox, Robinson, Barnes, and other officers surrounded Rogers and arrested him. A local TV news crew filmed Rogers's chase and arrest on the scene.
After being convicted and sentenced to death for Cribbs's murder, Rogers was scheduled to be executed on Valentine's Day 1999 in Florida. He has filed various appeals, but these have been denied. Rogers is still being held on death row at Union Correctional Institution in Raiford, Florida.
After his trial, he appealed his conviction to the Florida Supreme Court, claiming that the State had not presented enough evidence to support the charges. Rogers also argued that the trial court should have granted the defense's motions for a mistrial because a witness was allowed to testify about a misdemeanor for which Rogers was convicted in California. He claimed the prosecution was allowed to present an improper argument during closing arguments. His appeal was delayed until March 2001 and was ultimately denied. In April 2005, Rogers filed another appeal; it was denied in 2011. It was his last appeal.
A 2012 documentary entitled My Brother the Serial Killer examined Rogers's crimes and included claims that Rogers had killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman in California in 1994. [11] [12] [13] [14] According to Rogers' brother Clay, Rogers claimed that, before the murders, he had met Brown and was "going to take her down." [14] During a lengthy correspondence that began in 2009 between Rogers and criminal profiler Anthony Meoli, Rogers wrote and created paintings about his involvement with the murders. During a prison meeting between the two, Rogers claimed O.J. Simpson hired him to break into Nicole Brown Simpson's house and steal some expensive jewelry. He said that Simpson had told him, "You may have to kill the bitch". In a filmed interview, Glen's brother Clay asserts that his brother confessed his involvement. [14]
Rogers' family stated that he had informed them that he had been working for Nicole in 1994 and that he had made verbal threats about her to them. Rogers later spoke to a criminal profiler about the Goldman-Simpson murders, providing details about the crime and remarking that he had been hired by O. J. Simpson to steal a pair of earrings and potentially murder Nicole.[ citation needed ]
LAPD responded to the documentary as follows: “We know who killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. We have no reason to believe that Mr. Rogers was involved.” Fred Goldman, father of Ron Goldman stated: “The overwhelming evidence at the criminal trial proved that one, and only one, person murdered Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. That person is O.J. Simpson and not Glen Rogers.” [15]
Rogers was the subject of an episode of The FBI Files , titled "Deadly Stranger" (Season 3, Episode 12). He was also the subject of an episode of Southern Fried Homicide, titled "Smooth Talking Devil" (Season 3, Episode 2) on Investigation Discovery.[ citation needed ]
The Oxygen channel's series It Takes a Killer episode, The Casanova Killer", (run time: 22 minutes, air date: September 2, 2016) focuses on four of the murders linked to Rogers and the manhunt leading to his capture. [16]
The film The Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson (2019) purports to tell the story as asserted by Rogers and his family about his involvement with Nicole Brown Simpson. Rogers is portrayed by Nick Stahl, and Mena Suvari portrays Nicole Brown Simpson. [17]
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