Glen Edward Rogers was executed by the State of Florida on May 15, 2025, for the murder of Tina Marie Cribbs, a 34-year-old mother of two whom he met in a bar in Gibsonton, Florida, in November 1995. Her body was found two days later in the bathtub of the motel room he had rented. A week after her death he was arrested in Kentucky, at the end of a high-speed chase, driving her car.
Florida was the second state to sentence him to death. In 1999 a Los Angeles jury convicted him of strangling Sandra Gallagher, a 33-year-old mother of three he had met in a bar in Van Nuys, and of setting fire to her truck with her body inside. Those are his only two murder convictions. He was also suspected in the stabbing deaths of Andy Lou Sutton in Bossier City, Louisiana, and Linda Price in Jackson, Mississippi, in the weeks between the two convicted killings, and in the death of Mark Peters, an older man from his hometown of Hamilton, Ohio, whose remains were found in a Kentucky cabin owned by the Rogers family in 1994. None of those three deaths was ever tried. Rogers once told police he had killed about 70 people, then said he had been joking. The press called him the Casanova Killer and the Cross Country Killer.
Rogers was born on July 15, 1962, according to the Florida Legislature's capital case record, and he was from Hamilton, Ohio. The Florida Supreme Court refers to his six siblings.
Testimony at his California trial, summarized by the California Supreme Court, described a hard childhood. His father was an alcoholic who beat his wife and children, once broke his wife's nose, and kept guns in the house. The father was fired from a paper mill for drinking on the job. The family lost its home and moved to a poor neighborhood, where Rogers was beaten by other children as well as by his father. He was held back in the third grade and placed in classes for children with learning disabilities. His oldest brother introduced him to alcohol at 12, and several of his siblings became alcoholics. The Florida trial judge accepted as mitigation a childhood without love, affection or moral guidance, a father who drank and beat Rogers's mother in front of the children, and an older brother who gave him drugs when he was young and encouraged him to take part in burglaries.
Years later, in a 2020 court filing, Rogers said he had been sexually abused as a child over several years, in Hamilton and at a juvenile institution, the Training Institute of Central Ohio. He said the memories had been repressed until 2019. The courts did not decide whether the abuse happened; they ruled that the claim came too late.
As an adult he worked at times. The Florida trial judge heard from a former employer who called him a reliable and well-liked cab driver, and for a period he alone cared for his two children. A Hamilton radio host told FOX19 in 2012 that Rogers had been a taxi driver who drove the station's traffic manager to and from work and that he drank at a bar across the street from the station. In 1987 he was convicted of forgery in Ohio.
In March 1991 police were called twice in one day to his house in Hamilton. According to the California Supreme Court's summary of the evidence, he had torn up the interior walls with a hammer and was in an uncontrollable rage. He threatened to "blow away anyone" who came to the door, neighbors were evacuated, and he pushed a lit acetylene torch through the front door near an officer's face, setting the door on fire. He was arrested and charged with aggravated menacing and attempted arson. The same year he was taken to the hospital after he was struck on the head with a pool cue; the Florida Supreme Court refers to a 1991 hospitalization for a skull fracture.
Mark Peters was 71, a retired electrician and a veteran who lived in Hamilton. The Journal-News in Hamilton has described him as Rogers's roommate. In October 1993 his family reported him missing, along with his car, antiques, guns and a coin collection, WCPO in Cincinnati reported in 2025.
In January 1994 his remains were found in a cabin in Beattyville, Kentucky, that belonged to the Rogers family, according to the Associated Press as cited by WCPO and to the Journal-News. Authorities say Rogers either stabbed or strangled him, WCPO reported. Rogers was suspected in the death, but no charge was reported, and he was never tried.
Evidence at his California penalty trial showed that in 1994 and 1995, in California, he beat the woman he was then living with, and that in August 1995 he threatened to kill her and her family; she left the country. The Florida jury later heard two men describe another California incident in which Rogers had gone after them with a kitchen knife, but that evidence was struck.
In September 1995 he had an apartment in Van Nuys and had become a frequent customer at McRed's, a bar in the area. He repeatedly asked a bartender there for her phone number, and she repeatedly declined. A young woman and her boyfriend had recently moved into his apartment.
Sandra Gallagher was 33. She was known as Sam or Sammy. She had been married to her husband for eight years; they had separated for a time and in September 1995 were living together again, in what he called an on-again, off-again marriage. She had three sons, whom she was planning to visit in Sacramento. She had once worked at McRed's, and she drove a black and silver Ford F-150 with Colorado plates that she had bought from her father.
On September 28, 1995, she won a state lottery prize and went to the lottery office in Van Nuys to claim 1,279 dollars. Her husband said she was happy that day. That afternoon she went back to McRed's, where the owner recognized her face. A bartender who arrived at about 5:30 or 6 p.m. was asked to look after her. Rogers came in at about 7 or 7:30 and approached her; according to the State of California's brief, she brushed him off and went on playing pool. At about 8 or 8:30 she called her husband from the bar and said she might stay and sing with the band.
Later in the evening Rogers and the couple who shared his apartment joined Gallagher's group. Rogers bought rounds of drinks. At about 1:20 a.m. the four of them left together and went to a 7-Eleven, Rogers riding with Gallagher in her truck. At about 2 a.m. a police officer stopped the boyfriend for an illegal U-turn and arrested him for drunk driving near the apartment. He later said he had seen the silhouettes of two people who seemed to be struggling.
Early that morning the young woman in the apartment asked Rogers where Gallagher was. "I got bigger problems than you, honey," he answered, and he said that Gallagher was dead. Later he told her that Gallagher had run off with "some Mexican." She saw him going through Gallagher's purse, taking out a wallet and a checkbook and tossing items aside, and she saw an earring fall. He told her he was going to Las Vegas. Detectives later recovered a gold hoop earring from the kitchen floor of the apartment, which Gallagher's husband had seen her wearing the day before, and her purse and her cigarette pack were found in the apartment.
At about 6:30 a.m. on September 29, a nurse at a nearby convalescent hospital saw smoke and flames in the rear parking lot. Gallagher's body was in her burning truck. An arson investigator found gasoline in the passenger compartment and concluded that the fire had been set on purpose to conceal a homicide. The doctors who examined her found that she had died of asphyxia due to manual strangulation and was dead before the fire. The truck was near Rogers's apartment, the Associated Press reported.
About two days later Rogers left Los Angeles by bus for Jackson, Mississippi. He later testified that he stopped to gamble in Las Vegas on the way.
Linda Price was 34, a Jackson woman who cleaned houses and was the mother of two children, a son and a daughter. On October 9, 1995, she met Rogers at a beer tent at the Mississippi State Fair in Jackson. He complimented her hair, her mother later told WLBT. On October 12 Price introduced him to her mother as Glen Rogers, and on October 16 the couple rented an apartment together in Jackson.
Price was last seen alive on October 30. On Halloween her family came by to take her trick-or-treating, but no one answered the door. Her mother noticed that the bathroom curtain was closed, which was unusual. On November 3 police found her dead in her bathtub. She had been stabbed. Chuck Lee, the Jackson police detective on call that night, told WLBT in 2019 that there were signs someone had tried to clean the scene. Rogers was gone, and he became the prime suspect. Police issued a public alert for him.
Days after the funeral, Price's mother received a phone call from a man who said he was "Glen's brother." She recognized the voice as Rogers's. The caller said that anyone who had been around Glen had "ended up dead," the California Supreme Court recorded.
Rogers was never tried for Linda Price's death. Lee told WLBT that the Hinds County District Attorney's Office decided not to pursue a trial. "He had two death penalties, and they didn't want to put our victim's family through the trial," he said. Her killing was presented to the California jury at the penalty phase of the Gallagher case, but the trial judge kept it out of the guilt phase. No Mississippi conviction exists; the death is attributed to him, not proven against him in a court.
On November 2, 1995, Rogers met Andy Lou Sutton at the It'll Do Lounge in Bossier City, Louisiana. He spent the night at her apartment. When he left, he told her he had to go back to Jackson to pick up a truck, and he went on to Tampa. He left a red pickup in the parking lot of her apartment complex. Registration information from that truck later helped investigators identify him, the Shreveport-Bossier City Advocate reported.
He came back to Bossier City about a week later, driving a car that he told Sutton he had bought for her. It was Tina Cribbs's car. That night, according to the California Supreme Court, Sutton's roommate let Sutton take an intoxicated Rogers home. The roommate returned at about 3 a.m. and did not see Sutton. The next morning the roommate and a former boyfriend of Sutton's found her body in the apartment. She had been stabbed. A knife from the kitchen set was found in the bedroom, and items belonging to the roommate's family were later found in Cribbs's car when Rogers was arrested.
The California opinion gives the date of her death as both November 7 and November 8, 1995; the Advocate dates the stabbing to November 7. Louisiana never tried Rogers for her death. The California prosecutors presented it to the jury at the guilt phase of the Gallagher trial as evidence of his intent and common design, and the California Supreme Court approved that use. Sutton's children said after the execution that he had "got what he deserves."
Tina Marie Cribbs was 34, a mother of two from Gibsonton, Florida.
On November 4, 1995, Rogers arrived by cab at a motel in East Tampa. He told the clerk he was a truck driver whose truck had broken down. The next day, Sunday, November 5, he went to the Showtown Bar in Gibsonton, again by cab. He introduced himself to several patrons as "Randy." When Cribbs and some friends came in, he bought the women a round of drinks and told them he had no interest in married women or women with boyfriends. Cribbs was the only single woman in the group. He asked her for "a ride," and she agreed. She told one of her friends she would be back in 15 or 20 minutes to meet her mother.
Her mother came to the bar to meet her. When her daughter did not come back, she paged her about 30 times, without an answer. Cribbs did not return.
At about 9:30 that Sunday night the motel clerk saw Rogers putting luggage beside a white Ford Festiva. He came into the office and paid for another night, said he did not want anyone to enter his room, and asked for a "Do Not Disturb" sign. At about 9 a.m. on Monday the clerk saw him drive away alone in the same car. It was Cribbs's car. A housekeeper saw a handwritten "Do Not Disturb" sign on the door that Monday morning.
On Monday, November 6, a highway crew found Cribbs's wallet at a rest area on Interstate 10 near Tallahassee. It held no money. Investigators later lifted two of Rogers's fingerprints from it.
On Tuesday, November 7, the housekeeper went into the room and found Cribbs in the bathtub, clothed, with a pager and a wristwatch at her feet. She had been stabbed, and the state's pathologist described a wound on her arm as defensive. The pathologist testified that the wounds were deliberate and that she was conscious when they were inflicted. Her sapphire and diamond ring and her gold heart-shaped watch were missing. Fingerprints from the motel room matched Rogers's.
Rogers drove Cribbs's car to Bossier City and later to Kentucky. In Kentucky he stopped briefly at the Kentucky Mountain Mission, asked for a chaplain, was told none was there, and went back to his car looking "really troubled," a witness testified in California.
On November 13, 1995, a week after Cribbs died, Kentucky State Police spotted the car near Ravenna, Kentucky. It was carrying stolen Tennessee license plates, according to the State of California's brief. Rogers fled. He threw half-full beer cans at the officers chasing him, and the pursuit ran at high speed for about 50 miles through four towns, according to the California Supreme Court, before officers rammed his car and took him into custody. The arrest took place near Waco, Kentucky, WCPO reported.
A news crew from WCPO in Cincinnati was in Waco that day to interview Rogers's aunt when they heard about the chase. The photographer, Chic Poppe, said he joined a line of what he estimated to be 20 police cars, and he filmed the arrest. Moments afterward he asked Rogers, "How many people have you killed, Mr. Rogers?"
In the car, officers found food and a cooler, a duffel bag, a comforter and pillows, license plates, the key to the Tampa motel room, Rogers's driver's license, Cribbs's belongings and a bloodstained T-shirt. A pair of blue jeans and a smear on the inside of the driver's door tested positive for blood.
Rogers told the Kentucky officers that "a girl" he had met in a bar, whom he could not describe, had lent him the car. He said he had taken her back to his motel, dropped her off and gone out for beer and cigarettes, and that she was alive when he left. When an officer told him he only wanted the truth, Rogers said, "I can't tell you the truth." He once told police he had killed about 70 people; he later said that had been a joke and that he had never killed anyone, the Associated Press and WCPO reported.
Florida charged him first. He was indicted in Hillsborough County on December 13, 1995, for first-degree murder, robbery with a weapon and grand theft of a motor vehicle. Florida and California later agreed that he would be tried in Florida and then sent to California. On July 9, 1997, after his Florida trial, California indicted him for Gallagher's murder and for arson.
The trial was held in Tampa before Hillsborough County Circuit Judge Diana M. Allen. Assistant State Attorney Karen Cox led the prosecution, and Nick Sinardi was Rogers's trial lawyer.
No one saw what happened in the motel room, and the case was circumstantial. The state's theory was robbery. When Rogers met Cribbs he had no car; witnesses said he had arrived at both the bar and the motel by cab. He had been asking people for "a ride," and according to testimony he said he needed transportation because he had to "get some money." The defense stipulated that Rogers had written the "Do Not Disturb" sign and filled out the motel registration card. An FBI examiner testified that neither Rogers nor Cribbs could be excluded as a source of blood on a pair of jean shorts from the bathroom, and that Rogers was a potential contributor to the DNA on a T-shirt from the car.
The defense argued that someone else had killed her and that the Tampa police had rushed to judgment. Officers acknowledged that the area around the motel had a high crime rate and that many of the people staying there and at a motel across the street had criminal records. A highway worker testified that the wallet was found at about 10:30 a.m. on Monday, earlier than the state's account, and the defense argued that the timing did not fit a man who left Tampa at 9. The defense pathologist, Dr. John Feegel, estimated that Cribbs had died 29 to 30 hours before she was found; the state's pathologist put it at one to three days.
On May 7, 1997, the jury found Rogers guilty of first-degree murder, armed robbery and grand theft of a motor vehicle.
About a week before trial, prosecutors assigned to the case had sent investigators from the State Attorney's Office into Rogers's jail cell, without a warrant, to seize boxes of his papers. The state said it was looking into a plan to blame the murder on another prisoner, and the prosecutor argued that Rogers had no reasonable expectation of privacy in jail. The defense moved to disqualify the whole office. Judge Allen found that no one had read the papers, ordered them returned, and ruled that "none of those documents or any fruits from those documents will be used at this trial." She refused to remove the office from the case.
On May 9, 1997, the jury voted 12 to 0 to recommend death. What happened before that vote became the main subject of his appeals.
The state called two men to describe an incident in California in which, by their account, Rogers had threatened them with a kitchen knife. The records turned out to show only a misdemeanor conviction, and Judge Allen told the jury to disregard the testimony of both men. She refused to declare a mistrial.
For the defense, Dr. Robert Berland, a forensic psychologist, testified that Rogers suffered from brain damage, mental illness and porphyria, a rare inherited disorder. Dr. Michael Maher, a forensic psychiatrist, testified that Rogers had a significant history of head trauma, and that serious head injuries, porphyria and alcohol abuse can all contribute to violent behavior. Judge Allen refused a defense request for a PET scan of his brain. She allowed an MRI, which found no evidence of brain damage; the defense renewed its request for a PET scan, and she refused again.
During the penalty phase a homeless man, Thomas Ambrose, came forward. He said he had been with Rogers on the night of November 5, that he had seen a woman and a man he described as Mexican go into Rogers's motel room, and that when Rogers later asked him what to do, he told Rogers to get in the car and leave. Judge Allen held a hearing. She found that Ambrose, who used alcohol and drugs, had drawn his information from news reports, that his story was inconsistent, and that it conflicted with the physical evidence. She ruled that it would not have produced an acquittal.
On July 11, 1997, Judge Allen sentenced Rogers to death for the murder, to life in prison for the robbery and to five years for the grand theft. She found two aggravating factors: that the murder was committed for financial gain, and that it met Florida's statutory factor for an especially cruel killing, writing that the struggle had taken place "in the small confines of a motel bathroom with little if any chance of escape." She gave some weight to one statutory mitigating factor, that his capacity to conform his conduct to the law was substantially impaired. She gave slight weight to his childhood, his father's drinking and violence, his early exposure to drugs and burglary, his work history and his care of his children, and little weight to his drinking on the day of the murder.
Rogers fought being sent to California. A habeas petition in Bradford County was denied in December 1997, and the Florida Supreme Court affirmed the extradition ruling on May 14, 1998 (Rogers v. State, 717 So. 2d 460). He was extradited in October 1998.
His California trial was held in Los Angeles County Superior Court before Judge Jacqueline A. Connor. Rogers testified in his own defense. He said that he had not killed Gallagher, that she had left his apartment with a friend of his and that he never saw her again. He admitted telling the young woman in his apartment that he had "bigger problems" and that Gallagher was dead, but said he had not known that for sure. He denied going through her purse. He said he had traveled to Las Vegas and Mississippi, then driven to Ohio and back to Mississippi; the prosecution argued that he had been in continuous flight from Los Angeles until his arrest in Kentucky.
Over defense objection, the judge let the jury hear about the killings of Tina Cribbs and Andy Lou Sutton as evidence of intent and common design. The death of Linda Price was excluded from the guilt phase.
On June 22, 1999, the jury convicted him of first-degree murder and arson, and found true the special circumstance that he had a prior conviction for first-degree murder, the Florida verdict. At the penalty phase, the prosecution presented the Price killing, the 1991 Hamilton standoff and his violence toward the woman he had lived with in California. Gallagher's mother and sister testified about her life and their loss. The defense presented evidence of his childhood; a neuropsychologist, Dr. Roger Light, who concluded from a CAT scan that he had a closed head injury that could make it harder to control his impulses; a neurologist, Dr. Michael Gold, whose PET scan showed reduced activity in the frontal lobes, at the site of the injury; a psychologist who described a "toxic" environment; and a psychiatrist who testified about chronic alcoholism. The jury returned a death verdict, and on July 16, 1999, he was sentenced to death for the murder and to a two-year term for the arson. In August 1999 he was returned to Florida.
His Florida direct appeal waited while he was tried in California. On March 1, 2001, the Florida Supreme Court affirmed the convictions and the death sentence in Rogers v. State, 783 So. 2d 980.
The court called the prosecutors' decision to have his cell searched "clearly improper," but found no specific harm, because no one examined the papers and they were returned. It held that the evidence supported both premeditation and felony murder, and it upheld the financial-gain and cruelty findings. It found no abuse of discretion in the refusal of a PET scan, noting that Dr. Berland had called the scan a valuable corroborating tool but not a necessary one. It held that the stricken California testimony did not require a new penalty hearing, given the curative instruction. The state had argued that any error was harmless because Rogers now had a California murder conviction that could be used at a new hearing; the court declined to speculate about what a future hearing might include. A remark in Karen Cox's closing argument that repeated a "Desert Storm" theme the court had condemned in an earlier case was not objected to at trial, and the court found it was not fundamental error. It found the death sentence proportionate.
The vote on the sentence was close. Justice Anstead, joined by Justice Pariente, would have ordered a new penalty phase because of the PET scan, the California testimony and the closing argument; he wrote that the stricken testimony was "a classic case of not being able to unring the bell." Justice Quince, also joined by Justice Pariente, would have ordered a new penalty phase because of the PET scan alone. Chief Justice Wells wrote separately in support of the majority.
On January 18, 2007, the court affirmed the denial of his first postconviction motion and denied a petition for habeas corpus (Rogers v. State, 957 So. 2d 538). He had argued that his trial lawyers failed to develop evidence pointing to another man as the killer, that problems at the FBI laboratory undermined the DNA evidence, and that his lawyers should have objected to the prosecutor's closing arguments. The court found that the decision not to pursue the alternative suspect was reasonable strategy, that the FBI report did not show the DNA evidence in this case was unreliable, and that although the "Desert Storm" remark was improper it had not changed the outcome.
The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida denied his habeas petition on February 19, 2010. The Eleventh Circuit denied a certificate of appealability on June 14, 2010, and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case on January 18, 2011. Later state motions failed in 2012 and 2018.
In 2021 the Florida Supreme Court rejected his claim that the sexual abuse he said he suffered as a child was newly discovered evidence. In a unanimous opinion on October 28, 2021, it held that his trial lawyers knew of his siblings, including three brothers who were said to have known of the abuse, and could have discovered it with due diligence, and that published articles about abuse at the Ohio institution were available before his trial.
On July 25, 2013, the California Supreme Court affirmed the California judgment in its entirety in People v. Rogers. It upheld the use of the Cribbs and Sutton killings at the guilt phase, the excusal of a juror and the flight instruction. It agreed that an instruction on possession of stolen property should not have been given in a murder case, but held the error harmless given the strength of the evidence: Gallagher was last seen with Rogers, her truck was set on fire, and the other killings showed a common design. It rejected his argument that the Florida conviction could not support the prior-murder special circumstance because the Florida killing came after the California one and the Florida conviction was not yet final when he was sentenced.
In November 2012 the documentary My Brother the Serial Killer was broadcast. It featured Rogers's older brother and a criminal profiler who had corresponded with Rogers, and it promoted the claim that Rogers had killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman in Los Angeles in June 1994. Rogers said in the program that he had been working in the neighborhood in May 1994, FOX19 reported. In an August 1996 interview with a Hamilton radio station, he had said, "I was working in Los Angeles at the time and I was working on a house next door to hers," according to FOX19, while denying reports that linked him to the killings; the host said Rogers "kind of played around with it a little bit." In 1995, before any conviction, his older brother had told FOX19, "He doesn't have it in him to kill somebody." By 2012 the brother said he believed Glen had committed all the murders.
The Los Angeles Police Department rejected the claim. "We know who killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman," it said. "We have no reason to believe that Mr. Rogers was involved." Ronald Goldman's sister criticized the documentary, saying she was "appalled at the level of irresponsibility demonstrated by the network and the producers," the Journal-News reported. O. J. Simpson was acquitted of the killings in 1995, was later found liable in a civil case, and died in April 2024.
The claim rests on Rogers's own statements and on statements by people close to him. No police agency or court has treated it as true. The documentary's producers also looked into the 1973 death of a Hamilton teenager; no official finding that Rogers was involved has been reported.
In a report published when Rogers was 56, the Journal-News said that Linda Price's mother had asked people who knew her daughter to contact the governor of Florida and ask for an execution date. On April 15, 2025, Governor Ron DeSantis signed the warrant, setting the execution for May 15 at Florida State Prison. It was his fifth death warrant of the year.
Rogers's lawyers filed a fourth successive postconviction motion on April 20. They argued that the state office representing him had a conflict of interest; that new Florida legislation, which would allow the death penalty for adults who traffic children under 12 for sexual exploitation, showed that the abuse he had suffered as a child in Ohio, including at the juvenile institution, should now lead a jury to choose life; and that, because he had porphyria, Florida's three-drug lethal injection protocol would likely cause him needless suffering. They proposed lethal gas or a firing squad instead. Hillsborough Circuit Judge Michelle Sisco denied the motion on April 25, finding that the abuse claim was a variation of one already rejected and that legislation is not newly discovered evidence.
On May 8, 2025, the Florida Supreme Court unanimously affirmed. It held that enacted legislation and published studies are not newly discovered evidence, that the abuse claim was barred, that his porphyria theory was speculative, and that he had not shown that his proposed alternatives were readily available or would greatly reduce any risk of pain. It found no actual conflict of interest and denied a stay. The U.S. Supreme Court denied his final appeals without comment on the Wednesday before the execution, the Associated Press reported.
Glen Edward Rogers was executed by lethal injection at Florida State Prison, near Starke, on Thursday, May 15, 2025. He was pronounced dead at 6:16 p.m., and the procedure took 16 minutes, the Associated Press reported. He was 62. It was the fifth execution in Florida that year.
His wife visited him earlier that day, and in his last statement he thanked her. He told those watching that "in the near future, your questions will be answered," without explaining what he meant. He also said, "President Trump, keep making America great," and "I'm ready to go."
No member of Tina Cribbs's family spoke to the press afterward. Linda Price's mother, then 85, her older sister and her sister's husband traveled about 10 hours to witness the execution; Price's grown son and daughter did not attend. "It was very hard to see, you know? But at least we think we have a closure," her sister told WLBT. She said that Rogers had never apologized to any of the families. Relatives of other victims joined Price's family at the prison. Andy Lou Sutton's children released a statement saying that Rogers "got what he deserves" and that he "did not deserve to live the past 28 years."
Proven in court: the murder of Sandra Gallagher (Los Angeles jury, June 22, 1999; affirmed 2013) and the murder of Tina Marie Cribbs (Tampa jury, May 7, 1997; affirmed 2001), together with the arson of Gallagher's truck and the robbery and car theft from Cribbs.
Attributed but never tried: the death of Andy Lou Sutton, which the California jury was allowed to consider as other-crimes evidence, a use that requires proof only by a preponderance of the evidence; the death of Linda Price, presented at the California penalty phase, which Mississippi prosecutors chose not to try; and the death of Mark Peters, in which he was a suspect and for which no charge was reported.
His own claims: about 70 killings, retracted; a role in the Simpson and Goldman killings, rejected by the Los Angeles police. FOX19 reported in 2012 that the documentary linked him directly to five killings and named him as a suspect in more than a dozen others; the reports do not identify those other cases.
Details that vary between sources: whether Sandra Gallagher was 33 (California Supreme Court) or 31 (WLBT, 2019); the date of Andy Lou Sutton's death (November 7 or 8, 1995); the length of the Kentucky chase (about 50 miles through four towns in the California opinion, and 30 to 40 minutes in the State of California's brief); the name of the Gibsonton bar (Showtown Bar in the court opinions; "Showtown Barn" in the Florida Legislature record); the date the warrant was signed (April 15 in the Florida Supreme Court's opinion and in AP reports; April 16 in Fox News); and Rogers's age at death (62 in AP reports; 64 in WLBT).
July 15, 1962: Glen Edward Rogers is born; he grows up in Hamilton, Ohio.
1987: convicted of forgery in Ohio.
March 1991: arrested after a standoff at his Hamilton house; later that year hospitalized with a head injury.
October 1993: Mark Peters, 71, of Hamilton, is reported missing.
January 1994: Peters's remains are found in a cabin owned by the Rogers family in Beattyville, Kentucky.
1994 to 1995: in California, he beats and threatens the woman he lives with.
September 28 to 29, 1995: Sandra Gallagher, 33, is killed after leaving McRed's in Van Nuys with Rogers; her body is found in her burning truck.
About two days after the Gallagher killing: Rogers leaves Los Angeles by bus for Jackson, Mississippi.
October 9, 1995: meets Linda Price at the Mississippi State Fair.
October 30, 1995: Price is last seen alive; she is found dead in her bathtub on November 3.
November 2, 1995: meets Andy Lou Sutton in Bossier City, Louisiana.
November 4, 1995: checks into a motel in East Tampa.
November 5, 1995: leaves the Showtown Bar in Gibsonton with Tina Marie Cribbs.
November 6, 1995: drives away from the motel in Cribbs's car; her wallet is found near Tallahassee.
November 7, 1995: Cribbs's body is found in the motel bathtub.
November 7 or 8, 1995: Andy Lou Sutton is killed in Bossier City.
November 13, 1995: arrested in Kentucky after a high-speed chase in Cribbs's car.
December 13, 1995: indicted in Hillsborough County.
May 7, 1997: convicted in Tampa; on May 9 the jury recommends death, 12 to 0.
July 9, 1997: indicted in California.
July 11, 1997: sentenced to death by Judge Diana M. Allen.
May 14, 1998: the Florida Supreme Court upholds his extradition to California.
October 1998: extradited to California.
June 22, 1999: convicted in Los Angeles of Gallagher's murder and arson.
July 16, 1999: sentenced to death in California; returned to Florida in August.
March 1, 2001: Florida Supreme Court affirms; Justices Anstead and Quince, each joined by Justice Pariente, would have ordered a new penalty phase.
January 18, 2007: Florida Supreme Court affirms denial of postconviction relief.
February 19, 2010: federal habeas petition denied; certificate of appealability denied June 14, 2010.
January 18, 2011: U.S. Supreme Court declines review.
November 2012: My Brother the Serial Killer is broadcast.
July 25, 2013: California Supreme Court affirms the California judgment.
October 28, 2021: Florida Supreme Court rejects the childhood-abuse claim.
April 15, 2025: Governor DeSantis signs the death warrant.
May 8, 2025: Florida Supreme Court denies relief and a stay.
May 15, 2025: executed at Florida State Prison; pronounced dead at 6:16 p.m.