At 6:16 on the evening of May 15, 2025, at Florida State Prison near Starke, Glen Edward Rogers was pronounced dead by lethal injection. Florida executed him for the murder of Tina Marie Cribbs, a 34-year-old mother of two he had met in a bar in Gibsonton in November 1995. California had sentenced him to death as well, for strangling a mother of three in Van Nuys a few weeks before Cribbs died. The California sentence was never carried out.
The press of 1995 gave him two names, the Casanova Killer and the Cross Country Killer, and the Associated Press was still using both on the day he died. The record behind the names is narrower than the legend. Two juries convicted him of murder: one in Tampa, for Cribbs, and one in Los Angeles, for Sandra Gallagher. Investigators suspected him in the stabbing deaths of two more women that autumn, Linda Price in Jackson, Mississippi, and Andy Lou Sutton in Bossier City, Louisiana, and in the death of a 71-year-old man from his hometown of Hamilton, Ohio. None of those three deaths went before a jury as a charge. He once told police he had killed about seventy people. Later he said it had been a joke.
Rogers was born on July 15, 1962, according to the Florida Legislature’s capital case record, and grew up in Hamilton, Ohio. He had six siblings. The evidence his lawyers later laid before two juries described the household without ornament. His father drank and beat his wife and children, and the family sank into poverty. The Florida trial judge accepted as mitigation a childhood deprived of guidance, a violent and alcoholic father, and exposure to drugs at an early age, and gave each of them slight weight.
As a grown man he worked. He drove a taxi in Hamilton, and a local radio host told FOX19 in 2012 that Rogers had carried the station’s traffic manager to and from work every day. The Florida judge also gave slight weight to his work history and to the fact that he had cared for his two children.
There was violence, too, and the prosecution in California put it in front of the jury. In March 1991, at Hamilton, he threatened people with a gun and pushed a lit blowtorch through a door close to a police officer’s face. The defense answered with a head injury: that same year, it said, he had been struck with a pool cue and suffered brain damage.
Much later, in a 2020 filing, Rogers said he had been sexually abused as a boy over several years, in Hamilton and at a juvenile institution, the Training Institute of Central Ohio. He said the memories had stayed buried until 2019. The Florida Supreme Court did not decide whether the abuse took place. It held, unanimously, in October 2021, that the claim came too late: his trial lawyers had known about his six siblings, including three brothers said to have known of the abuse, and articles about abuse at the institution had been published long before his penalty trial.
Mark Peters was 71, a retired electrician and a veteran who lived in Hamilton. The Journal-News of Hamilton has described him as Rogers’s roommate. In October 1993 his family reported him missing, along with his car, antiques, weapons and a coin collection. In January 1994 he was found dead in Beattyville, Kentucky. Authorities say he was stabbed or strangled.
Rogers was suspected in the death. No charge was reported, and he was never tried for it. The Journal-News counts Peters among five deaths linked to him.
By 1995 Rogers was living in Los Angeles. Evidence at his California penalty trial showed that in 1994 he beat the woman he was then living with, and that in August 1995 he threatened to kill her and her family.
Sandra Gallagher was 33. She went by Sam. She was married and had three sons, aged 7, 8 and 15, and she drove a black-and-silver 1977 Ford pickup with Colorado plates. On September 28, 1995, she went to the state lottery office in Van Nuys and collected about $1,279 in winnings. That evening she was at a bar in Van Nuys, where she met Rogers. At about 1:20 in the morning she left with him and two other people.
Early on September 29, a young woman who shared Rogers’s apartment asked him where Gallagher was. He told her Gallagher was dead, and she watched him go through Gallagher’s purse. At about 6:30 that morning Gallagher’s truck was found on fire in Van Nuys, near Rogers’s apartment. The autopsy found that she had died of manual strangulation and was dead before the fire was set. An arson investigator concluded that the fire had been lit to conceal a homicide. When detectives searched the apartment on October 5, they found one of her earrings.
By then Rogers was gone. He left Los Angeles for Mississippi; at his trial he testified that he had gone by way of Las Vegas.
Linda Price was 34 and lived in Jackson, where she cleaned houses. She had a son and a daughter. On October 9, 1995, she met Rogers at the Mississippi State Fair. Her mother remembered years later that he told Price she had the prettiest red hair he had ever seen. He found work on a construction crew in north Jackson, and on October 16 the two of them rented an apartment together.
On Halloween her family came by to take her trick-or-treating, and no one answered the door. On November 3 she was found dead in Jackson. She had been stabbed. Rogers was gone, and he quickly became the prime suspect. Chuck Lee, the Jackson detective on call that night, told WLBT in 2019 that police in other states soon began calling about unsolved killings they wanted to connect to him.
A few weeks after the funeral, Price’s mother took a telephone call from a man who said he was "Glen’s brother." She recognized the voice as Rogers’s own, the California Supreme Court recorded.
Mississippi never tried him. The Hinds County District Attorney’s Office decided against it, Lee said, because Rogers already faced two death sentences and the office did not want to put the family through a trial. The killing was presented to the California jury at the penalty phase of the Gallagher case. In law it remains an attributed death, not a proven one. Price’s mother never let it rest. In July 2019, at 79, she wrote to Governor Ron DeSantis asking him to set an execution date. "Time doesn’t heal," she told WLBT. "We’ll never forget Linda."
On November 2, 1995, Rogers met Andy Lou Sutton at a lounge in Bossier City, Louisiana, and spent the night at her apartment. He left by bus the next day, but he left a truck in the parking lot of her apartment complex, and its registration information later helped investigators identify him, the Shreveport-Bossier City Advocate reported.
He came back about a week later, driving a car. Sutton was found dead the next morning by her roommate and a former boyfriend. She had been stabbed. The California Supreme Court dates his return to November 8 and the discovery to the morning of November 9; the Advocate dates the stabbing to November 7.
Louisiana never tried him. California prosecutors put Sutton’s death before the Los Angeles jury, together with the Cribbs killing, as evidence of intent and common design, and the California Supreme Court approved that use. Her children spoke only after the execution, in a statement released through the Associated Press. Rogers, they said, "got what he deserves," and he "certainly did not deserve to live the past 28 years."
Between the two visits to Bossier City, Rogers went to Florida. On November 4, 1995, he arrived by cab at a motel in Tampa and told the clerk he was a truck driver whose truck had broken down. The next evening, Sunday, November 5, he was in a bar in Gibsonton, introducing himself as "Randy."
Tina Marie Cribbs was 34, a mother of two. She came into the bar that night with friends and was the only single woman in the group. Rogers asked her for a ride, and she agreed. She told a friend she would be back in fifteen or twenty minutes to meet her mother. She did not come back. Her mother paged her about thirty times without an answer.
That night Rogers paid for another night at the motel and asked that no one enter his room. A handwritten "Do Not Disturb" sign hung on the door. On the morning of November 6 the clerk watched him drive away alone in a white Ford Festiva. It was Cribbs’s car. The same day a highway crew found her wallet, empty of money, at an Interstate 10 rest area near Tallahassee. Two of Rogers’s fingerprints were later lifted from it.
On Tuesday, November 7, Tina Cribbs was found dead in Tampa. She had been stabbed. Fingerprints in the room matched Rogers’s.
He drove her car to Louisiana, and then north. On November 13, 1995, Kentucky State Police picked it up on Highway 52 at Ravenna and gave chase. Rogers threw half-full beer cans at the officers behind him. The pursuit ran about fifty miles through four towns before police forced the car to a stop, and he was taken into custody near Waco. A WCPO crew from Cincinnati happened to be in Waco that day to interview his aunt; the photographer, Chic Poppe, filmed the arrest and called out to him, "How many people have you killed, Mr. Rogers?"
In the car officers found Cribbs’s belongings, the key to the Tampa motel room, Mississippi and Florida license plates, a cooler, a comforter and pillows, a bloodstained T-shirt, and Social Security cards belonging to the sons of Sutton’s roommate. Rogers told the officers that "a girl" he had met had lent him the car. Pressed for the truth, he answered, "I can’t tell you the truth."
Florida charged him first. A Hillsborough County grand jury indicted him on December 13, 1995, for first-degree murder, robbery with a weapon and grand theft of a motor vehicle. The case that came to trial in Tampa before Circuit Judge Diana M. Allen was circumstantial. No one had seen what happened in the motel room. The state built its theory on motive and movement: Rogers had arrived at both the bar and the motel by cab, and witnesses said he wanted transportation because he needed to "get some money." The defense argued that someone else had killed her.
Shortly before trial, prosecutors had sent investigators into his jail cell, without a warrant, to seize his papers. Judge Allen found that no one had read them and ordered them returned, but refused to remove the prosecutor’s office from the case. The Florida Supreme Court would later call the search "clearly improper" while finding that it had done Rogers no harm.
On May 7, 1997, the jury found him guilty on all three counts. On May 9 it voted 12 to 0 to recommend death. During the penalty phase a homeless man came forward to say he had been with Rogers that night and had seen a woman and another man go into the motel room. Judge Allen held a hearing and found his account "inconsistent, incredible, unbelievable."
On July 11, 1997, she sentenced Rogers to death for the murder, to life for the robbery and to five years for the car theft. She found two aggravating factors, that the killing was committed for financial gain and that it met Florida’s statutory test for an especially cruel murder. She gave some weight to a single statutory mitigating factor, that his capacity to conform his conduct to the law was substantially impaired, and slight or little weight to the rest.
California indicted him for Gallagher’s murder and for arson on July 9, 1997. Rogers fought extradition. A Bradford County court denied his habeas petition in December 1997, the Florida Supreme Court affirmed on May 14, 1998, and he was sent to California that October.
At trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court, the judge allowed the jury to hear evidence of the Cribbs and Sutton killings. On June 22, 1999, the jury convicted him of first-degree murder and arson and found true the special circumstance of a prior murder conviction, which was the Florida verdict. At the penalty phase the prosecution added the Price killing, the 1991 Hamilton episode and his violence toward the woman he had lived with. Gallagher’s mother and sister testified about the life she had lost. The defense called a neuropsychologist, a neurologist, a psychologist and a psychiatrist to testify about head injury, brain function, a toxic upbringing and chronic alcoholism. The jury returned a death verdict. On July 16, 1999, he was sentenced to death for the murder and to two years for the arson, and in August he was returned to Florida’s death row.
The Florida Supreme Court affirmed the Cribbs conviction and death sentence on March 1, 2001. It was not a quiet decision. Justice Anstead, joined by Justice Pariente, would have ordered a new penalty phase, pointing to the refusal of a defense request for a PET scan of Rogers’s brain, testimony about a California incident that the jury had been told to disregard, and a prosecutor’s closing argument. That testimony, he wrote, 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 over the PET scan alone.
The rest of the Florida litigation ran its course without success. The court affirmed the denial of postconviction relief in January 2007. A federal district court denied his habeas petition on February 19, 2010, the Eleventh Circuit refused a certificate of appealability that June, and the United States Supreme Court declined review on January 18, 2011. Successive state motions failed in 2012, 2018 and 2021. In California the state Supreme Court affirmed the Gallagher judgment in full on July 25, 2013, upholding the use of the Cribbs and Sutton killings at the guilt phase.
Rogers once told police he had killed about seventy people, the Associated Press reported, and then recanted; WCPO reported that he called it a joke and said he had never killed anyone. In a 1996 interview with a Hamilton radio station, before either trial, he denied every killing put to him. The Associated Press noted that some of his proven and alleged victims were women in their thirties, petite and red-haired. A 2012 documentary, My Brother the Serial Killer, featured his brother and a criminal profiler who had corresponded with him and raised the suggestion that Rogers was involved in the 1994 deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, a claim the Los Angeles Police Department dismissed, saying it had "no reason to believe that Mr. Rogers was involved."
Governor Ron DeSantis signed the death warrant on April 15, 2025, setting the execution for May 15. It was his fifth warrant of the year. On April 20 Rogers’s lawyers filed a final motion. They argued that new Florida legislation allowing the death penalty for adults who traffic children under 12 for sexual exploitation showed how seriously the state now regarded the kind of abuse he said he had suffered, and that a jury hearing it would choose life. They argued that his porphyria, a rare inherited disorder, made the state’s lethal injection protocol likely to cause needless suffering, and proposed lethal gas or a firing squad instead. They also argued that the state office representing him had a conflict of interest.
Hillsborough Circuit Judge Michelle Sisco denied the motion on April 25, calling the abuse claim "merely a variation of the same argument" already rejected. On May 8 the Florida Supreme Court unanimously affirmed and denied a stay, holding that enacted legislation is not newly discovered evidence and that the porphyria theory had not shown a substantial risk of needless pain or an available alternative. On May 14 the United States Supreme Court denied his final appeals without comment.
His wife visited him on his last day, according to prison visitor logs. In his final statement he thanked her and told the witnesses that "in the near future, your questions will be answered," without saying what he meant. He also said, "President Trump, keep making America great," and "I’m ready to go." The procedure took sixteen minutes. He was 62, and he was the fifth prisoner Florida executed that year.
No member of Tina Cribbs’s family spoke to reporters afterward. Linda Price’s mother, her older sister and other relatives had made the ten-hour trip to Florida to watch, while Price’s grown son and daughter stayed away. "It was very hard to see, you know? But at least we think we have a closure," her sister told WLBT. Rogers, she said, never told any of the families he was sorry.
• July 15, 1962: Glen Edward Rogers is born; he grows up in Hamilton, Ohio.
• March 1991: armed confrontation with police at Hamilton.
• October 1993: Mark Peters, 71, of Hamilton, is reported missing.
• January 1994: Peters’s remains are found at Beattyville, Kentucky; Rogers is suspected and never charged.
• September 28 to 29, 1995: Sandra Gallagher, 33, is killed in Van Nuys, Los Angeles.
• October 9, 1995: Rogers meets Linda Price at the Mississippi State Fair in Jackson.
• November 2, 1995: meets Andy Lou Sutton in Bossier City, Louisiana.
• November 3, 1995: Price is found dead in Jackson.
• November 5, 1995: Tina Marie Cribbs leaves a Gibsonton bar with Rogers; she is found dead in Tampa on November 7.
• November 7 to 9, 1995: Andy Lou Sutton is killed in Bossier City; the accounts differ on the date.
• November 13, 1995: arrested near Waco, Kentucky, after a chase in Cribbs’s car.
• December 13, 1995: indicted in Hillsborough County, Florida.
• May 7, 1997: convicted in Tampa; the jury recommends death 12 to 0 on May 9.
• July 11, 1997: sentenced to death by Judge Diana M. Allen.
• October 1998: extradited to California.
• June 22, 1999: convicted in Los Angeles of Gallagher’s murder and arson; sentenced to death July 16.
• March 1, 2001: Florida Supreme Court affirms, over two partial dissents.
• January 18, 2011: U.S. Supreme Court declines review of the federal habeas case.
• November 2012: the documentary My Brother the Serial Killer is broadcast.
• July 25, 2013: California Supreme Court affirms the Gallagher 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.