FUER, FL. – An alleged serial killer once scrutinized by a possible link to The OJ Simpson case which riveted the nation in the mid -1990s is scheduled to be executed on Thursday in Florida for the murder of a woman in a Motel Tampa room.
Glen Rogers, 62, will receive a lethal injection in Florida state prison near Starke, except for a postponement of the last day. He was sentenced in Florida for the murder of Tina Marie CribBs in 1995, a mother of two 34 -year -old children she had met in a bar.
The United States Supreme Court denied Rogers final appeals on Wednesday without comments.
Rogers would be him Fifth shedding called Florida This year. As of May 1, 15 people have been executed this year In the United States in eight states, according to the Website of the Death Penalty Information Center. That compares with 25 people in all 2024, the center reported.
He also made a separate death sentence in California for the 1995 strangulation murder by Sandra Gallagher, a mother of three children whom he had met in a bar in Van Nuys in that state. That murder occurred weeks before the murder of cribbs. Rogers was arrested after a persecution in Kentucky while driving the chribbs car shortly after his death.
Rogers was appointed as suspicious but never condemned in several other murders throughout the country, once telling the police that he had killed about 70 people. Later he retracted that statement, but he had been subject to documentaries, including one of 2012 called “my brother the serial killer” who presented his brother Clay and a criminal profiler who had corresponded widely with Rogers.
The documentary raised questions about whether Rogers could have been responsible for 1994 stabbing deaths From Simpson’s ex -wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman.
During a 1995 murder trial that caught the attention of the media, the former soccer star and the Celebrity Simpson was acquitted of all the positions. The police and the Los Angeles prosecutors later said after the release of the documentary that they did not believe that Rogers had any participation in the murders of Simpson and Goldman.
“We know who killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. We have no reason to believe that Mr. Rogers was involved,” said the Los Angeles Police Department in a statement at that time.
Simpson had always professed innocence, but was then considered responsible for deaths in a separate civil case, and then turned nine years in prison for unrelated positions. The 76 -year -old man Simpson died in April 2024 After fighting cancer.
Rogers, originally from Hamilton, Ohio, has also been labeled as the “Casanova murderer” or “Cross Country murderer” in several media reports. Some of their alleged and proven female had similar characteristics: 30 -year -old ages, a small frame and red hair.
Rogers’ lawyers have filed several appeals before the state and federal courts, none successful. An argument was that the recently promulgated state legislation authorized by the death penalty for the traffic of young children makes it clear that the abuse he suffered when he was a child now takes place and should lead to a hip prison sentence for Rogers. That argument was rejected.
Florida uses a three -drug cocktail for lethal injection: a sedative, a paralytic and a medication that stops the heart, according to the corrections department.
Anthony Wainwright is the next Florida inmate scheduled for execution, on June 10, under a Death order Signed by Republican governor Ron Desantis. Wainwright, 54, was convicted of kidnapping a woman from a supermarket parking in Lake City in 1994 and rape her and kill her.
