The Last Breath of Glenn Edward Rogers: A Serial Killer’s Final Act and the Questions He Took to the Grave

seeing both the electric chair and uh lethal injection. Now, the electric chair was macabre. I’ve got to say that that really maybe crossed the line in decency. But, in the lethal injection, he murdered her in a horrific horrific way. Stabbed her, left her to die bleeding out in a bathtub. And he’s going to be on a gurney.

And he’s going to go to sleep. And he’s going to die. But, it doesn’t seem to comport with the violence that he caused the family members. They die every single day. On May 15th, 2025, Glenn Edward Rogers was executed by lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Starke, Florida. He was 62 years old.

 He had been on death row for nearly 30 years. In this video, we’re going to walk through everything. Who he was, what he did, who his victims were, how he was caught, what happened at trial, and what his final words were before the drugs took hold. We’ll also get into the controversy that followed him into his grave. A controversy involving one of the most watched murder cases in American history.

 Let’s start from the beginning. Glenn Edward Rogers was born on July 15th, 1962 in Hamilton, Ohio. He was the youngest of seven children. His father, Claude Rogers, worked at a paper company. On the surface, it looked like a working-class family doing what it had to do. But, behind closed doors, it was a different story.

 Rogers’ mother, Edna, was by most accounts cruel. Not in subtle ways, in terrifying ones. There was the time she held Glenn’s head underwater in the bathtub, nearly drowning him because he was fooling around with his brother. There was the time she nearly smothered him. And there was the moment she drove toward the edge of a cliff with her children in the car before pulling back at the last second.

Glenn was impulsive, reactive. He struggled with ADHD and sleeping disorders. He couldn’t handle stress the way other children could. Instead of finding a way through it, he turned it inward and then outward. He was expelled from junior high before he was 16. By the time he was a teenager, he had gotten his 14-year-old girlfriend pregnant. They married.

 They had another child together. And by 1983, she had filed for divorce citing physical abuse. That was the pattern Glenn Rogers would follow for the rest of his life. By his early 30s, his criminal record included theft, pimping, assault, and multiple suicide attempts. He was tall, blonde. He had green eyes and a smile that made people trust him. He was charming.

 He knew it and he used it. Those who knew him described him as magnetic, the kind of person who could walk into a room and have everyone talking to him within minutes. Women, especially. Women with reddish hair, strawberry blondes, women who looked like his mother. He was known to drink heavily.

 And when he drank, the charm evaporated. What was underneath was something else entirely. There are accounts of him injecting beer directly into his own veins. That tells you something about the man. Before the 1995 killing spree that would make him nationally infamous, something happened in 1993 that most people don’t know about.

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 A 71-year-old man named Mark Peters, a retired electrician and veteran, took Glenn Rogers in. Let him live in his home in Hamilton, Ohio. That was a mistake. In October 1993, Peters went missing. So did his car, his antiques, his guns, and his collection of coins. Rogers had disappeared, too. Then, on January 10th, 1994, police found Peters’ remains in a cabin belonging to the Rogers family in Beattyville, Kentucky.

 He was bound to a chair, hidden under a pile of furniture. His body had been there for months. Rogers’ own brother, Clay, reportedly led investigators to the cabin. No charges were filed against Rogers for Peters’ death at that time. He was already gone, drifting first back to Ohio, then west to California. But, what happened to Mark Peters was a preview.

 A man who had shown Glenn Rogers nothing but kindness ended up bound and dead, his valuables stolen, his body hidden like something to be ashamed of. In the autumn of 1995, over approximately 6 weeks, Glenn Rogers killed at least four women, possibly more. He moved across the country like he was on a road trip.

California to Mississippi, Mississippi to Florida, Florida to Louisiana. Each stop left a body behind. Each victim was a woman in her 30s. Most were single mothers. Most had reddish hair. None of them knew what was coming. Victim one, Sandra Gallagher, Van Nuys, California, September 28th, 1995. Sandra Gallagher was 33 years old, a mother of three.

 She met Rogers that evening at Mc Fadden’s Bar in Van Nuys, California. The next morning, her body was found in her truck parked near Rogers’ apartment. She had been strangled. Then, her truck was set on fire with her inside it. Her children were left without a mother. Rogers was already gone. Victim two, Linda Price, Jackson, Mississippi.

 Some time in October, Rogers turned up at the Mississippi State Fair. That’s where he met Linda Price, a 34-year-old single mother with two teenage children. Her sister, Kathy Carroll, later told investigators that when Linda first saw Rogers, she kept saying, “Ain’t he good-looking?” They briefly shared an apartment in Jackson, Mississippi.

 The last time Kathy saw her sister was the night before Halloween. They had made plans for the next day. Carroll’s grandchildren were supposed to go trick-or-treating at Linda’s apartment. Halloween came. No answer at the door. Rogers was gone. Linda Price was found dead in her bathtub. Victim three, Tina Marie Cribbs, Tampa, Florida, November 5th, 1995.

Tina Marie Cribbs was 34 years old, a mother of two. She was seen leaving the Showtown Bar in Gibsonton, Florida with Rogers. A bartender told police Rogers had bought drinks for Cribbs and her friends all night. Eventually, he asked her for a ride. She said yes. Two days later, a cleaning staff member at the Tampa 8 Inn found Cribbs’ body in a bathtub.

 She had been stabbed in the chest and in the back. A motel clerk told investigators that Rogers had checked in a few days earlier and paid for an extra night. He specifically asked that his room not be cleaned. Later, a clerk watched him put his bags into a white Ford Festiva, Tina Cribbs’ car. The next day, her wallet showed up at a rest area in North Florida.

Fingerprints pulled from the wallet and the motel room matched Rogers exactly. He was already driving her car, already heading north. Tina Cribbs’ two children were left without a mother. Victim four, Andy Giles Sutton, Bossier City, Louisiana, November 9th, 1995. Andy Giles Sutton was a known acquaintance of Rogers.

 Her body was found on a punctured waterbed in her apartment in Bossier City, Louisiana. She had been slashed. Rogers was already gone again, heading north, driving a dead woman’s car. By November of 1995, Rogers had killed at least four women across four states in 6 weeks. He was on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list. Law enforcement in multiple states were looking for him.

 And then, on November 13th, 1995, a Kentucky State Police Detective named Bob Stevens noticed a man driving a white Ford Festiva, the same car that had been reported stolen, Tina Cribbs’ car. Stevens gave chase. A rookie officer named Charles Cox joined in. Then, Trooper Ed Robinson set up a roadblock. Robinson fired a shotgun blast that hit the rear tires.

 Rogers didn’t stop. Sergeant Joey Barnes made the decisive move. He rammed his patrol car directly into the stolen vehicle and spun Rogers off the highway into a ditch. Officers surrounded the car. Glenn Rogers was pulled out and arrested. A local TV news crew happened to be there and filmed the whole thing. During the chase, Rogers had thrown an empty beer can at one of the pursuing police cruisers.

 Even in that moment, caught, surrounded, finished, he couldn’t help himself. After his arrest, Rogers told police he had committed nearly 70 murders. He later claimed he was joking. Rogers faced justice in two separate states for two separate murders. Florida first. On July 11th, 1997, a Florida jury convicted Glenn Rogers of the first-degree murder of Tina Marie Crebs.

 He was sentenced to death. He was transferred to Union Correctional Institution in Raiford, Florida, death row. Then California. On June 22nd, 1999, Rogers was convicted in California of the first-degree murder of Sandra Gallagher, the woman found burned in her truck in Van Nuys. On July 16th, 1999, California sentenced him to death as well.

 Glenn Rogers was now under a death sentence in two states simultaneously. He appealed, as death row inmates often do. He challenged the sufficiency of evidence. He challenged witness testimony. He challenged the legitimacy of closing arguments. Every appeal was denied. Years passed, then more years. He sat on death row in Florida for nearly three decades.

 Now, we need to talk about the controversy that followed Glenn Rogers into the national spotlight long after his convictions. In 2012, Investigation Discovery aired a documentary called My Brother, the Serial Killer. It was narrated by Rogers’ brother, Clay, and it made a claim that stopped a lot of people in their tracks.

 Clay Rogers claimed that Glenn had confessed to him that he killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman in June 1994, the same murders for which O.J. Simpson was acquitted in 1995. Here is what was put forward. Starting in 2009, Glenn Rogers began an extensive written correspondence with criminal profiler Anthony Meoli.

 Over the years, Rogers wrote letters and created paintings that he claimed pointed to his involvement in the Nicole Brown Simpson murders. During a face-to-face prison meeting, Rogers told Meoli that O.J. Simpson had hired him to break into Nicole’s home and steal expensive jewelry, and that Simpson had told him, and these are the words Rogers allegedly used, “You may have to kill the bitch.

” Rogers’ family also claimed that he had worked for Nicole Brown Simpson as a house painter in 1992, that she hired him to paint her condo, and that’s how they met. Clay Rogers said his brother confessed directly to him. There’s even a film, a 2019 movie called The Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson, that portrays Rogers’ version of events, with Nick Stahl playing Rogers and Mena Suvari as Nicole.

 But here is what you need to know. The LAPD’s response was clear and direct. 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, was equally unambiguous. 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 Glenn Rogers. The families of both victims publicly condemned the documentary’s premise, and Los Angeles prosecutors, after reviewing the claims, found no credible link. Was this a genuine confession? A dying man’s attempt to leave behind chaos? A bid for a different kind of infamy? We may never know for certain.

 What we do know is that it worked. His name stayed in the news for decades longer than it might have otherwise. By 2025, Rogers had spent close to 30 years fighting his Florida death sentence. In his later appeals, he argued that he had suffered severe sexual abuse as a child, abuse he claimed he had only recovered memories of in 2019.

 He also claimed to have been sexually abused while incarcerated at a juvenile detention facility in Ohio, the Training Institute of Central Ohio, which has since been shut down. He argued this abuse should have been weighed during sentencing. The Florida Supreme Court rejected the argument. Then, on April 15th, 2025, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed Rogers’ death warrant.

 Execution date, May 15th, 2025. Rogers was the fifth inmate in Florida to have an execution scheduled that year. On May 5th, he appealed to the Florida Supreme Court again, arguing both the childhood abuse issue and concerns about the lethal injection drugs being used. Denied. May 9th. His attorneys then went to the United States Supreme Court. Denied.

 May 14th, 2025, the night before his scheduled execution, there was nowhere left to go. May 15th, 2025. Glenn Rogers woke up at 3:45 in the morning. The Florida Department of Corrections confirmed he had one visitor that day, his wife. His brother, Claude, had made the trip from Kentucky the day before to say goodbye.

 But unlike earlier prison visits, this time they were separated by glass. They could not be in the same room. Claude spoke to reporters afterward. He said, “I said my goodbyes to him. He’s my brother and I love him. I asked God to guide him on this next journey.” Then Claude went home to Kentucky. Glenn Rogers spent his final hours inside Florida State Prison.

 For his last meal, Glenn Rogers requested pizza, chocolate cake, and a soda. No great symbolism. No elaborate final feast. Just those three things. He ate them, and then he waited. At approximately 6:00 p.m. on May 15th, 2025, a curtain parted inside the execution chamber at Florida State Prison.

 30 witnesses were on the other side of the glass. Glenn Rogers lay on a gurney, half covered by a sheet. He was described as compliant. He did not resist. The three-drug lethal injection protocol used in Florida consists of a sedative, a paralytic, rocuronium bromide, and a drug that stops the heart, potassium acetate. At 6:16 p.m., Glenn Edward Rogers was pronounced dead.

He was 62 years old. He was the 16th person executed in the United States in 2025, and the fifth on Florida’s death row that year. Before the curtain opened, before the drugs were administered, Glenn Rogers was given the opportunity to make a final statement. He spoke to the families of his victims, and then he said something no one expected. These are his exact words.

 “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 some way will bring you closure. President Trump, keep making America great. I’m ready to go.” He thanked his wife. He made a cryptic promise that questions would one day be answered, without saying which questions, or how, or when.

 And then he addressed the sitting president of United States. Whatever he meant by those parting words, whatever he thought he was leaving behind, he took the full truth with him. The families of his victims watched him die. Some of them had waited nearly 30 years for this moment. Jerry Valacella, the sister of Sandra Gallagher, Rogers’ first confirmed 1995 victim, said that after the execution, she would finally be able to rest.

 Nearly three decades waiting, and now it was over. Debbie Sparks, the older sister of Linda Price, the woman killed in Mississippi, attended the execution with her husband, her sister, and her mother. She said her family finally found closure. But she was angry, angry that Rogers never showed remorse, not once, not at the end. Randy Roberson, the son of Andy Giles Sutton, killed in Louisiana, said the execution brought him closure, too.

 But he felt it was too easy, too peaceful. He said it looked like Rogers was just going to sleep. Tina Crebs’ mother had spoken to a local news station years before the execution. When asked if she believed justice would ever come, she said simply, “God is on my side. I hope he will remain on my side until I do see this done.

” She waited 30 years, and then she saw it done. Glenn Edward Rogers spent 62 years on this earth. He was born into dysfunction and violence. He grew up angry. He found charm as a weapon and used it against people who trusted him. He killed at least four women in 6 weeks. Women who were single mothers, who had children at home, who had done nothing except accept a drink from a stranger.

 He sat on death row for nearly 30 years. He went out cryptically, promising answers he never delivered, giving a shout-out to the president, and telling the families victims that closure was coming. Whether he had more secrets, more victims, more truth buried inside him, we will probably never know. What we do know is this: On May 15th, 2025, at 6:16 in the evening, the state of Florida carried out his sentence.

 And the families of Tina Cribbs, Sandra Gallagher, Linda Price, and Andy Giles Sutton could finally exhale. So, here’s the question I want to leave you with: Glenn Rogers spent nearly 30 years making appeals, claiming new memories, alleging hidden abuse, and dropping cryptic hints about cases he may or may not have been involved in, all the way until his last breath.

 Do you believe he was telling the truth about any of it? Or was he, right to the very end, doing what he had always done, playing the room, keeping people hooked, making himself the center of something bigger than he deserved to be? Leave your thoughts in the comments. If you found this video valuable, consider subscribing.

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