Mark of A Killer: Glen Edward Rogers

Glen Edward Rogers was born on July 15, 1962, in Hamilton, Ohio, in the United States of America. He is also known as "The Cross Country Killer" or " The Casanova Killer". This American serial killer was convicted of two counts of murder and is also a prime suspect with other crimes such as robbery, arson, and grand theft auto throughout the United States.

What made him known the most was the murder case of Nicole Brown Simpson, the ex-wife of the former professional National Football League player, O.J Simpson, along with her friend, Ron Goldman. The case has been the talk of the country leading to a lot of speculations and dramas.

Since then, Glen Rogers was featured on the FBI's top 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list after committing numerous crimes that he started on September 28, 1995.

: Criminal Profile

Glen Rogers was suspected to be the killer of an elderly man in Ohio in 1993 and four women in different states of America, particularly in California, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Florida by strangling and stabbing them. Rogers claimed that his murders were close to 70 but he changed his statement implying that he is only joking around and he is innocent.

1. Mark Peters (suspected victim)

On January 10, 1994, the police recovered a skeleton of a 71-year-old Mark Peters. He is a veteran and a retired electrician. His body was found in a cabin that belongs to the Rogers family in Beattyville, Kentucky.

Peters actually took care of Glen Rogers and allowed him to live in his home before October 1993 until Peters was reported missing along with the car, and other valuable and personal items like guns, antiques, and a collection of coins.

Meanwhile, Rogers was also reported missing when Peters was. It was reportedly his brother Clay, led the police to search the cabin for clues. Thus, the police discovered Peters' skeleton, who was bound to a chair and was covered by a pile of furniture. It took almost a year to recover the body of Peters.

It was June 12, 1994, when Rogers killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. His criminal urges never stopped and so he began his crime spree the next year.

The following crimes have similarities with each other.

: His mark of killings

Rogers has a fetish for women who's in their early to mid-30s with a red of blonder hair. He usually meets his victims through a drink in a bar and then strangle them to death.

2. Sandra Gallagher (Los Angeles, California)

It was on September 28, 1995, when Sandra Gallagher met Rogers at McRed's bar in Van Nuys, California. The next morning, Sandra Gallagher's body was found in her car near Rogers' Van Nuys apartment. There were traces of strangling as her neck was full of bruises and her whole body was badly burned.

On June 22, 1999, Rogers was convicted of murdering Sandra Gallagher. In the same year on July 16, right justice has been served as he was sentenced to death.

3. Linda Price (Jackson, Mississippi)

Kathy Carroll is Linda Price's sister who said that Rogers met Price at a beer tent at the Mississippi State Fair. Upon interview, she remembered her sister always saying "Isn't he good-looking? He's my type!"

Rogers and Price shared and lived together in an apartment in Jackson, Mississippi. The last time Kathy Carroll saw her sister Linda, was the night before Halloween in 1995.

They were planning to let the kids go trick or treat at Price's apartment. However, Carroll got worried when her sister didn't answer the calls and did not open her door. Rogers was also gone.

Then, Linda Price was found dead in her bathtub. She was strangled and stabbed to death. Like other victims, Price was also in her 30s and had blonde hair.

4. Tina Marie Cribbs (Tampa, Florida)

4 days after Price's murder, Rogers was seen leaving the Showtown Bar in Gibsonton, Florida with a girl named Tina Marie Cribbs. A bartender told the police that he saw Rogers buying drinks for Cribbs and her friends. After hanging out with them in the bar, Rogers asked Cribbs for a ride. 2 days later, a member of the cleaning staff in a motel found Cribbs' body in a bathtub. Like the previous victims, Tina Marie Cribbs was strangled and stabbed in the chest and the buttocks.

It was also reported that a clerk at the motel told the authorities that Rogers had stayed in the motel a few days before the crime happened. On November 5, 1995, Rogers paid for an extra night and told the staff not to be disturbed and cleaned.

The next morning, the clerk saw Rogers putting his personal belongings in a white Ford Festiva. Then, Tina Marie Cribbs' wallet was found at a restroom in North Florida. The fingerprints of Rogers were found from the wallet and the motel room door were matched to Rogers.

The authorities were on a mission to capture the fugitive criminal before he commits another crime. On November 13, Rogers was arrested in Kentucky driving Cribbs' car. He was asked why he's driving it, he said that it was lent to him. He also claimed that Cribbs was alive when he left her.

2 years after his crime, on July 11, 1997, Rogers was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of Tina Marie Cribbs.

5. Andy Jiles Sutton (Bossier City, Louisiana)

4 days after the murder of Tina Marie Cribbs, on November 9, 1995, another woman was murdered. Rogers was at it again. The victim's name was Andy Jiles Sutton. As reported, Sutton was a known acquaintance of Rogers.

She was strangled and stabbed on the chest the way Rogers mark his killings. Her body was found on her bed in her apartment in Bossier City, Louisiana.

: Arrest, Trials, and Sentence

Rogers was arrested in Waco, Kentucky after a 20 km chase on the 13th of November 1995. He was chased by police officers and other officers set up a roadblock to stop Rogers. One of the officers shot the tires of Rogers' stolen car.

However, that didn't stop Rogers and so one of the police officers rammed his patrol car and ditch Rogers in the highway into a ditch. Everything was recorded and filmed during the arrest.

Rogers was scheduled to be executed on the 14th of February 1999 in Florida. However, he instantly appealed to the Florida Supreme Court claiming the there are not enough shreds of evidence presented against him to support the charges.

His appeal was extended until March 2001, but the court rejected it. He filed another not guilty appeal in 2005, but it was denied again in 2011. That was his last attempt.

: Television and Documentary

One of the famous case murders was Nicole Brown Simpson's and so there were a lot of documentary films produced after it.

One documentary is entitled "My Brother is a Killer" in 2012. According to Rogers' brother Clay, Glen confessed to him that O.J Simpson hired him to steal expensive jewelry from Nicole.

There is also a film entitled "The Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson" on 2019. At the end of the film, it showed that Glen was hallucinating and he keeps on mentioning a name called Charlie. He told during an interrogation that his killings was for Charlie.