A convicted serial killer who once claimed to have murdered 70 people gave a bizarre shoutout to Donald Trump moments before being executed.
Glen Rogers, dubbed the ‘Casanova Killer’ due to his charm and long blond hair, spent nearly 30 years on death row before being put to death by lethal injection at Florida State Prison on Thursday, May 15, per The Guardian. He was 62.
Rogers was convicted of brutally killing two women in 1995 (34-year-old Tina Marie Cribbs and 33-year-old Sandra Gallagher) just weeks apart. But authorities believe the true body count could be much higher. At one point, Rogers reportedly told investigators he was responsible for up to 70 murders across multiple states.
Nicknamed the ‘Casanova Killer’ due to his looks and ability to seduce women in bars, Rogers would lure his victims in with charm before violently turning on them.
Cribbs, a mother of two, met Rogers in a bar in Tampa. He convinced her to give him a ride home, she was later found dead in a motel bathtub. Her car was missing, and police tracked Rogers down after a high-speed chase in Kentucky, where he was caught behind the wheel of her stolen vehicle.
Just weeks earlier, Rogers had also murdered Gallagher in California. After meeting her at a Van Nuys bar, he strangled her and set her body on fire near his apartment. He was later sentenced to death in California for that crime too.
Investigators believe Rogers may have committed a string of other murders across Florida, California, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Ohio. In 2012, his brother Clay claimed in a documentary (My Brother the Serial Killer) that Rogers was behind the infamous 1994 murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, a theory dismissed by LAPD, according to Fox News.
As he faced execution last week, Rogers chose pizza, chocolate cake, and a soda for his final meal. But it was his last words that really left a mark, the Daily Star reports. “President Trump, keep making America great,” he said, just moments before the injection. “I’m ready to go.”
He also thanked his wife, who had visited him earlier that day, then left those in the execution chamber with a cryptic final message: “In the near future, your questions will be answered.”
Rogers was the fifth person executed in Florida this year, and the 16th in the U.S. overall, Associated Press details. The state appears to be ramping up executions again, with another scheduled for June 10.
Governor Ron DeSantis has already signed a death warrant for 54-year-old Anthony Wainwright, convicted of the 1994 kidnap, rape, and murder of Carmen Gayheart.
In Rogers’ case, his legal team attempted several last-minute appeals, arguing that his traumatic childhood and alleged abuse should have spared him the death penalty — but courts weren’t convinced.
His death closes the chapter on one of America’s most unsettling serial killers, but his final words may have opened a whole new set of questions.
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