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STARK, Fla. — Glen Rogers, a convicted serial killer dubbed the “Casanova Killer,” is set to be executed by lethal injection Thursday evening at Florida State Prison for the 1995 murder of a Tampa woman — a case that briefly thrust him into the national spotlight due to a potential, but ultimately dismissed, link to the O.J. Simpson murder trial.
The 62-year-old Ohio native was sentenced to death for fatally stabbing Tina Marie Cribbs, a 34-year-old mother of two whom he met at a bar in Tampa. Cribbs’ body was discovered in a motel bathtub. Rogers was arrested after a high-speed chase in Kentucky while driving her car. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected his final appeal on Wednesday without issuing a comment, clearing the way for his execution.
Rogers has also received a separate death sentence in California for the strangulation of Sandra Gallagher, a mother of three he met in a Van Nuys bar — a murder that occurred just weeks prior to Cribbs’ killing. Authorities have connected Rogers to a string of other killings across the United States, although he was never convicted in those cases. At one point, he claimed to have killed 70 people — a confession he later recanted.
His crimes, marked by a pattern of charm and brutality, earned him sensational media monikers including “Cross Country Killer.” Many of his known and suspected victims shared similar characteristics: petite, red-haired women in their 30s.
Rogers was the subject of the 2012 documentary “My Brother the Serial Killer,” which featured interviews with his brother Clay and a criminal profiler. The film controversially floated the theory that Rogers might have played a role in the infamous 1994 murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman — a claim Los Angeles police dismissed outright. “We know who killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman,” LAPD stated at the time. “We have no reason to believe Mr. Rogers was involved.”
O.J. Simpson, the former NFL star acquitted in the criminal trial but later found liable in a civil case, died in April 2024 after a battle with cancer.
Rogers’ legal team filed multiple unsuccessful appeals in recent years. One argument cited newly passed Florida legislation that considers childhood abuse as a mitigating factor in death penalty cases — a nod to Rogers’ claims of severe trauma during his youth. But the courts were unmoved.
If carried out, Rogers’ execution would mark the fifth in Florida this year and the 16th nationwide, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. In 2024, the U.S. executed 25 individuals across eight states.
Florida currently uses a three-drug cocktail for lethal injections: a sedative, a paralytic, and a heart-stopping agent.
The state’s next scheduled execution is for Anthony Wainwright, 54, on June 10. Wainwright was convicted in 1994 for the kidnapping, rape, and murder of a woman in Lake City after abducting her from a supermarket parking lot.
