‘Casanova Killer’ Who Claimed He Murdered 70 Women, Including Nicole Brown Simpson, Set to Be Executed Next Month
A self-proclaimed serial killer who once boasted of killing 70 women to a member of law enforcement is set to be executed in Florida next month.
Glen Rogers, also known as “The Casanova Killer,” will be put to death on May 15 by lethal injection after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed his death warrant on April 15.
A jury sentenced Rogers, 62, to death back in 1997 after convicting him of first-degree murder, armed robbery and grand theft of a motor vehicle following the death of 34-year-old Tina Marie Cribbs.
The final moments of Cribbs’ life are detailed in a motion filed by prosecutors in response to the second of Rogers’ three failed attempts to overturn his guilty verdict.
Rogers met Cribbs at a bar in Tampa and convinced her to drive him home, according to the motion.
Cribbs informed her three friends she would only be gone for 15 minutes because she was set to meet her mother at the bar, the motion says.
But she never returned that night.
“When Cribbs’ mother, Mary Dicke, arrived twenty minutes later to meet her daughter as they had planned, Cribbs had not yet returned,” the motion reads. “Dicke waited for her daughter at the bar for nearly an hour and a half. ”
Dicke also sent 30 messages to her daughter’s beeper but got no response, according to the motion, which also notes that the mother-of-two failed to show up to work the next day.
Her body was discovered a few days later in a motel room rented by Rogers, according to the motion.
“Cribbs was found lying on her back in the bathtub. She was clothed, wearing a damp T-shirt, underwear, and socks. On the bathroom floor, authorities found a damp pile of clothes an bloodstained towels,” the motion reads.
She had been stabbed in the chest and buttocks, and there was evidence of defensive wounds, the motion reads.
Missing were a ring and watch that Cribbs often wore and her car, which Rogers was driving a week later when arrested in Kentucky, per the motion.
It was while in custody in Kentucky that Rogers boasted of killing 70 women. Years later, his brother claimed that Rogers said he was responsible for the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.
The Los Angeles Police Department dismissed that claim, but it did inspire a made-for-TV movie starring Mena Suvari as Brown Simpson.
Despite his claims, Rogers was only convicted in two murder cases, the second after a 1999 trial in the state of California.
That trial also ended with the jury sentencing him to death, but he remained incarcerated in Florida.
Court records show that lawyers for both sides are now rushing to wrap up any and all lingering legal proceedings with just one month until Rogers’ execution. Given the timeline, prosecutors have requested that Rogers file a post-conviction motion by April 19 in court filings.
Rogers is the father of two adult children from his first marriage to high school sweetheart, Deborah Nix.