Florida set to execute suspected serial killer once eyed for possible link to the OJ Simpson case

STARKE, Fla. – A suspected serial slayer erstwhile scrutinized for a imaginable nexus to the O.J. Simpson case that riveted the federation successful the mid-1990s is scheduled to beryllium executed Thursday successful Florida for the execution of a pistillate successful a Tampa motel room.

Glen Rogers, 62, is acceptable to person a lethal injection astatine Florida State Prison adjacent Starke, barring a last-day reprieve. He was convicted successful Florida of the 1995 execution of Tina Marie Cribbs, a 34-year-old parent of 2 helium had met astatine a bar.

The U.S. Supreme Court denied Rogers' last appeals connected Wednesday without comment.

Rogers would beryllium the fifth inmate enactment to decease successful Florida this year. As of May 1, 15 radical person been executed this year successful the U.S. successful 8 states, according to the Death Penalty Information Center’s website. That compares with 25 radical successful each of 2024, the halfway reported.

He besides drew a abstracted decease condemnation successful California for the 1995 strangulation sidesplitting of Sandra Gallagher, a parent of 3 whom helium had met astatine a barroom successful Van Nuys successful that state. That sidesplitting came weeks earlier the Cribbs murder. Rogers was stopped aft a road pursuit successful Kentucky portion driving Cribbs’ car soon aft her death.

Rogers was named arsenic a fishy but ne'er convicted successful respective different slayings astir the country, erstwhile telling constabulary helium had killed astir 70 people. He aboriginal recanted that statement, but had been the taxable of documentaries including 1 from 2012 called “My Brother the Serial Killer” that featured his member Clay and a transgression profiler who had corresponded extensively with Rogers.

The documentary raised questions astir whether Rogers could person been liable for the 1994 stabbing deaths of Simpson's ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her person Ron Goldman.

During a 1995 execution proceedings that drew aggravated media attention, the erstwhile shot prima and personage Simpson was acquitted of each charges. Los Angeles constabulary and prosecutors subsequently said aft the documentary's merchandise that they didn't deliberation Rogers had immoderate engagement successful the Simpson and Goldman killings.

“We cognize who killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. We person nary crushed to judge that Mr. Rogers was involved," the Los Angeles Police Department said successful a connection astatine the time.

Simpson had ever professed innocence but was aboriginal recovered liable for the deaths successful a abstracted civilian case, and past served 9 years successful situation connected unrelated charges. The 76-year-old Simpson died successful April 2024 aft battling cancer.

Rogers, primitively from Hamilton, Ohio, has besides been labeled the “Casanova Killer” oregon “Cross Country Killer" successful assorted media reports. Some of his alleged and proven pistillate victims had akin characteristics: ages successful their 30s, a petite framework and reddish hair.

Rogers' lawyers person filed respective appeals with authorities and national courts, nary successful. One statement was that recently enacted authorities authorities authorizing the decease punishment for trafficking successful young children makes wide the maltreatment helium suffered arsenic a kid is present taken earnestly and should effect successful a beingness situation condemnation for Rogers. That statement was rejected.

Florida uses a three-drug cocktail for its lethal injection: a sedative, a paralytic and a cause that stops the heart, according to the Corrections Department.

Anthony Wainwright is the adjacent Florida inmate scheduled for execution — connected June 10 — nether a death warrant signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. Wainwright, 54, was convicted of kidnapping a pistillate from a supermarket parking batch successful Lake City successful 1994 and raping and sidesplitting her.

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