Rogers was generally known as the “Casanova Killer” as a few of his alleged and confirmed feminine victims had comparable traits: ages of their 30s, a petite body, and purple hair.
The 62-year-old beforehand boasted of killing 70 ladies, although he was solely ever convicted of two murders. He was put to demise on Thursday, Might 15, for the 1995 slaying of Tina Marie Cribbs, a 34-year-old mom of two he had met at a bar.
Strapped to an execution gurney, Rogers’ final phrases had been: “President Trump, preserve making America nice,” earlier than assuring, “I am able to go.”
The state-administered deadly injection took simply 16 minutes, in response to witnesses, who mentioned as soon as it started, Rogers hardly moved, solely mendacity nonetheless together with his mouth barely open.
Outdoors the detention heart after the execution, there was some query over the which means behind that last message.
Randy Roberson, a witness to the injection whose mom was one of many victims, mentioned that Rogers’ remark about Trump appeared to confuse folks within the room.
“I used to be like, ‘The place did that even come from?'” he mentioned.
His spouse, Amy Roberson − additionally a witness to the execution − mentioned she thought: “What the hell?”
In 2014, RadarOnline.com revealed Rogers wrote Simpson’s supervisor, renewing his claims that he was the one who killed Nicole and Goldman.
He first emerged as an alternate perpetrator after the 2012 Investigation Discovery documentary, My Brother The Serial Killer, when his personal brother, Clay Rogers, claimed, “I’m completely sure that my brother Glen killed Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman. I do know my brother did it as a result of I’ve seen proof that he was there.”
Rogers, a handyman on the time, met Nicole when he was engaged on a restore crew at her home in 1994. His brother Clay claimed he known as him a number of days earlier than the killing, bragging about his new well-off consumer and promising to take her down.
Clay additionally maintains that Rogers took a gold angel pin from the house after Nicole’s demise and mailed it to his mom in Ohio.
Simpson’s former supervisor Norman Pardo believed the declare. Based on Pardo, creator of the Simpson documentary O.J. Simpson: In His Personal Phrases: “The L.A. Prosecutor and District Lawyer have a file wherein Rogers confessed, however they gave him a plea deal to get him out of the state…As a result of they had been afraid he would mess up their O.J. factor.
“They arrested him after they arrested O.J. They couldn’t return and say O.J. didn’t do it now!”
On the time Rogers first made his claims, LAPD spokesman Commander Andrew Smith informed CNN: “The LAPD is kind of assured that we all know who killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. We have now no motive to imagine that Mr. Rogers was concerned.”