
Serial killer with link to OJ Simpson case sends bizarre message to Trump in final words before he's put to death
A CONVICTED killer once linked to the OJ Simpson murder case used his final moments to send a cryptic message and a shoutout to Donald Trump before his execution.
Glen Rogers, who claimed to have killed up to 70 people, was put to death by lethal injection Thursday at Florida State Prison.
4
Glen Rogers, who claimed to have killed 70 people, was executed in the Florida State Prison
Credit: AP
4
Rogers was once linked to the OJ Simpson case
Credit: Reuters
4
Before dying, Rogers had a message for President Trump
Credit: AFP
The 62-year-old, dubbed the 'Casanova Killer,' was executed for the 1995 slaying of a woman in a Tampa motel.
He was known as the 'Casanova Killer' for his charm and looks, and was also called the 'Cross Country Killer' because of murders tied to him in several states.
Rogers was pronounced dead at 6:16 pm after receiving a three-drug cocktail, according to corrections officials.
In his final words, he thanked his wife, who had visited earlier that day.
He also offered a chilling remark, 'In the near future, your questions will be answered.'
And his last words were, 'President Trump, keep making America great. I'm ready to go.'
Rogers lay still as the injection began, with only his mouth slightly open. He made no further movements.
A staffer later shook him by the shoulders and called his name to check for signs of consciousness, reported The
Most read in The US Sun
MURDER SPREE
Rogers was tied to five victims across four states - Tina Marie Cribbs, Sandra Gallagher, Mark Peters, Linda Price, and Andy Lou Jiles Sutton. Four were red-haired single mothers in their 30s.
Tina Marie Cribbs, a 34-year-old mother of two, had met Rogers at a bar in Tampa shortly before her death.
She was found stabbed in a motel room and Rogers was caught days later in Kentucky driving her vehicle after a car chase.
Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer - Trailer
Rogers had also been convicted in California for killing another woman weeks earlier, Sandra Gallagher, a 33-year-old mom of three.
He strangled Gallagher after meeting her at a bar in the 1995 killing in Van Nuys.
Authorities had once eyed Rogers in several other unsolved murders across the US, though he was never convicted in those cases.
He once told police he had killed about 70 people, but later recanted.
Rogers gained wider attention after a 2012 documentary, My Brother the Serial Killer, raised questions about his possible involvement in the 1994 stabbing deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.
The film featured his brother Clay and a profiler who had corresponded with Rogers.
President Trump, keep making America great. I'm ready to go.
Glen Rogers
Despite the speculation, LAPD shut down any suggestion that Rogers was tied to the infamous murders.
'We know who killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. We have no reason to believe that Mr. Rogers was involved,' police said in a statement at that time.
OJ Simpson, who was acquitted in a highly publicized trial, was later found liable in a civil suit.
He served prison time on unrelated charges and died in April 2024 at age 76 after a cancer battle.
ROGERS THE KILLER
Rogers, originally from Hamilton, Ohio, 45 minutes from Cincinnati, targeted women with similar traits.
The US Supreme Court denied his final appeal Wednesday with no comment.
His attorneys had pushed for life in prison, arguing that new child trafficking laws show past abuse should be weighed more heavily. That was rejected.
Read more on the Irish Sun
Who were Glen Roger's Victims
Mark Peters, 72
Retired electrician from Hamilton, Ohio
Lived with Rogers briefly
Found dead in January 1994 in a shack owned by Rogers' family in Kentucky
Sandra Gallagher, 33
Mother of three from Santa Monica, California
Met Rogers at a bar
Found burned in her car in Van Nuys on September 28, 1995
Linda Price, 34
Mother of two from Jackson, Mississippi
Had briefly lived with Rogers
Found stabbed in her home's bathtub on November 3, 1995
Had called Rogers 'my dream man'
Tina Marie Cribbs, 34
Florida mother of two
Met Rogers at a Tampa bar
Found dead in a motel bathtub, stabbed on November 7, 1995
Rogers was caught driving her car after a chase in Kentucky
Andy Lou Jiles Sutton, 37
Mother of four from Bossier City, Louisiana
Killed in her bed on November 9, 1995
Believed to have slept with Rogers before she was stabbed to death
Possible Others
Rogers once claimed he killed up to 70 people, but later walked it back
Dubbed the 'Casanova Killer' for charming his victims
Many of the women he was linked to were in their 30s, red-haired and petite
Never charged in other cases, including the infamous O.J. Simpson double murder, though featured in a documentary raising the theory
Rogers became the fifth inmate executed in Florida this year.
The next execution, of Anthony Wainwright, is set for June 10 under a warrant signed by Governor Ron DeSantis.
4
Rogers was put to death by lethal injection
Credit: AFP
Hashtags

Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles


Irish Examiner
4 hours ago
- Irish Examiner
Jury resumes deliberations in Harvey Weinstein sex crimes retrial
A Manhattan jury resumed deliberations on Friday in Harvey Weinstein's sex crimes retrial after ending its first day without reaching a verdict in a case that encapsulated the #MeToo movement. The panel, which was handed the case on Thursday morning, has requested to hear a readback of some testimony from two of Weinstein's accusers, as well as to see medical records from one of those women. The jury of seven women and five men is considering two counts of criminal sex act and one count of rape against the 73-year-old Oscar-winning movie producer, with the criminal sex act charges the higher-degree felonies. Harvey Weinstein has denied all the charges against him (Jefferson Siegel /The New York Times via AP, Pool/PA) Weinstein has pleaded not guilty. Sexual misconduct allegations against Weinstein propelled the #MeToo movement in 2017. He was eventually convicted of sex crimes in New York and California, but the New York conviction was overturned last year, leading to the retrial before a new jury and a different judge. Jurors heard more than five weeks of evidence, including lengthy testimony from three accusers.


The Irish Sun
7 hours ago
- The Irish Sun
Iran's unfathomably cruel execution regime is laid bare… by the man who's seen it first hand after 25 YEARS on death row
ONE of Iran's longest-serving prisoners has exposed the disturbing mechanisms the regime uses to put inmates to death. Saeed Masouri, who has spent 25 years behind bars, also revealed how the 5 Saeed Masouri been in jail in Iran for 25 years Credit: NCRI 5 Four Iranian convicts hanging after a public execution in 2007 Credit: AFP 5 Masouri is held in Ghezel Hesar prison in Iran Credit: Iran Human Rights The regime's merciless killing spree has seen at least 176 inmates sent to the gallows in the past month. Insiders told The Sun the shocking spike in executions comes amid a barbaric attempt from leaders to crush dissent and act as a warning against it. Masouri, who was arrested for his affiliation with the resistance unit People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, has now told of the secret process behind executions. Psychological torture, threats against family and sham trials are all used as tools by the regime to condemn its enemies to death on trumped-up charges. More on Iran Masouri's emotional letter was smuggled out of the notorious Ghezel Hesar prison in Iran and shared with The Sun from Iran Human Rights Monitor. "It is often said that every criminal act is preceded by criminal preparations, hidden beneath the surface," the 60-year-old wrote in a letter to the UN. "For instance, when an execution is carried out, the inhumane and rights-violating acts that preceded it remain hidden from view. "Formal steps like prosecution, indictment, and trial are mere facades. Every detail, from A to Z, is orchestrated by these security agencies." Most read in The Sun Masouri told how those accused are hauled into court with a "fabricated case file" to give a smoke screen of a fair and legal procedure. "These so-called 'judges don't even read the actual files," he said. Dad set to be executed in Iran shares powerful audio message blasting regime from behind bars "This is why there is no logical argumentation or credible evidence in the case files, no opportunity for defence (as trials rarely last more than 10 minutes), and no access for lawyers to review the case materials. "Verdicts are predetermined and simply announced. "Empty phrases about 'resolving disputes', 'equality before the law', 'prohibition of injustice', or 'delivering rights to rightful owners' are just lip service. "In reality, defendants are denied the right to a fair defense, and the courts are devoid of justice and even basic adherence to their own laws. "Meanwhile, the stripping of civil rights is carried out to the fullest extent possible." Defendants - and their lawyers - are often even denied access to their own files, making it near impossible to be cleared. Masouri said this is true in the cases of Mehdi Hassani and Behrouz Ehsani, who both face imminent execution. "When the so-called evidence in a case has no real basis or credibility, the only way to keep it hidden is to declare the entire file confidential," he wrote. Haunting message of dad behind bars Exclusive by Katie Davis, Chief Foreign Reporter (Digital) A DAD set to be executed in Iran blasted its brutal regime in a powerful voice message recorded behind bars. He now faces But defiant Hassani has unleashed a blistering put down of Iran's 'cruelty and oppression' in a voice message to his daughter Maryam that has been shared with The Sun. The dad-of-three said: 'This regime has for the past 46 years spent the country's wealth on warmongering and suppressing the people of Iran. 'If I'm in prison today and have been sentenced to execution, it is only because I could not tolerate seeing such cruelty and oppression against this nation and against the children of my land and I stood up against oppression. 'They have no evidence against me and they didn't even allow my lawyer to access and study my file so that he could expose the contradictions that exist.' Hassani - who was arrested in September - vowed the regime is 'doomed to perish'. "[This allows] the system to coerce forced confessions, such as televised admissions or baseless claims presented as 'documentaries'. "In return, the accused is promised clemency or a reduction in punishment. In this way, the defendant is forced to choose: either confess to lies or face execution. "Lawyers - stripped of any ability to defend their clients - are left to weigh between refusing to participate in injustice and doing something, anything, to save their client's life. "Often, the only path left is for the accused themselves to express remorse, seek forgiveness, or act in whatever way they think may help." But Masouri warned even if inmates decide to "confess" to fabricated charges, it does not put them in the clear. "The accused's family is summoned and threatened: if your loved one does not repent, if they do not write a confession, if they do not seek a pardon - then execution is inevitable, and nothing can stop it," he said. "If the execution happens, the blame lies with them—and with you. "Thus, when families and lawyers are left with no means of defense, they may blame themselves, one another, or even the defendant. 5 Pictures show a man named Balal who was led to the gallows by his victim's family 5 "The government and judiciary, meanwhile, are absolved of any responsibility. It comes amid a staggering rise in executions - which sources told The Sun More than 1,100 state executions have taken place Supreme Leader According to figures from the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), that marks more than a 20 per cent increase compared to 2023, when the regime executed 853 Iranians. Hossein Abedini, deputy director of the NCRI offices in the UK, said paranoid rules were hellbent on stamping out repression. He told The Sun: "Executions under the clerical regime contravene all internationally recognised standards and norms of due process and are fundamentally used as a political instrument of repression. "Faced with deep-rooted crises stemming from illegitimacy, corruption, and incompetence, and driven by fear of popular uprisings and nationwide protests, this regime has resorted to increasing executions. "It employs inhumane pressures on political prisoners, torturing and harassing them and their families. "As a result, the rate of executions in Iran is rising at an unprecedented level in recent decades, with death sentences issued even for political prisoners arrested during the September 2022 uprising." Iran ramps up executions by Katie Davis, Chief Foreign Reporter (Digital) PARANOID Iranian leaders are hellbent on ramping up repression on home turf in a dramatic bid to stamp out rebellion, insiders say. It comes as Iran's regime has been left red-faced by the downfall of Syria's dictatorship as well as Executions are said to be taking place every couple of hours as Iran has one of the most horrific human rights records in the world, and according to campaigners also holds the harrowing title for the highest execution rate. The Sun previously revealed how dozens of Harrowing records leaked from Iran's torturous prisons also showed how In 2024, the Iranian regime ramped up the executions of its own people - including women, children and political prisoners. Official records show that the number of executions last year reached 1,000 - the highest number in 30 years and 16 percent higher than the previous. Of those on record, 34 were women and seven were under 18 at the time of their so-called crimes. The Most of the surging executions are by hanging, but there is also evidence of other

The Journal
11 hours ago
- The Journal
At least four dead and 20 wounded in overnight Russian drone strikes on Kyiv
AT LEAST FOUR people have been killed and 20 people have been wounded after Russia fired ballistic missiles and attack drones at the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv overnight. It comes after Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed retaliation for an audacious Ukrainian drone attack on Russian airbases. Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko shared the death toll on social media. AFP journalists heard explosions and air raid sirens echo out over the capital throughout the night. 'Kyiv came under another attack involving UAVs and ballistic missiles. Rescuers are responding to the aftermath at several locations across the city,' the State Emergency Service of Ukraine wrote on Telegram. AFP reporters saw a charred crater in the side of a high-rise residential block in Kyiv, with debris and broken glass strewn across the parking lot in front of the building. One image published by the head of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's office showed a children's playground scattered with rubble and shards of glass. Deadly attacks have escalated in recent weeks even as the two sides hold talks aimed at finding an end to the three-year war, triggered by Russia's February 2022 invasion. People rest in a metro station, being used as a bomb shelter, during the drones attack. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo Tens of thousands have been killed, cities and villages destroyed across eastern Ukraine, and millions forced to flee their homes with Russia's forces controlling around one-fifth of Ukraine's territory. Advertisement Russia carried out a barrage of drone and missile strikes across Ukraine overnight on Friday, targeting not only the capital but western regions like Lviv and Volyn, which border EU and Nato member Poland. Retaliation Earlier this week, Putin told US President Donald Trump that he would retaliate to a Ukrainian drone attack that damaged nuclear-capable military planes at Russian air bases, including thousands of kilometres behind the front lines in Siberia. The brazen operation, 18 months in the planning, saw Kyiv smuggle more than 100 small drones into Russia, disguised in a false roof of wood cabins, park them near Russian air bases and then unleash them in a coordinated attack. The Kremlin said Thursday it would choose 'how and when' to respond. There was no comment from Russian officials on the overnight strikes today. Putin has repeatedly rejected a ceasefire and Russian negotiators have issued a host of sweeping demands on Ukraine if it wants to halt the fighting. Putin vowed he would retaliate after a Ukrainian drone attack damaged nuclear-capable military planes at Russian air bases. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo They include completely pulling troops out of four regions claimed by Russia, but which its army does not fully control, an end to Western military support, a ban on Ukraine joining Nato as well as any Western military contingents or hardware being based in the country. Rescuers killed Multiple fires broke out in various districts of the capital, with the attack also damaging train tracks in the surrounding Kyiv region, leading to lengthy delays, the national railway operator said. Three of those killed were first responders from the state emergency service, Interior Minister Igor Klymenko said. 'They worked under fire to help people. Another nine rescuers were wounded. Some of them are seriously injured, and doctors are fighting for their lives,' he wrote on social media. Related Reads Trump-Putin phone call will not lead to 'immediate peace in Ukraine', US President says Ukraine says it destroyed more than 40 military planes in drone attack in Russia Seven killed after two bridges destroyed by 'explosions' in Russian regions bordering Ukraine Several strikes also hit western Ukraine's city of Lutsk and Ternopil region. 'Today, the enemy carried out the most massive air attack on our region to date. There are multiple strikes,' Ternopil's regional military administration chief Vyacheslav Negoda said. At least 32 people were wounded in four different regions, including 15 in Lutsk, officials said. Russia said Ukrainian strikes overnight on Russia wounded three people in the western Tula region. The Russian defence ministry said it downed 174 Ukrainian drones overnight, including 10 headed for the Russian capital, according to Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said. With reporting from © AFP 2025 Want to know more about what's happening in Ukraine and why? Check out our new FactCheck Knowledge Bank for essential reads and guides to finding good information online. Visit Knowledge Bank Readers like you are keeping these stories free for everyone... A mix of advertising and supporting contributions helps keep paywalls away from valuable information like this article. Over 5,000 readers like you have already stepped up and support us with a monthly payment or a once-off donation. Learn More Support The Journal