Killer's Last Words: ‘President Trump, Keep Making America Great. I'm Ready To Go'
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Imagine being so indoctrinated in the cult of Trump that you use your last words to praise a man you've never met.
'President Trump, keep making America great. I'm ready to go,' Glen Rogers, 62, said moments before receiving a lethal injection.
Also, what does it mean to Donald Trump that a suspected serial killer is a constituent? Probably nothing, but it's important to note that an evil man spent his last breath praising another evil man.
On Thursday, Rogers was executed for the 1995 death of Tina Marie Cribbs, a 34-year-old mother of two.
'The lethal injection began after his message to Trump, and he lay quietly through the procedure, NBC News reports. 'The execution took place at Florida State Prison near Starke. Rogers was pronounced dead at 6:16 p.m., authorities said.'
Rogers, once linked as a possible suspect in the O.J. Simpson murder case, was suspected of being a serial killer. According to reports, Rogers met Cribbs at a bar, and her body was later found in a motel room in Tampa.
From NBC News:
Rogers also had drawn a separate death sentence in California for the 1995 strangulation killing of Sandra Gallagher, a mother of three whom he had met at a bar in Van Nuys, California. That killing came weeks before the Cribbs murder. Rogers was stopped after a highway chase in Kentucky while driving Cribbs' car soon after her death.
Rogers was named as a suspect but never convicted in several other slayings around the country, once telling police he had killed about 70 people. He later recanted that statement, but had been the subject of documentaries including one from 2012 called 'My Brother the Serial Killer' that featured his brother Clay and a criminal profiler who had corresponded extensively with Rogers.
The documentary raised questions about whether Rogers could have been responsible for the 1994 stabbing deaths of Simpson's ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman.
During a 1995 murder trial that drew intense media attention, the former football star and celebrity Simpson was acquitted of all charges. Los Angeles police and prosecutors subsequently said after the documentary's release that they didn't think Rogers had any involvement in the Simpson and Goldman killings.
'We know who killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. We have no reason to believe that Mr. Rogers was involved,' the Los Angeles Police Department said in a statement at the time.
Simpson, who died in 2024 after a battle with cancer, had always proclaimed his innocence.
Rogers, who was originally from Ohio, was dubbed the 'Casanova Killer' or 'Cross Country Killer' by the media, as his alleged and 'proven female victims had similar characteristics: ages in their 30s, a petite frame and red hair.'
Rogers woke on the day of his death at 3:45 a.m. His last meal was pizza, chocolate, and a soda.
And his last words, his final words before his death, would be to praise a man so divisive that only another evil person would waste their final breath on him.
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