One Don Juan From Murder

Glen Rogers Glen’s Mother was Edna May who was a devout church-goer in her early years. I think they said she was pentacostal. Mom had to be very strict within her religion. She couldn’t wear pants, or makeup. Glen’s Dad, Claude, had just gotten out of the military when he met Edna and they married. Claude was from KY. Big thing down there was moonshine, his dad stored bottles of it all over the woods. He was a heavy drinker and once he and Edna married, he decided she wasn’t going to church anymore. He wanted her home to raise the kids and to be at his beck and call. After their 5th baby, the couple didn’t want to or couldn’t afford any more kids. Back then, you had to go to a judge to ask for permission to get your tubes tied. So the couple went in front of a judge and asked for permission after having had 5 kids and the judge said no, your life isn’t in danger. So, along comes baby number 6 who was Glen Edward Rogers. Glen’s birth was the worst possible time for the couple to have another baby. Claude had lost his job due to his drinking so the family had to move. 7 kids were eventually conceived and the family was terribly poor. The kids remember eating oatmeal for years for every meal. The children would resort to stealing food from other people if they wanted something different. When they would get picked up by the police, they were treated with kindness and given soda so it wasn’t much of a deterrant. A bigger deterant was being sent home to their parents. Their dad loved guns and shooting. He would shoot their house up for target practice and hold it to his wife’s head to scare her. The kids got so good at sneaking in and out of houses to steal food, that it was a natural escalation to begin breaking in to steal other things as well. In Hamilton, ohio – when glen was about 8, one of his older brothers, Clay took him on his first home robbery. They almost got caught and had to jump off the roof to get away. A couple of days later, the pair was at the park when Glen told Clay he’d be right back. Glen went across the street into a house where a woman was outside hanging up her laundry to dry. Glen went right inside, stole some money and brought it back to Clay. Glen seemed to be fearless. Clay often used glen to do his dirty work because he was smaller and much younger so he wouldn’t get in as much trouble. The brothers had been found to do over 100 burglaries in 90 days and were arrested in the mid-70’s. Clay was recognized as the ring leader and was sent to reform school, then shipped off into the army when he turned 17. Glen spent his teens going in and out of the juvenile system. He too was sent to a reform school and while there, Glen was sexually molested by some of the guards. He felt like no one cared for him at home or at the reform school. When Glen got out of reform school, some of Glen’s friends told him that a girl he had always had a crush on was in the hospital and had just had a baby. The hospital wouldn’t let her leave because she had no address and nowhere to go with the baby. Glen went and got her and took her to his house. Her name was Debbie. Glen was said to love Debbie and the baby so much that he legally adopted the baby as his own son. They married in 1980 and had a baby of their own. However, he was the extremely jealous type. Even though Debbie didn’t do anything to create his suspicions, he always assumed she was cheating. Their marriage was a strained one, however. Debbie was expected to be at the house, taking care of the kids and if she varied in any way from a day’s planned activities, she would get beaten by Glen. He beat her badly enough that she ended up in the hospital. He was re-living the life he had seen his dad give his own mother who had stayed in her abusive marriage for over 50 years. After Debbie had been beaten so bad during one incident, Glen feared he was going to be arrested, so he took off to California. The kids stayed with Debbie and the couple divorced. In LA, Glen met a woman named Kathy and the couple had a boy, but unsurprisingly, that marriage didn’t work out either. After Glen and Kathy split in 1984, his dad, Claude got sick and died. Glen began to unravel further. He was doing drugs and getting arrested continuously. He would travel the country when he wasn’t in jail. He was becoming more violent, taking more risks and more chances. One of Glen’s sisters was about to be evicted and lose her house and to help her, Glen robbed a gas station down the street with a butcher knife then brought her the money to save her house. Detective Tom Kilgour of the Hamilton, Ohio police described Glen as a smooth talker who was likeable and could often figure his way out of situations. He even approached the narcotics unit wanting to work undercover for them. He actually worked with a lot of different police agencies which further trained him to get out of some of the problems he would create for himself. It seemed to many that no matter what Glen did, the police would often just give him a slap on the wrist and let him go so he began to feel invincible. In 1992, Glen was back in Hamilton, Ohio living with a new girlfriend. One night, he picked up Clay from the bus station and brought him back to the trailer he shared with his new girlfriend. He talked about how much he hated the woman and was disgusted by her. Clay suggested they just leave but Glen responded by picking up a large knife and claiming he was going to stick her with it. Clay told him no and forced him to leave. While driving, Glen told Clay he should have just killed her since he’d already done at least 50 so far. Clay laughed and didn’t believe his little brother. The two took a road trip, probably saving the woman’s life. They were hustlers and con-men, throwing caution to the wind. They did burglaries and hustled people at bars, heading south to Florida. All the while, Glen talked about his killings. One night after Clay had gotten drunk and passed out, Glen came in early in the morning covered in blood with torn clothing. Stolen jewelry and tools littered the hotel room. Clay started to believe Glen’s stories of murder, and with Glen’s increasingly volatile and violent moods, he decided to go his own way and get a legitimate job. One evening in Kentucky, Glen caught up to Clay at his house and told Clay to come to the car because he has someone he’d like him to meet. When he got to the car, instead of opening the car door, he opened the trunk and revealed the body of a woman. Clay told him to leave. He was caught in a dilemma, was he to call the police and betray his brother? He didn’t call at this point. At the end of 1993, Glen and Clay once again began working together. This time cutting tobacco. Clay got thrown in jail for a couple of months for a fight he was in, after which he headed back to their old family farm in the hills of Kentucky. The cabin hadn’t been lived in in quite a while and Clay found all the furniture thrown into a back room. He began pulling stuff out to get a place set up to sit down. He grabbed a blanket and when he pulled it, an arm came rolling out of the blanket. Clay quickly left, but not before noticing a note written on the wall that said, “the shit is gonna hit the fan, get outta here.” Clay knew it was Glen. Clay waited for about 12 days, not knowing what to do. He thought about calling the police; he even thought about going and removing the body himself to protect his long-time partner in crime and the family member he had always been closest with. No matter what he’d done, he was still his brother. Clay found out the body he had found belonged to Mark Peters who was a friend of the brother’s mom. He had offered Glen a place to stay and it seemed as soon as Glen had moved in, Mark went missing along with his car and several valuable personal items including antiques, guns, and a collection of coins. Police put out bulletins and stories about Mark going missing to try to get any info they could on him. Clay had liked Mark and had made a conscious decision he didn’t want to walk down the path of evil with his brother. If he didn’t say anything, he’d be no better than Glen. He called the detective and came in to give a statement. The detective wasn’t so sure about the info Clay would provide since he himself wasn’t the most responsible or reliable person. He’d been in and out of jail all his life like his brother, Glen. They had no other leads, so they felt they needed to look into it. Cops went up to the family cabin and began to look around in the debris. When moving a blanket, a foot was sticking out. Mark’s body was found bound to a chair and covered by a pile of furniture. Clay said this was the first time he felt good inside because he knew he was finally doing the right thing. At this point, it was 1994, and Glen had made his way to California and told his brother that he was hanging out with Hollywood types like Nicole Brown Simpson. An earthquake had hit and Glen was working for a company that helped with earthquake damage repair. A few months later, Glen risked coming home even though he was wanted for questioning in the death of Mark. Their sister Sue, decided to have a cookout and bring the family together. He told sue about meeting a woman Nicole, that he’d done work for her on her house. Not a follower of sports, Glen told them Nicole was married to a black football player and that he was famous but he didn’t remember his name. At the time, Nicole wasn’t as famous as she is now so the family didn’t recognize Nicole’s name. He told Clay that they were wealthy and he was going to, “take her down.” One June 13, 1994, Nicole and Ronald Goldman’s bodies were found and the OJ hunt began. Glen’s family realized this was the Nicole Glen was talking about. Clay immediately wondered if his brother was involved. Tom Lang, a witness, said he’d seen a man outside of Nicole’s house and said he could have been white, Asian or Mexican but he definitely wasn’t African American. He saw a white ford f350 parked on the street. As a painter, Glen had access to the same model of truck seen at nicole’s place. Investigators always thought that the perpetrator came from the world of Faye Resnick, a friend of Nicole’s who was a drug user and addict. Glen had told Clay that he had set up a meeting with Nicole and Faye and Clay assumed that meant he was meeting them to rob them and/or kill them. Ron Goldman also showed up and Glen hadn’t expected that. After the murder, in Sept. 1995, Glen was living in Van Nuys and using a fake name. He hung out at a local bar, looking to meet women and one night, he met 34 year old mother, Sandra Gallagher. Sandra had gone out that night because she had won $1200 on a lottery ticket and wanted to celebrate. She met Glen through a mutual friend and gave him a ride home. The next day, she was found in a truck, strangled and set on fire. Police quickly set their sites on Glen. They released photos of him and began searching for him. He had set out east and made it to Jackson, Mississippi a few weeks before Halloween where he ended up at a carnival that was in town. A few nights later, he met a pretty redhead named Linda Price. 2 former husbands and a former boyfriend of hers had died and she felt like she was always looking for the love of her life. At the fair which her family attended every year, Glen had walked up behind Linda, gently grabbed a lock of her hair and said, “that’s the prettiest red hair I’ve ever seen. You’re beautiful.” Linda loved the attention and told her family all about him. 3 days later, they got an apartment together where they lived as a couple for 3 weeks. Glen had told Linda’s family all about knowing Nicole Simpson and having done work for her. He flattered all the ladies in Linda’s family and charmed them off their feet. But, one night, Linda’s sister witnessed another side of Glen she hadn’t seen before while at a bar with them. Linda took her sister in the bathroom and told her that if something happens to her, it’s Glen and to not let him get away with it. Glen, meanwhile, suspected Linda was telling her sister something and came banging on the bathroom door. He yelled for them to open the door and was in a rage, grabbed Linda and made her come home after telling Linda’s sister she would be next. The last time Linda’s sister saw her was the night before Halloween of 1995 when the two were planning to have her sister’s grandchildren go trick-or-treating at Linda's apartment. However, the next day, Price did not answer her door, and Rogers was gone. Detectives got a call about a female body found in Jackson. The investigator on the case entered the apartment, went into the bathroom, shined his flashlight around and saw Linda stabbed with her throat cut ear to ear, and a washcloth covering her face. Glen took off once again, this time to Louisiana. Sue (his sister), got a call from Glen early one evening. The tone of his voice and laugh scared Sue – something seemed wrong with him. He told her, guess what I’m doing? She responds, What? She kept hearing a slapping sound in the background. He told her, I’m smacking these girls on their butt. Sue asked, what the hell are you talking about and he replied, They’re dead and I’m smacking them on their butts. Sue was freaked out and he told her the police hadn’t even scratched the surface of what he’d done. He said “70.” And that was the end of the call. Bossier (boh-zure) city, la, Nov. 3, 1995, Glen was at a strip bar and hotels, looking for cheap beer and women. Here he found another redhead, Andy Sutton and her friend Theresa. They were at the bar, noticed Glen and Andy said she thought he was hot. Andy normally thought men were a dime a dozen but Glen was different and she quickly fell for him. They began spending a lot of time together. During their short relationship, Glen spun a story, telling Andy he needed to head south to Tampa Florida for a while. A couple days later, police in Jackson, Mississippi, got a call about a murder in Tampa that sounded a lot like the murder police in Jackson had dealt with. The victim was Tina Marie Cribbs, 33, the mother of 2 kids. On November 7, 1995, a maid at a hotel in Tampa went in to clean a room when she discovered a body. Tina Marie had been stabbed in the chest and buttocks and placed in the tub. A clerk at the motel told authorities that Glen had arrived at the motel a few days before the murder. Right before leaving, Glen had paid for an extra night and asked that his room not be cleaned. The clerk then saw Glen putting his belongings into a white Ford Festiva. The next day, Tina Marie’s wallet was discovered at a rest area in North Florida; the fingerprints lifted from her wallet and the motel room were matched to Glen. Glen went back to Louisiana to see Andy who had no inkling of what was happening. On Nov 8, 1995, Andy and Glen met up at a bar and returned to the apartment she and Theresa shared. At around 10am that morning, a knock came at the apartment door and it was Andy’s ex boyfriend who had been trying to get back with her. Theresa had the ex wait at the door because she figured Andy was in her room with Glen and she didn’t want that situation to erupt. She got no answer when she knocked on Andy’s door several times. When she opened the door, the covers of the bed were tucked around a shape. She got no response when she called andy’s name and pushed on the figure. Then she pulled back the covers to find a pillow and a naked body. She pulled the pillow off her head and saw a deceased Andy with a look of excrutiation on her face. Police arrived at the apartment – there was a pile of dirty clothes next to the bed and in the pile, they found a large butcher knife. Andy had suffered multiple stab wounds, along with defensive wounds across her hands and arms – police said her death was a brutal one. Theresa was interviewed by police and she told them that Glen’s truck was at the apartment. He was now suspected of 6 killings. The hunt for Glen was all over the national news. A reporter even went to speak with his mom to beg her to do something to get Glen to turn himself in. She complied and begged him to turn himself in. Glen started getting angry at his own family and called them with threats. He had told people he had a desire to kill his mother for what he’d been through in his childhood. His mom, Edna had started seeing a man named Bob while her husband Claude was gravely ill. Directly after Claude died, Edna had moved Bob into her house which that made Glen irate. Glen somehow felt that his mom should have protected him when he was a child from his father’s abuse and was almost more angry at her than his father who was his abuser. His mother was a redhead and often so were his victims. It was almost as if he was killing his mother repeatedly. He had claimed he wanted his brother to kill him to complete the full circle of the demon – whatever that means. Glen had become known as both the Cross Country killer because his killings spanned the entire country and also the Cassanova killer since he was able to charm women at the get-go to get them to trust him. Now, it’s 1995 and Glen is the most wanted man in America. Where is he? He’s drinking beer down the road from the family cabin in Kentucky. He was spotted and a police chase ensued. He threw a beer can and it hit the hood of the cop car directly behind him. He slammed down beers and threw the cans at the police following him. Police set up road blocks on the highway he was speeding down and the FBI picked up his brother Clay to be a negotiator in case Glen got trapped and started a shootout. Glen was driving the white ford festiva he had stolen from Tina Marie after he had killed her – note here – I too had a ford festiva this year of my life, but mine was blue. He was able to get that little nugget of a car up to over 100 miles per hour before police were able to run him off the road in Waco ky. They took Glen in for questioning and he asked what they had him on. They told him 4 or 5 murders and his reply was 4 or 5 or maybe 70, though he later recanted that number, claiming he was joking. Police do believe he killed more than the 5 they were sure of because that was such a quick killing spree. It’s likely he’d been killing for years. All over the country, police were revisiting their cold cases to see if they could link Glen to them. There were so many that seemed to fit his M.O. – stabbings, left in bathtubs, places he’d moved about the country during his 15 years he spent traveling about. It seemed that every time they’d check back, they could find a trace of Glen having met or been near the multitudes of victims. Police also decided to take a closer look at the family cabin where Glen had left Mark’s body. They did indeed find hair and bone fragments in fire pits that did not belong to Mark so they knew at least a couple of other bodies were up there but they couldn’t be matched to anyone in particular. Because Glen had killed people in so many states, he could only be tried for them one at a time in the state where they occurred. Florida wanted him first as they were sure they could get the death penalty. Glen began corresponding with a profiler named Anthony Meoli. Glen expressed in detail to Anthony about his painful beginnings with his dad. One story he told him was when he was 13, His dad had brought home a woman to mess around with and Edna had called home asking where Clyde was. Glen lied and told her his dad was at work but his mom detected the deception and called him a liar. He got really mad at the visiting woman when she came and told Glen his mom was a bitch. He followed her down the hall and pushed her down the basement steps. He ran and hid in the closet and heard screaming and yelling. After a bit, his dad called his name and yelled that Glen had killed the woman and told him to help clean up the mess and that he’d better not tell anyone. Glen felt scared but also a bit happy as it was the first conversation he’d actually had with his dad. They put the lady in a truck of an 88 oldsmobile (also the car I drove in high school). They drove a while, pulled over, and dropped her body on the side of the road. Glen said he had wanted to brag to his mom that he had “killed that bitch for you.” But he didn’t since his dad had told him not to tell a soul. After the incident, Glen felt sad as his dad didn’t even look at him anymore. He said to this day that he’s not sure if he did kill the woman when she fell down the stairs or if his dad did and just blamed him for it. Glen now also wanted to come clean on the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson. As we know, OJ was charged with the crime. Glen had written about knowing something about the murders but since the trial had already finished, no one did anything about it. While in prison, Glen took up painting and in his paintings, he would leave hints as to his crimes and sent them to his penpal, the criminal profiler, Anthony. In one painting, he indicated the deaths of Nicole and Ronald Goldman claiming he was involved somehow. The profiler visited Glen in prison. He told Glen he needed to prove that he’d been at the crime scene of Nicole that only someone who was there at the time would know. Specifically, the murder weapon. Only the killer would know what it would look like. Glen drew a knife – he also told him that he had been paid by OJ to steal back diamonds he had given Nicole. They were worth about 20,000. Oj’s instructions were as Glen told it, “You may have to kill the bitch.” Glen said he had parked a white ford pickup truck on the side street where that witness had seen it. He said OJ told him about a spare set of keys that were on the back side of the condo. Glen claimed that right after climbing over the back gate and walking towards the house, Ron Goldman came in the gate and Glen knew he needed to get rid of him. He stuck him with a knife and threw him against a tree. He said Nicole came out to see what was going on. Glen claimed he had stabbed her once and she fainted. He then charged Ron again, stabbing him and leaving him to die. He then returned to Nicole, pulled her hair back, exposing her neck and slashed her neck. Glen said OJ didn’t want to get his hands dirty but wanted to go make sure Glen had done the job. Evidence in the trial showing two separate sets of men’s shoe prints did point to two men having been there. One was proven to be OJ’s but the other was unidentified. Creepy detail – Nicole collected angel pins and in memory of her at a vigil, her family all wore angel pins. Glen had sent his mother an angel pin after Nicole’s death and asked her to wear it at his trial. His brother believes that pin was taken from Nicole by Glen when he killed her. Glen was sentenced for death in two different states. All other states dropped their investigations since he was going to be executed. Glen is still awaiting execution in florida with the temperamental electric chair known as “old sparky.” Wikipedia, murderpedia, wlbt.com, oxygen.com, investigation discovery, Real Life Villans wiki, My brother the serial killer, the documentary.