Glen Rogers, infamously dubbed the “Casanova Killer” and “Cross-Country Killer,” was executed Thursday evening, May 15, 2025, at Florida State Prison. He received a lethal injection for the 1995 murder of Tina Marie Cribbs, a mother of two who had encountered him at a bar in Gibsonton, Florida.
Tina was found stabbed to death in a Tampa motel room nearly 30 years ago. Glen, who was 62 when he died, was suspected in multiple killings across the United States, but it was her case that sealed his fate.
In his final moments, he addressed several people, including his wife, sons, grandchildren, brothers, and a lawyer who assisted him in his last legal efforts.
Turning to the families of his victims, he said, “I know there’s a lot of questions that you need answers to. I promise you in the near future the questions will be answered, and I hope in some way will bring you closure.”
He ended with a brief message to President Donald Trump, stating, “Keep making America great. I’m ready to go.” Glen was declared dead at 6:16 p.m. Tina, a mother of two, had met Glen at Showtown USA, a bar and restaurant in Gibsonton, where he had spent the evening dancing, drinking, and chatting with patrons after checking into the nearby Tampa 8 Inn.
Describing himself as a truck driver with a broken-down vehicle, Glen had rented Room 119 — where Tina would later be found, stabbed twice and left in the bathtub.
She was originally a New Yorker who had moved to Gibsonton from Oklahoma and lived just three houses away from her mother. She had promised to return to the bar after offering Glen a ride to a carnival lot but never came back.
Her mother, growing anxious, paged her daughter more than 30 times that night but received no reply. Two days later, a maid discovered Tina’s lifeless body. The motel room was traced back to Glen, who had already fled. Days later, he was spotted driving Tina’s stolen Ford Festiva in Kentucky.
After a high-speed chase, officers arrested him. Her discarded wallet, bearing his fingerprints, had been found at a highway rest stop in North Florida. Investigators also found Tina’s DNA on blood-stained shorts in his possession.
A screenshot of Tina Marie Cribbs from a post dated May 16, 2025. | Source: X/Friday-Justice-Obsessions
Although Glen maintained in a jailhouse call that he had not killed anyone, the evidence told a different story. A Florida jury convicted him and unanimously recommended the death penalty. He was later sentenced to death in California for the murder of Sandra Gallagher, a woman who had been strangled and left in her burning pickup truck just weeks before Tina’s killing.
Authorities in several other states, including Mississippi, Louisiana, and California, had linked Glen to additional murders during a six-week stretch in 1995, although no further charges were brought.
His execution was carried out under a death warrant signed by Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, the state’s fifth this year. The timing also coincided with the federal government’s renewed push for capital punishment under the President’s second term.
Trump reinstated federal executions after his second inauguration through the “Restoring the Death Penalty and Protecting Public Safety” bill, emphasizing capital punishment as a “deterrent and only proper punishment for the vilest crimes.”
President Donald Trump during an executive order signing in the Oval Office in Washington, D.C. on February 11, 2025. | Source: Getty Images
As the curtain lifted inside the prison’s execution chamber at 6 p.m., Glen lay strapped to a gurney, staring at the ceiling. Gone was his long hair and full beard — he now sported a short haircut and light gray facial hair. Witnesses, including Suzy Lopez, the Hillsborough State Attorney, observed in silence.
A white sheet covered most of his body, IV lines snaking into both arms. Three suited men stood nearby, one taking notes. The chemical cocktail began flowing at 6:02 p.m. Glen’s eyes shut minutes later. At 6:06, the execution leader tried to rouse him by name, shaking his shoulder and touching his eyelids.
