Episode 6: The Cross Country Killer
Glen Edward Rogers, known as The Cross Country Killer or The Casanova Killer was born on 15 Jul 1962 in Hamilton, Ohio. Only four days before his thirty-fifth birthday, Glen was sentenced to death in Florida for the murder of Tina Marie Cribbs. Then, two years later, only weeks before his thirty-seventh birthday, he received the death sentence in California for the murder of Sandra Gallagher. Today, Glen sits on death row in Florida as we discuss his family history filled with violence and murder.
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The Cross Country Killer
Source: The Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov 1995
Source: The Times, 26 Jan 1996
Source: Clarion Ledger, 28 April 1997
Claude, Jr, the oldest son of Claude Rogers and Edna Mae Sears and Glen’s brother
Source: Tampa Bay Times, 12 Jul 1997
Currently on Death Row
Source: Florida Corrections
Source: The Journal News, 20 Nov 2006
Zerena Riley Noland and her husband. Both died tragic deaths.
Janice Lass Phillips, distant cousin
Source: 1966 Ventura High School Yearbook
Source: The Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan 1980
Source: San Quentin Mug Shots
Source: Visalia Times Delta: 19 Mar 1927
Bert Riley was not only a great uncle to Glen, but also his first cousin twice removed.
Source: Folsom Mug Shots
The future Mrs. John Langford Dees, Claude Rogers, Sr.’s sister and Glen’s aunt, Ona Rogers Dees.
Source: The Journal News, 16 Feb 1934
Article at top right describes one of John Dees’s many crimes
Source: The Journal News, 29 Jan 1931
John Dees kept making headlines in his small town.
Source: Hamilton Evening Journal, 29 Jan 1931
A feud between Glen’s uncle John Langford Dees and the Deatons.
Source: Hamilton Evening Journal, 24 Sep 1929