A suspected serial murderer known as the “Casanova Killer” used the final moments before his execution in Florida to send words of encouragement to President Trump.
“President Trump, keep making America great,” Glen Rogers said while strapped to a gurney in Florida State Prison, near Starke, on Thursday.
“I’m ready to go,” he added.
Rogers was then administered a lethal injection and pronounced dead at 6:16 p.m. In all, the entire process took about 16 minutes to complete, officials said.
Prior to his death, the 62-year-old convicted killer also thanked his wife, who visited him earlier in the day at the prison, according to the visitor logs. He also vaguely declared in his final statement that “in the near future, your questions will be answered,” but he did not provide any further details.
Rogers was convicted in Florida of the 1995 murder of Tina Marie Cribbs, a 34-year-old mother of two he had met at a bar. He was also sentenced to death in California for the strangulation killing of Sandra Gallagher, a mother of three whom he had met at a bar in Van Nuys the same year, and just weeks before Cribbs’ murder.
Police eventually captured Rogers following a highway chase in Kentucky. Authorities said he was driving the victim’s car at the time.
AP Photo/Ed Reinke
Glen Rogers is led from the Madison County Courthouse by sheriff’s deputies in 1995 in Richmond, Ky. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke)
In subsequent interviews, Rogers told investigators he killed about 70 people, a claim he would eventually retract. Still, authorities believe he is responsible for the murders of at least four women, all of them single mothers in their 30s with reddish hair.
Each of the victims were also from different states — California, Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida — earning Rogers the nickname, “The Cross Country Killer.” He was also dubbed the “Casanova Killer,” after he became known for swaying women with his good looks and charm.
In 2012, his brother Clay and a criminal profiler released the documentary “My Brother the Serial Killer.” It 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.
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