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Man convicted of Tampa murder to be executed 30 years later

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Published  April 16, 2025 9:41am EDT
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Glen Rogers scheduled for execution

FOX 13's Evan Axelbank reports.

The Brief

    • Glen Edward Rogers, 62, is set to be executed on May 15.
    • He was sentenced to death for the murder of Tina Marie Cribbs, whose body was found in a Tampa motel room in November 1995.
    • Rogers also received a death sentence in California for another 1995 murder, and has been suspected in other homicide cases across the country.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a death warrant for the man convicted of killing a woman in a Tampa motel room and another woman in California 30 years ago.

Case against Glen Rogers

The backstory:

Glen Edward Rogers, 62, killed Tina Marie Cribbs after the two were seen leaving a bar in Gibsonton in November 1995. She was found stabbed to death in a Tampa motel room two days later.

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Rogers was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 1997. He later received another death sentence in California in 1999 for the September 1995 murder of Sandra Gallagher.

He is suspected of killing at least five people in five different states, including Florida, California, Ohio, Mississippi and Louisiana.

Mugshot of Glen Rogers. Courtesy: Florida Department of Corrections.

Mugshot of Glen Rogers. Courtesy: Florida Department of Corrections.

Rogers had a habit of meeting women in local bars, charming them and getting them into his car before attacking. He was caught in Kentucky driving Cribbs' car.

What they're saying:

"I was promised that in seven years, the state of Florida would take care of this, that he would be put to death," Cribbs' mother, Lisa Dicke, said in 2016.

Cribbs had been stabbed to death, just as another woman had been two months before in California.

"Why should he still be breathing?" Dicke asked in 2016.

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A letter written by the Florida attorney general to the governor notes that Rogers filed three relief motions, which were all denied.

Since Rogers was sentenced in 1997, Dicke has beaten both lung and brain cancer, and watched as her grandchildren grieved the loss of their mother.

The state attorney's office says they have contacted Dicke, who is out-of-state, to offer victim advocate help over the coming weeks.

"God is on my side, and I hope he will remain on my side until I see this done," Dicke said in 2016.

The other side:

Rogers' attorneys have argued he was abused as a child, and that those memories were only unlocked well after he was sentenced.

His attorneys will be in a Hillsborough County courtroom on Thursday.

By the numbers:

DeSantis has now signed five death warrants so far this year. Three men, all convicted of murder, have been executed with a fourth scheduled for May 1.

What's next:

Rogers is set to die by lethal injection on May 15 at Florida State Prison near Starke.

The Source: This story was written with information collected by FOX 13's Evan Axelbank, Governor Ron DeSantis' office, the Associated Press and previous FOX 13 News reports.

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