Wednesday, July 07, 1999
Jurors want Rogers to die
Ex-Hamilton man killed woman in Calif.
BY ERIN GIBSON
The Cincinnati Enquirer
and The Associated Press
A Los Angeles jury Tuesday recommended that former Hamilton resident Glen Rogers be sentenced to die for the rape and strangulation of a woman whose body he later burned.
If the judge agrees with the jury during sentencing July 16, it will be Mr. Rogers' second death sentence.
He already is on death row in Florida.
Authorities say the killing of Sandra Gallagher of Van Nuys, Calif., was the first in a series of cross-country slayings Mr. Rogers committed in the fall of 1995.
Mr. Rogers, a former carnival worker from Hamilton, was convicted of first-degree murder on June 22 in the California case.
Authorities say Mr. Rogers met Ms. Gallagher, a 33-year-old mother of three, on Sept. 28, 1995, in a Van Nuys bar where she was celebrating a $1,250 lottery win.
The two shared a ride home, and her body was found in her burned pickup.
During his trial, Mr. Rogers claimed Ms. Gallagher was killed by a business associate.
Authorities allege that Mr. Rogers also killed women in Jackson, Miss.; Tampa, Fla.; and Bossier City, La.
In the Florida murder case, he was sentenced to death for the November 1995 stabbing of Tina Marie Cribbs.
The 34-year-old Tampa mother of two, who also met Mr. Rogers in a bar, was found dead in a hotel bathtub. She had been stabbed twice and bled to death in the tub.
Mr. Rogers was arrested in Waco, Ky., southeast of Richmond, on Nov. 13, 1995, after a nationwide, weeklong manhunt.
While driving Ms. Cribbs' white Ford Festiva, he led police on a 15-mile chase that reached 100 mph before a half-dozen police cruisers at a roadblock forced him off U.S. 52.
A case is pending in the Mississippi stabbing of Linda Price, 34, and no charges were filed in the Louisiana case, where Mr. Rogers is accused of stabbing Andy Jiles Sutton, 37.
In addition, Mr. Rogers is the main suspect in the 1993 death of Mark Peters of Hamilton, his 72-year-old roommate and a retired electrician who was last seen at the VFW Post in Fairfield on Oct. 22, 1993.
Mr. Peters' decomposed body was found the following January wrapped in a curtain and tied with a rope in a dilapidated Beattyville, Ky., cabin, owned by the Rogers family.
Mr. Peters' son-in-law, John Burkart of Hamilton, said he and his wife have little reaction to Mr. Rogers' latest recommended death sentence.
“We're not upset or anything any longer,” he said.
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