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While he faces death, Hillsborough Killer's restless youth is an immeasurable story

Tampa and state plans to lead Rogers on Thursday evening, almost 30 years after having stabbed a 36-year-old mother of two children in a bathtub from Tampa Motel.

Apart from a stay at the last minute, the execution will confirm what a jury unanimously decided a long time ago that Rogers' fate should be. Nevertheless, his lawyers argued that the jury never heard – enough that Rogers, when another jury heard it, could get life in prison instead.

Courts have repeatedly rejected the efforts to reduce the judgment for Rogers. Say decisions that his arguments are essentially merit and should have been made a long time ago.

When he is exposed to the upcoming view of the death penalty, Rogers' lawyers say that his story does not yet have to be told completely.

The story of Charmers, known as Casanova murderer or Cross-Country murderer, is well documented, who condemns twice for murder and in at least three other deaths in the United States, which are less known, the history of a damaged young man, whose early life experiences were murdered in state institutions and as victims of sexual abuse, who meets him on a way to murder, in which he has on his way to murder.

“Glen is basically a creature that was built by the state,” said Dan Sikes, the lawyer, the Rogers' federal calls. “And people wonder why he is accused of having done the things he has accused.”

Glen Rogers, right, looks at his process lawyer Nick Sinardi during his hearing from 1997 in Tampa. Rogers is on Thursday from the execution of Murder of Tina Marie Cribbs from 1995. [ Associated Press (1997) ]

Creating a murderer

Glen Edward Rogers was born in 1962 when second young children of seven children grew up in Hamilton, Ohio, a hard industrial city about 20 miles north of Cincinnati.

His father was described in court files and news accounts as an alcoholic, who tended to tendency to tendon, in which he would break things in her house and fire a weapon outside. When his drink lost in a paper mill, the family moved to a dilapidated house.

Her mother was described in court as a beaten woman who would seriously punish the children if she woke her father out of his drunken nap. Otherwise they were rarely disciplined, even if they were braked in.

About five years ago, about five years ago, new details appeared when experts -including a former FBI agent -worked for Rogers' defense, which discovered as repressed memories of terrible sexual abuse that he had. Witnesses were set up to confirm.

The court files submitted in 2020 contain a detailed summary.

When he was 10 years old, Roger's “many nights” spent a woman in his hometown who raped him until he was replaced by another boy. He was just as old when he started spending time in a local brothel known as the “Cathuathouse”.

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One of his older brothers, who had now died, used Rogers by “leaving” him to maintain drug money, according to court files. The records call two women who raped the boy, but also offered men who produced child pornography.

When he was 11 years old, a man who was described as a “notorious child molester” stated that Rogers gave a job that swept his Hamilton Radio shop and used him as a “care” movement for sexual favors. He gave Roger's gifts and appeared in his house when he missed the work and reminded him of his generosity to make him agree to abuse.

Rogers was later interviewed In the context of a criminal investigation against the man, however, he showed court files. He remembered that the man once, when he and the man were alone on a boat, told him that he could always murder him if he wanted to. In a non -related case, the man is guilty of being a sexual crime, it is said to be recorded.

“The family and the local community of Mr. Rogers failed him,” wrote lawyer Ali Shakoor five years ago. “It is no wonder that he started a life with crimes at such a young age and was finally sentenced to young prison for young people in which he was further ruined.”

Rogers began to consume drugs in his early teenagers. He ended up in the training institution of Central Ohio, a deceased youth criminal offense. Rogers remembered another sexual abuse by male guards there. He was also regularly locked up in a room in which he was kicked and beaten and was then kept in solitary confinement.

One at night Rogers woke up. He was said to go outside and dig a hole. A boy's body was later placed and buried in it, according to the court files.

“The state of Ohio did not protect Mr. Rogers and is partly responsible for the fact that he finally becomes a capital complaint,” wrote Shakoor.

Glen Rogers speaks to his lawyer during his murder trial of 1997 in Tampa. Rogers is on Thursday from the execution of Murder of Tina Marie Cribbs from 1995.
Glen Rogers speaks to his lawyer during his murder trial of 1997 in Tampa. Rogers is on Thursday from the execution of Murder of Tina Marie Cribbs from 1995. [ Times (1997) ]

A number of murders

According to news accounts, Rogers had worked as a taxi driver in his hometown. He was also described as a carnival worker.

Before he turned 30, Rogers had been arrested more than 25 times, such as news accounts. The crimes ranged from minor theft to the attempt of arson to attack.

The Cincinnati Enquirer described him in 1995 as a “freelance goodtime Charlie who courted women in Honky-Tonks and Tavern”. But the same story that rely on reports of people who knew Rogers, called him, angry, angry and a man who could mean himself, especially when he drank.

The police questioned him in 1994 after a man named Mark Peters had appeared dead and was tied to a chair in a dilapidated hut in Nordkentucky. Peters, 71, a craftsman in the neighborhood who repaired old watches and restored ancient furniture left Rogers in his house. The investigators could not determine the cause of death. Soon afterwards, Rogers left the city.

He appeared in Van Nuys, California, near Los Angeles in September 1995. A bartender in Mcred's cocktail lounge remembered the well-dressed, bearded, bearded, strangers, novel Sandra Gallagher, a 33-year-old mother of three years, who celebrated a lottery win of $ 1,250. He was seen as he climbed into her truck. The truck was burned the next day. Gallagher's body was inside. She had been strangled.

At the beginning of October this year, a woman named Linda Price Rogers met in a beer tent on the Mississippi State Fair. She had two children. She worked on sale and lived like Rogers from hotels. Friends quoted time in news, said she was lonely and immediately fell in love for him.

They got an apartment together. She was found there in early November and stabbed in the bathtub.

Tina Marie Cribbs appears in an undated photo.
Tina Marie Cribbs appears in an undated photo. [ Associated Press ]

Days later, Rogers appeared in Showtown USA, a bar and a restaurant in Gibsonton, a carnival city on the eastern bank of Tampa Bay. Tina Marie Cribbs, another young mother, was there with friends. Rogers bought drinks and flirted with her. She offered to make a trip for him and said she would be back. She never returned.

She was found two days later in the bathtub of room 119 in Tampa 8 Inn Motel am Columbus Drive near Interstate 4. She was also stabbed. Rogers had rented the room. Her Ford Festiva was missing. Her wallet appeared in a motorway residual area in North Florida. His fingerprints were on it.

As a nationwide search, Rogers appeared in Bossier City, Louisiana. People saw him dancing in a bar called Iil and dancing with a woman named Andy Jiles Sutton. She found her roommate two days later and was naked on a leaky water bed. She had been stabbed.

Glen Rogers became Ky in November 1995 from State Police Post in Richmond, Ky.
Glen Rogers became Ky in November 1995 from State Police Post in Richmond, Ky. [ Associated Press (1995) ]

Days later the Kentucky State Police Rogers, which drove the stolen car from Cribbs. He was arrested after a high -speed hunt.

Juris in Florida and California found him guilty for the murders of cribs and Gallagher; The authorities in the other countries decided not to pursue it.

Defenders presented some evidence of Rogers' restless upbringing and claimed that he was mentally ill. Rogers denied having killed someone. But he also contested in a 1997 Jailhouse interview after his process that he had an abusive childhood. It is unclear whether his claim is true.

Mary Dicke, the mother of Tina Marie Cribbs, testifies to Rogers in Tampa during the murder trial against Glen Rogers in 1997.
Mary Dicke, the mother of Tina Marie Cribbs, testifies to Rogers in Tampa during the murder trial against Glen Rogers in 1997. [ Times (1997) ]

It wasn't enough to overcome the brutality of the murder of Cribbs anyway.

“That completely destroyed my life,” her mother Mary Dicke said in a hearing. “She was everything I had.”

The Supreme Court of Florida rejected Rogers' recent appointment last week, which contained the claims about his childhood.

His remaining legal options include contesting the constitutionality of the fatal injection, which is pending in front of the Supreme Court of the United States, and a new plea, which was submitted on Monday, which presents the quality of the inmates of legal representation, the inmates of the inmates of the state.

If none of these vocations are successful, Rogers will be executed on Thursday at 6 p.m. in the Florida State Prison near Strong.

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