Infamous death row inmate had chilling final words for victims' families before mentioning Trump in 'confusing' statement
An infamous death row inmate had some chilling final words for his victims' families before mentioning Donald Trump in a 'confusing' statement.
Glen Rogers, a self-proclaimed 'serial killer', was on death row for almost 30 years before his execution on Thursday (May 15).
The 62-year-old died by lethal injection at Florida State Prison after he was convicted of murdering two moms in 1995, though he allegedly told cops he was responsible for murdering around 70 people throughout his life.
The notorious killer opted for pizza, chocolate cake and a soda for his final meal, according to Daily Star, and his last words sparked 'confusion' and had a chilling effect on all those present at his execution, including his victims' families.
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What were Glen Rogers' last words?
Moments before his execution, Rogers gave a strange shout-out to the president, saying: "President Trump, keep making America great."
"I’m ready to go," he added.
Rogers also thanked his wife, who had visited him earlier that day in prison.
Randy Roberson, whose mom Andy Lou Jiles Sutton was a victim of the so-called 'Casanova killer', witnessed the execution and said the Trump comment caused confusion in the room.
"I was like, 'Where did that even come from?'" he said, reports USA Today.
His wife, Amy Roberson, added she thought: "What the hell?"
But before his apparent praise of the POTUS, Rogers also spoke to his victims' families directly.
He said: "I know there's a lot of questions that you need answers to. I promise you in the near future the questions will be answered and I hope in someway will bring you closure."
Rogers, who was given the moniker for his apparent good looks and blonde hair that helped him to seduce his female victims, was also dubbed the 'Cross Country Killer' as his victims all lived in different states - California, Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida.
What were Glen Rogers' crimes?
He was first sentenced to death in 1997 for the first-degree murder of 34-year-old Tina Marie Cribbs, as well as armed robbery and grand theft of a motor vehicle.
Rogers met the mom-of-two in a bar in Tampa and convinced her to drive him home, after which he stabbed her to death.
Her lifeless body was found in the bathtub of a motel room while police tracked him down in a highway chase in Kentucky while he was driving her stolen car.
Rogers then received another death sentence in California in 1999 for the strangulation of Sandra Gallagher, 33, whom he had also met at a bar in Van Nuys.
The badly burnt corpse of the mom-of-three was found near his apartment in her burning car.
He was also accused of the murder of Mark Peters, a 72-year-old retired electrician in Ohio, who was found dead in a shack owned by Rogers' family in 1994.
Linda Price, 34 and another mom-of-two, was stabbed to death in the bathtub of her home in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1995.
And Sutton, whose son attended Rogers' execution, was a 37-year-old mom-of-four to a 19, 17, eight and six-year-old when Rogers stabbed her to death in her bed in 1995 in Bossier City, Louisiana.
"He's an animal," one of Rogers' victims' sisters said in court before his sentencing, according to an archived report from the Associated Press. "He's about the evilest thing I think I've ever imagined."
In a 2012 documentary, My Brother the Serial Killer, his brother Clay claimed Rogers was also responsible for the 1994 murders of Nicole Brown Simpson, O.J. Simpson's ex-wife and her friend, Ron Goldman, though the Los Angeles Police Department dismissed the claim, according to Fox News.
Rogers was pronounced dead at 6:16pm on May 15, becoming the fifth inmate to be executed by the state of Florida this year and the 16th overall across the US.
Topics: Death Row, Donald Trump, Florida, Crime, US News
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