Tina Marie Cribbs
Summary of Offense:
Glen Edward Rogers was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of Tina Marie Cribbs.
On November 5, 1995, Tina Marie Cribbs was seen leaving the Showtown Barn in Tampa with Glen Edward Rogers. On November 7, 1995, a cleaning person found Cribbs in a Tampa motel room. She had been stabbed in the chest and the buttocks. According to Cribbs’ mother, Tina always wore a sapphire and diamond ring and a gold watch. These pieces of jewelry were not found with Cribb’s body.
A bartender told police that Rogers had bought drinks for Cribbs and her friends. Later, Rogers asked Cribbs for a ride. Cribbs told her friends that she would be back shortly to meet her mother. Cribbs’ mother arrived at the bar and paged Cribbs because she had not returned to the bar.
A motel clerk said that Rogers had arrived in a cab at the motel a few days prior to the murder. On November 5, 1995, Rogers paid for another night and asked that no one clean his room. The clerk then observed Rogers packing suitcases into a White Ford Festiva. On November 13, 1995, Rogers was arrested in Kentucky driving Cribb’s car, which he claimed a girl had loaned him. Rogers also claimed that the girl was alive when he left.
Several days earlier, on November 6, 1995, Cribbs wallet was found at a rest area on Interstate-10 in North Florida. Fingerprints lifted from the wallet and the Tampa motel room were matched to Rogers.
Rogers was sentenced to death in Hillsborough County on July 11, 1997.
On June 22, 1999, Rogers was also convicted in California of first-degree murder and arson for strangling Sandra Gallagher to death and leaving her body in her burning automobile on September 29, 1995. Rogers was sentenced to death in Los Angeles County on July 16, 1999. He then was transported back to the control of Florida’s Department of Corrections in August of 1999.
Also see Glen Rogers - California Death Row
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