Tina Marie Cribbs, a 34-year-old white woman and mother of two, was murdered in early November 1995 in Tampa, Florida. She had met a man named Glen Edward Rogers at a lounge in Gibsonton, a small town just south of Tampa. Rogers, a former carnival worker with a history of drifting across states, was later identified as the man responsible for her death. Cribbs was last seen alive on November 5, 1995, when she left the bar with Rogers. Two days later, her body was discovered in a bathtub at the Tampa 8 Inn, a motel located on 46th Street at East Columbus Drive.
The 34-year-old white female victim had been stabbed to death. Investigators determined that Rogers had checked into the motel with Cribbs and then fled the scene in her car. A few days after the murder, Rogers was apprehended in Kentucky following a police chase while driving the victim’s vehicle. His arrest led to a broader investigation that connected him to multiple other homicides across the country.
Rogers was tried and convicted in Tampa in 1997 for the murder of Tina Marie Cribbs. He received a death sentence for the crime. Over the years, he became known as the “Casanova Killer” due to his pattern of meeting women in bars and then murdering them. Authorities linked him to at least five killings, including the strangulation of another woman in California just weeks before Cribbs’ death. Rogers once claimed to have killed as many as 70 people, though he later recanted that statement.
After nearly three decades on death row, Glen Edward Rogers was executed by lethal injection at Florida State Prison on May 15, 2025. He was 62 years old at the time of his execution. The family of Tina Marie Cribbs did not speak publicly following the execution. Rogers’ final statement was cryptic and included a political reference, but he expressed no remorse for his crimes. His execution marked the end of a long and painful chapter for the families of his victims.
