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in the fall of 1995 the serial killer was on the loose crossing the country he lured women with his child and then struck each time he vanished before police could catch him the FBI and police detectives needed to stop him before another victim Matt established [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] the body of a young woman found burned in a truck launched a manhunt to find her killer when more bodies began to turn up across the country the FBI believe the cases were linked investigators had a suspect they just couldn't find him I'm Jim Kallstrom former head of the FBI's New York office agents would enlist the help of local law enforcement and even long-haul truckers to stop a cross-country killer [Music] in the early morning hours of September 29 1995 the Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a vehicle fire at a hospital and family they found a pickup some learning when the flames were extinguished they found human remains Fireman contacted the arson and homicide division of the Los Angeles Police Department homicide detectives responded to the scene and were briefed by uniformed officers already there they questioned a witness a nurse would see the Firestone [Music] she said she had arrived for work before dawn for the early morning shift in the parking lot she saw the truck go ablaze she saw the outline of a figure with long hair run from the truck as the flames erupted she never saw a face and she had never seen the truck before investigators inspected the vehicle the pattern of fire damage indicated it had begun in the cabinet burned very quickly investigators believed it had been intentionally set an accelerant the news was probably guessing the body inside appeared to be a female but it was burned beyond recognition some items survived the fire including a backpack a camera and a roll of undeveloped film technicians recovered several documents that bore the name Sandra Geller by Sunrise detectives at LAPD's van nuys station had run the trucks place [Music] to DMV records Detective Mike Coblentz was able to confirm that Sandra Gallagher owned the truck we done some work at the office and learned that she was in fact married to an individual Steve who lived in the Los Angeles area we attempted to contact him and made arrangements to interview him at Van Thai station detectives suspected it was Sandra in the truck but identification through dental records would take a few days since the body was too damaged to identify detectives ask Steven Gallagher to look through the recovered evidence he said the backpack camera and other items were Santos the police department had developed a roll of films and survived the fire it's almost even identified his wife in the pictures most married homicide victims are killed by their husbands detectives asked Stephen about his relationship with Sandra there's a lot of domestic violence spousal abuse it goes on so it's it's just a direction to go to initially in our case as it related to Sandra Gallagher once again we wanted to eliminate the husband as a suspect and determine a little bit more about our victim Sandra Stephen said he had seen his wife on September 28th the day before the truck fire that day the couple had met for lunch in Sandra were experiencing marital problems and they had spent the last couple of nights apart they hadn't talked about reconciling but things were still strained between them [Music] Stephen told detectives he last saw Sandra around 2 p.m. though he heard from his wife later that evening he said Sandra called him from a local bar called the Prez she was very excited and told him she had won $1,200 a locker [Music] since that call Stephen hadn't heard from his wife and had no idea where she had gone detectives had to corroborate his story once she mentioned the Barma creds that was our direction we wanted to get in there find out who was the bartender who the owner was who was there that particular evening and who could identify some photos of Sandra they would gathered from the truck LAPD detectives visited the bar when shown a photo of Sandra Gallagher the bartender recognized that she knew her by her nickname Sam [Music] yes what bartender confirmed that Sandra had been in the bar 1928 she had told everyone about her lottery win some customers overheard the detectives questions and said they had also been immigrants that evening you tell me about they also remembered Santa and recalled one men and talked with her that night these people in the bar had mentioned to us that they recognized the photographs and they identified the photographs as a female by the name of Sam this is the name that they knew her by it was Sam and everybody had mentioned she was with a person by the name of Balaam they described Glenn as having long blonde hair and a beard he'd been coming in regularly for the past few days that night he seemed interested in Sandra and Todd were for quite a while Gwen was friendly and came across as a big spender buying drinks for Santa and the others when the bar closed Glenn had asked Sandra for a ride home he said he lived nearby she agreed to drop him off and they left together the customers hadn't seen Glenn since that night they believe Glenn's last name was Roger's but they weren't sure their description of him matched the one of the man's slim fleeing the burning truck detective Coblentz would check the lead through department sources were able to identify Glen Rogers as a resident in the Van Nuys area and were able to obtain photographs of mr. Rogers these photographs in the next day or two were shown to various witnesses at the bar in the form of a photo lineup and mr. Rogers was identified in this photo lineup as a person being atma creds with Sandra Gallagher detectives secured a search warrant for Rogers apartment it was only a few minutes away from where the truck had been burned they didn't know if Rogers was inside perhaps with a weapon uniformed officers entered first to clear the apartment [Music] Rogers wasn't there it looked like Rogers it turned out in a hurry detectives recovered a personal woman's wallet it was empty of cash and held no ID they also found a woman's earring the airing became significant in that her husband Steve Gallagher identified that earring as one that he had purchased as a pair for his wife a couple months earlier after several days the coroner made his report he positively identified the remains from the truck as those of Sandra Gallagher he determined that she had not burned we learn in the nose area of our victim there wasn't a presence of evidence of fire sitting and so on that gave us information that because she didn't breathe any of the fire any other suit gave us an indication that she had died prior to the fire itself [Music] the mother of three had been killed by manual strangulation [Music] Los Angeles detectives charged Glen Rogers with Sandra Gallagher's murdered and issued a warrant for his arrest [Music] they entered Rajas name and description into the NCIC National Crime Information Center the database that links over 57,000 law enforcement agencies nationwide that informs other agencies around the United States that Glen Rogers in this case is in fact wanted in Los Angeles for murder it would list the agency Los Angeles Police Department Van Nuys area with my name and my phone number if they have any contact with Glen Rogers and happened to run him this warrant would show up in their jurisdiction and he'd be taken into custody detectives sought out anyone who knew Glen Rogers they learned he frequented local bars and worked odd jobs mostly in construction we visited several job sites interviewing his friends and co-workers federal witnesses and friends we learned that Glen did have a temper and that when he drank he did become enraged there was domestic violence involved with former girlfriends so we knew we were dealing with someone who could become violent and generally violent when he drank as it was in our case with Sandra Gallagher one of his friends said he hadn't seen Rogers in a while but promised to contact the police if he heard from him okay a few days later Rajasthan call [Applause] he said Rogers it phoned him from a motel outside Jackson Mississippi local police talked to the motel manager and told them Rodgers remember [Music] police open on [Music] the room was active the murder suspect was on the right in the fall of 1995 the search continued for Glen Rogers police believed he fled California after killing a woman there on September 28th the tip led to a Mississippi motel but Rogers had disappeared before police arrived police issued an APB locally they hope someone would spot the suspected killer before he left the area days later on November 3rd 1995 Jackson Mississippi detectives responded to a murder family members had found Linda price dead in her bathtub the 34 year old single mother had been stabbed repeatedly and her throat had been slashed [Music] [Applause] investigators searched the apartment for evidence technicians photograph the scene in lifted numerous latent fingerprints [Music] they found no murder weapon no valuables seem to be missing there was no apparent forced entry and the killer had locked the door leaving the details of the crime scene led Jackson homicide detectives to conclude Linda price had been killed by someone she knew in the morning they interviewed her mother perhaps she knew the killer as well [Music] she said her daughter had a new boyfriend his name was Glen Rogers [Music] a month earlier on October 3rd Linda had met Rogers at the Mississippi State Fair where he had been working he was charming and Linda fell for him right away they soon rented an apartment and moved in together [Music] at first Glinda seemed happier than ever but recently she wondered if she'd made a mistake she told her mother that Rodgers had a bad temper and she feared his mood swings when Linda stopped calling and didn't answer her apartment door her mother believed that Raja's had harmed her again Rogers was nowhere to be found Jaxson detectives believed he had left the area they entered his name into the NCIC database learning Rogers was wanted for murder in California they contacted detective Mike Coblentz in Los Angeles Jackson Mississippi at that time contacted me informed me of a murder they had and they wanted more information on Glen Rogers as he was a possible perpetrator in that case the murders followed a pattern the victims in California and Mississippi had both been charmed by Rogers they had been isolated from others then brutally killed just before Rogers fled the area investigators believe that rogers was on a rampage that probably would not stop until he was found in our minds we knew that we had a major problem going on here we felt if he wasn't apprehended that there could very well be more victims Jackson police asked the public to call if anyone saw Rogers in the area [Music] witnesses reported sightings but Rogers stayed one step ahead of authorities [Music] the detectives contacted the FBI field office in Jackson they believed Rodgers had left the state like he did after the California agents filed a federal warrant for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution perhaps federal resources could help stop the killer [Music] FBI Special Agent John Huber helped coordinate the multi-state investigation this case was very high-speed very fast the murder he committed in Jackson was on November third was Linda price subsequent to that he committed another murder on November 6th on that date police in Tampa Florida responded to a murder scene at a local motel room that has been rented by Glen Rogers like Linda price the young woman laid dead in the bathtub stabbed in the back chest and wrists there was no ID of the woman in the room but investigators noted a tattoo of a cross on her shoulder her jeans and shoes were piled near the toilet the bracelet was found in the sink [Music] from the evidence left behind kappa homicide detective julie Masucci attempted to piece together the details of the murder when we remove the clothing it appeared that she had been stabbed through the clothing which means that she was never undressed and it was from the rear portion which appeared that someone might have come up behind her and stabbed her the shoes had blood spots on the top indicating she had them on and was standing when she was attacked under her body was a man's watch investigators believed it belonged to the killer it was significant that she was placed in a bathtub and that it appeared that someone tried to clean up any evidence that they left behind we had found towels to indicate someone had wiped up blood off of a floor it appeared that the bathtub water had been run to try and clean up any evidence that was left behind the detective interviewed the housekeeper who discovered the body that morning she'd been making her daily rounds just after checkout time [Music] outside room 119 she spotted a handwritten Do Not Disturb sign [Music] she said she didn't clean the room the day before because she saw the sign and wanted to respect the privacy of the people stand [Music] on this day the occupants were scheduled to have checked out [Music] when she entered the bathroom she made the gruesome discovery detectives asked the motel manager if she knew about the people staying in room 119 [Applause] she recalled a man who rented the room because he requested a Do Not Disturb sign the day before they told him he didn't have one so he paid for another night and told them at the registration that he did not want them cleaning his room he wanted it to be left alone apparently he went back to the room and tore off a piece of a phone book and made his own Do Not Disturb sign and he hung it on the door the motel manager remembered the same man packing up a small white car he had paid for another night so she didn't think he was leaving she warned him about recent break-ins at the motel and told him not to leave anything in the car overnight [Music] [Music] the detectives check the office records finding the registration at art for room 119 it had Glen Rogers name and signature technicians would later recovered prints matching Rogers from the car detective Masucci ran a computer check and saw the California and Mississippi murder warrants she contacted the other agencies in the FBI then we started to realize very quickly into the investigation that there was a possibility that this man mr. Glenn Rogers was a serial killer [Music] the investigators knew who the killer was the Tampa detectives still had not identified the female victim she remained at the morgue as Jane Doe if they could identify her it might help him find the man who had killed her and at least two others in the fall of 1995 after linking murders in California Mississippi and Florida to one man the FBI and local detectives searched for accused serial killer Glen Rogers [Music] the latest victim had been found in a Tampa motel room she was still unidentified responding to media coverage a woman whose daughter had been missing for two days came forward [Music] she positively identified the body of her daughter Tina Marie cribs Tina had two children of her own [Music] Tina's mother told detective Julie Masucci about her daughter's last day we learned that Tina had worked and that she went to the Showtime bar which is in Gibsonton and she met some friends there she was supposed to meet her mother there apparently it's like a family bar where a lot of people go and there's televisions in there and they just go and gather and talk detectives visited the Showtime bar [Music] the bartender said she knew Tina and her mother she confirmed that Tina had been in the bar on November 5th the bartender also remembered that a man named Glenn was there the same night he talked with Tina the other he bought a round of drinks with a hundred dollar bill the bartender said the man was very friend as one Tina over quickly eventually he asked Tina for a ride home [Music] he said his motel room was closed and promised Tina would be back in time to meet her mother Tina finally agreed and told the others she'd be right back when the mother came to the Showtime bar she sat there and waited and her daughter didn't show up so she said she started beeping her to find out where she was and she said that she had such a close-knit relationship with her daughter that she immediately knew something was wrong when she didn't answer her pages detective masucci also learned that Tina owned a white Ford Festiva the same kind of car the Tama motel manager had seen Rogers packing with suitcases she updated the NCIC report on Rogers adding the Festiva and its license-plate number to the fugitives information FBI Special Agent John Huber was surprised that Rodgers wasn't trying to conceal himself Glen Rogers seemed to not care if he would get caught or had no fear of the law he would always use his real name when dealing with people and checking into motels he would drive cars that weren't stolen either belonged to the to the victim which he could easily be linked to or his own vehicle he was a he didn't seem to care if people knew what was happening he wasn't trying to hide the search for the serial killer hit the news TV stations across the southeast broadcast pictures of Rogers asking anyone spotting him to call authorities hundreds of leads poured into the FBI one promising tip came from a Jackson Mississippi motel to separate callers claim to have seen Rogers there [Music] Rogers had been on Jackson previously and was known to frequent small motels we set up a perimeter around the hotel and and we had an entry team go up to the door [Music] agents were costs until they could identify [Music] we identified the person that resembled rogers and determined that it was not him we they then later searched the entire hotel and began searching the hotels in the immediate vicinity but didn't find him it was very important in this case to apprehend this individual as soon as possible because based on his history he was going to continue to kill until he was apprehended authorities would desperate to stop him the serial killer was out there somewhere and it was likely that he was searching for his neck [Music] in the fall of 1995 suspected serial killer Glen Rogers had been last seen in Florida the FBI believed he had murdered a woman there after killing women in California and Mississippi the FBI soon learned that Louisiana had been his next stop on November 10th 1995 and he suffered the mother of four was found murdered in her Bossier City Louisiana apartment like two of us had multiple stab wounds to her upper body her back so those are City detective question the victims roommate and former boyfriend andis roommate was a waitress and it worked late the night before and he was killed when she returns home in the early morning hours she heard the bedroom door closed she assumed it was Andy and her new boyfriend Glenn Rogers in the apartments one bedroom blankets have been left on the couch and so she slept there after daybreak she was awakened by someone at the apartment door it was Andy's ex-boyfriend he wanted to talk to Andy [Music] in the room she found Andy's body under the sheets she told detectives and he had met Glenn Rogers in a bar they had been dating for only a few days neighbors had seen Rogers leave in a white Festiva Bossier City detectives ran Rogers name through the NCIC and saw the three other murder warrants they contacted the other police agencies in the FBI Los Angeles faxed a photo of Rogers to be used in the local investigation Louisiana television stations picked up the story viewers were asked to be on the lookout for Rogers but they were warned not to approach the deadly fugitive special agent John Huber and the other investigators were frustrated Rogers was killing people faster than we could investigate where he where he was it was just a kind of a time game and he was killing people faster than we could apprehend him the FBI and local detectives believed Rogers murdered for women in six weeks after each killing Rajas had fled the state the locations he chose were random despite their best efforts investigators couldn't keep up they needed to spread the description of Rajas in his vehicle across the country agents sent requests to truckers over their CDs to be on the lookout for a white Ford Festiva they posted wanted flyers and truck stops and rest areas not really sure that's why they held press conferences to get Rajas photo out to the pike Gallagher they wanted to warn potential victims I hope someone would spot that through the media agents release details of Rajas mo for finding victims and the Rudy traveled the FBI began the process of adding Rajas to their ten most wanted list getting someone on the ten most wanted list increases the amount of resources that the bureau puts into a case it also increases the amount of media attention that's also worked into a case the tips began to increase one caller claimed Glen Rogers was at a pool hall in Mississippi two agents responded one of the pitfalls of an intense media campaign of the many false sightings that well-intentioned citizens call in the man in the bar is obviously not Rogers the investigators tried to predict Rogers next move and focus their search Special Agent Huber had worked plenty of fugitive cases a lot of times in fugitive investigations when people are in trouble they'll go to areas that they're familiar with or associates or friends in this particular case Rogers family and friends were mostly located in the Kentucky area and that's where a lot of our resources were focused authorities in Kentucky received priority teletypes about the fugitive Kentucky State Police detective Bob Stevens was already familiar with the name Glen Rogers in fact he'd been looking for him for almost two years Raja's was wanted for questioning in the disappearance and possible murder of his housemate and 71 year-old mark Peters almost two years before Glen Rogers cross-country crime spree began his brother had called the Kentucky State Police the body had been found inside his family's cabin police believed it was mark Peters Peters had last been seen with Rogers the cord tied around the corpses hands and feet matched one found in the home the men shared authorities could not determine the cause of death and they couldn't find Rodgers the case is still ongoing and still pending we had one suspect switch with Glen Rogers we weren't able to track Rogers real well due to the fact that he traveled by Greyhound bus my tractor-trailer cars it was hard for us tracking so we had a hard time trying to know where his next step was still the investigative focus in Kentucky paid off [Music] on November 13th 1995 Glen Rogers visited one of his relatives in Lee County Kentucky when he left she called the Kentucky State Police she said he was driving a small white car heading west toward Interstate 75 when Detective Stevens heard the Rodgers was sighted nearby he set up on the road he believed Rodgers would take to i-75 it wasn't long before a white Ford Festiva drove by the detective began following I wanted to make sure that this was Glen Rogers not somebody else that I actually found him behind so I pulled out behind this car when I ran the car tags the car tags actually came back stolen out so I begin to follow him I was able to get up pull up beside him like he's gonna pass me I looked over I could see who it was and him the picture I had Glen Rogers matched the driver the detective requested backup a local police officer was parked nearby he joined the slow pursuit [Music] they followed Rogers for a distance I think he was kind of watching me and I was watching him and I think but then he must have pretty much figured out that he had a police officer behind him so we pull up to a stoplight and he ran the stoplight and pretty much ran some people off the row as he was going through the stoplight I fell in behind him at that time and activating my emergency equipment [Music] Rogers didn't stop he sped up several miles ahead police set up a roadblock and tried to clear the road of traffic they hoped this would be the last stop on November 13th 1995 Kentucky State Police set up a roadblock in an effort to apprehend suspected serial killer Glen Rogers armed officers waited at the roadblock shoot his power to the fire they fired at his titles but they didn't stop the Joker detective Bob Stephens was close behind we followed him down the road he had run several cars off highway ran a school bus off the highway he was driving on the wrong side of the highway and so it was determined that he had to be stopped sergeant bars never get the other side of him and when he came back he tapped him spin him out of the highway off the highway after the action they didn't know if the fugitive is armed when I first approached the car I was one of the first one to approach a car you can see that he looked very upset very aggravated but he was in the custody he was very defined and just didn't want to be taken into custody that time after a two-month killing spree that spanned the country and left four women dead Glen Rogers was finally in custody the vehicle identification number of the white Festiva confirmed the car belonged to tina marie Cribs the victim in florida [Music] technicians scoured the car for evidence we found shorts with blood like it and a woman's press these and other items linked Rogers to the murders in Mississippi Louisiana the flower [Music] it's a little bit about what you guys the FBI served as the clearinghouse for the evidence FBI agents and detectives in five states met in Kentucky to outline the case Special Agent John Huber helped plan the meeting what they did do was put together all the information that everyone had share information and also that the FBI laboratory would process all the evidence in this case so that one agency would have custody of all the evidence and do the analysis agents and detectives agreed that their best case against Rogers was in Florida Tampa detective Julie Masucci met with detectives and prosecutors to review the evidence [Music] they believe the watch found in the tub was the victim belonged to Rogers a photograph of rogers with mississippi victim linda price revealed he wore that type of watch detective Masucci was confident in her case due to the physical evidence implicating Rogers we had tina cribs car that he was apprehended in we had some shorts that belonged to him that had some of tina cribs DNA on them the registration slip that mr. rogers signed himself fingerprints that were found inside of motel room number one one nine where the victim was found and miscellaneous items that were found inside of the car when he was apprehended on July 11th 1997 almost two years after the murder of Tina Marie cribs in a Tampa motel room Glen Rogers was convicted of first degree murder and later sentenced to death in Florida two years later rogers was extradited to los angeles to stand trial for the strangulation death of Sandra Gallagher whose body was burned in a truck fire prosecutors outlined the victims final hours for the jury I showed that Sandra and bland Rajas left Macready's bar together on September 28 1995 at some point there was a struggle perhaps as Rodgers made an unwanted sexual advance he strangled her crushing her windpipe attempting to destroy evidence Raja's doused Sandra's body in the truck with gasoline and set it ablaze then he ran when July 16th 1999 a jury again found Glen Rogers guilty of murder he was sentenced to a second death penalty in the state of California Los Angeles detective Mike Coblentz was impressed by the nationwide partnership of everyone involved in the hunt for Rogers that's really what made this case come together was the interagency cooperation and not just in Los Angeles but in Jackson Mississippi Tampa Florida and later Voyager's City Louisiana the FBI the press the different news agencies that were able to get the information out we truly worked together on this and it came to a successful conclusion down the road since Glen Rogers already had two death sentences Louisiana and Mississippi prosecutors decided to spare the families of the victims emotional trials Glen Rogers left at least 11 children without mothers the importance of stopping him was cleared a detective Julie Masucci and the other investigators as a woman not as a detective not as a police officer but as a female I think that there should be a lot of women that feel safe that he's off of the streets he had no regard for human life he had no regard for the feelings of the families that are left behind he didn't care and I'm happy that he's behind bars and I'm happy that he'll never step foot outside of a prison system that he could put other females at risk investigators suspect Rogers is responsible for more unsolved murders he told family members during his rampage that he had killed dozens authorities continue to pursue those unsolved murders to close the cases that can be linked to Glen Rogers [Music] [Applause] you [Music]

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Length: 49min 53sec (2993 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 28 2020