[Music] there's a way to make an entrance my destiny it was now a conspiracy of witches download today in the fall of 1995 a serial killer was on the loose crossing the country he lured women with his charm and then struck each time he vanished before police could catch him the FBI and police detectives needed to stop him before another victim s [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 believed the cases were linked investigators had a suspect they just couldn't find him I'm Jim calstring former head of the FBI's New York office agents wouldn't list the help of local law enforcement and even long-haul Truckers to stop a cross-country killer all right in the early morning hours of September 29 1995. the Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a vehicle fire at a hospital in Van Nuys when the Flames were extinguished found human 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 the question to witness a nurse who had seen the fire start [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 you 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 cab and it burned very quickly investigators believed it had been intentionally set accelerated and you'd 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 role of undeveloped film technicians recovered several documents that bore the name Sandra Gallagher by Sunrise detectives at lapd's Van Nuys station had run the truck's plates [Music] two DMV records Detective Mike koblentz was able to confirm that Sandra Gallagher owned the truck we'd 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 Nuys station detectives suspected it was Sandra in the truck with identification through dental records would take a few days [Music] the body was too damaged to High detectives asked Stephen Gallagher to look through the recovered evidence he said the backpack camera and other items were Sandra's the police department had developed a role of films that survived the fire Steven identified his wife in the pictures [Music] most married homicide victims are killed by their husbands we were having a few problems but detectives asked Stephen about his relationship with Sandra there's a lot of domestic violence spousal abuse that goes on so it's it's just a 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 [Music] me and Sandra were experiencing maritive problems and they had spent the last couple of nights apart they had talked about reconciling it was that guy uh big guy but things were still strained between them that's business okay Stephen told detectives he last saw Sandra around 2PM that we heard from his wife later that evening split apart from it he said Sandra called him from a local bar called mcgreggs [Music] he's very excited and told him she had won twelve hundred dollars in our Lottery [Music] since that call Stephen hadn't heard from his wife and had no idea where she had gone detectives had to corroborate a story once he mentioned the bar MC Reds 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 that we'd gathered from the truck LAPD detectives visited the bar when shown a photo of Sandra Gallagher the bartender recognized the one okay what can you tell me about it she knew her by her nickname Sam got a lottery ticket [Music] guess what the bartender confirmed that Sandra had been in the bar in Idaho 28th you told everyone about her lottery win yeah some customers overheard the detective's questions and said they had also been in mcgregs that evening can you tell me about her when she was in here um they also remembered Sandra and recalled one man who 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 was Sam and everybody had mentioned she was with a person by the name of Glenn they described Glenn as having long blonde hair in the beard he'd been coming in regularly for the past few days now that night he seemed interested in Sandra and talked to her for quite a while okay Glenn was friendly and came across as a big spender buying drinks for Sandra 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 [Music] they believe Glenn's last name was Rogers but they weren't sure their description of him matched the one of the man's seen fleeing the burning truck if you think of anything else please call me detective koblenz would check the lead the problem through Department sources we're able to identify Glenn Rogers as a resident in the Van Nuys area and we're 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 at mcreds with Sandra Gallagher detectives secured a search warrant for Roger's apartment it was only a few minutes away from where the truck had been burned [Music] LAPD search warrant 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 had cleared out in a hurry detectives recovered a purse on a woman's wallet it's empty of cash and held no ID no identification they also found a woman's earring the earring 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 positively identified the remains from the drug as those of Sandra Gallagher he determined that she had not burned to death [Music] we learn in the nose area of our victim there wasn't a presence of evidence of fire sooting and so on that gave us information that uh because she didn't breathe any of the fire any of the soot it 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 Glenn Rogers with Sandra Gallagher's murder and issued a warrant for his arrest [Music] foreign Roger's name and description into the ncic National Crime information center a database that links over 57 000 law enforcement agencies Nationwide that informs other agencies around the United States that Glenn 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 Glenn Rogers and happen to run him this warrant would show up in their jurisdiction and he'd be taken into custody detectives sought out anyone who knew Glenn Rogers [Music] they learned he frequented local bars and worked odd jobs mostly in construction they visited several job sites interviewing his friends and co-workers thorough Witnesses and friends we learned that Glenn 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 a few days later [Applause] he said Rogers had phoned him from a motel outside Jackson Mississippi local police talked to the motel manager who told them Roger's room number [Music] police open up [Music] the room was empty the murder suspect was on the Run in the fall of 1995 the search continued for Glenn Rogers police believed he fled California after killing a woman there on September 28th tip led to a Mississippi Motel but Rogers had disappeared before police arrived police issued an APB locally they hoped 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 photographed the scene and lifted numerous latent fingerprints they found no murder weapon no valuables seem to be missing [Music] there was no apparent forced entry and the killer had locked the door when leaving [Applause] the details of the crime scene LED Jackson homicide detectives to conclude the 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 Glenn Rogers [Music] a month earlier on October 3rd Linda had met Rogers at the Mississippi State Fair where he [Music] was Charmed 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 Rogers 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 Rogers had harmed her again Rogers was nowhere to be found Jackson detectives believed he had left the area really already they entered his name into the ncic database learning Rogers was wanted for murder in California they contacted Detective Mike koblantz in Los Angeles Jackson Mississippi at that time contacted me informed me of a murder they had and they wanted more information on Glenn Rogers as he was a possible perpetrator in that case [Music] the murders followed a pattern the victims in California and Mississippi had both been Charmed by Rogers [Music] they had been isolated from others then brutally killed just before Rogers fled the area instigators believed 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 foreign Witnesses reported sightings but Rogers stayed one step ahead of authorities [Music] objectives contacted the FBI field office in Jackson [Music] 's pictures from the crime scene I think they believed Rogers had left the state like he did after the California killing [Music] 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 but this case was very high speed very fast the murder he committed in Jackson was on November 3rd 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 Glenn Rogers [Music] like Linda price the young woman laid dead in the bathtub stabbed in the back chest and wrist 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 Tampa 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 he said she didn't clean the room the day before because she saw the sign and wanted to respect the privacy of the people staying there foreign was scheduled to have checked out [Music] when she ended 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 that evening 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 checked the office records finding the registration card for room 119. it had Glenn Rogers name and signature on it technicians would later recover prints matching Rogers from the car give masuchi ran a computer California and Mississippi murder warrants she contacted the other agencies in the FBI is there in California 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 but Tampa Detective still had not identified the female victim she remained at the morgue as Jane Doe if they could identify her it might help them 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 Glenn Rogers the latest victim had been found in a Tampa motel room who is 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 Cribbs Tina had two children of her own Gina'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 and there's televisions in there and they just go and gather and talk assistant 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 others he bought a round of drinks with a hundred dollar bill [Music] bartender said the man was very friendly and one Tina over quickly she started talking to a gentleman eventually he asked Tina for a ride home [Music] he said his motel room was close and promised Tina would be back in time to meet her mother Tina finally agreed and told the others she'd be right back [Music] 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 masuchi also learned that Tina owned a white Ford Festiva the same kind of car the Tampa 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 fugitive's information FBI special agent John Huber was surprised that Rogers wasn't trying to conceal himself Glenn 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 belong 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 [Music] the search for the serial killer hit the news [Music] 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 two separate callers claimed 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 then we had an entry team go up to the door [Music] agents were cautious until they could identify the man foreign [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 it's apprehend this individual as soon as possible because based on his history he was going to continue to kill until he was apprehended authorities were desperate to stop him the serial killer was out there somewhere and it was likely that he was searching for his next victim [Music] in the fall of 1995 suspected serial killer Glenn Rogers had been last seen in Florida FBI believed he had murdered a woman there after killing women in California and Mississippi [Music] the FBI soon learned that Louisiana had been his next stop foreign was found murdered in her Bossier City Louisiana apartment like two others she had multiple stab wounds to her upper body and back so Bossier City detective questioned the victim's roommate and former boyfriend [Music] Andy's roommate was a waitress and it worked late the night before Andy was killed together when she returned 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 apartment's one bedroom blankets had been left on the couch and so she slept there foreign she was awakened by someone at the apartment door would you tell Andy out here it was Andy's ex-boyfriend [Music] he wanted to talk to Andy I don't care I'd still like soup Andy Sandy in the room she found Andy's body under the sheet she told detectives Andy had met Glenn Rogers in a bar he'd 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 foreign [Music] 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 foreign 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 hey guys the FBI and local detectives believed Rogers murdered Four Women in six weeks after each killing Rogers had fled the state let's try the locations he chose were random despite their best efforts investigators couldn't keep up needed to spread the description of Rogers and his vehicle across the country [Music] agents sent requests to truckers over their CVS to be on the lookout for a white Ford for Steve foreign flyers in truck stops and rest areas they held press conferences to get Roger's photo out to the public Gallagher they wanted to warn potential victims and hoped someone would spot the Killer through the media agents released details of Roger's Mo for finding victims and the route he traveled he raped and murdered the FBI began the process of adding Rogers to their 10 most wanted list uh at the rear of a complex getting someone on the 10 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 Glenn Rogers was at a pool hall in Mississippi two agents responded [Music] one of the pitfalls of an intense media campaign are the many false sightings that well-intentioned citizens call in the man in the bar was obviously not Rogers the investigators tried to predict Roger's 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 or Associates or friends in this particular case Roger's 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 Glenn Rogers in fact he'd been looking for him for almost two years Rogers was wanted for questioning in The Disappearance and possible murder of his housemate 71 year old Mark Peters almost two years before Glenn 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 Corpse's 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 Rogers the case is still ongoing and still pending we headed one suspect which was Glenn Rogers we weren't able to track Rogers real well due to the fact that he traveled by a Greyhound bus by tractor trailer Cars it was hard for us to track him 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 13 1995 Glenn Rogers visited one of his relatives in Lee County Kentucky [Music] when he left she called the Kentucky State Police hi I think you're looking for my nephew many doctors and erson she said he was driving a small white car heading West toward interstate 75. detective Stevens heard that Rogers was cited nearby he's set up on the road he believed Rogers 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 Lynn Rogers not somebody else but I actually funnel in behind so I pulled out behind this car when I ran the car tags the car tags actually came back stolen so I began the following I was able to get up pull up beside him like he's going to pass me I looked over I could see who it was and if the picture I had Glenn Rogers matched the driver detective requested backup a local police officer was parked nearby he joined the slow Pursuit [Music] we followed Rogers for a distance I think he was kind of watching me and I was watching him and I think by then he must have pretty much figured out that he had a police officer behind him so we pulled up to a stoplight and he ran the stoplight and pretty much ran some people off the road as he was going through the stoplight I fell in behind him at that time and activated my Emergency Equipment [Music] to us now several miles ahead police set up a roadblock and tried to clear the road of traffic they hoped this would be the last stop for the elusive killer on November 13 1995 Kentucky State Police set up a roadblock in an effort to apprehend suspected serial killer Glenn Rogers armed officers waited at the roadblock cured is tired shoot his tire Stevens was close behind we followed him down the road he had run several cars off the 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 Barnes would have to go up the other side of him and when he came back he attacked him spent him out of the highway off the highway into a ditch they didn't know if the fugitive was armed when I first approached a car I was one of the first ones to approach a car you can see that he he looked very uh upset very aggravated that he was into custody he was very defiant and just didn't want to be taken into custody at that time after a two-month Killing Spree that spammed the country and left four women dead Glenn Rogers was finally in custody [Music] the vehicle identification number of the white Festiva confirmed the car belonged to Tina Marie Cripps the victim in Florida [Music] admissions scoured the car for evidence we found shorts with blood on it and a woman's purse these and other items linked Rogers to the murders in Mississippi Louisiana and Florida [Music] tell me a little bit about what you guys have the FBI served as the Clearinghouse for the evidence FBI agents and detectives from five states met in Kentucky to outline the case [Music] special agent John Huber helped plan the meeting foreign 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 thank you they believe the watch found in the tub with the victim belonged to Rogers [Music] a photograph of Rogers with Mississippi victim Linda price revealed he wore that type of Watch did masuchi was confident in her case due to the physical evidence implicating Rogers we had Tina cribb's car that he was apprehended in we had some shorts that belong to him that had some of Tina cribb's DNA on them the registration slip that Mr Rogers signed himself fingerprints that were found inside of motel room number 119 where the victim was found and miscellaneous items that were found inside of the car when he was apprehended on July 11 1997 almost two years after the murder of Tina Marie cribs in a Tampa motel room Glenn Rogers was convicted of first-degree murder and later sentenced to death in Florida [Music] 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 over the victim's body and in the cab of the truck prosecutors outlined the victim's Final hours for the jury they showed that Sandra and Glenn Rogers left mcgreg's bar together on September 28 1995. thank you at some point there was a struggle perhaps as Rogers made an unwanted sexual advance he strangled her crushing her windpipe attempting to destroy evidence Rogers doused Sandra's body in the truck with gasoline set it Ablaze then he ran on July 16 1999 a jury again found Glenn Rogers guilty of murder was sentenced to his second death penalty in the state of California [Music] Los Angeles Detective Mike Copelands 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 Bossier 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 Glenn Rogers already had two death sentences Louisiana and Mississippi prosecutors decided to spare the families of the victims emotional trials Glenn Rogers left at least 11 children without mothers the importance of stopping him was clear to detective Julie masucci and the other investigators 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 glounges [Music]