Glen Edward Rogers

Alleged serial killer Glen Edward Rogers was captured about 120 miles from his hometown Monday after leading police on a high-speed chase in a car that belonged to a Florida woman believed to be the third victim in a vicious, cross-country killing spree that began in Van Nuys seven weeks ago. Rogers--the subject of a nationwide manhunt--was spotted mid-afternoon on a two-lane road just east of here by a state police detective who carried a photo of the fugitive in his car.

Minutes after steadfastly maintaining his innocence before the court, Glen Edward Rogers sat impassively Friday as a judge sentenced him to death for killing a woman he met at a San Fernando Valley bar in 1995. The sentence followed a jury's recommendation that Rogers be put to death after being found guilty of murdering Sandra Gallagher, a 33-year-old mother of three whom he picked up at a Van Nuys tavern where she was celebrating a $1,200 state lottery win.

Alleged serial killer Glen Edward Rogers was captured about 120 miles from his hometown Monday after leading police on a high-speed chase in a car that belonged to a Florida woman believed to be the third victim in a cross-country killing rampage that began in Van Nuys seven weeks ago. Rogers--the subject of a nationwide manhunt--was seen on Kentucky 52, just east of Richmond, about 2:30 p.m.

For the second time, a jury has recommended death for Glen Edward Rogers, the convicted killer with a taste for strawberry-blond women he picked up in bars. Rogers, dubbed the Cross-Country Killer for a six-week crime spree during which he is accused of the slayings of four women in as many states, is already on death row in Florida in the stabbing death of a hotel maid.

Attorneys in the Glen Edward Rogers murder trial delivered their closing arguments Thursday, leaving a jury to decide the fate of the alleged cross-country serial killer who has already been convicted in Florida. The arguments put an end to a rapid-fire trial that finished in just over a week's time and featured the unusual sight of Rogers, a man on Florida's death row, taking the stand in his own defense.

Alleged cross-country serial killer Glen Edward Rogers, who laughingly told authorities recently that he might have slain about 70 people, now is telling media organizations that his remark was a joke and that he never killed anyone. The drifter suspected by authorities of stabbing or strangling an elderly man and four women, including one in Van Nuys, repudiated his prior remark in phone calls from a jail in Richmond, Ky.

Police have all but eliminated alleged serial killer Glen Edward Rogers as a suspect in three Ventura-area slayings. The determining factor was Rogers' blood type, which police said does not match that found at a crime scene most likely associated with Rogers. "It's a disappointment," Port Hueneme Detective Jerry F. Beck said. "We were hopeful that we could link him to the killings even though the chances were very remote. Now the cases are still unsolved."

No sooner was Glen Edward Rogers arrested in Kentucky than Los Angeles prosecutors took the first step Monday toward bringing him back to California to face a murder charge in Van Nuys--perhaps beginning a complicated legal waltz with as many as five other states. "We filed notice of extradition today," Los Angeles district attorney's office spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons said. "It ultimately will be the decision of a judge in Kentucky where to send him. It's hard to say what will happen."

Minutes after steadfastly maintaining his innocence before the court, Glen Edward Rogers sat impassively Friday as a judge sentenced him to death for killing a woman he met at a San Fernando Valley bar in 1995. The sentence followed a jury's recommendation that Rogers be put to death after being found guilty of murdering Sandra Gallagher, a 33-year-old mother of three whom he picked up at a Van Nuys tavern where she was celebrating a $1,200 state lottery win.

Accused serial killer Glen Edward Rogers will testify in his own defense, his family and attorney said Thursday. Rogers is anxious to tell his side of the story, his family said, about what happened the night of the slaying of Sandra Gallagher, who was found strangled and burned in her pickup truck in Van Nuys in 1995. Rogers will tell the jury that another man, a convicted murderer, confessed to him to committing the crime, said his defense attorney, Jim Coady.

For the second time, a jury has recommended death for Glen Edward Rogers, the convicted serial killer with a taste for strawberry blond women he picked up in bars. A downtown Los Angeles jury on Tuesday decided that the former carnival worker should die for the 1995 strangulation murder of Sandra Gallagher, who authorities say was the first victim in a six-week killing rampage that included four women in as many states.

Nearly four years after her daughter was slain by a spree killer, Jan Baxter took the stand and told a Los Angeles Superior Court jury what it meant to lose her eldest and dearest child. "It totally destroyed me," Jan Baxter, dressed in black, said through tears. "When my son-in-law called me and told me that her pickup truck had been found on fire and there was a body in it, I started screaming and I couldn't stop. I held a pillow on my face, so that everyone wouldn't hear me."

Four years after her daughter was murdered, Jan Baxter took the stand and told a Los Angeles Superior Court jury what it meant to lose her eldest and dearest child. "It totally destroyed me," Jan Baxter said through her tears. "When my son-in-law called me and told me that her pickup truck had been found on fire and there was a body in it, I started screaming and I couldn't stop."

A jury convicted spree killer Glen Edward Rogers of his second murder Tuesday, then began hearing testimony on whether he should live or die. Rogers, 37, already sentenced to death in Florida, sat immobile as the clerk announced he had been found guilty of another first-degree murder. His brother and mother, both in the courtroom, declined comment.

Attorneys in the Glen Edward Rogers murder trial delivered their closing arguments Thursday, leaving a jury to decide the fate of the alleged "Cross-Country Killer" who has already been sentenced to death in Florida. The arguments put an end to a rapid-fire trial that finished in just over a week's time and featured the unusual testimony of Rogers taking the stand in his own defense.

After only six days of testimony, the heart of the trial of alleged serial killer Glen Rogers came to a close with the defendant adamantly denying any role in the murder of a Van Nuys woman four years ago. Closing arguments are scheduled for today. Rogers, who has already been convicted of one murder in Florida and has been sentenced to death in that state's electric chair, is accused of killing four women in as many states over six weeks in 1995.

Alleged serial killer Glen Edward Rogers may be a convicted murderer in Florida but he is not guilty of killing a San Fernando Valley woman he met in a Van Nuys bar, his defense attorney said Wednesday. In a dramatic gambit at the start of Rogers' murder trial, his lawyer told jurors he would prove that another man--not Rogers--killed Sandra Gallagher in Van Nuys in 1995.

The man authorities call the Cross-Country Killer told his story for the first time Tuesday, calmly but adamantly denying that he killed a woman he met in a Van Nuys bar. "I did not kill Sandra Gallagher--absolutely not!" Glen Edward Rogers said, testifying in his own defense in Los Angeles Superior Court. He admitted accepting a ride from the 33-year-old mother of three, who was celebrating a $1,200 lottery win at a San Fernando Valley bar called McRed's on Sept. 28, 1995.