Judge Gives Rogers a Week to Fight Extradition

RICHMOND, Ky. —  Suspected serial killer Glen Rogers on Friday was given one week to fight extradition to Florida, one of four states--including California--where he is wanted for murder.

His attorney said he was “leaning toward” a court action challenging Kentucky Gov. Paul Patton’s extradition order, signed on Thursday.

Kentucky Atty. Gen. Ben Chandler said he recommended extradition to Florida because that state had the strongest case against Rogers and plans to ask for the death penalty.

Rogers is charged with first-degree murder, armed robbery and auto theft in Tampa, Fla., where he allegedly stabbed to death Tina Marie Cribbs in early November, the climax of a transcontinental spree that allegedly began with the slaying of a Santa Monica woman he picked up in a Van Nuys bar.

Rogers allegedly was driving Cribbs’ car when Kentucky state police caught him in a chase near Richmond on Nov. 13.

At an extradition hearing Friday, Madison Circuit Judge William T. Jennings gave Rogers’ attorney, Ernie Lewis, one week to seek an order to halt the extradition.

Lewis said in a telephone interview that Rogers’ option is to file a petition in the circuit court. Lewis said he was leaning toward a petition but had not firmly decided.

Rogers has been charged with murder in California and Louisiana, and he is also a suspect in the death of a Mississippi woman. An elderly man who was his roommate in Rogers’ native Hamilton, Ohio, was found dead in eastern Kentucky in January 1994, but no charges have been filed in that case.