ROGERS TRIAL ENDS IN HEATED EXCHANGE.Byline: Phillip W. Browne Staff Writer Testimony in Glen Edward Rogers' murder trial ended Wednesday following his explosive exchange with the prosecutor about whether he fled Van Nuys or was merely visiting his parents in Ohio. Rogers insisted during testimony that he had planned to return to his hometown prior to the strangulation strangulation /stran·gu·la·tion/ (strang?gu-la´shun) 1. choke (2). 2. arrest of circulation in a part due to compression. See hemostasis (2). stran·gu·la·tion n. death of Sandra Gallagher, whom he had met at McRed's bar in Van Nuys. But Prosecutor Pat Dixon pressed him to admit he fled because he killed her. During lengthy questioning over a truck he purchased in Mississippi, Rogers apparently had had enough. ``I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. what any of this has to do with the murder of Gallagher,'' Rogers told the prosecutor. ``Mr. Rogers, the judge makes that decision,'' Dixon screamed back as Superior Court Judge Jacqueline Connor silenced them both. Rogers, a former carnival worker who lived in Van Nuys, is accused of strangling the 31-year-old mother of three in 1995 and then burning her body in a pickup truck left in a hospital parking lot. That slaying kicked off what prosecutors say was a cross-country murder spree of women he met in bars. A nationwide manhunt man·hunt n. An organized, extensive search for a person, usually a fugitive criminal. manhunt Noun an organized search, usually by police, for a wanted man or fugitive Noun 1. ended with his arrest in 1995 in Kentucky. Rogers was later tried, convicted and sentenced to death in Florida for the stabbing death of a woman there. In earlier testimony, Rogers again claimed his business associate Istvan ``Steve'' Kele killed Gallagher after a night of bar-hopping in Van Nuys. He said he awoke a·woke v. A past tense of awake. awoke Verb a past tense and (now rare or dialectal) past participle of awake Sept. 29, 1995, and told his roommate what Kele had done. ``It was on my conscience, and I knew she was dead, or that's what (Kele) told me. I know he had been convicted of murder,'' Rogers testified. After leaving California, Rogers said he gambled in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. and then took a bus to Mississippi where he bought the red pickup and applied for a driver's license Noun 1. driver's license - a license authorizing the bearer to drive a motor vehicle driver's licence, driving licence, driving license license, permit, licence - a legal document giving official permission to do something renewal. He said he drove to his hometown of Hamilton, Ohio Hamilton is a city in Butler County, Ohio, United States. The population was 60,690 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Butler CountyGR6. 2005 estimates indicate a slight population increase to approximately 61,943. , after leaving Mississippi but didn't recall the date. Dixon said he never went to Ohio because that's the first place authorities would have looked for him. ``Isn't it true the reason you don't have any memory of (going to Ohio) is because you were on the run because you killed Sandra Gallagher?'' Dixon asked. ``Absolutely not,'' Rogers said. |
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