Nationwide Search Continues for Man Sought in 4 Slayings

A nationwide hunt continued Wednesday for a former Van Nuys man sought in connection with four grisly deaths--three involving women who were found strangled or stabbed to death, while a detective on the case indicated that the total slayings could grow to 10.

Police in Tampa, Fla., Wednesday identified 34-year-old Tina Marie Cribbs as the fourth and latest confirmed victim connected to Glen Rogers--alleged by authorities to have charmed, then killed three female companions he met at bars and a fair in California, Mississippi and Florida.

In Los Angeles, Detective Stephen Fisk told reporters Wednesday that Rogers had boasted to friends that “this is the eighth time,” after killing a woman in Van Nuys in September. Two suspected victims have surfaced since then--Linda Price in Jackson, Miss., and Cribbs in Tampa.

The body of Price, 34, was found Friday in the bathtub of an apartment she briefly shared with Rogers in Jackson, Miss.

Rogers is being sought in connection with two other slayings, including the strangulation in September of Sandra Gallagher, 33, of Santa Monica. Gallagher, whose body was left in a pickup truck that was set on fire, apparently had agreed to give Rogers a ride home from the Van Nuys bar where they had just met.