Danny Rolling, popularly referred to as the Gainesville Ripper , was a career criminal who was convicted for a string of burglaries, robberies and automobile thefts mere days after he tore through the fabric of the University of Florida campus community, killing five students in bizarre and macabre ways in August of 1990. The Gainesville Ripper whose real name was Daniel Harold Rolling, was a vicious American serial killer. Harold brutally murdered five University students in Gainesville , Florida. In August of 1990, crazed serial killer Danny Rolling set a shockwave through Gainesville , Florida when he broke into the homes of five college students and murdered them. He came to be known. Danny Rolling, Daniel Rolling, Gainesville Ripper killed four women and two men in one weekend of horror in the University town of Gainesville. Legit copies of the crime scene photographs were tightly guarded and destroyed after Rollings was sentenced to death, but I was able to get some screenshots from the CourtTV footage. In the early morning hours, Rolling broke into the apartment shared by two university freshmen, 18-year-old Sonja Larson and 17-year-old Christina Powell. In August 1990, fear gripped the people of Gainesville , Florida. Students were being killed, mutilated, in their college dorms. Classes were canceled, everyone took to carrying baseball bats with them wherever they went. People slept in shifts and no one went out alone. The Gainesville Ripper was out there. As news broke of the three brutal murders, terror swept through the sleepy town of Gainesville , in Florida. Dubbed the Gainesville Ripper , the identity of the cold-blooded killer was a complete mystery. The murderer had covered their tracks by disposing of the duct tape and leaving no fingerprints. More than 700 grisly photos of the five victims and the three crime scenes were released to the public, including detailed autopsy photos and pictures shown to the jury. Photographs and crime scene videotapes of the five Gainesville students murdered by Danny Rolling must be made available for public viewing, a judge ruled Wednesday.
5 Things You Didn't Know About the Gainesville Ripper Crime Scene Photos
Danny Rolling, popularly referred to as the Gainesville Ripper , was a career criminal who was convicted for a string of burglaries, robberies and automobile th...
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