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. Hunter compared the case to that of Danny Rolling, also known as the Gainesville Ripper , sharing that Rolling was ultimately charged thanks to the DNA evidence that was found on the crime scene. A steady stream of local residents and reporters came to the Alachua County Courthouse Thursday to see graphic crime scene pictures of the Gainesville student murder victims. Danny Rolling, center, wipes his hands after being fingerprinted Tuesday, Feb. 15, 1994, moments after he pleaded guilty to the 1990 murders of five college students in Gainesville , Fla. Stored in an otherwise unremarkable office on the first floor of the Alachua County Courthouse are some of the bloodiest, most disturbing photographs you could ever imagine. 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 as. Danny Rolling, Daniel Rolling, Gainesville Ripper killed four women and two men in one weekend of horror in the University town of Gainesville. The Gainesville Ripper was the chilling pseudonym assigned to Daniel Rolling, a disturbed individual responsible for a series of grisly murders that shook the city of Gainesville to its core. After five college students were brutally murdered in August 1990, the entire city of Gainesville , Fla., was on edge—and at first authorities zeroed in on the wrong man. The Gainesville Ripper , Danny Rolling, confessed to killing five University of Florida students between August and September 1990. His brutal crimes, characterized by extreme violence and sexual assault, left a lasting scar on the city and its inhabitants.
Gainesville Ripper: Crime Scene Photos & The Fight for Justice
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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