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More than 2,000 pieces of evidence from the Gainesville Ripper killings was destroyed in 2008, reported the Gainesville Sun. The decision to burn the evidence comes from a pursuit of closure, not simply routine cleaning. The mother of one of the victims of the 1990 Gainesville student murders and the judge who sentenced convicted killer Danny Rolling to death talked about privacy and access to investigative. 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. Murderpedia has thousands of hours of work behind it. To keep creating new content, we kindly appreciate any donation you can give to help the Murderpedia project stay alive. We have many plans and enthusiasm to keep expanding and making Murderpedia a better site, but we really need your help for this. Thank you very much in advance. Explore 5 gripping documentaries about the infamous Gainesville Ripper murders that terrorized Florida in 1990. Delve into the brutal killings of five college students by Danny Rolling, which inspired the Scream franchise. 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. 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. More than 700. How a woman in Louisiana helped break the case of 5 student murders in Florida Thirty years later, the victims’ families are still mourning their deaths. Discover the chilling truth behind Danny Rolling’s horrifying crimes . In the summer of 1990, Gainesville, Florida, became the hunting ground of a sadistic killer. Within just four days, five college students were brutally murdered, their bodies posed in horrifying rituals. 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.