Oxygen’s “ Mark of a Killer ” delves into the psyches of serial killers with one-hour episodes focusing on their postmortem signatures. Watch the series now to find out how Danny Rolling became the Gainesville Ripper . [Photo: Gainesville Police Department]. 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. The Gainesville Ripper murders left a lasting impact on the University of Florida community and law enforcement practices. The tragedy spurred changes in campus security, victim support, and forensic techniques. 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. 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. Rolling earned the tile of “ Gainesville Ripper ,” as he bound most the bodies, raped three of the girls, sexually posed some of them and cut off one of the girls’ heads and mounted it on a shelf. In August 1990, Rolling brutally murdered five college students in their Gainesville apartments. The slain students were Sonja Larson, 18, of Deerfield Beach; Christina Powell, 17, of. Danny Rolling, Daniel Rolling, Gainesville Ripper killed four women and two men in one weekend of horror in the University town of Gainesville . 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. Dive deep into the harrowing case of The Gainesville Ripper , whose crimes forever changed a college town and inspired the iconic Scream franchise. Listen now for a gripping account of terror, investigation, and justice.
This Gainesville Ripper Crime Scene Photo Changed Police's Entire Strategy
Oxygen's “ Mark of a Killer ” delves into the psyches of serial killers with one-hour episodes focusing on their postmortem signatures. Watch the series now to ...