Gainesville Ripper Crime Scene Photos: A Legacy of Fear
1 / 20 2 / 20 3 / 20 4 / 20 5 / 20 6 / 20 7 / 20 8 / 20 9 / 20 10 / 20 11 / 20 12 / 20 13 / 20 14 / 20 15 / 20 16 / 20 17 / 20 18 / 20 19 / 20 20 / 20 ❮ ❯ The Gainesville Ripper murders shocked Florida in August 1990, leaving five college students dead and a community paralyzed with fear. These brutal killings captivated the nation and later inspired elements of the popular Scream franchise. 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. Danny Rolling, Daniel Rolling, Gainesville Ripper killed four women and two men in one weekend of horror in the University town of Gainesville. 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. 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. 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. The Gainesville Ripper , Danny Rolling, is a name etched in infamy due to a series of horrific murders that shocked Gainesville, Florida, in August 1990. Over the course of just four days, Rolling killed five university students, leaving behind a legacy of fear and devastation. 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. 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. Explore the chilling story of Danny Harold Rolling, the Gainesville Ripper who murdered five University of Florida students in just four days. Discover how these brutal killings paralyzed a college town with fear . ...