Newly Released Gainesville Ripper Crime Scene Photos Spark Outrage

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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. 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. 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, 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. 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. 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. 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. It was to include top crime - scene technicians and investigators from both departments, along with representatives from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Florida Highway Patrol, and ten of the top criminal behavioral specialists from the FBI. 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. 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].