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Gainesville Ripper : The True Story of Danny Rolling
They called him the Gainesville Ripper and he was allegedly the inspiration behind the horror film "Scream."
In 1990, Danny Rolling murdered four University of Florida students and a Santa Fe Community College student in their apartments with a United States Marine Corps military-style KBAR knife by stabbing, slicing, mutilating, raping, and even decapitating some of his victims. He had also been linked to and found guilty of killing a family of three in his home town in 1989: a crime for which another person was initially arrested. Rolling was later apprehended in conjunction with a botched grocery store robbery and later pled guilty to all of the grisly murders during jury selection in 1994. After an unsuccessful appeal of his death sentence he was ultimately executed via lethal injection on 25 October 2006.
In 1990, Danny Rolling murdered four University of Florida students and a Santa Fe Community College student in their apartments with a United States Marine Corps military-style KBAR knife by stabbing, slicing, mutilating, raping, and even decapitating some of his victims. He had also been linked to and found guilty of killing a family of three in his home town in 1989: a crime for which another person was initially arrested. Rolling was later apprehended in conjunction with a botched grocery store robbery and later pled guilty to all of the grisly murders during jury selection in 1994. After an unsuccessful appeal of his death sentence he was ultimately executed via lethal injection on 25 October 2006.
56 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 13, 2016
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March 11, 2017
More of a pamphlet with facts. Read a Wikipedia article instead. Don't bother.
August 27, 2019
Unbelievable
What an unbelievably evil man. I wish he would have opened up before his execution to give why he felt he needed to do all those atrocious, unforgivable things. People like him are appallingly interesting. Unfortunately.
What an unbelievably evil man. I wish he would have opened up before his execution to give why he felt he needed to do all those atrocious, unforgivable things. People like him are appallingly interesting. Unfortunately.
December 23, 2017
A basic display of facts. I was hoping for more.
February 25, 2018
An interesting overview
This was a well written overview of this case. Detailed description of his background and his crimes, along with the court case.
This was a well written overview of this case. Detailed description of his background and his crimes, along with the court case.
July 26, 2018
Danny!
This was a quick summary of The Gainesville student murders. If your wanting a book that goes into depth of the story this is not it.
This was a quick summary of The Gainesville student murders. If your wanting a book that goes into depth of the story this is not it.
May 6, 2020
True evil
If anyone deserved the death penalty, it was this loser. He should have died in the same manner as his victims.
If anyone deserved the death penalty, it was this loser. He should have died in the same manner as his victims.
July 7, 2016
True evil running thru this killer's veins.
I can't imagine living inside this guys head. A devil's seed. Death was too easy for him. Pure evil, for sure.
I can't imagine living inside this guys head. A devil's seed. Death was too easy for him. Pure evil, for sure.
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