The Gainsville Ripper

Who: Daniel Rolling
What: Sentenced for execution for the killings of five college students.
Where: Gainsville, FL
When: 1990
Why: Unknown motives
How: Uses forced entry into apartments, stabs victims with a knife, mutilates them, sometimes rapes, and positions bodies for maximum shock effect.

Rolling's Victims

• Christina Powell - 17- University of Florida Student
• Sonja Larson - 17- University of Florida Student
• Christa Hoyte - 18 - Santa Fe Community College Student
• Tracey Paules - 23- University of Florida Student
• Manuel Taboada - 23- University of Florida Student

MORE INFO

Rolling's Childhood
Rolling's Murders and Charges
The Conclusion
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