May 26, 1954 - Danny Rolling
Rolling's August 1990 attacks unfolded across a single weekend in a college town, targeting students at the start of a new academic year — a combination of timing, setting, and method that produced an atmosphere of acute public fear across Florida. The Gainesville murders were preceded by an earlier triple homicide in Louisiana and an attack on his own father, establishing a pattern of escalating violence that predated his more widely known crimes. He was executed in 2006, twelve years after his sentencing.
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Daniel Harold Rolling (May 26, 1954 – October 25, 2006), known as the Gainesville Ripper, was an American serial killer who murdered five college students in Gainesville, Florida, over four days in August 1990.
He later confessed to raping several of his victims, committing a triple homicide in his home city of Shreveport, Louisiana, and attempting to murder his father in May 1990. In total, Rolling confessed to killing eight people. He was sentenced to death for the five Gainesville murders in 1994. He was executed by lethal injection in 2006.
His killing spree inspired the slasher film franchise Scream.
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