

"He'd beat the hell out of them," Danny’s cousin Charles Strozier would later say, according to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.

Perhaps ironically given his nefarious life of crime, Daniel Harold Rolling was born in 1954 in Shreveport, Louisiana to a police lieutenant who allegedly abused his wife and children, both physically and verbally. Before his execution, police would learn the Gainesville murders weren’t his only homicides and the entire affair would inspire the maker of "Scream," one of the most famous horror films of all time. Rolling was already in custody for armed robbery he would later be given five death sentences, for every murder he committed that August.
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Quickly dubbed the “The Gainesville Ripper,” the serial killer initially eluded capture when police first identified a troubled teen as their main suspect, before realizing the gruesome murders were actually the work of Danny Rolling, a 30-something drifter with a long criminal history. The victims had been fatally stabbed, and, in some cases, raped and mutilated, their bodies posed in sexual positions. In the summer of 1990, the college town of Gainesville, Florida found itself in the grip of terror after five students were murdered in quick succession. Murders A-Z is a collection of true crime stories that take an in-depth look at both little-known and famous murders throughout history.
