Did you know that the classic horror movie Scream was partially inspired by the Gainesville Ripper? The pathetic looking man in the second slide is Danny Harold Rolling, who brutally raped, murdered, mutilated and posed the bodies of five college students over the course of four days in August of 1990. I’ve covered a lot of disturbing true crime on this account but the details of this case are so horrific I would rather not describe them—the morbidly curious can look that stuff up on their own. The worst part of this crime, in my opinion, was his motive. Rolling stated that his desire was to become a “superstar” serial killer like Ted Bundy. Thankfully this piece of garbage was executed by lethal injection in 2006 by lethal injection. The death penalty is rightly controversial but I think I’m safe in saying this is one guy nobody misses or feels sorry for.
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