Danny Harold Rolling (May 26, 1954 - October 25, 2006), also known as Gainesville Ripper , is an American serial killer who killed five students in Gainesville, Florida. Rolling later confessed to raping several of his victims, committing an additional 4 November 1989, triple killing in Shreveport, Louisiana, and attempting to assassinate his father in May 1990. Overall, Rolling claimed to have killed eight people. Rolling was sentenced to death for murder in 1994. He was executed with lethal injection in 2006.
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Initial years
Danny Rolling was born in Shreveport, Louisiana. He has a difficult background; his father James Rolling, a Shreveport police officer, told Danny that he was undesirable from birth and also abused his mother, Claudia, and his brother, Kevin. In one incident, Danny's mother went to the hospital after claiming her husband was trying to get him to cut himself with a razor blade. Claudia repeatedly tried to leave her husband but always returned. In one example of Rolling's senior disciplinary sense, he pinned Danny to the ground, handcuffed him, then told the police to bring his son away because he felt ashamed of him.
As a teenager and a young adulthood, Rolling was arrested several times due to a robbery in Georgia and was caught spying on a cheerful cheerleader. As an adult, he had trouble trying to assimilate into society and keep a steady job. At one point, he worked as a waitress at a Pancho restaurant in Shreveport. In May 1990, he attempted to kill his father during a family quarrel in which his father lost his eyes and ears.
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serial killings
In August 1990, Rolling killed five students (one student from Santa Fe College and four from the University of Florida) during a robbery and robbery party in Gainesville, Florida. He mutilated the body of his victim, cut him off. He then posed, sometimes using a mirror.
In the early hours of the morning of Friday, August 24, Rolling enters the apartment together with 17-year-old new students Sonja Larson and Christina Powell. Finding Powell asleep on the sofa downstairs, he stood on it for a while but did not wake her, instead choosing to explore the upstairs bedroom where he found Larson also asleep. Rolling Larson killed, first covering his mouth to hold his scream and then stabbed him to death. He died while trying to deflect it. Rolling then goes back down, closes Powell's mouth, ties his wrist behind his back and threatens him with a knife as he cuts his clothes. He then raped her and forced her to face the floor, where she stabbed him five times in the back. Rolling poses the body in a sexually provocative position and leaves the apartment.
A day later, on Saturday, August 25, Rolling walked into the apartment where Christa Hoyt, 18, lives by opening a sliding glass door with a KA-BAR knife and a screwdriver, but she is not home. She waited in the living room to get her back. At 11 am morning, he entered the apartment and Rolling surprised him from behind, placing him in a hollow. After he is conquered, he closes his mouth, ties his wrist and brings it to the bedroom, where he cuts his clothes off and rapes her. As in Powell's killing, he forced her face down and stabbed her in the back, damaging her heart. He then cut off his head and tilted his head on the shelf facing the corpse, adding to the shock of whoever found it.
Now the killings have attracted wide media attention and many students are taking extra precautions, such as changing their daily routine and sleeping together in groups. Since the party happened so early in the fall semester, some students withdrew their enrollment or were transferred to another school. Twenty-three-year-old Tracy Paules lives with Manny Taboada, also 23, her roommate who goes to school 200 pounds. On Monday, August 27, Rolling entered the apartment by opening the sliding glass door with the same equipment as before. Rolling finds Taboada asleep in one of the bedrooms and, after a struggle with the young man, eventually kills him.
Hearing the commotion, Paules walked down the hall to Taboada's bedroom and saw Rolling. She tried to barricade herself in her bedroom but Rolling came through the door. Roll over to record her mouth and wrist, cut her clothes and rape her, before turning her on her stomach and stab her three times in the back. Rolling pose to Paules's body but leaves Taboada in the same position where he has died.
With the exception of Taboada, all Caucasian brown haired victims with brown eyes. Although the law enforcement officers initially had few clues, the police identified two suspects; a University of Florida student who has a history of mental illness and bears many scars on his face from a car accident, making him an ideal picture when discussing the news of the investigation. The photo is repeatedly displayed by the media. The authorities openly relieve him of all charges after the arrest of Rolling. Other suspects were also cleansed.
Then on September 7, 1990, Rolling was arrested in Ocala on a burglary charge and, during the investigation, his equipment was matched with an abandoned mark on the Gainesville killing scene. The one-man camp where he lives is in a wooded area located near an apartment complex frequented by students, including victims. There, investigators found Rolling records have made him sing the country songs he composed and audio journals that allude to the crimes. He was accused of several murders in November 1991.
Rolling was eventually taken to court by the Alachua County State Attorney Len Register almost four years after the murder. Rolling claims his motive is to be a "superstar" in a manner similar to Ted Bundy. In 1994, before his trial could begin, Rolling suddenly pleaded guilty to all charges. Subsequently, State Attorney Rod Smith presented the stage of prosecution. Rolling was sentenced to death on every count. During his trial, Court TV conducted an interview with his mother from his home, where his father could be heard shouting outside the camera. Rolling was sentenced to death on April 20, 1994.
Rolling was diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder and paraphilia.
Further murder
After Rolling was arrested, police in Louisiana alerted the Florida authorities to the murder of three unsolved men in Shreveport on November 4, 1989. Detectives noted that there was a similarity between the Gainesville murder and the 55-year-old William Grissom, 24- her year-old daughter Julie, and her grandson, Sean, who is eight years old. Families have been attacked in their homes as they prepare dinner. After that, Julie Grissom's body had been mutilated, cleaned, and filed.
Although Rolling never officially confessed to the investigator who handled the Grissom case, he wrote about the murder using information only known to the killer. Shreveport police obtained an open arrest warrant in 1994, but Rolling was never extradited to Louisiana to stand trial for the murder.
Death
The roll was done by lethal injection at Florida State Prison on October 25, 2006, after the US Supreme Court rejected the latest appeal. He was declared dead at 6:13 pm. EDT. The last meal Rolling consists of lobster tail served with butter, butterfly prawns with cocktail sauce, baked potatoes with sour cream and butter, strawberry cheese cake, and sweet tea. Rolling sang a spiritual song, but did not make a statement immediately before the execution, which was witnessed by many of his victims' relatives. In a written statement made shortly before his execution, Rolling confessed to the murder of the Grissom family in Shreveport.
Legacy
Rolls has been the subject of several papers. His murder inspired screenwriter Kevin Williamson to write a popular 1996 slasher movie script Scream .
Sondra London collaborated with him in Serial Kill Killer: The Real Story of Gainesville Killings in Killer Words. He is the subject of the book Beyond Murder by John Philpin and John Donnelly. Author Kevin Given acknowledges that he based the serial killings of David Reynolds from Rolling's novel "Foul Blood".
An independent feature film 2007 titled The Gainesville Ripper was shot in the Gainesville and Jacksonville area, Florida based on the murder account. In the movie, Rolling is described by Zachary Memos. Rolling is also the subject of an episode of Body of Evidence: From the Dayle Hinman Case Files , a Court Court show (sent as Crime Scene USA: Body of Evidence on the Discovery Channel at English) and episodes of the Forensic Factor titled "Killing Spree" , originally aired on the Canadian Discovery Channel and re-broadcast in America on the Science Channel. Rolling is also the subject of the 2010 Cold Blood episode, and is briefly mentioned in the 2012 episode of Motives and Murders, entitled "Not Again" and in the 2015 episode of Nightmare Next Door is titled "Daylight Abduction" in which the brother of the victim of Sonja Larson's murder, Jim Larson encountered the rape and murder of his wife Carla Larson on the Discovery Investigation channel. In 2013, the TV documentary series The Real Story features episodes in the movie Scream. It airs July 28, 2013 and tells the story of Killing rolls in graphic detail. The Drifter book is also based on the 1990 Gainesville killing.
While in a death row in Florida State Prison, Rolling wrote songs and poetry and drawing. His works have been referred to as examples of murder.
References
External links
- Danny Rolling, Gainesville Ripper. Crime Library . Obtained in 2007-11-14.
- Daniel Harold's Profile Take turns at About.com
- Gainesville Ripper on IMDb
- Release Information Release Information - Prisoners 521178. Florida Department of Corrections . Obtained in 2007-11-14.
- Foul Blood by Kevin Given
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