Five College Students in GainesvilleĪfter settling into a campsite in the wooded area behind the University of Florida, in the early morning hours of August 24, 1990, Daniel slipped into the apartment of 17-year-old freshmen Christina Powell and Sonja Larson. Hence, his moniker of The Gainesville Ripper. It was in Gainesville that Daniel became a serial killer. Throughout this time, the offender continued his theft and robbery spree, which he had begun as a teenager or young adult and never managed to leave behind.

While James was recovering, Daniel fled the city and made his way through Kansas and Florida, eventually arriving in Gainesville. James survived despite his son’s full intentions of ending his life, but he forever lost the use of an eye and an ear.

This triple homicide was unsolved until Danny himself took responsibility for it by giving a handwritten confession and apology in 2006.ĭaniel’s next victim of sorts was his abusive father, a Shreveport police officer named James Rolling, whom he shot in May 1990 after a family argument.

She had bite marks on her remains as well. On November 4, 1989, when Danny Rolling was let go from his job at a local restaurant in Shreveport, Louisiana, his hometown, he broke into a house and killed its three residents - 24-year-old Julie Grissom, her 8-year-old nephew, Sean, and her 55-year-old father, William “Tom.” They were attacked as they were preparing for dinner, and like most of Daniel’s later victims, Julie was mutilated, cleaned, and posed on the bed with her legs wide open.

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