Four Days in Gainesville: The Crimes of Danny Rolling
August 1990. A new semester has just started at the University of Florida. In four days, five students are dead: Sonja Larson, Christina Powell, Christa Hoyt, Tracy Paules, and Manuel Taboada. The man in the woods behind campus is Daniel Harold Rolling, later called the Gainesville Ripper. Florida does not yet know he has already killed three people in Shreveport, Louisiana, including an eight-year-old boy.
Alexander Lawson traces the four days that shut the city down, the grocery-store arrest that was not for murder, the guilty plea on the morning jury selection was supposed to begin, and…
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