He Murdered 5 College Students in 4 Days — Then Inspired Scream
August 1990. Gainesville, Florida. Five students stabbed, raped, and posed in their apartments. One of them beheaded. The killer was camping less than two miles away.
In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, Alexander Lawson tells the full story of Danny Rolling — the Gainesville Ripper. From his violent childhood and the unsolved triple murder in Shreveport, to the four-day killing spree that shut down a college town, the wrong man arrested, and Rolling’s eventual execution in 2006.
This is the real case that helped inspire the movie Scream.
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