Gainesville Ripper: Crime Scene Photos & The Hunt for Justice

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Danny Rolling, popularly referred to as the Gainesville Ripper , was a career criminal who was convicted for a string of burglaries, robberies and automobile thefts mere days after he tore through the fabric of the University of Florida campus community, killing five students in bizarre and macabre ways in August of 1990. A steady stream of local residents and reporters came to the Alachua County Courthouse Thursday to see graphic crime scene pictures of the Gainesville student murder victims. More than 700. Stored in an otherwise unremarkable office on the first floor of the Alachua County Courthouse are some of the bloodiest, most disturbing photographs you could ever imagine. In August of 1990, crazed serial killer Danny Rolling set a shockwave through Gainesville , Florida when he broke into the homes of five college students and murdered them. He came to be known as. Danny Rolling, Daniel Rolling, Gainesville Ripper killed four women and two men in one weekend of horror in the University town of Gainesville. The recent release of never-before-seen crime scene photos from the Gainesville Ripper case has sent shockwaves through the community and reignited a decades-long debate surrounding transparency in criminal investigations. Over the course of four days in August 1990, five college students were murdered in Gainesville , Fla. Christina Powell and roommate Sonya Larson were incoming freshmen who never made it to their. The Gainesville Ripper ’s horrific crimes are the focus of an episode of Mark of a Killer (available to stream for free on 9Now), which details how Rolling carried out his brutal murders. Photographs and crime scene videotapes of the five Gainesville students murdered by Danny Rolling must be made available for public viewing, a judge ruled Wednesday.