These Gainesville Ripper Crime Scene Photos Are Too Disturbing

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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. Rolling raped, disemboweled and beheaded, but officers had a hard time catching him until something he left behind at the crime scenes — the student residences — gave him away. Legit copies of the crime scene photographs were tightly guarded and destroyed after Rollings was sentenced to death, but I was able to get some screenshots from the CourtTV footage. In the early morning hours, Rolling broke into the apartment shared by two university freshmen, 18-year-old Sonja Larson and 17-year-old Christina Powell. 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. The Gainesville Ripper was the chilling pseudonym assigned to Daniel Rolling, a disturbed individual responsible for a series of grisly murders that shook the city of Gainesville to its core. 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. Some crime photos fade away, but these 20 rare and historic images stand out for their mystery, significance, and lasting impact. Within just four days, five college students were brutally murdered, their bodies posed in horrifying rituals. The manhunt that followed uncovered chilling secrets about Danny Rolling, the man behind these heinous acts. How did Rolling evade capture for so long? What drove his violent spree? And how did a makeshift campsite finally expose him?