41: Serial Killer Danny Rolling aka The Gainesville Ripper
Episode description
Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits Podcast, where your hosts, Bree and Suze, teach you all about some true crime, spooky stories, and how to make one heck of a good cocktail. Join the girls this week while they discuss the Gainesville Ripper.
In the summer of 1990, Daniel Rolling took the lives of five college students. A bank robber turned murderer, he single-handedly held the city of Gainesville, Florida, hostage for four long days. Police were desperate to find the person responsible, but they had no leads and very little information to guide them. Eventually, the police found their suspect thanks to some forgotten evidence from a bank robbery that just so happened to take place the same day as one of the murders. The Gainesville Ripper was finally caught and the nightmare for their community came to an end.
That is until a struggling actor and screenwriter decided to take inspiration from the story and turn it into a very successful movie franchise. Yes, the movie "Scream" was written after Kevin Williamson watched a news story about the Gainesville murders on TV.
In this week's episode, Bree and Suze will dive into all the details of how the Gainesville Ripper came to be and the murders that inspired one of their favorite movies.
For sipping along this week, Suze is making a "Green Gator".
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Sources:
-https://allthatsinteresting.com/danny-rolling-gainesville-ripper
-https://murderpedia.org/male.R/r1/rolling-daniel-harold.htm
-https://www.thevintagenews.com/2022/12/16/danny-rolling/?chrome=1
-https://www.biography.com/news/danny-rolling-scream-killer-gainesville
-https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/franchise/Scream#tab=summary
-https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna15446336