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Danny Rolling - College Paper

Danny Rolling

Danny Rolling

Danny Rolling, also known as The Gainesville Ripper, confessed to the murder and mutilation of five college students in Gainesville, FL. The bodies of his victims were found over three days in late August 1990. Police found Christina Powell and Sonja Larson in their apartment mutilated and murdered. They were naked and positioned deliberately for maximum shock effect. The next day a third body, Christa Hoyt, was found murdered in her apartment. Christa’s body was mutilated but what was the most appalling detail was that her head was removed and propped on a bookshelf in the bedroom, also believed to be for shock effect. On the third day roommates Tracy Paules and ...

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at him. Danny managed to dodge all six bullets and ran to the shed by his house and got a handgun that he hid there and went and shot his father twice. Danny’s father lived but lost an eye and became deaf in one ear and now walks with a cane due to the two shots by his son. Danny was married in 1975; he made the claim that his wife was unfaithful and ended the marriage after two years. He became depressed and committed his first rape the night after he was served with the divorce papers.

Danny Rolling told Bobby Lewis, an inmate Danny befriended, that he knew he wanted to kill while he was in prison in the eighties. Danny said that he had a bad side which he couldn’t always control due to his father’s abuse and neglect, the sexual abuse he experienced in prison and his ex-wife.

Like most serial killers Danny Rolling was an abused child. Serial killers often have a sexual element in the killings and each murder may have been completed in the same manner. The ...

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Added: 5/4/2011 09:44:57 AM
Submitted By: acruzin
Category: Psychology
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 544
Pages: 2

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