Danny Rolling
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| Born |
Daniel Harold Rolling May 26, 1954 Shreveport, Louisiana, United States |
| Died | October 25, 2006 (aged 52) Florida State Prison, Raiford, Florida, United States |
| Cause of death | Execution by Lethal injection |
| Other names | The Gainesville Ripper and James R. Kennedy |
| Criminal penalty | Death |
| Killings | |
| Victims | 8 |
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Span of killings
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November 4, 1989–August 27, 1990 |
| Country | United States |
| State(s) | Florida, Louisiana |
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Date apprehended
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November, 1991 |
Daniel Harold "Danny" Rolling (May 26, 1954 – October 25, 2006), also known as the Gainesville Ripper, was an American serial killer who murdered five students in Gainesville, Florida. Rolling later confessed to raping several of his victims, committing an additional November 4, 1989, triple homicide in Shreveport, Louisiana, and attempting to murder his father in May 1990. In total, Rolling confessed to killing eight people. Rolling was sentenced to death for the murders in 1994. He was executed by lethal injection in 2006.
Rolling was born in Shreveport, Louisiana. He had a difficult upbringing; his father, James Rolling, told him that he was unwanted from birth. Rolling's father was a Shreveport police officer who abused him, his mother, Claudia, and later, his brother, Kevin. In one incident, Danny's mother went to the hospital after claiming her husband tried to make her cut herself with a razor blade. Claudia made repeated attempts to leave her husband but always returned. In one example of the senior Rolling's sense of discipline, he pinned Danny to the ground, handcuffed him, then had police take his son away because he was embarrassed by him.
As a teenager and young adult, Rolling was arrested several times for robberies in Georgia and caught spying on a cheerleader getting dressed. As an adult, he had trouble trying to assimilate into society and hold down a steady job. At one point, he worked as a waiter at Pancho's restaurant in Shreveport, Louisiana. In May 1990, he attempted to kill his father during a family argument in which his father lost an eye and an ear.
In August 1990, Rolling murdered five students (one student from Santa Fe College and four from the University of Florida) during a burglary and robbery spree in Gainesville, Florida. He mutilated his victims' bodies, decapitating one. He then posed them, sometimes using mirrors.
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