“The Gainesville Ripper” Pt. 1: Danny Rolling

In the 1980s and ’90s, a serial arsonist known as the “Pillow Pyro” terrorizes California—taunting investigators and igniting fires near their annual conferences—until one detective uncovers an unthinkable truth...The culprit is one of their own. Sources for this episode include: ...  Show more

Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her mother 40 whacks… The popular schoolyard rhyme has withstood the test of time, despite it getting a few details wrong. Over 130 years later, we still don’t really know who killed Andrew and Abby Borden. Lizzie was acquitted, and yet most peop ...  Show more

This week, we begin our two-part series on Danny Rolling AKA The Gainesville Ripper and explore the bleak origins of a deluded failure who would later go on a terrifying rampage at the University of Florida.

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Before he became the “Gainesville Ripper,” Danny Rolling was a broken child in a violent home, and the demons inside him were only just beginning to stir. In Part 1, we uncover the early life of the serial killer who inspired the horror movie "Scream," tracing the trauma, addicti ...  Show more

Danny Harold Rolling was a convicted serial killer that was also known as the "Gainesville Ripper". Rolling terrorized the college town of Gainesville in 1990 by committing 5 horrific murders. These were not the only murders that Rolling committed but they are those that he is th ...  Show more