1. Danny Rolling later confessed to raping several of his victims, committing a triple homicide in his home city of Shreveport, Louisiana, and attempting to murder his father in May 1990.
37 Facts About Danny Rolling
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Danny Rolling was sentenced to death for the five Gainesville murders in 1994.
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Danny Rolling's killing spree inspired the slasher film franchise Scream.
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Daniel "Danny" Rolling was one of two sons born to James Harold Rolling and Claudia Beatrice.
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Danny Rolling often abused his wife and sons for frivolous things, such as breathing in a way that displeased him; he told his son that he was unwanted from birth.
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Danny Rolling made repeated attempts to leave her husband but always returned shortly after.
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At one point, Danny Rolling worked as a waiter at Pancho's restaurant in Bossier City, Louisiana.
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Danny Rolling murdered Larson, first taping her mouth shut to stifle her screams, and then stabbing her to death with a Ka-Bar knife.
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Danny Rolling then went back downstairs, taped Powell's mouth shut, bound her wrists together behind her back and threatened her with the knife as he cut her clothes off.
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Danny Rolling broke into the apartment of Christa Hoyt, an 18-year-old chemistry honors student at Santa Fe College, prying open a sliding glass door with a screwdriver.
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Between 10:30 pm and 11:00 pm Hoyt entered the apartment after playing racquetball with a friend and was surprised by Danny Rolling, who placed her in a chokehold.
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Danny Rolling then flipped her body over and sliced her abdomen open from her pubic bone to her breastbone.
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Danny Rolling later claimed his intent was to add to the shock of whoever discovered her.
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Danny Rolling broke into their apartment by prying open their sliding glass door with the same tools he had used previously.
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Danny Rolling found Taboada asleep in one of the bedrooms and killed him after a struggle.
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Danny Rolling attempted to barricade herself in her bedroom but Rolling broke through the door.
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Danny Rolling posed Paules' body but left Taboada's in the same position in which he had died.
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Danny Rolling called the match to the evidence in Gainesville a "revelation" in the case.
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Shortly after Maines' trip to Shreveport, a Shreveport resident, Cindy Juracich, called Crime Stoppers and reported that Danny Rolling was possibly connected to the murders in both cities.
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Danny Rolling had said deeply disturbing things to both her and her then-husband, Steven Dobbin.
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Danny Rolling said that Dobbin told her that Rolling had told him he had a problem.
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Investigators responded to the tip and quickly found Danny Rolling, who had been arrested on September 7,1990, for an Ocala, Florida, supermarket robbery.
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Danny Rolling was being held in the Marion County Jail 40 miles south of Gainesville.
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Investigators determined that Danny Rolling had type B blood, like the suspect in both the Gainesville and Shreveport murders.
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Once Florida investigators realized that Danny Rolling had multiple convictions for armed robbery, they realized he could have been responsible for the bank robbery that occurred on the day Christa Hoyt's body was found.
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Later it was discovered that on August 5,1990, Danny Rolling broke into the home of Janet Frake in Sarasota, Florida.
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In November 1991, Danny Rolling was charged with five counts of murder.
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Danny Rolling was brought to trial nearly four years after the murders.
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Danny Rolling claimed his motive was to become a "superstar" similar to Ted Bundy.
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In 1994, before his trial could get underway, Danny Rolling unexpectedly pleaded guilty to all charges.
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Danny Rolling was diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, and paraphilia.
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Shortly before he was executed in Florida for the series of killings in Gainesville, Danny Rolling claimed responsibility for the Shreveport murders, handing his spiritual adviser Reverend Mike Hudspeth and Florida police a handwritten confession and apology.
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Danny Rolling sang a gospel hymn, but made no statement immediately before his execution, which was witnessed by many of his victims' relatives.
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Danny Rolling was executed by lethal injection at Florida State Prison on October 25,2006, after the US Supreme Court rejected a last-ditch appeal.
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Danny Rolling was the subject of an episode of Body of Evidence: From the Case Files of Dayle Hinman, a Court TV show and an episode of Forensic Factor titled Killing Spree, which originally aired on Discovery Channel Canada and was rebroadcast in America on the Science Channel.
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Danny Rolling was the subject of a 2010 episode of Cold Blood, and briefly was mentioned in a 2012 episode of Motives and Murders titled "Not Again".
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Danny Rolling was featured in a 2015 episode of Nightmare Next Door.