Due to the graphic nature of this killers crimes listener discretion is advised. This episode includes discussions of domestic abuse, murder and sexual assault that some people may find offensive. We advise extreme caution, children under thirteen Christopher it was never late. Her coworkers up Lack of a county sheriff's office knew that so, when she didn't show up for work on Twenty seventh nineteen, ninety, the IMF, nearly alerted authorities, a few officers drove over to Christus gains fell, apartment, hoping she'd, simply forgotten the Collins sick, but when their knocks on the front door when unanswered he feared the worst with no sign of any one home they forced their way in inside the apartment was purely still be off

says, move through the room slowly at first calling out to Christa. After noticing the back door had been pride. Open authorities rushed to the bed there. They were greeted by a horrific site. Christa sat on the edge of her bed. Her upper body slumped over hearse blade legs she'd been murdered. Brutally her back was covered in stab wounds. Her stomach was slash doping breasts had been mutilated. Most disturbing of all her head had been cut neatly removed from her body. It sat on bookshelf across the room, a silent haunting sentinel. They gains Ville Ripper had struck again

hi, I'm bringing this is serial killers, a park astrogational every episode we guide into the minds and madness of serial killers today we're taking a look at Danny Raleigh, the gains veal river. I'm here with my co host bid Us Richardson high everyone. You can find episodes of serial killers and all other Parkhurst original spur free on spot. If I, You listen to podcast to stream serial killer, for free on Spotify, just open the app and type Serial killers in the search bar at forecast for great before you were listeners, you allow me to do what we love. Let us know how we're doing reach out on Facebook and its de Graham at par, cast and twitter at work ass network in our land, episode. We followed Danny Rollings childhood. We saw how years of severe abuse at the hands of his father

turn to a life of violent crime, and his first murders today will cover Danny's journey from one time. Killer to notorious serial murderer will also discuss his vicious rampage that claimed the lives of five University of Florida students in May of nineteen. Ninety Thirty five year old, Danny Rolling claimed his first victim in early November of nineteen, eighty nine brutally murdering three members of the Grissom family, one cold night, twenty four year old Julie was found, stabbed to death and posed in a way that suggested her killer, wanted to humiliate her in death Julie's. Fifty four dear Old Father Tom, enter eight year old nephew Sean had also been stabbed. Their bodies were found on post, indicating that they had not been the killers intended victim.

Two Danny. They were little more than collateral damage, victims of circumstance. We can't be completely certain of the timing, but one evening close to the time of the Grissom murders. Friend MIKE Hudspeth. Danny's pastor recalled one slash visitor to his church, just on the road from where Julian her family were slain ribbon. Hudspeth watch Danny come in and pray alone for a long time, based on the way Danny behaved The reverend was suspicious, that is, parishioner was high, but opted not to disturb his prayers. Perhaps after killing three people Annie felt the need for some spiritual guidance vessels going too take over the psychology here and throughout the episode please note this is not a licence psychologist your psychiatrist, but she has done a lot Research, for the show, thanks Gregg if Danny did visited

church after murdering the grit sums, it reflects the serious cognitive dissonance he must have been experiencing. We know that Danny felt strongly connect to his religion as we explored in the previous episode, his Lydia awakening occurred at the age of nineteen when he stopped by a church near is good, fathers home in Shreveport, though he beat Less active in the church has the years went on its clear that Danny still counter strong connection to his faith of faith that came into direct conflict with Danny's violent, urges and perhaps required him to compartmentalize Compartmentalization is a psychological process which allows an individual to hold multiple contradictory below. If sir values within themselves, at the same time by separating out parts of himself, and he may have been able to both believe he was being a good Christian, while also continuing to act on his sadistic desires in there are two thousand eight article nor

see and behavioral characteristics of the sadistic killer sociologist joy Levin and criminologist James. Alan Fox point out that certain people, including violent criminals, maybe more likely to compartmentalize sometimes was known as doubling whether or not he found what he was looking for a church that night Danny certainly kept his religion from interfering with his subsequent actions he made no attempt to repent for his crimes and continue living his life, Jesse had before he does Julie and her family had to die. Unfortunately, for death. He wasn't able to relax, much unemployed and struggling to find a job, possibly due to his status as an Ex convict Danny and his father James started, arguing more often Christmas Eve, nineteen, eighty, nine, Danny and and got into a particularly vicious argument needing to get away from

Father, Danny left the house and wandered the neighbourhood falling into his old habit of peeping through windows when he reached a house where he had watched a woman dressing months before he stopped to look for her seeing that no one was home he broke in and settled down to wait for her return, after spending some time watching tv and sampling her liquor cabinet, the woman still wasn't home, but he was sick of waiting for her frustrated. He left without claiming another victim. At night in the following months. Danny continued is disturbing habit of nighttime, prowling largely without incident. Meanwhile, police contain their investigation into the Grissom slayings, but came up with few leads. It seemed day me had gotten away with murder. He can t you delay low at his parents house. Doing his best to tolerate is father.

In May of nineteen. Ninety things boiled over that month saw Danny and James get into yet another heated argument, except this time neither one the house to calm themselves down when things got heated instead as thinks grew, tents, J, retrieved his gun and pointed at his son by Danny, was used to his father, threatening him with weapons. He was determined that this would be the last time he coward at fear. Danny retreated into the street as James fired at him from behind minutes later Danny turned to the house with his own thirty eight revolver and fired back while James is bullets, went wide. Danny's hid their mark. James took a shock to the stomach and another his forehead as James Collapse to the kitchen floor, Danny approached his father's writhing form and gave them a few kicks for good measure.

And suddenly realising what he done. Danny turned and ran ambulance, sirens wailed in the distance Danny into his car and sped through Shreveport. Knowing that the police would come looking for him here. And in the vehicle near the airport and disappeared into the Bush land on foot Danny ran through the woods all night. Eventually he found her friends house and stop to call Willis Knighton Hospital. He was hold that his father was still alive. Danny was relieved though he had a difficult. Often violent relationship with James. He realized he hadn't really wanted his father dead, but even with James recovering and he knew he wouldn't get off easy. He couldn't go back home again over the next few months, Danny moved across state lines travelling as far as Kansas City Missouri. While there he robbed the west, would United Superstore twice asking the cashiers to pray for him as he left.

Who's. Next stop was bolder Colorado where he stumbled across a young woman on a mountain hike in that mobile Danny allowed his worst impulses to control him. Yet again, he later claimed he was just following the orders of a mysterious voice in his head. According to him, the disembodied demon ordered him to rape, the woman right there on the trail which is exactly what Danny attempted to do when the woman resisted he beat her until her face was covered in blood distraught and fearful for her life. The woman beg to let her go. That's seemingly all it took Danny out his victim to run away and make her escape sooner

Danny continued his aimless wanderings, he hitchhike back to Kansas City, then headed south toward Florida. Of a twenty second of July, he reached Sarasota over the next couple of weeks. He staked out several houses. Looking for the sight of his next attack, on August. Fifth, he settled on the home of thirty year old, JANET Frank, Danny Watch JANET leave, how to run an errand and forced his way and through her bedroom window, ignoring two shrieking cats. He hid and waited for JANET to come back. When China returned Danny his face hidden behind a blacks, Mask came at her with a large hunting knife. After subduing her, he used duct tape to bind and gag her at first JANET felt certain that some one was playing some kind of a twist joke on her, but when she noticed the waves of anger emanating from her attacker, she realized,

she was in serious danger dust For a way out of this situation, she called on her knowledge of true crime, books and documentaries. Shirley hopes She had taught her something JANET that making her attacker angrier wouldn't help. So she tried best to remain calm during the assault. When Danny boasted that he was going to do this all night. She had an idea. She offered him a cold beer and asked if he liked to take a break, he immediately relaxed and his anger faded slightly thinking quickly. Janet presented Danny his beer with a glass hoping he'd leave fingerprints on the mug. Unfortunately, he didn't we prince behind. He did, however, allow her to shower alone, once he finished raping her when he wasn't looking. She quickly used a clean tal to wipe herself town before she washed and hid the towel in the hopes that DNA could be collected,

later looking back of the attack, JANET remarked, he thought he was in control, but I was the one who really took, control later in the night. When he asked for permission to take off his scheme, ask she told him not to choose. Want to see his face. She thought if she did He would be more likely to kill her at around one hundred and thirty in the morning and exhausted, JANET told Danny that it was time he left and she did just that. He told her that if circumstances were different, he could imagine dating her. He bit her farewell and ask her to wait. Ten minutes before calling the police, then Danny disappeared into the night, leaving JANET shot traumatized, but very much alive. The next woman, Danny attacked, wouldn't be so lucky after this.

Danny Rolling becomes the infamous gains, veal, ripper, now back to the story. After shooting his father during an argument. Thirty six you old murderer Danny rolling on the run he spent infamous summer of night, he ninety hitchhiking around the sun, western United States. Actually reaching Florida there. He burglarized several homes and brutally raked a woman in He made his way to the town of Gains Phil Home to the University of Florida. Gains which has a large population of college students. Danny arrived, thousands were moving into dorms and apartments for the new semester, watching the students fill up the restroom some bars ignited an indescribable rage in Danny, exactly what it was about gains velvet triggered him. We can't be sure, but he later but a terrifying, demonic voice was talking to him around this time. The same

that had been plaguing him for years by now Danny had given the voice, a name Gemini. According to his book, the making of a serial killer German, I was calling the shots whenever Danny committed a violent crime and after tasting blood the year before, when he killed the Grissom's, it seemed the demon thirsted for more early in the morning on August, twenty fourth, nineteen, ninety under cover of darkness, Danny stole a bicycle and cycled through the streets of God. Fell clad all in black. He slipped through the shadows, a blue sports bag strapped to his waist. He could feel the weight of the bag upon his hip moving in time with his peddling feet, it held every thing for his neck. Murder after riding for awhile something about the Williamsburg Village apartments, building, cluck Danny sigh, he leaned his stuff.

And by against the wall and pulled whether gloves and a ski masks out of his bag dawning his disguise. He climbed quietly up the stairs and came to a stop outside apartment number, one thirteen, using a screwdriver, he forced his way in through the locked door, then he pulled his Navy seal style, K bar hunting knife and began to prowl entering the still dark living room. He found seventeen year old, Christina Powell, asleep on the couch. He considered her for a moment, then moved towards the staircase in an upstairs bedroom. Sonya Larsen lay sleeping in her bed allegedly guide.

By the voice of Gemini, Danny Gag the eighteen year old, with duct tape and stabbed her to death. After he watched her die, Danny left the bedroom and crept back downstairs. Christina hadn't heard a thing covered in blood. He will Christina and promised he wouldn't hurt her if she did what he asked he assaulted and raped her before stabbing her to death. On the living room floor, he then defiled her lifeless body one last time after leaving the apartment Danny carefully discarded the duct tape he had used, trying to dispose of any evidence that might take to the crime. Two days later, when Christina and Sonya parents couldn't reach them, they called the police to check, and on the girls on August. Twenty sixth authorities arrived at the apartment and forced their way in the

bodies of both teens were lying out in the open they had been suggestively posed and Christine, as nipples had been sliced off. At the time, Doktor Wm Hamilton Games feels chief medical examiner, told investigators that whoever this killer was they were just getting started. Just nine hours later, police were called another home eighteen year. Old Christa Hoyt lived two miles Christina Sonia and like them, was a student at the University of Florida. Crystal Colleagues had sounded the alarm when she hadn't shown up for work on time. She worked as a clerk at the county, sheriffs Department and hope to one day be a crime lab technician. Unfortunately, her dreams were cut short by Danny Rolling authorities found Chris does man. Body in her bedroom, as with Christine and Sonya she'd been deliberately posed this time. However, the killer

had gone to more dramatic links after he raped Christa, Danny had mutilated her corpse, even Mood Bookshop across the apartment for the sole purpose of displaying heard decapitated had wrought Smith. The state attorney at the time noted that the specific, dramatic, posing indicated that the killer like to make a reduction of the event in our last episode, we d just how Danny posed Julie, Grissom his body, the sexual nature of her position, suggested Danny's hatred of women and This desire to see them humiliated after death, given that all of his female victims had dark brown hair. Like his ex wife, it's possible that day He was directing his latent rage about his divorce at women who reminded him of her. His next victims were also forced forest interlude positions after their deaths,

but considering the links Danny went to in order to decapitate Christa her pose stood out as particularly disturbing. In an hour go from the journal for the American Academy of Psychiatry and law. Researchers concluded that, while the active There was often part of an offenders sexual. Browser pattern, subsequent posing, can be tied to their deviant sexual fantasies as a putrescent boy Any masturbated de fantasies during which he controlled and killed people now having graduated from rapist to murderer his sexual fantasies were coming true clearly, they were growing more twisted by the day as we discussed Daniel or blamed is action. Samba gemini demon that he claimed spoke to him, but it seems more likely, but he was simply acting on its darkest impulses Whatever was driving his actions, Danny had committed three brutal murders in the space of a few days with less than a week

go until fall. Classes started at the University of Florida. Word was beginning to spread about a possible serial killer on campus but it wasn't spreading fast enough, even as police cordon off Christa Heights apartment. Den was moving onto his next crime. The same Her body was discovered. He burst into a first union bank near by and made off with a bag of cash while many of Danny's earlier attacks had been somewhat isolated. Events with long periods of inactivity and between here now working himself into a kind of frenzy in technical terms. This, what's known as a homicidal crime spree According to a two thousand eight article in criminal justice studies, criminals who committed homicidal crimes, breeze, often displayed a pronounced degree of verse. Whatever was driving. His actions. Danny had committed three brutal murders in the space of a few days, but less than a week ago,

stay, the bodies of two more murdered students were found twenty three year olds, Tracy. Paul, was an Manuel Manny top a lotta had been lifelong friends. Bowl had been stamped to death inside their own apartment, Tracy's, body was found posed on the floor. In the middle of a hallway, Manny had been killed. In his bed and his body had not been posed like India These first murder. This indicated two investigators that the young woman had been Danny's only intended target Manny had simply been in obstacle in the way it has been less than seventy two hours since Christine Powell and Sonya larceny bodies were discovered and now gain We'll police had a total of five murders to investigate. As news broke out, Tracy and Manny locals, began to fear for their own safety. Managed death, in particular, though, that no one was safe, man or woman at the time,

the cities. Annual murder rate was typically in the single digits five murders in three days had people understandably panicked many students at the University of Florida pact there things and went back to their home towns as soon as they could around Seven hundred of these fleeing students would eventually choose not to, turned to the university at all. As the mass exodus took place, journalists that reporters flocked to the city from across the country. Danny Maiden National NEWS and the media gave him a sensational name but gains Phil River, the publicity and panic.

Caused rumours to spread around the city, some swore the ripper was a pizza delivery. Man, others insisted, it was a cop. Still more heard. The killer was actually a doctor. No one could be trusted locals cleared the shelves of gun stores. People were desperate for away to feel safe in their own homes. Again. What was just days earlier, a quiet, peaceful community had been transformed in a hotbed of fear and paranoia at the time, saving Darnel was the public information officer for the gains. Vill police. Looking back on those weeks. She remembered cautioning the community to take their time and do things to feel safe, but not to get carried away. But in the back of her mind, she was fighting her own instincts. To tell people to get out of gains meanwhile Dardanelles. Colleagues were hard at work, investigating the murders, as they carefully picked over the gruesome,

I'm scenes, Danny left behind they notice patterns about its behaviour and strange nature is in his M o, for example, after examining the width and depth of the stab wounds. It was clear that each victim was attacked with the same weapon. I came bar hunting knife around seven inches long. There was Also in it. He said residue on some of the bodies. This suggested the killer had restrained his victims with duct tape, but had removed the tape before he left the scene. This careful removal of evidence told police, killer, was likely experienced or had familiarity with law enforcement, but care the ripper had taken to clean up matched with a methodical staging at each of the three crime scenes. In particular, the presentation of Christa Heights apartment felt like it was meant to send a message. State attorney, ROD, Smith theorized

Way, Christa had been left was designed specifically to terrorize whoever came across her body, but ROD Smith had a theory that the gains Phil Ripper was seeking to make himself a star. Only one year earlier, Florida had executed one of histories, most infamous serial killers, TED Bundy when looking at both killers patterns of behaviour. Some striking parallels emerge like De Danny entered the home of female college students in Florida once inside. He would beat sexually assault and then murder his victims, just as Bundy had done it Any rolling wanted infamy two rival Bundy, who murdered at least thirty women across seven states. Investigators feared they would find even more victims very soon. Looking back at the frantic search for the Ripper ROD Smith marked. This was the test of their generation. That test

I wasn't even close to being over. After this, the search for the gains Phil River heats up and Danny's, backed into a corner Now the conclusion of our story, late August of nineteen ninety justice classes were about to begin at the University of Florida, thirty six, two year old, Danny Rolling, murdered five students in their apartments, the brutal slang happened over the span of just seventy two hours, drawing the panic detention of low oh and national media. They dubbed the killer. The gains Ville Ripper a police task force was quickly sembled and got to work solving the murders, investigators wearing doubly thorough when they examined the crime scenes altogether. They assembled over eighteen thousand pieces of evidence among the key findings were

samples of seamen left at the scenes of Christina Powell and Crystal Heights murders. These samples definitively proved what was already spected that the same man had killed. Both women after investigation. However, the riverside identity remained a complete mystery for the day Nay sample to be truly useful. They had to match it with the culprit. And their list of suspects was intimidating long. A dedicated squad was tasked with questioning each individual suspect and requesting dna samples from them. One of the names on that list was of particular interest to police. Eighteen year old, Edward Humphrey was a student who, until recently had lived in the same apartment complex as Creasy Palace and many top. A lotta Humphrey earned a reputation for a strange, violent behaviour. He often dressed in combat gear and was frequently seen carrying.

I've. While he was being considered a suspect for the gains filled, ripper slayings Humphrey was arrested on an unrelated assault charge. We his bail set at one million dollars. Many locals assume the police had caught the killer, but though they strongly suspected Humphrey police knew they needed hard evidence. They searched his apartment and unable to find anything to tie the eighteen year old to the ripper slayings, when Humphreys DNA was tested against the samples taken from the crime scenes. It wasn't a match. The gains Phil Ripper was still on the loose police kept this development quiet. They decided it was best to keep panic about. This serial killer to a minimum. Meanwhile, Danny rolling continued his crimes spree after killing

Tracy and Manny. He spent the following days: camped out of the woods he played. Guitar sang, invented, hymns and recorded is desperate pots using a hand here. Tape recorder less than a week following the murders police attempted to stop Dan one afternoon while he spoke with a fellow drifter Wendy. They ran, they followed him the woods he escaped, but lead them directly to his campsite. There, found all of his belongings, including a bow Of money covered in pink, die police realized, they had found the cold, it behind the recent bank robbery and began backing item set the campsite. They had no idea that they just but the gains Phil Ripper get away. But Danny knew exactly how close he'd come to being captured. He knew he had to leave. Gains fell to expedite, is escape, he burglarized a home, making off with a few valuables and a get away.

Car with a fresh set of wheels and nothing to lose. He hit the road making for Tampa, but he was getting sloppy after driving for some he stopped to commit several more burglaries. Ultimately, he didn't find much and ended up with little to show for his crimes, except for a trail of evidence that showed police exactly where he was heading, not content with his maker spoils. He decided to take yet another risk and help what convenience store once again, Danny narrowly avoided capture by running into nearby woods, but no matter how much he pushed his luck. It seemed nothing would deter him from his relentless crime spree on the eighth of September, one thousand nine hundred and ninety he held up a Winn Dixie supermarket and color. It was the middle of a Saturday afternoon and the store was packed with shoppers in the chaos

Ploy was able to raise the alarm and police caught up with Danny S. He attempted to flee and getaway car. A brief high speed chase ensued, which ended when Danny drove into a lot and attempted to escape on foot his luck, had finally run out Danny Rolling, was arrested and charged for the string of burglaries and robberies A year later, Danny was condemned. Did for the robberies and sentenced to multiple life terms in prison. He was behind bars but investigators and gains bill still didn't know. He was responsible for the killings that had terrorized their city in nice teen. Ninety, with months of work, leading them no closer to making an arrest detectives cross reference. The rivers kills with similar tax and surrounding areas. This led them to do the murder of the Grissom family in

Eighteen, eighty nine, the resemblance between the crimes was striking in Shreveport detectives, didn't have a suspect in custody, but they it have strong suspicions about Danny rolling by looking into Danny's criminal. Past gains for police knew that he had a fondness. For armed robberies, using this in nation they trace Danny's location from his arrest and color back to his campsite in gains Ville after reaction. The belongings they found at Afghanis campsite police found the evidence they were looking. For all along many taboo out. His blood was found on a pair of pants, Dna evidence belonging to Crystal Height was found inside a sleeping bag and a screwdriver match the markings on the doors. Were the ripper had forced his way into apartments after searching for over a year and interviewing hundreds of suspects, authorities had finally found a lead,

investigators, work overtime to unmask Danny as the gains Ville ripper. When the Florida Department of LAW enforcement arrived to request, a DNA sample Danny lower his trousers and ripped out to handfuls of his pubic hairs. When the results came back, it gave police the answer. They ve been for Danny Rolling, was, without a doubt the gains Phil Ripper. He confessed to the five gains, Phil murders and told police. He would clear up this report murders following a trial for the gains Phil Spree during the interview Danny repeatedly blamed his alternate personality Gemini, the demon who possessed him, he claimed to have no Control over the other side of himself. However, Danny didn't count of the fact that other people had watched the nineteen ninety film, the exorcist three like he had in the three key

to the horror classic the killer went by the name Gemini and had dissembled one of his female victims, just as the gains Phil River had done his book Danny Road at length about his gemini, alter ego and continued to blame it for his murderers, but his excuses failed to sway police who couldn't charge of fictional villain with the murders and settled for booking Dan Instead, later Danny wrote down a confession and gave it to a fellow prisoner in this version of the story, he admitted that he decided to become a killer during a previous day in prison years before Danny's pension for rewriting history was consistent with borderline personality disorder. The official diagnosis he received in the lead up to his trial. According to the DSM five individuals with borderline personality

order or BP can exhibit a variety of traits among those include impulsive behaviour, identity, disturbance, intense or inappropriate anger and severe dissociate symptoms. Bp has also been linked to violence and aggression in two thousand sixteen, the journal of clinical psychology. Pushed findings that showed a robust connection between childhood abuse and bp in adulthood. Its entire the possible at the violence Danny suffered at the hands of his father, led to his psychological goals later in life It may have been the same issues that clause Danny to alternatively court publicity for his crimes and that spurn it when he finally stood trial. For the murders Danny shock the courtroom by suddenly pleading guilty, he claimed he didn't want photographs of the crime scenes and bodies shown to anyone. All that was left for the jury to decide was this.

Intense it didn't take long for them to reach a verdict. Danny rolling would be executed, He waited on death row, Danny CO, authored autobiography with true crime, Authors Sondra, London, the book, the making of a serial killer, the real story, of the gains bill murders in the killers. Own words was published in ninety ninety six. In it he described nineteen ninety attack on JANET Frake, the woman who had talked him into leaving her apartment, JANET had long suspected Danny of being her attacker after seeing his face on television, something about it chilled her to the bone after reading the book she knew it was him when she took her suspicions,

the police. They were able to match the evidence she had collected that night with Danny's DNA hours before he was executed, Danny finally confessed to the murders of Julie, Grissom and her family. He handed a note to administer not long before he was led to the death chamber in October of two six, the legacy of the gains bill ripper lives on far beyond the news coverage of his brutal attacks in ninety ninety four Kevin Williamson was young screenwriter, searching for his big break. After watching a tv special about the ripper, he was inspired to write a film about high school students being hunted by terrifying killer wielding a knife in he, ninety six scream became a box office hit and terrorists. An entire generation of moviegoers, ten later Ganny Rolling was executed by lethal injection, though he may be gone. The memory the gains: veal, Ripper still

was large, let's hope the memories of his victims. Out with that of a killer, thanks again for turning into serial killers. We back on Monday with a new episode. You can find more episodes of serial killers and all other Parkhurst originals for pre on Spotify bodily, despotic by all ready, have all of your favorite music, but now spot by making it easy breeder, enjoy all of your favorite Parkhurst originals, like serial killers for free from your phones, desktop or smart speaker to stream serial killers and spot a fly, just opening up and type serial killers in the search bar, but don't forget to follow us on Facebook and its DE gram at her cast and Twitter Parkhurst Network will see an ex talk have of killer weak

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