The 1990 Gainesville Murders
Who terrorized Gainesville in 1990?
4.7 (23)
56 mins
Discover the horrifying events of the 1990 Gainesville student murders in Gainesville. Explore how college students were brutally murdered over several days, spreading fear across the university town.
Ep 1:
A College Town's Last Innocent Summer
As UF students arrive for fall semester, three young women are brutally murdered in their apartments, launching investigators into a nightmare with no suspect and no answers.
Ep 2:
Panic Grips a Shattered Campus
A fourth and fifth murder send Gainesville into full-blown panic, and a scarred, knife-carrying suspect seems like the perfect answer—until DNA proves otherwise.
Ep 3:
Echoes of Shreveport, A Killer's Origins
A VCAP database match links Gainesville to a Louisiana triple homicide, exposing the violent, broken childhood that forged drifter Danny Rolling into a killer.
Ep 4:
The Screwdriver, the Tape, and the Survivor
A forgotten bank-robbery campsite yields a screwdriver, a hair, and a chilling cassette tape—while a Sarasota survivor reveals how she outwitted the killer weeks earlier.
Ep 5:
Anatomy of Five Nights of Terror
Piece by piece, Rolling's own confession reveals the calculated, horrifying details of how he stalked and slaughtered five students across three Gainesville apartments.
Ep 6:
Confession, Judgment, and the Execution
Rolling's bizarre jailhouse confession gives way to a stunning guilty plea, a death sentence, and a haunting final execution sixteen years after the murders.
Discussions (5)
Waylon
Level 2 · 4 mo agoJesus Christ, Janet offering the serial killer a Keystone beer to survive is crazy. I thought I had heard it all but that takes serious guts lmao.
Kaleb
Level 9 · 4 mo agoThis is why I carry a gun
Colton
Level 10 · 4 mo agoKeystone beer saved her 😂
