Gainesville Ripper: The True Story of Danny Rolling

They called him the Gainesville Ripper and he was allegedly the inspiration for the horror movie "Scream." In 1990, Danny Rolling murdered four University of Florida students and a Santa Fe Community College student in their apartments with a United States Marine Corps military-style KBAR knife by stabbing, slicing, mutilating, raping, and even decapitating some of his victims. He had also been linked to and found guilty of killing a family of three in his home town in 1989: a crime for which another person was initially arrested. Rolling was later apprehended in conjunction with a botched grocery store robbery and later pled guilty to all of the grisly murders during jury selection in 1994. After an unsuccessful appeal of his death sentence he was ultimately executed via lethal injection on 25 October 2006.