Victims
Between August 23 and August 26 of 1990, panic, anger, and disbelief struck the town of Gainesville, Florida. Rolling killed a combination of five UF and Sante Fe students, four females and one male. Danny Rolling was a "clean killer." After stabbing all of his victims through the back and into their hearts, he would clean up after himself. Two of the females were raped and all were mutilated. When the bodies were found they were set up in sexual positions for whoever would find them. Two of the girls were also slashed from the breastbone to the pubic bone, and also had their chests mutilated. The most disturbing of the murders was Christa Hoyt's, because she had been decapitated and her head been put on display. As for Manuel Toboada, his death had not been planned by Rolling initially as he did not know that Tracy had a male roommate. Danny Rolling's motivation for his murders was mainly revenge. Built up anger and abuse had set him off on his killing spree, and in his mind he thought that others should pay for what he had gone through. The week of the murders Rolling had gone to see "The Exorcist III", which shows strong similarities to the ways in which he tortured and murdered his victims.
Criminal Investigation and Trial
Childhood and Patterns of Behavior
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