THE GAINESVILLE RIPPER

so today's video is day number three of ten days of terror if you are new to my channel every single day for the next seven days at this point every single day up until Halloween and on Halloween I am gonna be uploading a new true crime video so if that sounds like something you want to be a part of something that you want to be around here for make sure you subscribe to my channel make sure you've got my notifications on so you know when I upload and today we're gonna be talking about our first serial killer of the series and we've got quite a few in this 10 days of terror so today we're gonna be talking about the Gainesville Ripper who was a serial killer back in the eighties and nineties and this case actually inspired the screen movies if you've never seen them this is the famous mask thing from it the famous mask thing I know some people in look like me for saying that but yeah before I get into this video I just want to give my usual disclaimer that I mean absolutely no disrespect to anyone that I talk about in this video this is all just information that I have found on the internet and I'm compiling into one video so in August of 1998 students at the University of Florida were moving into their dorm rooms and getting everything ready for the next year of college on August 23rd two roommates 17-year old Christina Powell and 18 year-old Sonya lassen both went to walnut picked up some last-minute bits to decorate the dorm with some stationery and then they went home that night and suddenly went very quiet they stopped answering their phones they weren't seen on campus for a few days in fact they haven't even been seen leaving their dorm Christina's parents plugged on visiting her at her new DOM a couple of days before class started on Sunday the 26th however she wasn't answering any of their calls her parents were obviously a little bit concerned that she wasn't answering a phone however they just put it down to the fact that she was moving into a new place getting everything ready for classes to begin maybe that was a problem with the phone lines over that she'd moved away from home to a completely different place maybe her phone service wasn't so good over there and so the Powell's thought that even though they weren't hearing from the daughter she wasn't answering her phone they were still gonna go and visit her so on the Sunday morning Christina Powell's parents got to her dawn that she shared with Samuel Asin they knocked on the door but the girls answerin at all there were no lights on in the apartment there was no noise coming from inside the apartment and they weren't answering the door so it was as if they've gone out for the day but Christina Powell's car was still in the carpark so Christina's parents panicked they called police who came and knocked the door down to the apartment and there they found both girls dead the first body was that of Sonia Larsson laid on her bed on the top floor it's believed she was asleep when the attack began she'd been stabbed 20 times and a sticky residue on her mouth suggested that her mouth had probably been tipped she had cuts all over her hands and arms showing that she really tried to defend herself during this attack she really tried to fight her attacker off but it didn't work once Sonia was dead her killer had dragged her body to the bottom of the bed they could tell this because her arms were above her head as if she'd been dragged by her legs the killer then positioned Sonia's body in a sexually degrading way and then went downstairs to kill Christina who was asleep on the couch at the beginning of the attack the killer spent a significantly longer time with Christina kept in her mouth and her wrists this time so she couldn't try to fight him back christina was violently raped before her killer flipped her over and stabbed her five times in the back he positioned Christina's body in the same sexually degrading position that he'd positioned Sonya's body in and this time he actually mutilated the body cutting off Christina's nipples and taken them with him before leaving the girl's apartment the killer went into the kitchen and ate one of their bananas and then left the skin on the side almost as a taunt for police so quickly police were noticing a lot of different things about this crime scene first of all there was a towel and a bottle of washing-up liquid by Christina's body her body had been washed - presumably get rid of any evidence of rape they then realized that Christina's clothes didn't seem to have been taken off normally are even ripped from her body they were cooked off of her body with a knife and police concluded that by the wind that the clothes were cooked by the killer that Christina was already bound at this point so the initially believed motive by police was that maybe this was a burglary gone wrong however nothing was stolen and one of the girls was rich that didn't seem like a burglary gone wrong another motive that police came up with was that maybe it was one of the girls ex-partners maybe they were jealous maybe they wanted to get revenge for a breakup or something but after police spoke to both girl's parents both girls groups with friends and things no one could think of any ex partners or men in the girls lives that would want to do this to them they hadn't left anything on bad terms due to the severity and the callousness of these murders mutilating the body's position in the bodies police believe that this was possibly just someone killing for the sake of killing they seem to enjoy murdering people and these are very common characteristics of serial killers mutilating body parts taking parts away as trophies position in the body so that they can be found in the most shocking way possible by police this wasn't a usual one-off homicide scene a lot of people that do one-off homicides join me to let the body they don't tie up their victims they don't position their victims and so police worried that maybe this was the first of many then just eight hours after the bodies of Christina and Sonya were found it seemed that another girl had gone missing 18 year old Christa Hoyt was a student at Sun Saphir college and she worked as a records clerk at the local police station she was expected in for work at midnight on Monday the 27th but she didn't show up and she'd never done this before she never just didn't come into work without warning one of her co-workers that she wasn't gonna be in and because of this because it was so out of character for Christa but also it mixed with the fact that they just found two bodies of teenage girls the same age as Christa her co-workers panicked because of this they went to check on Christa at her ground-floor apartment hoping that maybe she'd just forgotten that she was in work or maybe she was ill or something and so they went and knocked on her door but they got no answer officers then walked around the side of the building and noticed one piece of fence that was kind of bent over as if someone had just trampled over it they then noticed that Christina's sliding glass door seemed to be open a little bit and it seemed as though the lock had been tampered with these jars actually had venetian blinds covering the and blinds that come down from the ceiling like that and one side of them was actually raised a little bit and so an officer got down onto his hands and needs to look inside and there he saw Christa Hoyts body on the bed her body was naked she was slumped in a sitting position at the end of the bed and she was decapitated but her head wasn't just on the bed next where our on the floor or anything it was actually on a bookcase facing her body her killer had placed it so she was looking at herself Cristina's cause of death however was a single stab wound to the back clearly done by the same weapon that had killed Sonya and Cristina and so police quickly linked all three of these killings and branded this man a serial killer once again the killer had cut off Krista's nipples and this time they were on the bed next to her which was another connection between the murders Christa had also been bound ripped and her claws cut from her with a knife just like Christina Powell pathologist found that Christa had been dead for around two days before the police found her so possibly on the same day on the next day as Sonya and Christina's millender's but she hadn't always been in that sitting position that police found her in she was actually laid on her back for a significant amount of time after her murder and they could tell this from discoloration on her back from the blood pooling it's believed that Krista's murderer stayed in her apartment with her dead body for hours after killing her also due to and most of the blood had drained from Krista's body most of it a drained from that wound on her back meaning that her decapitation happened hours after her death so this person had killed Christa left her lid on the bed hum about in her apartment for a while then cut off her nipples cut off her head put her head on a bookshelf and then left so that day on Monday the 27th news broke that there was a serial killer in Gainesville who was targeting young women in college accommodation but the public barely even had chance to panic before the killer acted again the next morning two more students were reported missing both 23 years old with Tracy Paulus and moneyto border the two of them had been really close since high school money was a footballer Tracey was a cheerleader and when they found out that they were going to the same college they decided to be rumors so Manny's friends realized that they hadn't heard from him in a while and so they decided to go to campus managers and ask if they could let them into the room so Manny's friends at the campus manager all went to money and Tracey's apartment and they open the door but they didn't get any further as soon as they opened it they saw blood and a black back on the floor so the friends and the campus manager ran out of the building to call police thinking that something really bad might have happened when police got there however they opened the door and realized that the black bag that the friends and manager had seen was gone so police theorized that maybe the killer was still in the apartment when the friends and the manager went to go check on them and when he heard the door opened he panicked he grabbed his stuff and escaped through a window or something inside they found Tracey's body lying in the hallway although there was evidence that she was killed in her bedroom on her bed and was dragged out into the hallway again she had tape marks on her wrists and over mouth she'd been ripped and her cause of death was three stab wounds to the back again there were so many similarities between Tracy's murder and the murders of the other women for a start the same murder weapon was used once again the wounds matched up completely once again Tracey was naked her clothes had been cooked from her using a knife however her bra had been forcibly torn from her her body was posed in a sexually degrading way once again however she hadn't been mutilated postmortem but like I said police believe that the killer was still in the apartment and fled as soon as he got interrupted so maybe he was planning on mutilating Tracy's body but just didn't have time money to Berta was also attacked in his sleep the killer stabbed him several times all over his body his face head neck even arms and legs all over his tosser he had slashes and cuts all over his arms and his hands from when he woken up and tried to fight his attacker often evidence from the scene suggested that money was killed before Tracey obviously the killer what he was doing my name is six-foot 200-plus pounds he was athletic he could have easily overpowered another man maybe the killer knew that Manny lived with Tracey and so he intentionally attacked many fish while he was sleeping so that he'd be an easy target to get out of the way however maybe the killer didn't know that Manny was gonna be there maybe it was just looking for the killer that he stumbled into Manny's room first because up until now this killer seemed to have a very specific victim type all of them were young women they were shot they were petite they had brown hair brown eyes Manny was completely different and Manny's murder opted the fear in the public because up until now this person had been attacking a particular victim type so say if you were a taller woman with blond hair you felt a little bit safer because he seemed to be going first sharp petite brown haired women however now after this person had killed a man it seems he was just killing anyone he crossed then suddenly after finding five bodies in three days the killings seemed to stop all the police were expecting a lot more so now police could properly put some time into finding this killer because up until now they've just been finding bodies after bodies and they haven't had a chance to properly search for this person doing it so police quickly established a lot of links between the victims like I said all apart from one had been petite Caucasian women with brown hair brown eyes all the women's apartments had sliding glass doors that the killer had broken into using a knife and a screwdriver and these sliding glass doors also all looks out onto a kind of wooded area a garden area somewhere there in the dark this person could spy on their potential victims and it was quickly theorized that this is exactly what the Gainesville Ripper did he would watch his victims stalk his victims before he attacked he was a very thorough planner so let me just run back through all the very obvious connections between the murders the murder weapon there was always sexual assault involved same method of killing stab wounds all the women had also been bound dr. at the rest somewhere over the mouth as well and the killer had always removed this doctor very carefully after the women were dead and taken it away with him just in case it had any kind of evidence on it that could trace back to him the killer also positioned all of his victims in a very sexually degrading where he also was Martha mutilated the second and the third bodies cutting off the woman's nipples all the women's clothes will cook from their body choosing a knife rather than ripped off however the brass were always ripped off possibly pulled from their bodies prints on Tracy's leg and a towel at the first murder scene suggested that the killer actually used gloves while carrying out these attacks police searched local rivers lakes wooded areas local bins to see if this killer had been any kind of evidence like weapons duct tape gloves anything but they didn't find a single piece of evidence meanwhile the people of Gainesville were in full panic mode all the shops in Gainesville and the surrounding cities sold out completely of guns mace bats or the kind of protective items students were pulling out of their courses at that college and enrolling elsewhere people were staying in hotels rather than their own homes because they felt safer car parks were full of police cars where police were out searching for different evidence in Woodson and Lakes like I said local colleges hired round-the-clock security guards to stand outside sorority houses outside dawn buildings meanwhile the people of Gainesville were talking and theorizing and rumors quickly began to spread some people thought that the killer was a pizza delivery man and when he came to deliver your pizza he would kill you some people said he was dressed as a doctor some people said it was dressed as a policeman which at the time was a really damaging rumor because then people start to lose trust in the police so police discussed potential motives for the serial killer were they burglaries gone wrong with it burglaries where violence turned to this one sexual but ultimately they decided that the motives for these murders was he was attracted to petite brunette women and he was a power-hungry person that was sexually motivated in these attacks police also questioned a few things about how this serial killer operated like why did he wear until after he'd killed the women to mutilate them why would he stab some victims up to 30 times and all the victims just once it was strange because even though the method of killing was very consistent there were always slight differences between them like leaving one of the women on the floor and the other women in their beds the decapitation at the third murder and leave in her sattell he cut off two of the woman's nipples one of them he took away with him and one of them he left at the scene there were all sorts of kind of little differences that police couldn't understand why police then created a suspect profile which if you don't know what that is it's basically a likely description of who the killer could be like what type of person it's calculated by looking at the sequence of events that the killer chose what kind of weapon the killer chose how the killer chose to use that weapon how they left the crime scene how they broke into the houses things like that it all just kind of paints a picture of what kind of person this is so the suspect profile the police came up with was a white male in his late 20s to early 30s probably around 6:00 but with a strong athletic build he was probably single he was probably a loner he might have average to above-average intelligence very organized with a good knowledge of police work and he knew what police were looking for so maybe some previous experience in the police force they believed that this man probably had a criminal past of some sort probably for assault or sexual assault some form of like violent crime they believed he was very confident had a good self-image a very poor image of women he didn't really value women he was probably not religious and he might have some sort of military experience he probably had a neat clean appearance and worked in a menial job that required little skill although suspect profiles aren't 100% accurate these are just theories to give police an idea of what they're probably looking for in a suspect they're not used to only question men that fit that profile you know what I mean meanwhile results from forensic tests were finally coming back would this be in the early 1990s these tests took quite a few days to complete DNA found on Christina Powell's underwear along with a paper towel that was found by her body both tested positive for semen along with a sample taken from Christa Hoyts body and these samples were all from the same person confirming what police already thought that all of these murders were linked and they had a serial killer now all they had to do was identify this semen sample police created a suspect list of 675 men in the Gainesville area some of them had criminal pasts some of them had been tip-offs from the public but all of them were suspicious for some reason or another so now police have to go about interviewing and obtaining DNA from each of these 675 men but police were suspicious of one man in particular 18-year old Edward Humphries name had been handed over to police several times from several different people and for good reason Edward used to live in the same apartment complex as Tracey Pollux and money to Berta and some sources that I read said that he had a little bit of a crush on Tracy the reason he no longer lived there however was because he was kicked out for erratic and threatening behavior against other tenants Edward always carried a knife he insisted on wearing like full camo combat gear just on the day-to-day and he was just kind of known as a bit of a loner a bit of a weirdo around that kind of area and around the same time of the murders women at the local bank actually had a really disturbing run-in with Edward Humphrey I have no idea how they got onto the topic of this conversation how this was brought up but Edward Humphrey said to the girl serving him at the bank that he had knives at home that could rip the skin from her body then on August 30th so just three days after the last murder Edward Humphries was arrested and charged with aggravated assault against his own grandmother he was immediately taken to a mental health facility to be assessed and monitored and now he was at we diagnosed with bipolar disorder or manic depression as it was known back then so if all of those previous experiences of his tenants having to get him kicked out of that apartment complex when enough now police had proof that he was a violent individual from his assault on his grandmother so while Edward was in the mental facility police decided to sit him down and questioned him at length about these killings and Edward worryingly seemed to have a lot of extensive knowledge about how the bodies were mutilated how the crime scenes were cleaned up and how they were left Edward's bail was set for a million dollars which is insanely high for an aggravated assault case and so the public in Gainesville believed that police had caught the killer meanwhile police went and searched Edward Humphreys apartment and it was bizarre it was like two different people lived in two different parts of this whole one half of the apartment was normal it was neat clean presentable and the other half was completely trashed things were broken that was rubbish on the floor it was dark but even though the apartment was weirdly presented police didn't find any evidence there to link Edward Humphrey to the five murders although they did find quite a big collection of knives and screwdrivers which if you remember those are the tools that the killer used to break into each of the women's apartments so all of these knives and screwdrivers were seized and tested yet none of them matched the murder weapons or the break-in weapons so Humphreys saliva blood and hair samples were all sent for DNA testing against the DNA that they'd recovered from the scene and if this was a match then police had found the Gainesville Ripper although like I said in the early 1990s technology really wasn't very good with that kind of thing and it was going to take police weeks to get results back on those tests however while Edward Humphrey was in custody for the assault against his grandmother the murders stopped completely on October 10th while still waiting for the results of the DNA tests to come back Edward Humphrey was sentenced to 22 months in a psychiatric facility for that assault against his grandmother finally at the end of October two weeks after they take in the samples the test results came back and they were negative Edward Humphrey was not the Gainesville Ripper so now police were back to square one with completely no suspects and the serial killer is still at large and so they turned to the FBI for help so the FBI have this program named the violent criminal apprehension program on ViCAP four shots and this is a database that stores all the details of every violent crime ever committed in the US and officers can basically use this program to compare different crimes you input key details of this one it have been like mutilation Breaking and Entering murder weapon was a knife the kind of victim description of the petite brunette women and the system will pull up any very similar crimes across the whole of the United States so that police can see if any of them linked and the system brought up eight similar cases and one of these eight was actually almost identical to the Gainesville Ripper killings it was an unsolved triple homicide from Shreveport in Louisiana on November 4th 1989 so less than a year before the first killings 24 year old Julie Grissom her father 55 year-old William Grissom and her 8 year old nephew Sean were all preparing for dinner at home and that was run someone broke in and attacked them stabbing them all to death with the same weapon that the Gainesville Ripper used so it was clear that Julie Grayson was the killers man target she was 24 years old college student brunette petite whereas her father and her nephew just seemed to be killed just because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time just like money William and Shawn had been stabbed to death in the living room whereas Julie had been taken upstairs to her bedroom and killed there and there were a lot of similarities between Julie's murder and the Gainesville Ripper victims she was naked again she'd been bound with tip and the tape had been taken away from the scene by the killer she'd been paused at the edge of the bed even to the point where the killer had spread her hair out around her head he'd rarely taken so much time with Julie's body her cause of death was also three stab wounds to the back which was exactly how the Gainesville Ripper did it once again the killer had raped Julie and washed on her body to get rid of any evidence he put a clause in the washing machine as well she'd also have been stopped being bitten several times and also slashed several times so police quickly connected the two cases that triple homicide in Louisiana and the five murders back in Gainesville making the serial killers death toll now eight so police went back to the old suspect list of 675 people apart from Edward Humphrey now 674 and detective any of them had been in Louisiana at the time of those three murders so as Gainesville police were going through this suspect list of all these people rule in some people out questioning some people again they got a call from a different Police Department in Florida these are the Florida police said that they just arrested a man for armed robbery not far away from Gainesville and he was actually originally from Shreveport in Louisiana so a Gainesville police did a little background check on this man and they found that he was actually wanted back in Shreveport in Louisiana for the attempted murder of his own father this man was 37 year old Danny Rowland a man with a lengthy criminal past that almost exactly matches the suspect profile of begins Billerica Danny Rollins father had been horrific ly abusive to him all his life and he still lived with his parents at age 37 so that's 37 years of horrific abuse when Danny was just five years old the family adopted a puppy and his father beat this puppy to death in front of Danny and it died in his arms when he was just five years old his father also abused Danny's mother to the point where she had a nervous breakdown he abused Danny all the way through his adulthood as well as his childhood and Danny actually attempted suicide many times throughout his life because of this so as you can imagine Danny rolling really did not like his father and at this point he'd been living with him and enduring this abuse for almost 40 years so one day the two of them had an argument it turned physical and Danny just pulled out a gun and shot at his father trying to kill him he shot his father once in the head and once in the chest and he believed it killed him and so Danny went on the run however his father survived so obviously with this level of violence police believed that they were onto a solid suspect and so they began looking into he's criminal history and Danny Brolin had a lengthy criminal history ever since he was just a preteen he was killing animals he was looking into girls windows and this eventually led into more serious crimes like theft and robbery assaults sexual assaults police quickly found that Danny had served time in three different states for armed robbery and so they decided to look into kind of unsolved armed robberies in the Gainesville area at the time of the murders and they found exactly that an unsolved armed robbery of a bank in Gainesville on the San Martin that Christa Hoyts body was found the suspects were a black male and a white male both of which were actually spotted near a wooded area just hours after the armed robbery so police went to confront these men and the white male ran straight into the woods whereas the black male stayed there with police and just kind of gave himself up he said that he's accomplices named the white male that over and off into the woods was called Michael on Mike Kennedy and so police chased him off into the woods but they actually lost him however they found a makeshift campsite where they believed that he was staying they found a tent camping equipment clothes bags a bag full of money covered in red dye which was obviously from the bank so all the items were taken from this campsite and put into evidence lockers about the armed robbery but nothing more was ever really done with them they were never searched properly or anything but now police decided to go back to all of this evidence thinking that maybe Michael Kennedy could have been Danny rolling at the campsite they found a ski mask which when tested matched fibers found on a tiny little piece of tape found at the third murder scene on a pair of pants found in one of the bags there was a tiny little splash of blood which matched money to murder the screwdriver found at the campsite matched to the markings on the sliding doors where the killer had broken into the apartments one of Christa Hoyts pubic hairs was found in the sleeping bag but physical connections to these murder scenes just went on and on but then police room naturally recovered a tip and headphones from the campsite but that never actually listened to what was on the tip until now it was a voice recording from Danny Berlin himself addressed to his mother and his brother I know I have to run the rest of my life but I'm getting pretty good at it I don't want you feeling sorry for me I don't want you worrying about me I'm a big boy take care of myself crawl down here for just a friend well sign off for a little bit that's something I gotta do police believe that these recordings were meant before the first Gainesville murder even happened meanwhile Danny Brolin was actually still being held in jail for that armed robbery that police caught him for in the first place so police decided to pay him a visit but he wouldn't say much of anything he wouldn't admit to anything he was just being very kind of uncooperative as you would imagine he did however let police take fingerprints a blood sample and a tooth that he'd recently had taken out and then police told him in a room with about five other people in that they were gonna need between thirty and fifty pubic hairs to be able to test Danny Roland never applied no problem he stood up exposed himself and ripped out to full handfuls of pubic hair from his body he then slammed these two handfuls of hair onto the table and said there ought to be fifty after a couple of weeks the DNA results came back and it was a match to all three crime scenes Danny Brolin was the Gainesville Ripper he was charged with five counts of first degree murder three counts of sexual battery and three counts of armed burglary but since DNA was a relatively new science at the time it still wasn't completely admissible in court because they couldn't trust that this science was legit at this point and so police knew that they couldn't rely on this DNA evidence they needed a confession really while Danny Rowling was in jail for armed robbery he became friends with his cellmate Bobby Lewis and Bobby Lewis was actually a pretty infamous criminal he was at the time the only person to remember escaped off of death row so Danny befriended Bobby thinking that with the volume and the severity of his own crimes he was probably gonna get put on death row and so maybe Bobby had some advice on how he could get out of it he told Bobby Lewis all about his murders in detail and he told him that he wanted to be a superstar just like Ted Bundy then a month before his trial there Danny Rowland asked to speak to Gainesville police he was ready to confess but on one condition he did not want to speak to police directly he would only do that if he absolutely had to but other than that if it was required by law that Danny had to say these things directly to the police he wanted to speak through his cellmate Bobby Lewis so he would whisper his answer till Bobby and Bobby would tell the police and this questioning took hours but Danny Ruolin finally confessed every single detail of how he committed these murders he said that he traveled everywhere to and from these murder scenes by bike because it was quite quick but at the same time it didn't have the noise and the light that car had so the first measures he admitted to were the first bodies that police found Sonya Larson and Christina Powell so like I said right at the beginning of this video the two girls were in Walmart on the last day that they were seen they were just picking up some last bits and pieces for the next year at college and Danny Rowland also happened to be in that Walmart at the same time as the girls he saw them he thought that they were pretty they were both petite brunette and he stopped the girls all the way back to their apartment where he could formulate an entry plan for his attack later on that night he said he initially broke into the house on the ground floor through the sliding doors and he saw Christina Powell asleep on the surface he said he watched her sleeping for a while and then decided he would kill Sonia first and then come back and kill Christina as for Christa Hoyt and Tracey parlous again he targeted and stopped those women specifically and said that he had to kill Manny to get him out of the way but as for the Grissom family murders Danny refused to talk about them admit to them anything and said that he'd clear them up in due time so then police asked Danny raelynne why he'd committed these murders they wanted a motive and Danny said that he wanted to kill one person for every year that he had spent in prison for his armed robberies and stuff Danny Rowland had spent a total of eight years in prison over the course of his life and so he said he wanted to take another person's life for every year of his life that had been taken from him and he did kill a people successfully he killed those five in Gainesville and those three in Louisiana although many people don't believe this many people believe that Danny rolling would have gone on to kill so many more had he not been caught people think that Danny just wanted the power and the control in this situation he didn't want police to take credit for stopping him he wanted to say he stopped himself which is very likely because everything was about power with Danny rollin all of his victims were posed in sexually degrading positions he tried to humiliate the bodies it was all about power for him so Danny's defense was all ready for him to plead not guilty by reason of insanity when his trial began in April of 1994 however Danny had other plans in one last attempt to take control of his situation Danny stood up right at the beginning of his trial and pled guilty to all five murders he didn't say anything to his defense team beforehand he didn't even say anything to Bobby Lewis he didn't say anything to anyone he wanted this to be his last attempt at shocking or the people and taken the power back and with that Danny rolling was sentenced to death on April 20th 1994 however he wasn't actually executed until 12 years later on October 25th 2006 his last meal consisted of lobster shrimp baked potato cheesecake and sweet tea then ruling was taken to the execution room where many of his victims families could watch him die through a massive glass window on the side of the room he didn't give any last words he just mumbled a gospel hymn to himself and then he lid in the chair and as he was being injected with the lethal injection he said every single one of his victims family members in the eye as he was dying the Gainesville Ripper Danny Harold Rowland was pronounced dead at 6:31 p.m. on October 25th 2006 after his death police found a note that he left in his cell which actually admitted to him killing the Grayson family around the same time after his execution a woman came forward to say that she believed that she was against the Ripper survivor just two weeks before the first Gainesville Ripper killing Janet Frank was attacked in her own home who she believes to be Danny rolling he broke into her house and tried to Hank off her hands behind her back but when the handcuffs wouldn't lock into place properly he just taped her hands and tipped over her eyes he ripped the claws from Janet's body raped her in her bedroom and then took her to the bathroom and raped her again there he then told Janet that he would continue to rape her all night and then kill her and leave her body in the closet janet was very calm she was very smart in this situation she realized that this man was probably attacking her for some kind of reason he was probably lashing out he probably had some sort of mental illness and so she began talking to him she was just talking to him how a friend would talk they were just talking about his life his problems like what he enjoyed doing something that she felt he probably didn't have and that was why I was lashing out he even said to me at one point and any other circumstance you would literally like to date me and that made me sick but I just kept going on but the whole night thinking I've got to get this man out of my house Janet Frank was actually very into true crime herself she watched a lot of TV shows read a lot of books and so she knew exactly what to do to leave evidence of this man in her home in case he did kill her so that police could find him she hid a towel in her bedroom with his semen on for police to find which had DNA evidence on it she also prepared Danny a glass of beer hoping that he would obviously pick it up and leave fingerprints on the glass but of course she survived she never needed any of those I don't know why she didn't take the towel with the seminal fluid to the police anywhere because then they could find who'd done all of this to her he'd raped her twice at this point but a lot of people in that situation do just kind of want to forget about it they don't want to go through cult cases and everything so that's totally understandable but yeah that completes this case that was the Gainesville Ripper thank you so much for watching this whole video if you enjoyed it make sure you leave a big thumbs up and subscribe down below because like I said I'm doing 10 days of Terror on my channel right now a new true crime video every single day and there is a fair few serial killer videos in that 10 days so I know you guys like those ones but yeah thank you so so much for watching and I will see you in the next one bye

Channel: Eleanor Neale

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Length: 36min 38sec (2198 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 24 2018