In 1990, two college students, who lived together in an apartment, suddenly stopped communicating with their friends and families. After a few days of silence, the police were called to do a welfare check on them. When the police knocked on the girl's door, no one opened it, so they got a key from the building manager and opened the door themselves. As soon as they were inside, they called out for the girls, but they didn't call back. The police walked forward into the living room, and at first everything looked normal, but then they noticed something horrible on the couch...
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Main Sources:
1. Danny Rolling Wikipedia page -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Rolling
2. ATI (All That's Interesting) coverage of story -- https://allthatsinteresting.com/danny-rolling-gainesville-ripper
3. "Biography" website coverage -- https://www.biography.com/news/danny-rolling-scream-killer-gainesville
4. How the perpetrator was caught (from Oxygen) -- https://www.oxygen.com/crime-news/how-danny-rolling-the-gainesville-ripper-was-caught
5. Shreveport Times article about how this case inspired Scream movie -- https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/life/2022/01/12/scream-movie-documentary-danny-rolling-serial-killer-gainesville-ripper-hometown-shreveport/9126171002/
6. Slashfilm.com coverage of how this case inspired Scream movie -- https://www.slashfilm.com/736734/the-real-life-serial-killings-that-inspired-scream/
7. Murderpedia page for Danny Rolling -- https://murderpedia.org/male.R/r1/rolling-daniel-harold.htm