The Gainesville Ripper: A Summer's Madness, Five Young Victims- The Investigation, the Arrest and the Trial (St. Martin's True Crime Library)

Ryzuk, Mary S.

ISBN 10: 0312953240 / ISBN 13: 9780312953249

Published by St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1995

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Gainesville Ripper: A Summer's Madness, Five Young Victims- The Investigation, the Arrest and the Trial (St. Martin's True Crime Library)
• Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312953240
• ISBN 13: 9780312953249
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Recounts the search for and trial of a serial killer who targeted on- and off-campus residents at the University of Florida, and describes in vivid detail how he tortured and mutilated his victims as a means of taunting the police. Reprint.

From Library Journal

A series of random, vicious murders of five college students in August 1990 spread fear and panic at the University of Florida campus in Gainesville. In 1994, Danny Rolling, a 40-year-old drifter and habitual criminal, confessed and was sentenced to death. Ryzuk (Thou Shalt Not Kill, Warner, 1990) has written the most complete account of this case to date (see also John Philpen & John Donnelly's Beyond Murder, Onyx, 1994). Rolling was the product of an abusive childhood, and Ryzuk skillfully contrasts the bright promise of the murdered students with Rolling's poverty-stricken background and borderline personality. Except for too much dramatic license in pretending always to know what Rolling was thinking, Ryzuk's approach is effective, and her book will appeal to true crime readers.
Gregor A. Preston, Univ. of California Lib., Davis
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