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The Gainesville Ripper is the only complete and total story of Danny Rolling, who killed and dismembered five students of the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida - including firsthand testimony from the Penalty Phase of the trial, not available elsewhere, and culminating in the unanimous 12-0 vote of the jury for the death penalty, ratified by the judge, who had the right to overrule but did not. The Gainesville Ripper examines in probing, revealing detail the life of Danny Rolling - from his earliest family life with his overprotective and yet passive mother Claudia and his abusive cop father James of Shreveport, LA, to his life with the church, a wife and child - she left him - to his repeated, brazen armed robberies in Shreveport and Gainesville, to the explosion one terrible summer weekend in Gainesville, Florida - and to his abrupt confession, conviction and sentencing. Unsparing in its portrayal of the victims and their murderer, and based on the local police and FBI investigations and other vivid firsthand accounts, The Gainesville Ripper is a shattering portrait of what has been called one of the most horrendous serial murder cases in American history.