Episode 111 - The Gainesville Murders
The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories
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🗓️ 12 September 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
August 1990 - It was the beginning of a new academic year for University of Florida students. Thousands of young people, brimming with anticipation. Excited for new beginnings, classes, friends, and of course, football games.
But that summer there was someone new in the picturesque college town. Someone watching students through their bedroom windows at night, waiting for just the right moment to strike.
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Sources:
A Monster of All Time - by JT Hunter
The Making of a Serial Killer - By Danny Rolling
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| 0:00.0 | The opinions expressed in the following episode do not necessarily reflect those of the minds |
| 0:05.0 | of Madness podcast. |
| 0:06.8 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:36.8 | It was at the beginning of a new academic year for University of Florida students. |
| 0:42.9 | Thousands of young people, brimming with anticipation, excited for new beginnings, classes, friends, |
| 0:51.1 | and of course football games. |
| 0:54.0 | But that summer there was someone new in the picturesque college town. |
| 0:59.2 | Someone watching students through their bedroom windows at night waiting for just the right |
| 1:04.0 | moment to strike. |
| 1:06.6 | Join me now as we take a look at five shocking murders in Gainesville, Florida in 1990. |
| 1:13.9 | You'll hear how one's a distakiller terrorized an entire city by demonstrating that as long |
| 1:21.0 | as he was in town, no one was safe, not even in their own homes. |
| 1:38.9 | At the end of August 1990, more than 30,000 students descended on the college town of Gainesville, |
| 1:45.8 | eager to start a new school year at the University of Florida. |
| 1:50.0 | Students pulled up to the school with their vehicles packed to the gills with every |
| 1:53.9 | worldly possession their young adult child could possibly need to survive away from home. |
| 1:59.7 | It's a familiar scene to anyone who's ever been on a college campus during move-in |
| 2:04.2 | week. |
| 2:05.2 | For many American teenagers, it's their first time away from their parents. |
| 2:10.0 | Their first introduction to the freedom of adulthood. |
| 2:14.1 | This year however, there was something different. |
| 2:17.7 | We knew it at the time, but a pair of eyes were watching the young students from the shadows, |
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