Episode 178: The Gainesville Ripper Part 2

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.5 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Florida investigators are working around the clock to track down and apprehend the Gainesville Ripper, who brutally murdered five college students over the course of four days. After a few months, investigators find the Ripper…in jail. As investigators get a closer look into the man behind the mask, they discover that he is responsible for many other unsolved crimes including the massacre of a family and multiple armed robberies. In episode 178, Jac, Alexis, and Billy lay out the details of how one of Florida’s largest manhunts of all time led authorities to 36 year old Danny Rolling.

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0:00.0	First degree.
0:02.0	First degree.
0:04.0	First degree.
0:06.0	First degree.
0:08.0	First degree.
0:10.0	Get on the news.
0:12.0	Get on the K-3.
0:14.0	Get on the K-3.
0:16.0	Get on the K-3.
0:18.0	Get on the K-3.
0:20.0	Get on the K-3.
0:22.0	He sings are supposed to happen in movies, not real life.
0:24.0	I think everyone was really surprised that he was.
0:26.0	Who he was.
0:28.0	I think everyone was surprised that they had identified him.
0:32.0	And I wasn't so sure that it was him, you know?
0:36.0	Because when it started to come out that they had arrested him for something else.
0:40.0	And then kind of tied him back to this.
0:44.0	It kind of felt like maybe they were just doing that to close the case, make people feel better.
0:50.0	You know what I mean?
0:52.0	It was kind of hard to believe.
0:54.0	Welcome to the first degree, the True Crime Podcast, that you might end up on.
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