Episode 252: The Gainsville Ripper

Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

Inhuman Podcast

True Crime

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Slasher film Scream was developed after screenwriter Kevin Williamson saw a show about serial killer Danny Rolling, otherwise known as the Gainsville Ripper. While Rolling’s name is well known as part of the inspiration for the movie, his victims are not discussed nearly enough. This is the story of the murders of Sonja Larson, Christina Powell, Christa Hoyt, Manny Taboda, Tracey Paules, and Tom, Julie, and Sean Grissom.

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0:00.0	What's up you guys? I'm Haley and I'm Andrea and this is inhuman a true crime podcast
0:06.3	night time edition we are hilarious well out of it a little delirious but we're
0:33.6	welcome back today I'm kind of continuing on with my spooky not really spooky but like kind of
0:43.2	Halloween spooky season quote unquote theme okay because we are going to talk about the murder
0:51.6	who somewhat inspired the slasher film scream which if you have not seen is a classic so get your
1:00.8	butt out there and watch it at least the first one I will not be watching it it's not it's not
1:07.1	that scare I mean yeah it's pretty scary yeah no I'm good but apparently it's a good movie if you
1:11.9	like those types of movies I'm sure if you like those types of movies you've probably seen it yeah yeah
1:17.6	but I did not know that this movie was inspired by an actual murder and I actually heard about it
1:22.8	on TikTok and I looked up the case and realized it was so much deeper than just like one murder
1:28.9	and so I wanted to share the victim's story today because I feel like you know you hear oh it's
1:35.6	inspired by a murder and then sometimes you hear that it's inspired by this man but you don't hear
1:41.5	the victim's names as often get out out what is that outshadowed no over overshadowed yeah that's it
1:49.3	yeah so I wanted to share this story so this is the story of the Gainesville Ripper Danny Rolling
1:55.3	and the murders of Sonia Larson, Christina Powell, Krista Hoyt, Manny Tabota, Tracy Paulis,
2:02.6	and Tom Julie and Sean Grissom oh my gosh that's so many people and what Gainesville is this in
2:09.6	like what's standa okay yes oh yeah so let's get into it in 1994 novice screenwriter Kevin
2:20.4	Williamson was house sitting for a friend when he turned on a show called Turning Point which
2:26.1	was a news program on ABC in the 90s and the episode he turned on was about a serial killer named
2:32.4	Danny Rolling he became unsettled after watching the program and then a little while later he
2:37.7	noticed that a window in the house he was house sitting at was open oh no he became even more
2:42.8	apprehensive so he grabbed a knife and called a friend to come over so he wouldn't be alone
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