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S3 Ep235: Gainesville Ripper: A History of Violence (Part 3)

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🗓️ 23 August 2024

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

In late August 1990, Gainesville, Florida, was bustling with the excitement of college students returning to the University of Florida for the Fall semester. However, the anticipation of a new school year quickly turned to horror on August 26, when two students, Christi Powell and Sonja Larson, were discovered brutally murdered in their off-campus apartment. This gruesome discovery was only the beginning. Within two days, three more students were viciously killed in their own apartments. The once vibrant town was now gripped by fear, as students worried they’d be the next victim of the serial killer nicknamed the Gainesville Ripper.

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Hello everybody welcome back to Crime Weekly I'm Stephanie Harlow and I'm Derek

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Lovasser. So today we're diving into part three of the Gainesville Ripper

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case and I know do you want to talk really quick about the hats before we dive in in case

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for someone who just watches Crime Weekly not Crime Weekly news I got your d.m. I got your

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emails we talked a lot about the stay safe out there hat and then they

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sold out so on one hand thank you on the other I'm ordering more they should take

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about a week or two to come in I I do apologize. So it says out of stock

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on the website right now. When they come back in I'll let you guys know my

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apologies but also thank you. Good problems to have. Great hat. We'll get them

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back in stock as soon as possible.

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Let's dive in.

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Yeah.

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Let's do it.

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So in November of 1989, Tom, Julie, and Sean Grissom were brutally murdered in Shreveport, Louisiana.

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Less than a year later, in late August of 1990,

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five college students, Sonia Larson,

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Christy Powell, Krista Hoyt, Manny Tabato,

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and Tracy Paulas were murdered in Gainesville Florida by a serial

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killer nicknamed the Gainesville Ripper. Months after these horrific murders a

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woman contacted the Florida Department of Law Enforcement with a chilling

1:22.4

suspicion.

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She believed a man named Danny Rolling was responsible for both the Grissom

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