The Real-Life Horror That Inspired 'Scream' - Gainesville Ripper
Hot On The Case
Breanna Heim
5 • 714 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
This week on Hot On The Case, we head to Gainesville, Florida, where a quiet college town was plunged into terror during the summer of 1990.
College students were supposed to be settling into dorm life and new routines. Instead, a series of brutal murders left an entire community paralyzed with fear. Doors were double-locked, rumors spread like wildfire, and the entire town held its breath.
Who would be next?
A case so horrifying it would later inspire one of the most iconic horror films of all time.
Join us as we dive into the chilling true story behind the Gainesville Ripper.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It was late August 1990 in a sunny safe college town, the weekend before classes were meant to begin. |
| 0:07.7 | Dorms were filling up. Parents were hugging their kids goodbye and thousands of students were settling in, ready to begin what was supposed to be the best years of their lives. |
| 0:19.5 | But that week, five young innocent students had their futures |
| 0:24.4 | torn away by a killer, so terrifying, so brutal, that he would go on to inspire an entire horror |
| 0:33.8 | franchise. A killer, so vicious, so depraved, that he would eventually be known by a name |
| 0:41.8 | reserved for only the most horrifying of murderers, a Ripper. There are only a few killers in history |
| 0:50.1 | sick enough to ever be called that. Jack the Ripper in Victorian London, the Yorkshire Ripper in the UK, just a few names on a short, |
| 1:00.2 | terrifying list. |
| 1:02.1 | And in the summer of 1990, another name was added. |
| 1:07.5 | These are the unimaginable crimes of the Gainesville Ripper. |
| 1:11.9 | Thank you for joining me on this week's investigation. |
| 1:15.6 | My name is Brianna and I'm hot on the case. |
| 1:25.3 | Hey Harry. |
| 1:26.3 | Hello, mate. |
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| 1:38.9 | It's a good darn deal that'll make your squirrel for real. |
| 1:41.9 | Neil? |
| 1:42.7 | My name's not Neil. |
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