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What a Creep: "The Gainesville Ripper" (The inspiration for Scream's "Ghostface")

What a Creep

Sonia Mansfield

Entertainment News, Comedy, News, True Crime

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

What a Creep: “The Gainesville Ripper” Season 13, Episode 3 Danny Rolling, the inspiration for Scream’s “Ghostface”    Did you know that the movie SCREAM was inspired by a true crime? We didn’t. Danny Rolling, the Gainesville Ripper, murdered five students in Gainesville, Fla., in August 1990, which all but shut down the college town. And it turned out he had murdered before but didn’t get caught until years later. This is a rough one y’all.  Trigger warnings including child abuse, rape, mutilation, and decapitation Sources for this episode: Oxygen All That’s Interesting ABC News ABC’s 20/20 The Nerdist People Biography Wikipedia   Be sure to follow us on social media. But don’t follow us too closely … don’t be a creep about it!   Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts Twitter: https://twitter.com/CreepPod @CreepPod Facebook: Join the private group!  Instagram @WhatACreepPodcast Visit our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/whatacreep Email: WhatACreepPodcast@gmail.com  We’ve got merch here! https://whatacreeppodcast.threadless.com/# Our website is www.whatacreeppodcast.com  Our logo was created by Claudia Gomez-Rodriguez. Follow her on Instagram @ClaudInCloud

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0:00.0

Welcome to What A Creep, the show with Marco Donio and Sonia Mansfield talking about creeps from the past to the present.

0:08.0

This is your quick guide to the biggest creeps, jerks, assholes and losers, the best of the worst.

0:14.0

From two nice ladies who want the world to be a little less creepy.

0:19.0

Welcome back to What A Creep, this is Marco Donio and my cohort in creepitude as always is Sonia Mansfield.

0:34.0

Hey Sonia, hello my friend.

0:37.0

Hello my friend and happy Halloween everybody.

0:42.0

We're doing a very spooky episode.

0:44.0

So Sonia and I also co-host a show called Dorking Out and we talked about the movie Scream and then Sonia said this is also based on true crime story.

0:53.0

I'm going to look it up and talk about it and talk about it.

0:56.0

Talk about it on What A Creep, which is what we're going to do today.

1:00.0

Let me just go through a little bit of housekeeping first.

1:02.0

We do have a basic Facebook page.

1:05.0

We use that just as a place for people to complain about our language.

1:08.0

We do salty language here.

1:11.0

Fuck yeah, we do.

1:13.0

If you don't like that, please just avoid us at all costs.

1:16.0

We have a private Facebook group.

1:19.0

Avoid our podcast and us in person.

1:22.0

By the way, everything about us.

1:24.0

Just don't even.

1:25.0

We have a private Facebook group.

1:27.0

We have a few questions that we ask you to answer and then you could come on in and we try to keep it as a nice safe spot for the show.

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