[Lux1969]

To me, the scariest murderer out there. Legit copies of the crime scene photographs were tightly guarded and destroyed after Rollings was sentenced to death, but I was able to get some screenshots from the CourtTV footage.

August 24, 1990
In the early morning hours, Rolling broke into the apartment shared by two university freshmen, 18-year-old Sonja Larson and 17-year-old Christina Powell. Finding Powell asleep on the downstairs couch, he stood over her briefly but did not wake her up, choosing instead to go to the upstairs bedroom, where Larson was also asleep. Rolling murdered Larson, first taping her mouth shut to stifle her screams and then stabbing her to death with a Ka-Bar knife. She died trying to fend him off.

Rolling then went back downstairs, taped Powell's mouth shut, bound her wrists together behind her back and threatened her with the knife as he cut her clothes off. He then raped her and forced her face-down onto the floor, where he killed her by stabbing her five times in the back. After killing Powell, Rolling went back upstairs and raped Larson's corpse. He posed the bodies in sexually provocative positions and took a shower before leaving the apartment.

August 25, 1990
Rolling broke into the apartment of Christa Hoyt, an 18-year-old chemistry honors student at Santa Fe College,[6] prying open a sliding glass door with a screwdriver. Finding she was not home, he waited in the living room for her to return. At 11 a.m., Hoyt entered the apartment and was surprised by Rolling, who placed her in a chokehold. After she had been subdued, he used duct tape to gag her mouth and bind her wrists together behind her back and led her into the bedroom, where he cut the clothes from her body and raped her. As in the Powell murder, he forced her to lie face-down on the bed and stabbed her in the back, rupturing her aorta. He then flipped her body over and sliced her abdomen open from her pubic bone to her breastbone. After arriving back at his campsite, Rolling could not find his wallet. Thinking he may have lost it at the murder scene, he returned there, at which time he decapitated Hoyt, posed her body in a sitting position at the edge of her bed, and placed her head on a shelf facing the corpse. He later claimed he intended to add to the shock of whoever discovered her.

By this point, the murders had attracted widespread media attention. Many students had begun taking extra precautions, such as changing their daily routines and sleeping together in groups. Because the spree was happening so early in the fall semester, some students withdrew their enrollment or transferred to other schools.

August 27, 1990
Tracy Paules, who was 23 years old, was living with her roommate Manny Taboada, who was also 23. Rolling broke into their apartment by prying open their sliding glass door with the same tools he had used previously. Rolling found Taboada asleep in one of the bedrooms and killed him after a struggle.

Hearing the commotion, Paules went down the hall to Taboada's bedroom and saw Rolling. She screamed, "You're him, aren't you?" and attempted to barricade herself in her bedroom, but Rolling broke through the door. Rolling taped her mouth and wrists, cut off her clothing, and raped her before turning her over and stabbing her three times in the back. Rolling posed Paules' body but left Taboada in the same position in which he had died.

Rolling was also responsible for the 1989 murder of the Grissom family in his native Shreveport, Louisiana. 55-year-old Tom Grissom, his 24-year-old daughter, Julie, and his 8-year-old grandson, Sean, were attacked in their home as they were preparing for dinner. Afterward, Julie Grissom's body was mutilated, cleaned, and posed.

[Lux1969]

The first body is Christina Powell (her photo is also last.) the second is Manuel Taboda, third and fourth is the shelf where Christa Hoyt's head was placed.

[marcos_69]

Did he find his wallet? How did they catch him?

[Mr.NoCredit]

Interesting read. Horrible human being.

[MeMyselfandI]

posed her body in a sitting position at the edge of her bed, and placed her head on a shelf facing the corpse.

Very creative, I'll give him that

Still a sick twisted fuck though

[kilyurselph]

Originally Posted by Mr.NoCredit ↗

Interesting read. Horrible human being.

Interesting: yes.

Human being: no.

[kilyurselph]

On top of being a loser in life who was so empty he chose to become a serial killing coward. Danny Rolling also thought of himself as something of an artist. He would fill much of his time alone in a tent pitched in the woods somewhere by drawing, playing guitar, writing songs and singing. From what I understand this is one of his songs that were found by police at his camp site.

It's said that he supposedly recorded this on a shitty old school cassette tape recorder while sitting in his tent just a day or two prior to killing Larson and Powell. The song is called "Mystery Rider". It's not great, but it's also not something you would expect a serial killer to be able to do.

I provided the link below if anyone wants to check it out.

[romanov1918]

Originally Posted by kilyurselph ↗

On top of being a loser in life who was so empty he chose to become a serial killing coward. Danny Rolling also thought of himself as something of an artist. He would fill much of his time alone in a tent pitched in the woods somewhere by drawing, playing guitar, writing songs and singing. From what I understand this is one of his songs that were found by police at his camp site.

It's said that he supposedly recorded this on a shitty old school cassette tape recorder while sitting in his tent just a day or two prior to killing Larson and Powell. The song is called "Mystery Rider". It's not great, but it's also not something you would expect a serial killer to be able to do.

I provided the link below if anyone wants to check it out.

Kind of like Manson, who thought he was a great talent. They were both sick fucks.

[ezeemonee]

Glad they actually executed this sick fuck in 2006. I was guessing he was still rotting in prison considering all the typical appeals in these cases.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Rolling

[metalhead66]

Nasty