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Jabez Spann witnessed a murder last year and then went missing. He was at a funeral for his friend that he witnessed murdered. It was September 4, labor day of last year. If you were on 22nd Street and Palamadelia Avenue in Sarasota, Florida and saw him, or maybe took any pictures around there on that date, please notify the police.
Glenn Meyer's widow came forward claiming her ex husband killed JonBenet Ramsey Charlotte Hey said that her ex husband was obsessed with JonBenet. "When I asked him if he murdered her, he would just smile at me. He wouldn’t deny it.”
At the time of her murder, Meyer was secretly living in the basement of a home across the street from the Ramseys.
Later built a shrine to her using pictures and newspaper clippings.
Supposedly his handwriting matched the ransom note found in the Ramsey home, and cops considered him a suspect.
John Ramsey, said that Meyer turned up at his house uninvited when the family hosted a party on Dec. 23, 1996.
A new witness made a deathbed confession.
She said that she saw Meyer on the Ramsey property on the night of JonBenét’s murder.
Meyer battled mental illness.
Meyer was arrested for a 1991 assault in a domestic violence case, and was ordered to attend anger counseling courses.
In August 1995, he was sued for owing more than $24,000.
“He was violent with my little girl.
She was in the fourth grade and he gave her such a horrible spanking,
I told him to stop but he wouldn’t. A lot of times he was cruel to my kids. They were afraid of him. I was scared of him!”
Charlotte recalled.
Somehow he ends up living in the basement of JonBenét’s elderly babysitters, Joe and Betty Barnhill.
Investigators want to exhume Glenn Meyer's body to see if they can solve this cold case once and for all.
This is my opinion on what happened to Laci Peterson. First of all, Scott claims he couldn't have killed Laci that morning, because he was logged into his work computer the time same people think that he supposedly killed Laci. Well, he didn't kill her on the 24th.. he killed her the 23rd. Her body was wearing the same pants her sister had seen her in the night before. I think that after Laci talked to her mother on the phone, she went upstairs to bed. Sometime after that Scott put his hands around Laci's neck and knelt on her chest. He choked the life out of her. Scott put her body in a blanket or tarp and put her in his vehicle before the sun came up. He got ready for work and cleaned up. Either let the dog out with the leash on it, or took the dog with him and let it out somewhere. Then he went to his office. He sent some emails, so it would look like he had an alibi. He put her on is boat with the anchors and such, went out onto the lake and dumped her body. He took the boat back to his office, cleaned it up the best he could and doused it with gasoline.
Scott goes home, about the same time he did everyday. He gets cleaned up again and makes sure he didn't miss anything. Then he informs the in laws Laci is missing. Some people think that the robbery across the street had something to do with Laci's disappearance and ultimate death. The burglary happened between 4 and 7 am, so... nope. Some people say they saw someone they thought was Laci, walking her dog after 10 a.m. This could be true, but it could also be false. Police found another woman, that looked a lot like Laci, walking a dog that looked similar to hers. What do you think happened to Laci? Do you think Scott is guilty?
Danny Rolling was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, on May 26, 1954.
His father James Rolling, was a Shreveport police officer.
He told Danny that he was unwanted from birth and abused his mother, Claudia, and his brother, Kevin.
Danny's mother went to the hospital after claiming her husband tried to make her cut herself with a razor blade.
She repeatedly attempted to leave her husband, but always came back.
One day Danny's dad pinned Danny to the ground, handcuffed him, then had police take his son away because he was embarrassed by him. As a teenager and young adult, he was arrested several times for robberies in Georgia.
He was also caught spying on a female getting dressed.
May 1990, he attempted to kill his father during a family argument in which his father lost an eye and an ear.
Investigators look for any armed robberies in Gainesville around the times of the murders.
The First Union Bank near Christa Hoyt's apartment, the morning her body was found.
Deputies chased a suspect into the woods that day, but the gunman escaped.
About a week after the bank robbery, a Ocala grocery store was held up, 40 miles from Gainesville.
September 7, 1990
Rolling was arrested in Ocala on a burglary charge of the grocery store.
His tools were matched to marks left at the Gainesville murder scenes.
The small camp where he was living was in a wooded area located near the apartment complexes frequented by students.
They discover a ski mask which fibers match that found on duct tape at one of the crime scenes.
Blood on a pair of Rolling's pants matches that of Taboada.
One of Christa Hoyt's hairs was found in his sleeping bag.
Investigators discovered recordings Rolling had made of himself singing country songs that he had composed and audio diaries alluding to the crimes.
Feb. 8, 1991
Rolling is charged with robbing a Tampa Save 'N' Pack grocery store on Sept. 2, 1990.
He also faces charges in three burglaries committed about the same time in Tampa.
After breaking into one home, he called his mother in Shreveport.
May 31, 1991
The task force identifies Rolling as its prime suspect after DNA evidence links him to the crime scenes.
July 10, 1991
Federal grand jury in Tallahassee indicts Rolling on charges of robbing a Gainesville bank on Aug. 27, 1990.
This places him in Gainesville at the time of the killings.
Sept. 18, 1991
Rolling is sentenced to life in prison for an Ocala Winn-Dixie robbery.
Oct. 18, 1991
Rolling is sentenced to three life terms plus 170 years for robbery, assault and burglary charges related to the Tampa crimes in September 1990.
Nov. 15, 1991
Gainesville grand jury indicts Rolling on charges of first-degree murder, burglary and sexual assault in the Gainesville killings.
May 21, 1992
Rolling is sentenced to life in prison for the Gainesville bank robbery.
Later he is resentenced to 32 years.
June 1, 1992
Rolling attempts to hang himself with a bed sheet in his cell.
June 7, 1992
At his arraignment, he pleads not guilty to the five killings, three rapes and three burglaries in Gainesville.
Feb. 9, 1993
Investigators search deer pens for the military knife and gloves believed used by the killer.
The search ends Feb. 13 without success.
Feb. 10, 1994
Days before his trial is scheduled to begin, Rolling agrees to plead guilty to the Gainesville killings, rapes and burglaries.
He asks for no leniency.
Prosecutors, judge and defense lawyer keep this a secret.
Rollings claimed his motive was to become a "superstar" similar to Ted Bundy.
Feb. 15, 1994
The guilty plea is announced in open court.
The judge and lawyers agree to return the next day to select a jury that will recommend whether Rolling should be sentenced to life in prison or death.
Court TV conducted an interview with Rolling's mother from her home, during which his father could be heard shouting off-camera.
April 20, 1994
Rolling was sentenced to death on all counts.
Rolling was diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder and paraphilia(sexual perversion or sexual deviation).
Rolling was executed by lethal injection at Florida State Prison on October 25, 2006.
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-ditch appeal.
He was pronounced dead at 6:13 p.m.
Rolling sang a gospel hymn, but made no statement immediately prior to his execution, which was witnessed by many of his victims' relatives.
In a written statement made shortly before his execution, Rolling confessed to the murders of the Grissom family in Shreveport.
A task force of state, local and federal investigators was formed.
They look for links between the victims.
They all were academic stars of the University of Florida, or Santa Fe Community College.
All were in different programs.
Someone was targeting students and loved to terrorize them mentally and physically.
The killer had obvious major psychological problems.
This looks like a hunter, picking and stalking his prey.
The number of stab wounds varied.
This was not a panicked killer who acted out and then fled.
This killer took his time.
With all the evidence collected, the suspect list grows to over 600 men.
Aug. 30, 1990
Amid a campus panic, UF freshman Ed Humphrey, 18, of Indialantic is identified as a top suspect. He recently was evicted from Tracy Paules and Manny Taboada's apartment complex. He liked to dress in combat gear and carry a knife. He would often threaten tenants. People knew him as a violent weirdo. He was a scar-faced student, that got the scars from a traffic accident and who had a mental illness, is accused of battering his 79-year-old grandmother after driving home from Gainesville.
Is the Gainesville Ripper caught? Police search Humphrey's apartment. There was a bright side and a dark side to his apartment. One side was all neat and organized. The other side was all dirty, disorganized and broken. They found no murder weapon, and no new evidence. Results finally came back from semen that was left at the murder scenes, they didn't match Humphrey. A new lead points towards the killer... Investigators look back and find an unsolved triple murder in Shreveport, Louisiana a year earlier. The victims and the method of murder are strikingly similar.
Julie Grissom was a petite brunette college student. Julie along with her father Tom and her nephew Shawn were stabbed to death. Julie was staged the same way the ladies in the Gainesville murders were staged. The Shreveport police think they know who killed Julie and her family. He is a drifter, named Danny Rolling and he has been on the run ever since.
23-year-old Tracy Paules was living with Manny Taboada, a former football player, about a mile away from Hoyt's duplex.
The killer broke into the apartment by prying open the sliding glass door with the same tools he had used previously.
The killer found Taboada asleep in one of the bedrooms.
The killer attacked Taboada and their was a struggle.
Sadly, the killer overtook Taboada and stabbed him over 31 times, killing him.
Hearing the commotion, Paules went down the hall to Taboada's bedroom where she saw the killer.
She attempted to barricade herself in her bedroom, but the killer broke through the door.
"You're the one, aren't you?" Paules asked when the killer entered.
"I'm the one." The Killer replied.
He taped her mouth and wrists, cut off her clothing and raped her.
He then turned her over and stabbed her three times in the back. The killer posed Paules' body but left Taboada's in the same position in which he had died. Residents of Gainesville wake up to the shocking news of these horrific murders....
August 28
Police get a call from Paules' and Taboada's friend, he can't find them.
Paule's body is found just inside the front door.
Multiple stab wounds showed that Taboada fought until his last breath.
SERIAL KILLINGS OF FIVE STUDENTS TERRORIZE FLORIDA COLLEGE TOWN
By Laura Parker August 29, 1990
MIAMI, AUG. 28 -- Discovery of five murder victims since Sunday afternoon, including two today, has shocked and frightened residents and set off a massive dragnet for a serial killer in Gainesville, a quiet college town in northern Florida.
The bodies of four women and one man, all college students, were found inside three separate student apartments not far from the University of Florida campus, authorities said.
"We have every reason to believe the murders are probably all connected to one suspect or two suspects," said Gainesville Police Chief Wayland Clifton. He said the methods of the killer appeared similar, but he did not elaborate.
The Gainesville Sun reported today that the bodies of the first three victims had been mutilated and that at least one woman had been decapitated.
Spencer Mann, spokesman for the Alachua County Sheriff's Department, cited similarities in the slayings but said the most recent victims were not mutilated.
"I don't think it takes a rocket scientist to figure out that anybody that commits homicide using mutilation is a pretty sick individual and it's somebody we want to get off the streets very badly," he said.
Clifton said more than 50 police investigators from the FBI, Florida Highway Patrol and Florida Department of Law Enforcement have been brought to Gainesville.
The killings evoked memories of Ted Bundy, the notorious serial killer who stalked college campuses from Seattle to Tallahassee during the 1970s and whose execution last year, 35 miles from Gainesville, drew a crowd of 2,000 cheering spectators to a grassy field across the highway from Florida's death row in Starke.
Bundy was executed for murdering a 14-year-old school girl in 1978. He also was convicted of killing two sorority sisters at Florida State University in Tallahassee that year, and police officials in many states have said they believe that he may have killed as many as 36 college-age women.
"That's what we're all saying -- it's another Ted Bundy on the loose," said Jana Walters, 18, a University of Florida freshman. "Some sicko."
Three University of Florida students who live across the street from the apartment where the first two victims were found Sunday afternoon said they were going home to Key West.
"We're horrified, we're scared and we're going home until this thing blows over," Lydia Blanco, 22, told the Associated Press. Other students said they were so afraid that they slept with steak knives.
The first two victims, University of Florida freshmen rooming together, were discovered in their apartment after one of the victim's parents could not reach her by telephone and called police.
Sonya Larson, 18, of Deerfield Beach, Fla., and Christina P. Powell, 17, of Jacksonville, were found semi-nude and mutilated in a bedroom and the living room of their apartment near the campus after the maintenance man opened the door for police, authorities reported.
Investigators believe that the two had been dead 48 to 72 hours when found. Neighbors reported to police that they saw one or two people leaving the apartment early Saturday but did not recognize them.
Early Monday morning, eight hours after discovery of the first two victims, police found the mutilated body of Christa Leight Hoyt, 18, inside her apartment about two miles from the complex where Larson and Powell lived.
Hoyt was a records clerk at the Alachua County Sheriff's office, and deputies checked her apartment when she failed to report for her midnight shift. The Sun, quoting unidentified sources, said that she was decapitated and that her breasts and those of at least one other victim were mutilated.
The fourth and fifth victims were identified as Tracy Inez Paules and a friend, Manuel R. Toboada, 23, graduates of American High School in Miami. They were found this morning inside a ground-floor apartment at the three-story Gatorwood Apartments.
Toboada had just been accepted at nearby Santa Fe Community College and was planning to study architecture, a friend, Eric Dunham, 22, of Sarasota, told the Associated Press. Paules was a pre-law senior at the University of Florida and majoring in political science, the AP reported.
Gainesville police were going door to door today to reassure residents. But because so many students said they did not feel safe and want to leave town for a while, the university has extended until Sept. 7 the period during which students can add or drop classes.
University of Florida officials decided today not to cancel classes, which began Monday, and invited students who live off campus to move temporarily into dormitories on campus, where security has been increased. About one-third of the 34,000 students live off campus, but 95 percent of freshmen live in dormitories, a school spokesman said.
Several toll-free hotlines have been established in Gainesville so students can telephone their parents.
The university has long had student patrols to escort students around campus at night. On an average night, 50 escort patrols accompany students. Monday night, more than 200 patrols were at work.
The Media nicknames the killer The Gainesville Ripper.
Evidence at the crime scenes shows that he is a practiced killer.
That he is calculated and meticulous.
His twisted signature, each woman, posed in a lewd position.
This was his "Set".
He was the designer and the director.
This killer stalks before he kills.
He washed Christina Powell's and Tracey Paules' bodies before leaving.
He wore gloves.
The perpetrator had some knowledge of what kind of evidence could be used against them.
A man had followed 18-year-old university freshmen Sonja Larson and 17-year-old Christina Powell, the night before, to their Williamsburg Village Townhouse.
He climbed up an old wooden staircase to their back door to find it unlocked.
He then let himself in.
Powell was asleep on the downstairs couch.
The man stood over her briefly but did not wake her up.
He then went to explore the upstairs bedroom, where Larson was sleeping.
When the man got to the upstairs bedroom he taped her mouth shut and then began stabbing her.
She tried to fend him off, but sadly she died.
The killer went back downstairs to where Powell was still sleeping and taped her mouth shut.
He then bound her wrists together behind her back.
Then he threatened her with a knife as he cut her clothes off.
He then raped her and forced her face-down onto the floor.
The killer then stabbed her five times in the back.
He then posed the bodies in sexually provocative positions before leaving the apartment.
Saturday, August 25
The killer pried open a sliding glass door with a KA-BAR knife and a screwdriver at the apartment of 18-year-old, Santa Fe Community College student Christa Hoyt.
When he got inside the khaki colored apartment, it was empty.
The killer waited in the living room, hiding behind a bookcase, for her to return.
11 a.m., Hoyt entered the apartment.
The killer surprised her from behind, placing her in a chokehold. He subdued her, then taped her mouth shut, bound her wrists together and led her into the bedroom.
He cut the clothes from her body and raped her.
He forced her face-down and stabbed her in the back, rupturing her heart.
He then decapitated the body and posed her head on a shelf facing the corpse before leaving.
Sunday, August 26
Police get a call for a well fare check on two university students.
Sonja and Christina's parents hadn't been able to get a hold of their daughters for a few days.
Christina's car was parked outside their apartment, but no one answers the door.
The officers break down the door.
They find Sonja, who wanted to be a nursery school teacher, on the water bed on the third floor.
She had been stabbed 20 times.
In the downstairs living room they then find Christina.
The medical examiner tells police, he fears they are dealing with a Bundy style killer.
He then wonders how many more victims will there be, before the killer leaves Gainesville.
Sunday August 26, 9 Hours Later
Christa Hoyt failed to show up for her midnight shift as a clerk at the a local sheriff's office.
Christa had been studying chemistry and wanted to be a crime lab technician.
She is never late to work, so co workers decide to go check on her.
They find her body on the bed and her head on the bookshelf.
The killer wanted to terrify and leave a message, with the carnage and the posing of each scene.
