


Alison Emery, Powell's high school best friend, said she was so excited to be moving into the next phase of her life. Sonja Larson and Christina "Christi" Powell were new students at the University of Florida in 1990. They couldn't say definitively it was Ed's hair, but they couldn't say it wasn't." Three days, five murders "We had a lot of physical evidence that, according to our technology at the time, placed Ed at some of the scenes," Maines said. She said she thought of Rolling, who, just a few months after the murders in their community, said something deeply disturbing to her then-husband, Steven Dobbin. The murders were eerily similar to three others that had occurred in Shreveport in November 1989. All of them had been stabbed to death and some were left in sexually provocative positions. Three of the women had been raped and one had been decapitated. Over the course of three days, police in Gainesville discovered the bodies of five college students, a man and four women.
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' One day, I'm going to leave this town and I'm going to go where the girls are beautiful and I can just lay in the sun and watch beautiful women all day,'" Juracich said. That man, Danny Rolling, had told her that one day he was going to leave Shreveport, where they lived. They immediately made her think about a man from her Louisiana hometown church who used to spend time with her and her family. Cindy Juracich was on a trip through the Florida Panhandle in August 1990 when she heard a news report about a grisly string of murders. They didn't connect the robbery to the Gainesville murders until later on, when they listened to it. After a bank robbery, police found the tape along with stolen money, a gun and a screwdriver.
