Danny Harold Rolling Executed

I see that Danny Harold Rolling was executed today at Starke. I was in Gainsville the weekend that Rolling went on his killing spree in 1990. We were staying in a hotel about a mile from some of the victims houses. My father and I were at the tour of Gainsville, after we got home to Bradenton, we saw that the bodies had been discovered. I remember the next year at the tour of Gainsville, I stayed with a friend in the neighborhood the murders occured in. One year to the day. I was nervous.

I remember riding my bike back to my friends home from the road race and passing a concrete wall with the names of the Gainsville victims painted on it. I was also in Milwaukee racing Superweek while Jeffery Dhamer was about his murder spree. I stayed about 2 miles from his house. Got home to Bradenton and read the headlines, and felt that chill up my spine.

1990 - 2006 Sixteen years that Rolling lived after the murders, the bulk of it on death row. Sixteen years that the victims familes have suffered every day.

Interestingly, I was also in Belgium during the Marc Dutroux crimes, and trained in Tournai a lot on one of the roads where he picked up a victim.

What is it about bike races and serial killers?

Strange.