num_pages: 201
description: The book you are holding tells its story from the vantage point of murderer Danny Rolling and his current love interest, Sondra London. The five Gainesville, Florida, murders Rolling committed in 1990 caused hundreds of students to flee a college campus in terror. The author and killer admit committing horrendous crimes, but blames them on demonic entities possessing his body. Rolling wrote about these demons in a way that convinced the author of the Introduction, Colin Wilson, an expert on occultism and crime, that Rolling was dealing with something greater than a mere nightmare: "I was resting on my iron bunk when this thing that appeared like a gargoyle pounced on my chest, pinning me to the mattress. It had both claws pressing against my shoulders."
language: English
title: The Making of a Serial Killer: The Real Story of the Gainesville Student Murders in the Killer's Own Words
titlecomplete: The Making of a Serial Killer: The Real Story of the Gainesville Student Murders in the Killer's Own Words
characters: Danny Rolling
genres: True Crime, Crime, Nonfiction, Biography
ratings_count: 132
places: Florida, Gainesville, Florida, The United States of America
publisher: Feral House