The new students had met each other during the summer and decided to be roommates, ultimately finding an apartment off-campus in a complex called Williamsburg Apartments. Those who knew Larson said she was a sweet girl, but reserved, and that she liked to work with children. 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." "We had a lot of physical evidence that, according to our technology at the time, placed Ed at some of the scenes," Maines said. Daniel Rolling was eventually convicted of the killings, but Humphrey was never officially cleared by the police.) (Edward Lewis Humphrey was an early suspect in the case of five grisly murders of college students in Gainesville, Fla. Former state attorney Rod Smith said that when investigators then searched his home, they found magazines about knives, guns and girls. Humphrey was arrested just days after the murders and held in jail on a $1 million bond. He was known to carry knives, had been off his medication for a mental health disorder and had visible scars on his face from a car accident. Ed Humphrey had been arrested and charged with assaulting his grandmother, but investigators were taking a hard look at him for the student murders as well.ĭon Maines, an investigator on the case with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, said they received several tips pointing to Humphrey, then 18. ET on ABC.īy the time she reported Rolling, police had already arrested another man who they believed to be a suspect in the Gainesville murders. "One day, I picked up the phone, I called Crime Stoppers, and I said, 'I think there's one guy y'all need to investigate - Danny Rolling.'" But news of the Gainesville murders haunted Juracich and, in November 1990, she decided to contact police on a hunch that Rolling was connected to the murders in both cities.
Juracich said she dismissed these comments when she heard about them because she didn't want to believe that Rolling could be responsible for the triple murders in Shreveport.
"I said, 'What kind of problem,'" Juracich said, ", 'He likes to stick knives into people.'" "He'd come over every night for a while, and then one night, Steven came in and he goes, 'He's got to go,'" Juracich said.ĭobbin told her that Rolling had told him he had a problem, Juracich 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. ' 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.
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