We've all seen Scream, which turns 20 years old today, but few know the true story that inspired it. The police, for quite a while, didn’t know exactly what happened. You could not blame people for being afraid to walk the streets at night.īut the killings stopped after Paules and Toboada. And the press kept repeating one rumor in particular, about a decapitation. The bodies had been posed to strike horror in whoever came upon them. Stories about the Gainesville mutilations were rampant. It was not so long before Ted Bundy, himself an accomplished killer of university students, had died in Florida’s electric chair. They were all living off campus, in the sort of ramshackle apartment buildings in dodgy neighborhoods that broke students often live in. There were no cell phones, no surveillance cameras back then. Young people had just come back to town for the fall semester four of the victims were students at the university.
“We slept with steak knives last night,” one frightened junior at the University of Florida told the Associated Press at the time. Her nipples had been sliced off, and her severed head perched on a shelf on the other side of the bedroom. Hoyt's body was found propped up on a bed, bent over at the waist. All of them were killed in their apartments. On Monday, the 27th, it was another pair of roommates, Tracy Paules and Manny Toboada. First, on the 25th, a Friday night, it was Sonja Larson and Christine Powell. The murders spanned just a few nights in August 1990. Everything that happened in Gainesville, Fla.
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