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William Kennedy

Bryan Kohberger studied the ‘Scream’ franchise’s inspiration killer, who also murdered college students with a hunting knife

A link has emerged between Bryan Kohberger and Danny Bolling, known as the “Gainesville Ripper,” an American serial killer who murdered five college students in four days in Gainesville, Florida, with a hunting knife in August 1990. Rolling’s crimes inspired screenwriter Kevin Williamson to create the 1996 horror film Scream.

Kohberger — who pleaded guilty in July to murdering four University of Idaho (U of I) college students with a hunting knife called a KaBar knife, according to prosecutors — was a criminology graduate student at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, near Moscow, Idaho, where U of I is located.

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