
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.