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Gainesville students’ 1990 murders still haunt South Floridians

Gainesville students’ 1990 murders still haunt South Floridians

It has been 35 years since Gainesville was terrorized by a string of murders that left a permanent scar on the University of Florida community. In August 1990, just as students were moving in for the fall semester, five young lives were taken in a series of crimes so brutal that they shocked the nation and sent a small college town into panic.