Contents

Introduction by Colin Wilson

Author’s Note by Sondra London

Family Portrait

Portrait of Danny Rolling

Gemini

Preface by Danny Rolling

CHAPTER 1
The Bloody Task of Murder

The Arrival

The Williamsburg Village Apartments

Fallen Angel

CHAPTER 2
Something Died

A Murderer I Became

Gargoyle of Heaven

The Best Dog Ever

Rocky

My Father the Hero

Never Will I Be Proud

The Driving Lesson

Something Died

Flashbacks

Nightmare on Canal Street

I Just Can’t Make It

Run, Danny, Run

Louisiana Law

A Bitter Seed

Star & Sixguns

Dirty Deal Manuscript

Rolling Tunes

CHAPTER 3
Drugs, Sex & Close Encounters

Purple Haze Daze

Not All Sugar and Spice

Where the Waters Met

Military Maryjane

Praise His Holy Name

Angel & Dragon

The Best Years

Visitors from Hell

The Whispering Troll

Haunted Tree

Haunted Tree

What Have You Done?

Here’s Johnny

The Starting Gun

Like Jesse James

She Doesn’t Want to Know

Always a Gentleman

A Close Encounter

Danny’s Nuts

CHAPTER 4
The Life of an Outlaw

Behind Bars

Criminal Equations

Virgin Outlaw

House of Steel and Stone

Whatsa Madda Witchew, Whiteboy?

Everything He Detested

House of the Insane

The Thorazine Shuffle

Ruined for Life

In the End

Bugger Bear

Empty Answers

Chaingang Livin’

Eclipse

Eclipse

No Shit

Cowboy

I Need a Job

Sanctum

RAPE!

You Don’t Have to Do This

Frightened Eyes

Dead Man’s Hand

Reaper on Harley

I’m the One

CHAPTER 5
A Real Killer

Mystery Rider

Running from the Gun

Smack Dab Into It

The Witching Hour

Deeper Into the Night

No One’s Friend

The Road to Nowhere

Three Strikes

Desert Rat, Tall Hat &Flaco

Texas Tank

Home of the Slaves

The Only Voice

The Hot Box

Notes from the Hole

Frozen Prison

The Frozen Sparrow

Gemini

Serpent & Butterfly

A Real Killer

Ned, Ted & Fred

CHAPTER 6
They Called Him Psycho

Blood and Bumper Jack

Rambo

BLAM!

They Called Him Psycho

Bunnie

Dementia

All I Need is a Job

Little Rocky

Weapons of Choice

Midnight Kiss

Nothing Better

Like a Werewolf

Werewolf

Windows to Fantasy

Nude & Serpent

The Night the Big Chevy Died

There’s Gonna Be Trouble

Something Bad is Going to Happen

Crossing the Bridge

Cain

Contemplation Manuscript

CHAPTER 7
Getting Babes

Goin’ to Kansas City

Reaper Voyeur & Woman

I Want In

Close Call

This is the Place

Getting Babes

A Cold Anger

The Rolling Tape

Did It Feel BIG?

Topless Caddy

Sexual Healing

Trouble Believing

Strange Fish

Robbery Map

Attack of the Spider

Grim Reaper

CHAPTER 8
Possessed by the Reaper

Why Gainesville?

Crossed Paths

A Moment of Silence

I Saw What You Did

Something I Gotta Do

The Gainesville Murders

Apartment “M” for Murder

Expert or Very Lucky

The Last One

A Beautiful Sight

It MEANT Something

The Crazed Man

Reaper on Dragon

What’s the Message?

CHAPTER 9
No Place Left to Run

Nice Fucking Day

Ode to Jesse

He Thought He Was Going to Die

Ennad & Gun

A Quiet Evening

The Robbed Robber

The Last Arrest

Gator Waving

CHAPTER 10
The Last Dance

A Mysterious Woman

Sondra

You Can’t Run

The Gemini Defense

Danny

Queen of the Enchanted orest

Man! Is He Crazy!

Death for Danny

Demons Rear Their Heads

Die, Danny, DIE!

The Death Penalty

Crystalline Man

How Many Days?

The Last Dance

The End of Murder Road

Reality Jolt

Visiting Day

I Saw His Feet!

Don’t Step on the Blood

Timebomb

Hate Factories

The Destiny of Man

Cuffed Writer

My Prayer

I Don’t Do Lucifer

Writing About the Murders

The Word is Love

Sondra & Danny’s Tree

Sondra & Danny’s Tree

Sondra Touches Danny

Sondra Touches Danny

Sondra in the Keyhole

Beyond the Keyhole

Death Row Skeleton

APPENDICES

Appendix A: Security Tips

Appendix B: A Pack of Lies

They Lied

She Lied

No Dental Instruments

No Mirrors

No Satanism

No Sodomy

Who’s Conning Who?

No Superstar

No Bundy Seance

No Sexual Abuse

No Knife Play

No Child Molesting

Enjoy Sex

Not Gay

Rolling v. Ryzuk

The Struggle

Appendix C: The Struggle