[SL: Did you meet or talk to any of the victims beforehand?] DHR 6/27/94: No. But I did peek in on Miss Hoyt the night before her murder.
8/25/90
Late that night, 18-year-old DeLand native Christa Leigh Hoyt, a student at Santa Fe Community College who worked full time as a records clerk for the Alachua County Sheriff's office and was known to her friends as Glow-worm, was murdered in her duplex apartment at the end of a dead-end street. She had just returned home from playing racquetball with Paul Daniel Schwartz and talking with him until about 9:00 p.m. She was last seen and videotaped at Vern's Kwik Stop at 9:28 p.m. wearing clothes similar to those worn when killed.
IR3622: 8/25/90 Sat. 2128 hours victim CHRISTA HOYT ID at Vern's Quick Stop, SW 34th St., ID is made after review of store surveillance tape. Documented in report #2875, #2876, #3214, by CIA Dennard.
[SL: Why did you go in and out of Vern's Kwik Stop so often?] DHR 6/27/94: It was the closest store. It was just nearby. HOLD ON! If this is the store I used by the apartments where Manuel & Tracy were killed... the same thing. It was just convenient.
ROLLING'S PLEA AGREEMENT: During the evening hours of Saturday, August 25, 1990, the defendant, Danny Harold Rolling, did enter the apartment which served as the residence of Christa Hoyt. The residence was located at 3533 SW 24th Avenue, Apartment M, Gainesville, Alachua County, Florida.
The defendant broke into Christa Hoyt's apartment by using a screwdriver to break or dislodge the locking mechanism of the sliding glass door at the rear of her apartment. At the time he entered her apartment, the defendant was armed with both an automatic pistol and a knife, to-wit: the same knife used to murder Christina Powell and Sonja Larson. The defendant entered into or remained within the structure with the intent to commit sexual battery with great force and murder.
Upon entering the apartment, the defendant, Danny Harold Rolling, moved a bookshelf from the alcove area adjacent to the front door. He placed the bookshelf in the bedroom at the rear of the apartment. The defendant then returned to the living room area and awaited the arrival of Christa Hoyt, a young woman in whose bedroom he had peeked a few days earlier.
At approximately 10:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m., Christa Hoyt returned to her apartment. Upon entering her apartment, the defendant surprised her from behind and placed a choke-hold upon her. After a brief struggle, the defendant was able to subdue Christa Hoyt. He then taped her mouth and her hands behind her back. He then led her to the bedroom where he cut and/or tore off her clothing and undergarments.
Danny Harold Rolling placed Christa Hoyt on the bed and did then and there commit a sexual battery with great force upon Christa Hoyt, a female over eighteen years of age, by penetrating her vagina with his sexual organ, without her consent, and in the process thereof did use and/or threaten to use a deadly weapon, to-wit: a knife.
Upon completion of the sexual battery with great force, the defendant turned Christa Hoyt face down on the bed and did then and there out of a premeditated design to effect her death, stab Christa Hoyt through the back with such force that her aorta was ruptured and she died.
The state would prove through the testimony of the Medical Examiner that the cause of death of Christa Hoyt was the stab wound inflicted upon her by the defendant, Danny Harold Rolling.
After posing Christa Hoyt's body, the defendant exited the apartment.
IR3622: 8/25/90 Sat. CRIME SCENE #2 - POSSIBLE TIME FRAME OF DEATH OF HOYT: Sat. 8/25 2200 HOURS THRU Sat. 8/26 0400 HOURS Sun.
IR 0098: Dr. Edward Copeland, Dean of Medical Students (University of Florida/Shands), commented that the incision he observed in the abdominal area was centered in a manner he characterized as either "Expert or Very Lucky". He then commented that the incision was in the medial area where the abdominal muscles attach. He also commented that the bowel did not appear to be perforated by this incision. The doctor then stated that the perpetrator had been "very meticulous." He said that applied also to the removal of the nipples that he also observed. Dr. Copeland stated that the knife used would have to be very sharp and that cutting through the cervical vertebra as cleanly as he observed could only have been accomplished by disarticulating the vertebra.
DHR 6/7/94: I have studied human & animal anatomy. I've witnessed an autopsy while employed with LSU Medical Center. I have also been present during dissection of cadavers by med students at the Veteran's Administration Hospital in Shreveport, Louisiana. Also - I'm an expert deer hunter and I have field-dressed many a felled doe or buck.
The incisions performed on C.H. & S.L. were not strokes of luck... but rather - knowledge acquired. For someone who lacked this knowledge of anatomy and hands-on skills, what was done would have been extremely difficult.
But... take into consideration - this knowledge Danny never intended to harm his fellow man with. GEMINI used my hands to work his terrible will.
Dr. Chip Souba offered the opinion that decapitation was especially difficult because the bones overlap in the cervical column.
DHR 6/7/94: The knife was razor sharp... the force in that place took the head off easily... cleanly... quickly. Just as the bookshelf was moved from the living room to the bedroom without even causing a single item to fall from its shelves. When GEMINI surfaced, the elements of the night made me physically stronger. So much so... it's hard to believe myself.
On the night of Christy Hoyt's murder I Danny Rolling broke into her apartment by using a screwdriver to pry open the double glass doors to and enter her bedroom. The time was approximately 10:00 o'clock p.m. I waited until Miss Hoyt returned. She had apparently been playing tennis. She was dressed in athletic T-shirt and shorts and tennis shoes. I watched her approach across the green lawn. She opened the door to her apartment and entered closing the door behind her. It was dark and I had moved a bookcase to her bedroom earlier to have a place to hide in the corner by the front door. She placed the tennis balls and racket on the kitchen table, her back was to me, but she heard me moving towards her. She turned just as I grabbed her. There was a brief struggle and we went to the floor. I then duct taped her mouth closed and taped her hands behind her back. Then I moved her to the bedroom. She was placed on the water bed and her clothing was removed. I discovered she was on her period, and so I removed her Tampax. Then I raped her. After wards I turned her on her back and stabbed her once-over the heart through the back on the right side. She died quickly. 8 to 10 seconds and it was over. I then turned her over on her back. A redaction occurs. And left. The knife I used was a military issued Ka-Bar. After I had left eye discovered I had lost my wallet. So I returned to Miss Hoyt's apartment to look for it. It was nowhere to be found. As I was leaving, a redaction occurs. Then, I sat up Miss Hoyt's body so it was sitting up on the edge of the water bed with its arms resting on its knees. A stream of blood poured and poured and pooled at its feet. Then I left it that way. Sitting up. I have one question I need to ask the witness. Were you ever told why the positioning of the body took place?] Yes, sir. [Why did he say he did that?] He said he wanted to leave everybody something to think about. He wanted to invoke terror.
DHR 8/11/94: The bedroom light was bearing down on Christa, and she sensed what was next. Then... THE EVIL filled the room... like dark clouds boiling over the graves of gotten grief.
The reel in Danny's mind turned slowly. He was there... but it was as if he was not a player in this drama. He became the audience observing his appendages acting out the orchestrated horror GEMINI conducted.
He could see Christa being turned on her stomach... the KNIFE rising... then plunging into her back... but there was no sound. Only the slow-mo strobe flashing horrific pictures in his mind.
She died quickly. The blade burst the A-artery... 10 seconds... and life leaked out, leaving her still.
The Man removed the tape that bound her... turned her over again... and stripped the same from her blood-filled mouth.
She lay looking at him with accusing lifeless eyes. THOSE EYES... He would never forget the way they bore into him. He reached out and closed them, turning away
8/27/90 At about 12:30 a.m., Christa Hoyt's body was found mutilated and decapitated in her duplex apartment.
==================================================================================== I have been doing a series of analysis on the Gainesville Student Murders. I have been doing this due to a volume of requests for an analysis of a solved murder in order to see what Astrology would have offered and comparing that to the known facts. I call this "making a case for Astrology". I chose the Gainesville murders because these were close to my home in Florida and I followed the case closely at the time, in fact, I lived and breathed it. It was the most horrendous and shocking crime spree to come to Florida since Ted Bundy and Gerald Stano. The case had lots of twists and turns, including the arrest of a young man who lived literally 15 miles from me, a young man with bi polar disorder and who was later found to be completely innocent in the matter. The search for the real killer went on for 3 years and I went to the trial in 1994 with the intention of writing a book about it. Although the editors gave my idea the courtesy of a meeting and discussion, they chose to go with another, more seasoned crime writer. Her book is available on Amazon. None the less, I had a front row seat for this event and I was also able to obtain birth dates for all of the victims as well as the murderer and also a pretty good time line for the actual murders.
The third victim in this string of murders, Christa Hoyt was last seen at 9:29 pm that evening, leaving the Quik Stop and heading home. She had just finished playing tennis with her friend and talking with him until "around 9:30 pm" according to his recollection. The reported facts, according to all sources, have her actually returning home at 11 pm. We also know that Rolling was already waiting inside when she returned. This particular murder was the centerpiece to Rolling's murderous rampage. He was choosing women who reminded him of his ex wife, O'Mather, who left him, divorced him and took his daughter away to places unknown. During the trial and the entire event, O'Mather was not heard from, at least not publicly. Christa Hoyt was the girl who looked the most like O'Mather. The others were choices made on similarities and sexual attraction, as I have and will point out. This murder was not so much based on sexual attraction than it was on rage. Danny Rolling was so filled with hate towards his ex wife that this murder was the result of that anger. It was the most brutal and most sensational of all 5 murders and is still talked about in whispered, shocked voices. I will not take from the brutality and cruelty of all the murders, in fact, seasoned police officers left the Powell-Larson apartment and vomited on the front lawn. But this one was the most outrageous, with the girl beheaded and sliced open, left in a posed position on the edge of her bed. Rolling went so far as to move a bookshelf from the living room into the bedroom so he could pose her head on the shelf with a mirror positioned so that the head was visible from anyone coming in through the front door or looking under the drapes, which is what police did. Imagine their shock when they saw her severed head. This was one for the books.
Notice how in the first chart, drawn for 10:00 pm, that the seventh house ruler, Venus, is in the fifth house. This shows Rolling already in her bedroom. In his statement he said he entered the home at around 10 pm. Notice that Venus was in Leo at the time and put this together with the staging that went on. Interesting, no? He staged the body and the head with lighting and with mirrors. There is nothing more dramatic than that. Notice that Mars rules the first and that the Moon is in the eighth with Pluto. These are omens. These positions are in place before she arrives and will remain so during the murder. Pluto and the Moon together in the eighth describes violent death. Mars and Pluto also rule the eighth house cusp. Also note that Mars is disposed of by Venus, which is the seventh house ruler, showing Christa moving towards Danny, he being the person she is "next to meet". And the coup de gras in this chart is that Mars in Taurus is conjoined the violent fixed star Caput Algol and the weeping sisters, the Pleiades. These markers are present in every single one of the Gainsesville murders. The Moon in Sagittarius is sinister to a conjunction with Dschubba, a fixed star meaning "murder". Pluto is sinister to a conjunction with the star, Unukalhai, which means "drugs or drug abuse" and we know that drugs fueled his fury. He was smoking crack, using meth and drinking at the time. And I must also point out that the north node, in the eleventh house, is opposed to the fixed star Asellus Austral, which means murder by decapitation, and this is placed in the fifth house. We know he was in the bedroom when she arrived, we know she was killed in that bedroom and we know that she was raped and decapitated. All of this is defined by the seventh house ruler in the fifth combined with Asellus Austral.
The coroner placed the possible time of death between 10 pm that evening on the 25th or as late as 4 am on the morning of the 26th. Now, we know she was discovered on the 27th. When looking at the time lines for these murders, you have to realize that there are differences based on the time of discovery as compared to the probable time of death. All of these murders occurred between Aug 24 and Aug 27 although the first victims weren't discovered until the 26th. The second victim was killed the very next night after the first two but was not discovered until the 27th, the same night he was finishing up at the third murder scene. The 25th and 26th had been a weekend and she wasn't due into work until Monday so it was Monday night at midnight when they first started looking for her. So the times you hear are variable and hard to figure out. I have looked at many different sources, the best one being the report of Sondra London of her interviews with Rolling. But even this is not concise because he was hopped up on drugs the whole time and his memory is skewed. The police have a vague idea of when things happened because of the windows given for time of death. I used all sources in coming to my conclusions about the times I used. If you have something different and can substantiate it, I invite you to comment or email me. There is another site that is somewhat informative and that I used in coming to my conclusions. It is the report from the Clark County Prosecutors office on the murders and the execution of the killer. You can see it HERE. Rolling claimed to be possessed by a demon named "Gemini", which is interesting because he is a Gemini, born on 5/26/1954. He got the idea from a movie about a demon named Gemini that possessed people's bodies. Pretty convenient, if you ask me. He was judged to be sane and full of you know what and executed for his crimes after a full confession, with gory details as you can see from the excerpt I published at the beginning of this post. I believe he entered Hoyt's apartment shortly after 10 pm, spent about 30-40 minutes moving the shelf and setting the scene and then hiding in her bathroom. I believe he was hiding there because there were signs of a struggle in that bathroom. He snatched her as she walked down the hallway, I think. He also washed himself after each murder, cleaning the bodies, as well, rinsing away evidence and then posing them for shock value. Christa Hoyt was his "masterpiece". He had stalked her at the restaurant where he mother worked as a waitress, drinking coffee and watching her through dark sunglasses. He followed her home and almost killed her first but was distracted by Christina Powell in the Quik Stop. After killing Powell, he rushed right over the very next night to expend his charged up lust on his real target, Christa Hoyt, who looked so much like that wife that dumped him. He waited one extra night before killing Tracy Paules and then leaving town.
I will say that the charts concur with the various reports that she likely returned home at 11 pm. Looking at this chart, you can see that the first house ruler, Venus, is just entering the fourth. This is, literally, Christa walking through the front door of her home. Notice how the seventh house ruler, Mars, is right in the first, along with the conjoined fixed stars, Algol and Pleiades. Wow. At this same moment, the Moon and Pluto are right at the descendant. He literally attacked her within minutes of entry. Moon conjoined Pluto shows us extreme violence on the subject. Mars and the fixed stars in the first confirm it. Notice, also, how the descendant is combust (along combust way) and is near another group of violent fixed stars. The eighth house ruler, Jupiter, is in the fourth, showing us the subject dieing in her home. The eighth house ruler is also sinister to a conjunction with Asellus Austral, which describes death by decapitation. In this instance, this was the only victim which was decapitated. This is an interesting link. The fact that both Pluto and Mars rule the seventh house, this chart shows somebody bent on violence and murder. No holds barred. The eighth house ruled by Sagittarius, to me, describes the big knife he used. It was a HUNTING knife, to boot.
The twelfth house ruler, Neptune, is in the ninth, showing that she would not be discovered right away and would remain "hidden" for awhile. The ninth house shows the authorities and in this case she was discovered by the police. In the other cases, family found the first victims and the maintenance man found the last victims. Hoyt worked for the police so when she didn't come into work, officers went to the scene. Notice how Neptune is conjoined the tenth house ruler and that the tenth and ninth house rulers are the same. This was Hoyt's chosen career and the reason she was in school. The charts just reveal things as I go along, not always in the right order or at the right time, but remember that time is our invention and that the stars don't even know what it is. We use it as a base of reference, nothing more. So she came home at 11 pm and he jumped her as she walked down the hall. She struggled and he took her into the bathroom to beat her into submission. There was spatter on the walls and shower curtain. He did not kill her there because he wanted her alive for the rape that was to come.
Looking at the chart for midnight, I would say that it describes a forming death pattern. I cannot say for sure exactly when she died except to give a fair window of midnight to 1 am. The death pattern in the next chart, drawn for 1 am, is very clear. In this chart, it is just forming. However, time in the realm of an Astrology chart is very different than actual time on Earth. The movements of planets can be synchronized but the ratio is very tiny, with planets moving much more slowly than actual time as we measure it. Time is based on distance and the distance of some planets is enormous. So we estimate. Using certain aspects in the time charts, I can give an estimation. And I think she died between midnight and 12:30 am. The charts create the right aspects and placements during that timeframe. She was definitely dead by 1 am. This chart, drawn for midnight, shows the actual time of death in my humble opinion. Mars, which rules the seventh, is right at the Ascendant. The fourth house ruler, the Sun, is in the fourth in Virgo. Interestingly, Mercury rules the fifth and is in the fifth, which hints that she may have been killed during sex. I think he said that he stabbed her in the back while raping her from behind. This looks like the truth from here. The first house ruler, Venus, is in the fourth house, as well, showing this girl at her home. The fourth house describes the coffin so here she dies in her home. Mars is disposed of by Venus so he went there to do this, planned it in advance. He stalked her, this is now a known fact, but here in the charts it is clear. He was focused on her. She was the object of his lust and his rage. Venus is in Leo, which I have noted before, again emphasizing the drama of this event, the staging, the lighting, the "presentation". Notice, also, that the node is right at the midheaven. He has accomplished his "goal". This is his "work".
I think he was out of that apartment by 1 am. Looking at the chart above I see that the descendant ruler is in the third house which describes someone being outside of a building (the third is next to the fourth), behind the building (third being the twelfth from the fourth) or on the road outside (third house describes roads, avenues, highways, etc..). He is still in the neighborhood as shown by the charts (third house) and we know now he had a tent in the woods near to Archer Road, which is where the apartment was located. Another interesting note is that Jupiter is disposed of by the Sun in Virgo in the fourth house and he claimed to have left his wallet in the apartment. He went back later, he claims, to retrieve it. Interesting fact I wanted to point out. You can see in this chart, as well, that the first house ruler, Mercury, is in the fourth house, showing her to be in her home. Mercury is involved in a Grand Trine with Mars in Taurus in the twelfth house and Saturn in Capricorn in the eighth. Quite an interesting twist on the death pattern. North node is in the ninth house at the time of his exit, showing us that everything he did was staged just for the authorities. He wanted law enforcement to be shocked by his "work". In fact, he planned it as a performance, of sorts, just for the cops to "enjoy". This dovetails with his claim that he would kill one person for every year he spent in jail, a payback of sorts to the authorities that punished him "unjustly" in his opinion. He was giving the cops a "taste" perhaps of what he saw as their own "medicine"?? The node is also disposed of by Uranus, which tells me he wanted to do something "different" or "unusual", something that would stand out. This is also supported by the opposition of Uranus to Jupiter in Leo, the seventh house ruler.
How would I describe Danny Rolling, in retrospect? Well, we all know who he was and what he looked like and I can't be positive my take on the aspects wouldn't be tainted by that. But I will try to be brutally honest, even where the traditional readings don't fit. I will simply give them to you for your own judgement. He is described in all of these charts by the same planet, over and over again, Mars in Taurus. In traditional readings, Mars in Taurus gives medium height, not short and not too tall. There is a well made, muscular body. The complexion would be ruddy and the hair would be coarse and thick. The face would be oval in shape with a scar on the head or neck. These are the simple physical descriptors given by traditional readings. Consider that he worked out, jogged, lifted weights, etc.. then the muscular body descriptors would fit. He was seen lifting weights in the front yard of his father's home in Louisiana many times and was jogging around Gainesville in camo gear. I do not think that the ruddy complexion or the oval face fits him. However, although he was losing his hair at the forehead, he had a big bushy head of hair. I do not know about a scar. But consider that I would add more to this description from my own interpretations and you can consider if you think these might apply and if they fit the profile for Mars in Taurus. I would say that this person was hard headed, one track minded, hard to divert. He would get a bead on something and never let it go. I would also say he never forgot a slight and held grudges. And I think this works both ways. It is descriptive of Mars in Taurus and here we have a man so enraged over his ex wife that he goes about killing other women as "revenge". Also, consider Mars in Taurus would love to cook and eat. I don't know about cooking but I do know that he had a signature at the homes he broke into. He would eat out of the refrigerator and leave the food out for the people to see, a sort of "calling card". At each of the murder scenes, he ate something out of their kitchen before leaving...every single time. Mars in Taurus would also have a love for money and comforts. Now, we know he was dirt poor and lived in a tent, which is typical of earth sign influence, living outdoors. But he robbed banks. Mars, an aggressive planet, in a money sign like Taurus, this also makes sense. He robbed banks to buy drugs and the hunting gear he used in his stalking, raping and killing adventures. I do not think of Mars in Taurus as a hunting position, per se, but I would attribute it with lust and a love for sex. All of these women were raped. And, finally, Mars in Taurus would be artistic, musical or creative in some way. Danny Rolling played guitar, wrote songs and sang them. He wasn't very good but he was known for this, singing dark, gloomy songs about drifters and "strangers". His music was rather creepy, actually, as you might imagine. But he did write music. He dreamed of being a singer, making recordings, and it was one of his recordings that helped the cops catch him! In all respects, I believe, Danny Rolling fit the profile for the placement of Mars in Taurus.
DANNY ROLLING SOLAR CHART
CHRISTA HOYT SOLAR CHART
And then, last but not least, here are the charts for the victim and the murderer and my comparison of these charts with each other and with the event. In comparing the solar charts of both Danny Rolling and Christa Hoyt with the forensic chart, I see some real standout aspects that must be discussed. For one, her Sun in Scorpio was exactly opposite transiting Mars in Taurus, also opposing the violent fixed stars. Christa's birth Neptune directly opposed Danny's solar Sun in Gemini, which is a pretty good indicator that he had fantasies about her and imagined her to be someone other than who she really was. It's a good bet that she was a "stand in" for his ex wife. Transiting Jupiter in Sagittarius at the time of the murders ignited this aspect. Her solar Mars in Pisces opposes his Moon in Pisces, a good bet that she somehow had hurt his feelings. I am thinking when he was stalking her in the restaurant where her mother worked, he had made advances and she had snubbed him. This would have enraged him. Not only did she look like his ex wife but she rejects him, too. Combine this with her birth Saturn being conjoined to his Sun in Gemini, and you can see how hate developed here. She rejected him, was "too good" for him, was another example of the women who "held him back" and "held him down". You get the picture.
I've already gone over Rolling's chart once in the first post but here I want to compare it to this event. Neptune and Uranus are on his Mars in Capricorn, from the eighth house, just like the charts for the previous murders. The murder chart for this event, at midnight, closely matches his solar dial. Moon and Pluto are near his natal Saturn and Pluto is transiting a square to his natal Pluto, which may be why he chose this particular time to lash out. Mercury was opposing his birth Moon in Pisces which causes people to make emotional decisions that are huge mistakes. His natal Sun was squared by the transiting Sun in Virgo. Squares in mutable signs can make people feel worthless, useless, insignificant. There is a good chance that these girls made him feel that way. They were all pretty students from middle class families who loved them and cared for them. They were successful in many ways, the most important to Rolling would be that they were attractive and desireable. This would have angered Rolling greatly. His family was a mess. His father abused him, derided him as "useless" and "worthless", "nothing but trouble" since he was a child. His mother would not defend him but lived in fear of the father. He had horrible relationships with women, lieing and pretending to be someone else, a man named Micheal. He also lived in another identity, a "demon" named "Gemini". This is very typical of a poorly aspected Moon in Pisces. Self pity, split personalities, self deception, delusion, telling big stories, etc... very typical of that position under strain. Especially with a square to Sun in Gemini. The Moon and Sun squared is a harbinger for difficult relations with the opposite sex. He was needy and manipulative and this turned everybody off.
His best position, Mars in Capricorn, was conjoined the north node in the solar eighth house. A conjunction between the node and any planet shows a destiny that will be forced upon the individual, even against the concious will. I believe his life was created by the forces around him, pushing him to do the things he did. He was "destined" to murder in some way. His solar north node ties into the grand trine in the forensic chart, giving it added emphasis. The position of the node in the solar eighth house points to sex and death as a life pattern. How many other women had he raped? This is unknown. However, it is known that he killed another family in Shreveport, Louisiana because he had been stalking the girl who had been working in a mall he frequented and looked a lot like his ex wife. He mutilated her body, as well, and staged it for maximum shock value. Moon in Pisces in the solar tenth house shows us a deep emotional need for attention. He literally craved it. When it wasn't forthcoming, he became enraged. Moon square Mercury in Gemini guaranteed that he imagined things, especially slights, even when none was intended. Just looking at these girls, he imagined rejection and that alone was enough. And the inconjunction from the Moon in Pisces to solar Neptune in Libra shows us that most of his slights were imagined after all. He was always making mistakes with people, with his own imaginings of what was intended, of what other people were "worth" or what they were about. Because the mutable square between Sun and Moon, he had deep humility that bordered on shame. He way too easily believed he was not good enough and that is where the anger came from. His strong Mars in Capricorn conjoined the node absolutely guaranteed that he would lash out in a violent way. To me, this is what I call a life script.
Going back to the victims chart, I must add that her large stellium in Sagittarius was positioned in the seventh house at the time of her death. Her birth node in Aquarius was exactly on the midheaven. So this was destined to be a big event, something everyone would notice and talk about. Her death was shocking and earth shattering for many people, it affected an entire city for months, perhaps even years. The media was full of it and hers was the most talked about of all the murders he committed. This was destiny, I am sure of it, mostly because of the node on the midheaven and her cluster in the event chart seventh house. In fact, her birth Sun in Scorpio was exactly as the descendant at midnight. Her birth Mars in Pisces was opposed by transiting Mercury in Virgo so I am sure whatever she had to say at the time was of no help in saving her life. In fact, it may have made things worse. Especially since that transiting Mercury in Virgo was square to Rollings' birth Mercury in Gemini.
The final thing I must add is that I do not see the same sexual energy in this analysis as I did in the first. He had a much stronger attraction to Christina Powell and this is why he chose her over Larson and spent so much time with her before killing her. This girl, Christa Hoyt, was a symbol and nothing more. He did not see her when he killed her; he saw the fantasy image he dreamed her to be. The snotty, beautiful, spoiled girl who didn't have a minute for him and even derided him. She was none of these things but that was no matter. In fact, he was seeing his ex wife, O'Mather, along with all the other women he had wanted in life but couldn't have. She might as well have been a movie star. But if he had seen Christa, known her and who she was, he would not have wanted her at all. The energies are just not there for this type of sexual excitement. She was a stand in and nothing more and that makes this case all the more sad and much more scary than many others. Thank God Danny Rolling has been put to death by the state of Florida. Let's just hope there aren't many more like him coming down the road.
My next post on the Gainseville Murders will be the murder of Tracy Paules and Manny Tobaoda.
This is the first post in a series of three. I chose to do this case in particular because it was so close to home for me and I was deeply involved in the events as they unfolded at the time. I could not get home fast enough from work every day to hear the news as it unfolded. There had never been a bigger case here in Florida, at least not since Ted Bundy and the Sorority Murders in the 1970s. I spent a lot of time with psychics and other astrologers, just as I had when Bundy was doing his thing, trying to figure out who the killer was. And we all knew they had it wrong; the kid they arrested at first was just not the kind of sophisticated evil monster this person had to be! If you are unfamiliar with the Gainesville Student Murders from 1990, please google it. Or google the serial killers name, Danny Rolling or his nick name, "The Gainesville Ripper". Once you realize the kind of crimes these were you will understand how someone could just get all wrapped up in the horror of it. Everybody was really scared. There was a monster on the loose.
I had wanted to profile this case to show how forensic astrology reflects the facts in a case that is already solved and also wanted to use it because it involved multiple murders on different dates and a serial killer as well. I also had the birth info on the killer, which is priceless. But I had a great deal of trouble pinning down actual time lines and finding birth data for the victims. Almost every site said something different. I had read most of the books on the case but that had been years ago and I no longer had them. So I ended up repurchasing the books I'd had so that I could go over them for actual times and events. For instance, I knew that someone had dropped Christa Hoyt off after playing tennis and this would have been very close to the time of her murder, because it is now known that her murderer was inside the apartment when she arrived. But I could not recall that time. Also, I knew, for instance, that Sonja Larson was a Capricorn and that Christina Powell was Sagittarius but I could not remember their birth dates. Their ages are easy enough but the actual day was hard to find. There was one book that provided most of this information, or, at least, the information I wanted, and with some degree of veracity. That same book provided other information regarding timelines that was more flexible, more of a guess on the part of the author. So I needed more than one book. This is why it took me so long to get this case analyzed, written and posted. I hope it was worth the trouble.
Here, from the diary of Sondra London, who dated and interviewed Rolling after his arrest, you can read this also on her site: sondralondon.com
As quoted from his diary:
In the early morning hours of 24 August, 1990, the defendant, Danny Harold Rolling, entered an apartment which served as the residence of Sonja Larson and Christina Powell. The apartment was #113 in the Williamsburg Complex, 2000 SW 16th St. in Gainesville, Alachua County, Florida. The defendant entered the apartment by breaking in through the rear door. At the time he entered into the apartment, the defendant was armed with both an automatic pistol and a knife, to-wit: a Marine Corps Ka-Bar knife. The defendant entered into and/or remained within their apartment for the specific purpose of committing sexual battery with great force and murder.
From the police files:
IR3622: 8/24/90 Fri. CRIME SCENE #1 - POSSIBLE TIME FRAME OF DEATH OF LARSON & POWELL: 0030 HOURS THRU Fri. 8/24 0800 HOURS Fri. Ada M. Larson 905 SE 11 St. Deerfield Beach FL 33441 Mr./Mrs. Frank Powell 6910 Corkwood Drive JAX 32211
8/24/90 Videotapes from Vern's Kwik Stop show Danny stopping by briefly, at 12:05 a.m., 6:00 p.m., 6:30 p.m., 9:30 p.m., and 9:38 p.m.
IR3622: 8/24/90 Fri. 0004-0005 hrs., ROLLING again ID at Verns Quick Stop, 2410 SW 34th St., ID is made after review of store surveillance tape. ROLLING is wearing a dark sleeveless shirt, dark shorts and is carrying a backpack. Documented in report #2876, by CIA Dennard.
IR3622: 8/24/90 Fri. 1758-1759 hrs., ROLLING ID 3X at Verns Quick Stop, SW 34th St. 1800-1803 hrs. and 1831 hours within an hour. ID is made after review of store surveillance tape. ROLLING has no shirt and is wearing light colored shorts with a light colored stripes, white socks and sneakers. Documented in report #2876, by CIA Dennard.
IR3622: 8/24/90 Fri. 2134-2135 hrs. and 2138 hours, ROLLING I.D. 2X at Verns Quick Stop, SW 34th St. ID is made after review of store surveillance tape. Documented in report #2875, by CIA Dennard.
These videos proved to everyone that he had seen the girls in the Quik Stop and had been going there to look for victims. He did follow Sonja Larson and Christina Powell home that night and camped in the woods behind their apartment while he planned his next move.
And then from this book, The Making of a Serial Killer we get the information that he actually entered their apartment in the early hours of August 24th, 1990, which was a Friday. They had literally been in Gainseville for two days. What he did to them is published in many places so I will not go into detail. But what do the charts say about this event? Let's take a look.
Larson and Powell Murder Chart 1 am
Larson and Powell Murder 2 am
I set the time for the murder between 1 and 2 am because all sources are saying it happened in the very early hours on Friday. Rolling keeps getting the actual dates wrong, saying things like "the early morning on the 24th" when he actually means the early morning on the 25th. Many people do this. They extend the night into the next morning. But the police records all show that he was there on Friday morning. There is testimony of people in the nearby apartments hearing him leaving around 6 am on Friday morning. School hadn't started yet and everybody was home. The bodies were not found until Sunday. So if we are to believe that it was him who took the shower at 5 am and then pounded out the back door (there was sticking lock) at 6 am, then it's reasonable to place the time he arrived at around 1 am or a bit later. Especially when you consider that he spent quite some time raping and torturing Christina Powell. So a four hour span is not unreasonable at all.
Notice right away that Mars is in Taurus in the twelfth house in both charts for 1 am and 2 am. This is especially informative because the Pleaides are located at 28 degrees of Taurus and they portend " the death of many people, all at once or over time" and also describes "violent lust, sexual sadism and sexual murder". These stars figure largely in mass murders where the crimes are particularly heinous and violent. You will see, as I go through each successive chart that the Pleaides play a big role in this series of murders. Note also that Caput Algol is nearby in the twelfth house, as well, placed at 24 degrees of Taurus. And this while Mars is at 27 degrees of Taurus. Mars does, in fact, remain in that degree during the entire weekend, being stationary in movement. And it is also peregrine. Combine this with the cluster of Neptune, Saturn and Uranus all in Capricorn in the eighth house at 1 am. I will tell you that the sign Capricorn has connections to the murderer's birth chart, as I will show you in a minute. Notice, also, the fourth house ruler, the Sun, in the fourth house at 1 am. One fortunate placement is that the first house ruler is not under the Sun's beams but little help that gave. However, Moon and Pluto are combust (along combust way) and semi sextile. Between the Moon and Pluto are a cluster of violent fixed stars that cause the Moon to be weakened in her power and to fall into a state similar to a total eclipse.
Let's see how the charts show things playing out. Mercury is the first house ruler and it is in the fourth in both charts, showing us that this happened in the victims' home. We know this to be true; the girls were in their new apartment. Mars often shows violence and it is placed in the twelfth house sandwiched in between the Pleaides and Caput Algol. This alone describes violence and mayhem. The Moon describes the victims and it is in the sign Libra. We know they were girls. Both the Moon and Mars are disposed of by Venus in Leo in the third house. It has been noted that he chose them because they were in the neighborhood and at the area convenience stores (the third house). He chose them because he said they "stood out" (Venus in Leo). Jupiter, the seventh house ruler, is in the third house, not far behind the Sun. So he sees them in public, in a retail store, in the neighborhood while he is in the same store. And he "follows them home" (the third house is the twelfth from the fourth). Notice how the Sun in Virgo at the nadir describes their home. We all know they were in school. Temporary housing, dormitories and student housing are all described by Mercury and by Virgo.
There is a grand trine operating this night. It is among earth signs: Mars in Taurus, Mercury in Virgo and Saturn in Capricorn, all in death houses in the 1 am chart. It was way too easy for him to do this. It almost feels fated. He claims he tried the locks on a lot of doors first but I don't believe that. He chose girls who looked alike and you don't do that at random. Mars and the Moon mark this event in it's entirety, his violence (Mars in Taurus peregrine) and their female vulnerability (Moon in Libra squared the cluster in the eighth). And both of these planets, Mars and the Moon, are disposed of by Venus in Leo. And when you think of the staging of the bodies, of the performance he gave with the posing and the lighting, doesn't Venus in Leo make sense? There was a lot of drama in these murders. It was one of the reasons they were so sensational.
In comparing the first two girls to their killer, I drew up charts for both of them and for Rolling. I found these charts to be extremely informative in the manner of their death and the interaction with their killer.
Here is the chart of the murderer. Right away, I notice that he is a Gemini with the Moon in Pisces. This is a hard square to handle for most people. It makes the subject manipulative, overly emotional, facile, quick to lie and defend oneself, taking offense at actions or words that were not meant to be offensive. Highly imaginative with a love for fantasy. Rolling was known to be a dreamer who spent a lot of time fantasizing. He claimed to have a dual personality, an evil person named Damian proclaimed himself to be "a Gemini" in a movie Rolling had recently seen more than 10 times! So this seems a little convenient, doesn't it? A typical manipulation by a sociopath. But do not think I am saying that every Gemini with the Moon in Pisces is such a person; I think you'd need to be a sociopath as well. None the less, a square between the Sun and Moon is a harsh one and most people have a hard time in relationships because of it. Danny Rolling had lost his wife, the love of his life, who took his child and ran. After that, he sought out women who looked like her and killed them. I only wish I had her chart to compare to the victims.
Notice the natal Mars in Capricorn in the solar eighth house, conjoined the node. I know this sounds crazy but it almost seems like his destiny was to cause death. In some manner, he was made to kill. He had a preoccupation with death and grisly stuff and this fits his solar profile. Notice Venus in Cancer opposed to Mars in Capricorn. Another difficult placement in personal character and relationships with others. With the Moon square, he really looks like a stalker to me. Someone who goes way overboard and can't let go. His behavior was mostly intolerable but he would demand loyalty beyond reason and strike out if it was not forthcoming. When his wife left him, he totally melted down. But how did he end up with these girls, doing these things to them? Take a look at the charts for the girls.
Looking at Sonja Larson's chart you can see right away that she would want to be a teacher. Especially of young children. She was in early education classes at Gainesville. She had natal Moon in Cancer, Mercury conjoined Jupiter in Sagittarius and Venus conjoined the node in Aquarius. But she had some signs in her chart that might harbinger violence in the life, including the Mars in Aries opposition to Pluto in Libra. This with Moon opposite the Sun are both markers for someone who will face confrontations from others and some of these would be violent. Moon opposite Sun is a common placement in battered women. The relationships with men are just really difficult. Comparing her chart to her murderer's is interesting. There is a sympathetic trine between their Moons in water signs. But there are no Sun-Moon interchanges and no synastry between Venus and Mars. She was pretty and athletic but she wasn't what he "was looking for". This is why he did not rape her but killed her first. He chose Christina Powell for an evening of torture and then murder and looking at her chart you can see clearly why.
There are strong aspects between Christina Powell's chart and Rollings'. Notice her Moon in Libra trine his Sun in Gemini. His Moon in Pisces square her Sun in Sagittarius. Her Venus and Mars in Scorpio sextile his Mars in Capricorn and trine his Venus in Cancer. He was intensely attracted by this girl and if he hadn't raped and murdered her, he would have wanted her in daily life. In fact, he chose her in daily life. Standing there in the convenience store he saw Powell and followed her and Larson home.
On the night of the murder, as I've already pointed out, transiting Mars was in Taurus. This placement was square to Rollings' natal Pluto and this placement of Mars on this particular weekend may have been a trigger. This and the conjunction of transiting Neptune, Saturn and Uranus over his natal Mars in Capricorn. Notice also that transiting Pluto was in Scorpio, close to Christinas' natal Venus and Mars. Also, transiting Moon in Libra crossed over Christinas' Moon earlier in the evening and it's my guess this would coincide with the time he spotted them at the store and picked her out. And even though Rolling and Powell were born about 20 years apart, their nodes were nearly conjunct in the sign Capricorn.
Looking at the charts for 1 and 2 am, I see that Moon in Libra is in the fifth house in both charts with Pluto in Scorpio joining it there between 1 and 2 am. The Moon in Libra corresponds directly to Christina Powell, who we now know he tortured and raped. Pluto, which marks rape in this chart, is opposed to transiting Mars in Taurus along with the fixed stars, Caput Algol and the Pleiades. Rape was a big part of the violence; he intended to have sex with these girls and in the most violent way possible. Consider that the eighth house ruler is Saturn (the planet that describes death) in the eighth house of death and sex. And Saturn stays in the eighth until after 2 am. Saturn, Pluto and Mercury are the strongest planets in this chart. And it's interesting, when you think about it, that this was an older man raping two young students. I mean, what could be clearer than this?
Other things I would like to note include the placement of Christina Powells Sun on the seventh cusp of the forensic chart(s). This combined with her Moon in Libra being contacted by the transiting Moon tells me that he chose her to rape and kill. Sonja Larson, much like the young man in the third set of murders, was simply collateral damage. She was in the wrong place and the wrong time. Or, even worse, she lived with Christina Powell. Powell's node in Capricorn was conjoined Rollings' natal Mars. In fact, they both had node in Capricorn while Larson did not, she had node in Aquarius.
Of course, all of this brings me to wonder if there is anything in Sonja Larson's chart that singles her out as a victim, as well? And I see that there is synastry and this must be considered. Her Sun in Capricorn was closely aligned with his Mars, and both of these planets were together in the transiting death house. Her Pluto and Uranus in Libra were touched by the transiting Moon that night, perhaps triggering violence as well. Sonja's natal Mars in Aries was square to Rollings' natal Mars in Capricorn, which creates friction and often dislike. I believe this is why she was able to fight him so hard. She was strong and fiery, she had guts and willpower. But nothing in their synastry describes murder for me. A lot of people have this synastry with other people and don't kill each other. They may fight a lot, perhaps, but murder isn't a common act. I think the actual forensic chart has more to offer in understanding what happened with Sonja Larson.
Transiting Pluto in Scorpio trined her natal Moon in Cancer. This is why he didn't rape her. He killed her quickly, did not prolong it. Transiting Moon in Libra made many positive aspects to her birth placements, including a trine to Venus. So she was spared the horrible torture and rape that her roommate had to endure. However, she was also killed. Notice the opposition from her natal Moon in Cancer to the cluster in Capricorn in the eighth house. This and her natal Saturn in Gemini hanging around the Ascendant during the event was another bad omen for her. This and the transiting node in the forensic charts conjoining her natal node created conditions she could not get away from. This is why she was there when it happened and died with her friend, instead of being out with someone else or visiting a friend.
I am going to continue this analysis over a three part series. In the next post, I will tackle the second murder in the triad, the torture and slaughter of Christa Hoyt. I am able to give you a three dimensional view in every instance with this case because I have the birth dates for every victim and well as the murderer and a very tight window of time for the murders.
Tiffany's Story Christmas 1988 was the last time Tiffany Sessions would be home for the holidays. Six weeks later, she would just vanish into thin air.
The day was February 9, 1989. Her mom, Hilary, remembers it well. "Tiffany went out about four o'clock in the afternoon."
The University of Florida Junior left her apartment at Casablanca in Gainesville for some exercise. She went for a walk. An hour passed, then two hours, three hours. Five hours later, Tiffany's roommate made a phone call.
"About nine o'clock, Kathy called. It was her tone of voice, I immediately knew we had a problem," says Hilary Sessions.
Sessions says her daughter never came home. There was no sign of a struggle, no sign Tiffany even made it out of her apartment complex parking lot. For days, crews searched the area looking for any clues. "Nothing -- no clothes, no walkman, no batteries, no shoes, no Rolex, no clothes -- nothing. It was like aliens came down and picked her up," says Sessions.
Eighteen years later, more than 2000 leads into Tiffany's disappearance have been investigated.
NEW YORK (CNN) — Tiffany Sessions was a 20-year-old junior studying economics at the University of Florida in Gainesville when she decided to go out for a run. She never came back.
College student Tiffany Sessions has been missing since February 9, 1989.College student Tiffany Sessions has been missing since February 9, 1989.
Sessions left her off-campus apartment about 6 p.m. February 9, 1989. She told her roommate she’d be back shortly and took her Walkman with her.
It was the last time anyone would see her.
That was 20 years ago, a time when no one had cell phones, Blackberries or Web sites to aid in tracking a missing or abducted person.
The only clues came from people who recalled seeing a young woman fitting Sessions’ description walking down the main street just before dusk.
Sessions’ jogging route usually took her down Gainesville’s main street to a small dirt trail that cut through the woods. The loop was 1½ miles each way and took her about an hour.
Police and family believe that she was abducted near the woods. After extensive searches, no clues were found: not her remains, not her Walkman, not the clothes she was wearing.
“Much of the area in the last decade has been paved over, with new construction, making a search today very difficult,” said Detective Bob Dean of the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office. However, investigators are still searching and working this case actively.
According to Patrick Sessions, who has been closely involved with the police investigating his daughter’s case, the man who confessed was a sex offender who had been released just a month and a half before Tiffany Sessions disappeared.
The cold case unit of the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office has taken over this case. Patrick Sessions observed the 20th anniversary of his daughter’s disappearance by making renewed appeals through the media.
Police and family urge anyone with more information about Tiffany Sessions or information leading to the arrest of the person or persons responsible for her disappearance to call the tip line at 352-367-4161.
A $25,000 reward is offered.
Tiffany Sessions was last seen wearing red sweatpants, a white sweatshirt with the word “Aspen” on it, a gold Rolex watch and a black Sony Walkman. She was 5′3″ and weighed 125 pounds at the time of her disappearance. She has blond hair and brown eyes.
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A reader emailed this case as a suggestion and I thought, "great idea"! I had almost forgotten about this case, you know what I mean, you never forget but it's not in the front of the mind. I hear so many cases day after day I just get a head full of them and old ones disappear. I realize there are a lot of new ones to explore but cold cases seem sadder to me in many ways and many of the new ones solve themselves pretty quickly. Like poor little Sandra in California. That one had me in tears. It reminded me of Carly Bruschia here in Florida. You should see what has happened to Carly's mother since that horrible event. It's enough to break your heart. I cannot imagine living our your life with such a memory; the knowledge of what happened to your precious child. Worse than a horror movie. A living nightmare.
So I thought I'd give this hard nut a shot at cracking it a little. It's been a long time and the chances of her body being found are slim but my curiosity begs me to take a peek anyways. I drew up some charts and saw right away a few things I thought might be interesting to discuss. The first chart, for the time when she was known to have left for her walk, was drawn for 4 pm. This chart has Cancer on the Ascendant and Moon in the ninth house. This tells me right off that theories about her being kidnapped in the parking lot are just not true. She made it beyond the parking lot, into a wooded area near the road, a place with brush and trees. I have been to Gainseville before; in fact, I went there for the trial of Danny Rolling in 1994 and I know it is dotted with wooded areas, deep brush with overhanging branches from lolling trees, a beautiful, scenic town that would be lovely to walk about. In fact, I took a lot of pictures of the area just because I thought it was such a lovely old south city. The chart shows her marker, the Moon, in the ninth house, showing me Tiffany walking in one of these lovely wooded areas. So she did leave the parking lot. And then you have to glance at the seventh house, to show the person she is about to meet, and see that this is Capricorn with Saturn in the sixth. By God, the theory that he worked in the area is correct. But Saturn is in Capricorn with Uranus and Neptune right near by, so this colors the details in. He is also in the wooded area, working with the earth most likely, landscaping, digging ditches, measuring property lines, mowing grass, etc... and with Neptune there he was in an "out of the way" area, where he was likely partially hidden from view. It is unlikely she saw him there. And when you add Uranus to the mix you see also that the theory that this was a stalking is also hooey. Uranus describes a sudden opportunity.. that good old wheel of fortune... just turning and there it is! His chance to grab a girl. Now, this is not to say that he did not know her or had never seen her before. In fact, he may well have known her but he didn't expect her, not at this time. When she appeared, he may have thought, "there's that pretty girl...I think I'll... ". But this was not planned. It was a sudden opportunity and for some reason he grabbed it.
Still considering this chart, we see that the Moon is in Aries and disposed of by Mars in the tenth. Tiffany was right out in the open. She was walking along a highway or open area where she could easily be seen by the public, even if was along a wooded area or beside a dense property. The Moon is not especially dignified in Aries but neither is it weak. However, Saturn is exalted in Capricorn so this gives her abductor the upper hand in many ways. He is stronger, of course, but also has the patience, determination, grit and discipline to push hard for what he wants. And in this situation, what he wants is this young lady. Notice also that the Moon is exactly square Saturn (within minutes!) and this describes a fight, a real row. She fought him off furiously and it took every inch of his steely nerve to pull this off. Moon in Aries is no wilting wallflower. She was definitely a handful. And there are two other observations I'd like to make in this matter. Mercury is closely conjoined to the seventh cusp, showing either the presence of a child or that this person had a child. This strangely dovetails with Venus, also in the seventh, which rules the nadir. So this man had a wife and child at home? And he was due home shortly? And perhaps he took Tiffany to this home? This much is yet to be explained. So let's move on to later charts.
The 4:30 chart shows Leo rising and the Sun in the seventh house. This shows Tiffany fully in the company of her abductor. Her abductor, now ruled by Uranus, is making sudden and unexpected choices. The Moon, still the chart co ruler, is still in the ninth, showing that they are likely still in the woods or she has been taken further into the woods. The Moon is now dexter to it's conjunction with Saturn, showing that they have already met. So she was in his hands by 4:30. So the place where the abduction occurred could not be farther than a 30 minute walk from where she lived. Strangely enough, you will notice that the next aspect the Moon makes is a square to Neptune (within an hour or about 50 minutes), which marks the beginning of the mystery. This is where she disappears without a trace. I must point out that Venus is under the Sun's beams and is the ruler of the fourth house. Since this is a place of extreme danger and it seems to indicate a residence of some sort, I would guess that she was taken to a home and killed in that home. The North Node is in the eighth house, which is a karmic marker for me and I see it as a point of "destiny". It's as if she were meant to die this day. Scary stuff.
You have to also note that the Sun, which rules this young lady at this time, is very close to the eighth house cusp. It started out the afternoon inside the eighth but at that time, it did not rule any angles. Now, it rules the first and is just inside the seventh. This shows me she was not killed right away. She did not die until later on, so we must assume he took her somewhere and spent some time with her. And when I do the chart for the next hour, I see things take shape. Scorpio moves onto the nadir with Pluto in the fourth. Venus, still in the seventh, under the sun's beams, is now presiding over the midheaven. The tenth house contains both Mars and Jupiter, who are both in a wide angle opposition with Pluto in the fourth. Taking all of this into consideration, I'm going to make a wild assertion. This pattern tells me that Tiffany was taken to a place where another woman was already held, a place where punitive violence was used to subdue the "captives". The other woman, already there, was in grave danger, perhaps nearly dead or possibly dieing. Both Sun and Venus are disposed of by Uranus, which now rules the seventh house. Uranus, which marks the abductor, is in the fifth house. He takes her there to "play with her". There may have been drugs or alcohol involved and most likely also sex. Pluto in Scorpio in the fourth opposing Mars in the tenth paints an ugly picture of primal drives that are poorly controlled. Jupiter also opposing Pluto shows me a person who has high energy and natural aggression that is expressed physically. Anything for pleasure. Combine these aspects with the wide angle square to the Sun from all of these planets and you see Tiffany become a target for this anger and desire.
The charts, as I read them, just get creepier. At 6 pm, the chart shows a group of planets now in the fifth with the Descendant ruler. Neptune, which now rules the eighth house, lined up with Uranus and Saturn, tells me that several men ended up in Tiffany's company. I have seen this configuration with Neptune involving the fifth and eighth houses before I always have believed it indicates a porn connection. I think pictures were involved, for sure. The Sun and Neptune describe cameras and performance. Venus, the midheaven ruler, is placed in the seventh and square to Jupiter, Mars and Pluto, with Mars in the ninth, Jupiter in the tenth and Pluto still in the fourth. Tiffany didn't turn out so good on film; her photos were not good. She may have been beaten up too badly because she resisted so much. Pluto indicates black and blue. Mars may indicate bruises around the neck and throat. But I think it went farther than that. When you notice, out of the corner of the eye, that the Moon is sneaking into the eighth house, you start to hear the nails being driven into a coffin. In my experience, this is a death knoll. Especially with a violent, toxic Pluto in the fourth and the Sun backing into the sixth. But time will tell how it plays out.
But the charts keep showing a story that gets deeper by the minute. Now, remember, this blog is about reading charts and seeing what they say and not about what I might believe or want to believe. I am reading the charts the way I do to see if they can help. I am not saying that I believe these horrible things happened to this girl. I am just saying what the charts say and you are free to leave it at that. You either want to work with Astrology or you don't. So with that much said, I venture on. In the chart for 7 pm, Virgo takes the Ascendant with Mercury now in the fifth. Mercury is lined up with three other planets but not conjunct these planets, showing her in the company of others but having no closeness or consideration for or with these people. They are strangers. Mercury is disposed of by Saturn, showing that she is there because of an older man. A man who brought her there, most likely her abductor, who was originally shown as Saturn in the first chart. Mercury is also taking the tenth house cusp so it's curtain time! She is "on stage". Time for pictures. The Moon is still placed in the eighth, square to these planets in the fifth, showing me forced sex. This girl was taken for porn. She was kidnapped, beaten, raped and filmed. Still, so far, I do not see her dead.
And this is turning into a long story. At 8 pm, the chart shows the three major planets moving out of the fifth into the fourth. Tiffany's marker, Mercury, remains in the fifth. The men have taken the photos to develop them, perhaps, or to discuss their "business plan"? In the meantime, one small shining detail sparks for me and I notice that Jupiter is trine to Mercury, indicating that someone there is kind to her. This aspect has come into play within the last hour or so, telling us that someone came onto the scene that is helping Tiffany a bit, perhaps because they had concern for her condition. Jupiter is aspecting from the ninth, so this is likely a foreigner, an immigrant perhaps, that has been recruited and is "nursing" Tiffany and perhaps other women as well. It may have been a common practice with this group; kidnap girls, beat them up, take them here, fix them up and make movies. Makes sense. And then if you follow the remaining charts for the remaining hours this night, the story unfolds as expected.
At 9 pm, the charts show Mercury moving into the fourth with the other planets. Virgo is still on the Ascendant and Neptune, the seventh house ruler, is also in the fourth. They are all together in the "home" or "office". Mars is in Taurus in the eighth, which indicates more sexual violence and it opposes Pluto, now in the second, showing monetary concern. Are they getting her ready to pimp her out? Is this a sex house? I am just not sure. This was in the eighties and I do not recall if this sort of thing was common. The Moon is in the seventh, which indicates Tiffany is there, but that she is still alive. Mars rules the eighth house, as well as being placed in the eighth, describing a situation where sex is the end. Sex is the entire purpose of this arrangement. She was taken for no other reason. And now that makes sense. That's why an older man, working on a landscape in a small city in Florida, suddenly grabs a pretty blond and takes her away. She was taken into sexual slavery and held against her will. Whether this was 20 years ago or not.
And no matter how many charts I draw up, going further and further into the night, the new Ascendant ruler keeps popping up in a safe house like the fourth or the seventh and not the eighth, the twelfth or in other positions of danger. There are no signs at all that Tiffany died that night even though she could have been killed or died for any reason at any other time after this event. The most danger I saw in all the charts occurred between 9 and 11 pm when Libra took the Ascendant and Venus was under the Sun's beams in the fourth. At the same time, Venus was square to Mars in the eighth house. This was a very dangerous time for her and she may have come close to being killed. They may have discussed it or even tried to kill her but failed. With Mars and Pluto opposing from the eighth / second axis, it may have been rough sex or a hard beating that almost killed her... but didn't. It is possible that someone else may look at this chart and come to a different conclusion, in fact they may say it reads that she did die, but I don't confer. There are no supporting planetary positions or aspects and this leads me to believe that although this was a close call, it was not the real deal. I think she was still alive at the end of this ordeal and was alive for some time afterward, if not still so today.
And then the charts I ran for the rest of the overnight and next morning keep showing Tiffany still where she was, in that home or office, perhaps hidden. At times, her ruler falls in the twelfth house but without other death markers so I think she may have been confined. Most of the other angular planets move into the third house, showing them all leaving the place in their cars. Her marker never enters the third so she just never leaves that house. I do not know how long she was kept there. There is very little else I can tell about this case except that what I have said. I can describe her kidnapper to some extent and perhaps that will help. As I said earlier, she was taken within a half an hour of her home so the distance should equal that. It was in a wooded area near a road. The man who took her was older and worked in that area, outdoors and likely in earth related activities like landscaping, digging, mowing, care taking, property appraisal, real estate maintenance, foraging, etc.. He was designated by Saturn in Capricorn, which says he is probably respected by people in the community, where he gives a professional and mature image. He is probably lean, muscular, craggy and has poor skin. No matter his age, his hair is graying and his coloring pale or sallow. His teeth might be crooked or thin. He might be thin and lanky with strong legs. He likes to walk and is seen around the area doing this. I beleive he probably still lives in the Gainseville area but I venture to guess that he was not a student at the school. Other features might include thinning hair, a thin smile, a pointed nose and long fingers. He is not much for conversation and is not very social or freindly.
In the spirit of a true believer, I must post Tiffany's photo for everyone to remember her. I know it's been twenty years and she no doubt looks very differently but she could very well still be alive among us. She might have a drug problem or a pimp who controls her. She may have been moved out of the Gainseville area and overseas to a foreign country where she would not be recognized, especially not in red light districts. But if you think you have seen a woman who resembles her or have any ideas of what might have happened to her, please contact the Gainseville police tip line at 352-367-4161.
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