Opinion: I was a freshman at UF during the Gainesville student murders over 30 years ago, but I remember it like it was yesterday
ABC's 20/20 will look back at the murders that shook North Florida, and America at 9 p.m. Friday on ABC25.
Author: Neal Bennett
Updated: 4:05 PM EDT April 7, 2021
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — It was a warm late August Monday in 1990. My first day as a college student at the University of Florida. I was walking down Museum Road from my dorm room in Hume Hall to my first college class in Norman Hall when I learned about the tragedy. A student handed me a piece of paper with the masthead of the