Editing Danny Rolling (section)

=== August 25, 1990 ===
Rolling broke into the apartment of Christa Hoyt, an 18-year-old chemistry honors student at Santa Fe College,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1990/08/30/in-dread-and-sorrow-campus-waits-out-hunt-for-killer/e31fb8d0-88f7-4944-beca-32846ec76976/|title=Rolling's confession to Shreveport murders|newspaper=[[Washington Post]]|date=August 30, 1990|access-date=August 7, 2016}}</ref> prying open a sliding glass door with a screwdriver. Finding she was not home, he waited in the living room for her to return. Between 10:30 pm and 11:00 pm Hoyt entered the apartment after playing racquetball with a friend and was surprised by Rolling, who placed her in a [[chokehold]]. After she had been subdued, he used duct tape to gag her mouth and bind her wrists together behind her back and led her into the bedroom, where he cut the clothes from her body and raped her. As in the Powell murder, he forced her to lie face-down onto the bed and stabbed her in the back, rupturing her [[aorta]]. He then flipped her body over and sliced her abdomen open from her [[pubic bone]] to her [[breastbone]]. After arriving back at his campsite, Rolling could not find his wallet. Thinking he may have lost it at the murder scene, he returned there, at which time he decapitated Hoyt, posed her body in a sitting position at the edge of her bed and placed her head on a shelf facing the corpse. He later claimed his intent was to add to the shock of whoever discovered her.<ref name="695 So. 2d 278" />

By this point, the murders had attracted widespread media attention. Many students had begun taking extra precautions, such as changing their daily routines and sleeping together in groups. Because the spree was happening so early in the fall semester, some students withdrew their enrollment or transferred to other schools.