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#THE DATING GAME SERIAL KILLER SERIAL#
Sifting through these photos gives one an eerie glimpse into the private life of a serial killer, and sends a chill up your spine with the notion that you may be looking at one of the last photos taken of someone before they were brutally murdered. Huntington Beach police are asking for the public’s help in identifying any potential victims among dozens of young women apparently photographed by Rodney Alcala Two of his victims were posed nude after their deaths, one was raped with a claw hammer and all were repeatedly strangled and resuscitated to prolong their agony, prosecutors said.Īfter the sentencing, authorities released more than 100 photos of young women and girls found in Alcala's possession in hopes of linking him to other unsolved murders around the country.These are ten of the hundreds of photos recovered during searches of Alcala’s Monterey Park home and a storage locker Alcala rented in Seattle that were released in 2010 by the Huntington Beach police. “You're talking about a guy who is hunting through Southern California looking for people to kill because he enjoys it,” Orange County, California, prosecutor Matt Murphy said during his trial. He stalked women like prey and took earrings as trophies from some of his victims, prosecutors said while presenting his case at the court. However, he was charged again in 2016 after DNA evidence connected him to the 1977 death of a 28-year-old woman whose remains were found in a remote area of southwest Wyoming.Īlcala earned the moniker of "The Dating Game Killer" after appearing in 1978 as "Bachelor No 1" on an episode of "The Dating Game", an American television show where a "bachelorette" would be asked to accompany eligible "bachelors" on a date, with the roles being reversed occasionally.Īlthough Alcala won the contest, the woman playing the bachelorette later decided not to go on a date with him because she found him "disturbing", according to several news reports.Īuthorities say Alcala continued killing even after he appeared on the television show. Investigators say his true victim count may never be known.Īlcala received an additional 25 years to life in 2013 after pleading guilty to two homicides in New York.
“There is murder and rape and then there is the unequivocal carnage of a Rodney Alcala-style murder,” the brother of an 18-year-old victim of the serial killer told the Associated Press, shortly after Alcala was sentenced to death. He later strangled or beat his victims to death after sexually assaulting many of them. However, authorities suspect that he may have killed as many as 130 people across the country.Īlcala's modus operandi was luring women by offering to take their pictures. (File Photo / AP)Īlcala, dubbed "The Dating Game Killer", was sentenced to death in 2010 for five slayings in California between 19, including that of a 12-year-old girl. Serial killer Rodney James Alcala appears in court in New York after pleading guilty to murdering two young women here in the 1970s.
Alcala was 77 at the time of his death, the authorities confirmed in a statement, adding that he died of natural causes at the San Joaquin Valley Hospital.
Rodney James Alcala, a serial killer in the United States known for torture slaying during the '70s, died in California on Saturday while awaiting his execution, news agencies reported citing prison officials.
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