Rodney Alcala, Serial Killer From ‘Dating Game’ Dies On Death Row
Shockingly, Rodney Alcala, the convicted serial killer who was sentenced to California’s death row, has now died, according to ABC.
Alcala reportedly died of natural causes at 1:43 a.m. Saturday morning at a hospital in the community near Corcoran State Prison at the age of 77.
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Alcala was known as “The Dating Game” killer from his appearance as a winning contestant on the television game show back in 1978.
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After solely representing himself in Orange County, he was sentenced to death in 2010 referencing the 1979 murder of 12-year-old Robin Samsoe and the murders of four other women — 18-year-old Jill Barcomb and 27-year-old Georgia Wixted, both in 1977; 32-year-old Charlotte Lamb in 1978; and 21-year-old Jill Parenteau in 1979. He also pleaded guilty to the murders of two other women in New York — Cornelia Crilley in 1971 and Ellen Jane Hover in 1977. Following to be sentenced to 25 years to life in 2013.
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Being such a well-known photographer, Alcala would often lure women and young girls by approaching them on the street and offering to take their picture before attacking them, according to investigators. While investigating the murder of Samsoe in 1979, investigators found numerous amounts of photographs in a Seattle storage locker belonging to Alcala of unidentified women, young girls and boys, including jewelry believed to be trophies of some of his specific victims.
Back in 2010, the Huntington Beach Police Department released the photos taken by Rodney taken away decades earlier to determine whether they may have been victimized by him. Before his death, he had not disclosed whether there were anymore victims.