United States, Alkala, “Dating Game” Series Killer Killed – Corriere.it

Rodney James Alcala, one of the deadliest serial killers in American history, dies of natural causes He was waiting to be hanged in a prison in San Quentin, north of San Francisco. The 77-year-old, known as the “dating game killer” for killing the boys and girls he dated, would have killed at least 130 people in all four corners of the United States in the 1970s.

The death penalty in 2010 refers to only five homicides in California between 1977 and 1979, including a 12-year-old girl. He was sentenced in 2013 to a further 25 years in prison for pleading guilty to two counts of murder in New York.. Alkala has been ill for some time and is currently admitted to San Joaquin Fence Hospital.

As stated on Courier service Guido Olympio, Rodney Alcala committed his first murder in 1979 after winning the “The Dating Game” program. People by his side on TV remember a boy who “seems quiet but can turn into arrogant and oppressive.” Of course, the show’s rivals never thought Rodney would become a serial killer, he suffered the pain of his prey.

In ’79, when police arrested him, they found his archive in a garage in Seattle. Nearly a thousand photos of children and women. “Cups” stolen from some victims. Born in Texas in 1943 and raised in California with his mother, Rodney has never been normal. Enlisted in the Army he was released for mental disorders and later studied at UCLA University, graduating with the idea of ​​having a degree and “having a very high IQ”. He certainly had a criminal mind. They say he studied acting (but the details are questionable) and was a photographer under the guidance of Roman Polanski., A great career for his death. Police files record the first serious case against Rodney in ’68, when he raped a little girl. Followed by law, he changed his name and became a teacher at an art center reserved for minors. A rookie policeman from Los Angeles finds him 3 years later. Arrest and start two charges against him. LReleased in 1974, Alkala returns as a hunter. His signature is the torture and the tools he uses for torture. He causes havoc on a body and then takes pictures. In some cases, the victim has to be resuscitated to prolong the pain. Anyone who investigated Rodney found the route from New York to the Pacific. The photographer’s dark wanderings of death.