134: FIXED The Dating Game Killer - September 13 2019

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7 • 723 Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Keep up with current episodes of Morning Cup of Murder at morningcupofmurder.com Dating shows have been popular for decades. Audiences love to watch two strangers meet and fall in love from the comfort of their living rooms. On September 13th 1978 a man appeared on the popular dating show at the time, The Dating Game. What the audience, and the poor girl who picked this bachelor, didn’t know was that this attractive man was in the midst of a murder spree. Rodney Alcala’s Dating Game Episode (1978) Become a supporter of this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/morningcupofmurder Follow Morning Cup of Murder on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cupofmurder @cupofmurder Follow MCOM on Instagram: @morningcupofmurder Have a Murder or strange true crime story you want to share, email the show here: [email protected] Morning Cup of Murder is researched, written and performed by Korina Biemesderfer. Follow Korina on Instagram: @kbiemesderfer * ** *** Information for this podcast was collected from the following source(s) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Alcala --- This episode is sponsored by · Beach Too Sandy, Water Too Wet Podcast: Beach Too Sandy, Water Too Wet is a comedy podcast featuring brother and sister duo Alex and Christine as they recap dramatic readings of one-star reviews, written by real people with not-so-real problems. https://open.spotify.com/show/0UfNJ2DoIfIveU2hghm1Io?si=489WlBmfS_e55CoMsDn24Q --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/morning-cup-of-murder/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/morning-cup-of-murder/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There were two more murders, 15 miles away in the silver-raceable.
0:04.0	We have a weird...
0:06.0	...dating by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird religion.
0:09.0	...calf a murder.
0:11.0	Dating shows have been popular for decades.
0:14.0	Audiences love to watch two strangers meet and fall in love from the comfort of their living rooms. On September 13th,
0:23.0	1978, a man appeared on the popular dating show at the time, the dating game. What the audience
0:30.2	and the poor girl who picked this bachelor didn't know was that this attractive man was in the
0:35.7	midst of a murder spree.
0:44.0	So, if you like your coffee hot, but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder.
0:53.3	Rodney Alcala, from the early age of 17, after having a nervous breakdown and going AWOL from the Army,
0:56.8	was diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder.
1:00.3	This diagnosis would, during his trial,
1:04.5	be expanded upon to include narcissistic personality disorder,
1:07.0	borderline personality disorder,
1:10.2	and malignant narcissistic personality disorder with psychopathy and sexual sadism.
1:13.7	With all of this in mind, the story of the dating game killer unfolds as such.
1:19.1	After his discharge from the army, Rodney graduated from the UCLA School of Fine Arts and went on to study under Roman Polanski at NYU.
1:29.0	It was in 1968 when he was in his mid-20s when Rodney O'Kala committed his first known crime.
1:37.1	He was caught trying to lure 8-year-old Talley Shapiro into his apartment.
1:43.2	When they found the girl, she was alive but had been raped and beaten with a steel bar.
1:49.2	Alcala was already gone.
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