Though Rodney Alcala has never risen to a Ted Bundy or John Wayne Gacy or even a Richard

Nightstock or Ramirez level of infamy, he's just as terrifying. Born Rodrigo Jacques Alcala Bucor

on April 23rd 1943, Rodney Alcala seemed to many to be a cool artsy handsome, likeable guy.

But underneath his charisma, Rodney was a violent, particularly cruel sexual sadist,

a rapist and killer who used a big friendly smile, knack for small talk, and a talent for

photography to get his victims to go somewhere alone with him for a photo shoot that would often

end in their torture and death. He was deceptive, manipulative, and charming. So charming,

he managed to convince his parole officer to let him violate the conditions of his parole

to travel from Los Angeles to New York. Once in New York, he disappeared for a few years

under the alias of John Berger, where he would rape and kill at least one young woman before being

brought back to LA. After a brief incarceration on the West Coast, taking a plea deal for kidnapping,

brutally raping and attempting to murder an eight year old girl, he got right back to raping and

killing. And after he killed some of his victims, he would pose their bodies to inflict more

pain on whoever found them. He could have enjoyed further defiling the girls and women as well.

Girls and women who had never wronged him. Before being posed, his victim suffered tremendously.

My God, how they suffered. The women and girls who had the great misfortune of spending their

final moments with Rodney were beaten, bitten, bound, and raped in a variety of extremely violent

ways. They were strangled to the point of losing consciousness, only to be brought back for further

torture, rape, and strangulation. And such an odd moment in history, in the middle of his

spree of sexual violence, in 1979, Rodney appeared on the popular TV show The Dating Game.

This will earn him his post-a-rest murderous nickname of The Dating Game Killer.

Bachelor number one would even be picked to go out on a date. And then he got right back to his

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