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Episode 154: The Dating Game Killer

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Not Today

True Crime, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.4933 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Serial killer Rodney Alcala was a photographer who lured women by offering to take their picture. His killing spree lasted from 1968 until 1979. During that time he was also a contestant on the daytime television show The Dating Game.


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0:00.0

Hey, I'm Steph, and this is not today. Hello and welcome. I hope as you're listening to this that you are having a better time

0:25.8

than I am right now. I'm currently sitting in a very big old house and as we know it is the change of seasons meaning things are getting

0:36.3

cold outside and this is the first time I'm experiencing any kind of mouse

0:41.9

activity from what I understand experiencing any kind of mouse activity?

0:43.4

From what I understand, the mice don't want to be outside

0:46.5

because it's cold, so they come inside.

0:49.3

And I don't blame them.

0:50.3

I don't want to be outside either.

0:51.8

But I definitely don't want them in here, where they unfortunately are.

0:55.6

So that's what I'm dealing with.

0:58.4

Thankfully, this is not the place where I live, but I'm currently living in it right now for the next couple of days and I got to say I'm not a fan.

1:08.0

I didn't think that I was scared of mice and I'm not really scared of mice. I'm much more scared of spiders believe it or not but there's something about the

1:16.9

jump scare of a mouse running across the floor that is not fun and if you have ever experienced any kind of mice in your home or whatever

1:26.4

then you know I'm sure that it is not a fun thing to deal with so not loving this but it's

1:32.3

fine we are going to make it through So not loving this, but it's fine.

1:33.3

We are going to make it through.

1:35.4

But anyway, that's enough about me.

1:37.5

Today, we are going to be talking about the dating game killer. More specifically we're going to be talking about

1:45.2

Rodney Al-Kala. Now Rodney Al-Kala in the world of serial killers is one of the most

1:52.3

prolific if you will.

1:55.0

He has been compared to serial killers like Ted Bundy,

1:58.0

which I will talk about later.

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