Evil Genius: 'Dating Game' killer Rodney Alcala

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 12 July 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Even as Rodney Alcala was becoming one of California's most notorious serial killers, he was a winner of a 1978 episode of TV's "The Dating Game." Alcala posed as a professional fashion photographer in Los Angeles to lure his female victims to their deaths. He now sits on death row for 5 torture murders in California and he also admitted to killing another 2 women in New York. The actual number of his victims may never be known. Nancy Grace explores the Alcala's killings with criminal profiler Pat Brown, forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan, Los Angeles psycho analyst Dr. Bethany Marshall, and Crime Stories contributing reporter John Lemley.

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1:00.0	A man possibly linked to the murders of 130 women.
1:11.0	And so ironically called the Dating Game Killer? I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories.
1:21.0	Thank you for being with us. Why is he called the Dating Game Killer? Listen!
1:26.0	The Dating Game Killer is the Dating Game Killer.
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1:38.0	Thank you!
1:42.0	Thank you very much! Thank you!
1:45.0	And welcome to the Dating Game! And we'll get right underway. It's time to meet our first three eligible vatres for game number one.
1:53.0	And here they are!
2:00.0	Good luck, gentlemen! Well, let's see. Back to number one is a successful photographer who got his start when his father found him in the dark room at the age of 13 fully developed.
2:12.0	Between takes, he might find him skydiving or motorcycle-ing. Please welcome Rodney Alkalaw.
2:19.0	And it's time to meet our young lady for game number one. And here she is!
2:25.0	Here is a young lady with a welcome experience. She once earned a living massaging feet. But she quit when her boss suggested that she worked her way up.
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