I SURVIVED A SERIAL KILLER: The Dating Game Killer
I Survived
A&E / PodcastOne
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Survivor Morgan Rowan describes for the first time on television how she was brutally attacked in 1968 by social gadfly Rodney Alcala, during a party at his Hollywood home. Just three weeks later, Alcala would abduct and attack 8-year-old Tali Shapiro, who describes her chilling assault in her own words. Morgan and Tali were the only survivors of soon to be serial killer Rodney Alcala, who was convicted of five Southern California murders in the 1970's. Alcala was so wickedly brazen that he actually appeared on an episode of "The Dating Game" during his murderous reign of terror.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode contains stories involving violence against children. |
| 0:04.4 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:06.9 | Please welcome Rodney Alkalah. |
| 0:09.4 | Rod, welcome. |
| 0:11.2 | He goes on a dating game show, and he's murdering all these young women, and he's getting away with it. |
| 0:18.1 | You really get a feel of how psychopathic he was. |
| 0:21.6 | After walking through the front door, my head was cracked open. |
| 0:25.6 | I hear moaning said that split second, I kicked the door in. |
| 0:29.6 | We got to find this guy before the next child becomes a murder victim. |
| 0:34.6 | He appeared out of nowhere and grabbed me. |
| 0:38.3 | I was fighting pretty hard, but I could feel my ribs breaking. |
| 0:43.3 | The killer loved getting his hands bloody. |
| 0:46.3 | He was just standing there with my blood all over his shirt, and I just needed to run. |
| 0:52.3 | Did you turn around and run? Until death, |
| 0:56.0 | and any harm is that you can. |
| 0:58.0 | Real people who faced death and lived to tell how, |
| 1:02.0 | this is I survived, a serial killer. |
| 1:06.0 | My name is Morgan Rowan, and I survived a serial killer. |
| 1:17.6 | It was summer, late August, 1968. |
| 1:21.6 | I was 16. |
| 1:23.6 | I was going to be moving away to New York in four nights, and we were in Hollywood on Sunset Strip. |
| 1:32.0 | There were hundreds of people walking around on the street, singing or dancing or whatever. |
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