Rodney Alcala Part 3

True Crime All The Time

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🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Rodney Alcala was an American serial killer and sex offender who was sentenced to death in California for multiple murders. Alcala has been conclusively linked to eight murders, but authorities suspect he could have killed over 100 people during his travels around the country.

Join Mike and Gibby as they discuss the infamous serial killer Rodney Alacala. In part three of the Rodney Alcala episodes, we’ll cover his subsequent murder trials and the long path to securing justice for the victims, as well as additional cases linked to Alcala in recent years.

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0:00.0	Thank you. Hello, everyone and welcome to episode 453 of the True Crime All the Time podcast. I'm Mike Ferguson, and with me as always is my partner in True Crime, Mike Gibson. How are you? Hey, I'm doing good. How about you? I'm doing very well. Good. Having a good week. Yeah. Let's go ahead and give our Patreon shoutouts. We had Caitlin Godbey. Hey, Godby. Anya Hoffman.
0:56.4	What's up, Hoffman? Johnny Brown. Hey, Brown. Robert Phillips. What's up, Phillips? Daryl.
1:02.2	Good old Daryl. Fabiola, which I'm having a lot of fun with. Yeah, you are. Maria
1:09.2	Sejiao. I'm really not sure on this one. It's just
1:15.0	Maria. Okay. Yeah. Shane Virgins. Hey, Shane. And last and not least, Nora Golan. I think that's
1:22.3	Nora. Oh, okay. Because it's got the two O's in it. Yeah. You got to stretch it.
1:28.4	That makes perfect sense.
1:30.2	And then if we go back into the vault, this week, we selected Michelle Starlin.
1:36.4	Hey, Starling.
1:37.2	Yeah.
1:37.7	And speaking to Patreon, Saturday night, we dropped a brand new Patreon episode.
1:42.5	It's on 20-year-old Jody Lumens, who was murdered in 1972.
1:47.5	And then decades later, many decades later, almost 50 years later, genetic genealogy
1:54.1	was used to identify the killer.
1:56.2	And we're trying something new here.
1:58.5	And we will be on TCAT as well with some of these lesser known
2:03.4	cases not giving away the killer right up front. And, and maybe providing a little bit more
2:10.4	mystery to the episodes. It's something that some people have asked for and we're going to try it out.
2:15.4	Okay. We also have a brand new episode out on
2:18.6	True Crime All the Time Unsolved where we're talking about 15 year old Caleb Burke who went missing
2:23.9	in August 2009 after being dropped off at a condemned property by an older family friend.
2:31.8	Hey, you didn't mention that I was wearing a more sizable shirt this time on the
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