S2 Ep10: Rodney Alcala, The Dating Game Killer
What Makes a Killer
Audioboom Studios
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Original music by Ben Krejci, Daniel Birch, Kevin MacLeod, Kai Engel, Nctrnm, and Lee Rosevere.
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| 0:00.0 | What makes a killer contains graphic details of sexual assault and violence and is not intended for all audiences? |
| 0:08.0 | Listener discretion is strongly advised. |
| 0:13.0 | It's June 20. strongly advised. |
| 0:17.0 | It's June 20th, 1970. 12-year-old Robin Samsoe and her friend are hanging out on the beach in their California town. |
| 0:24.3 | Robin, blonde and pretty, is doing cartwheels before her ballet lesson that afternoon. |
| 0:32.2 | Watching them is a man with a camera. He is tall and clean-shaven with unkempt hair. |
| 0:39.5 | After some time, he decides to approach them. He says he is participating in a photography |
| 0:45.2 | contest and asks them for a photo. Robin agrees. But something about the man |
| 0:51.6 | isn't quite right. |
| 0:54.0 | A neighbor recognizes the girls at the beach and asks them if everything is okay, |
| 0:58.0 | and the man disappears like a puff of smoke. |
| 1:02.0 | Once he's gone, Robin gets back on her bicycle and heads over to her ballet class alone. |
| 1:08.0 | This photographer was a suspect right away because 45 minutes later Robin disappeared and was never |
| 1:14.3 | seen again. |
| 1:18.7 | 12 days later a park ranger is working on clearing an area in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Southern California, |
| 1:26.1 | when he comes across something odd. |
| 1:29.0 | He sees bones, but they are definitely not animal bones. |
| 1:34.0 | He then finds something shocking. |
| 1:37.0 | It's a body and removed from the rest of the body ahead. |
| 1:42.0 | The park ranger calls his dispatcher who notifies the police. Robin has been |
| 1:48.4 | found or at least what's left of her. Pieces of her hands and feet are missing, as are some of her teeth. |
| 1:57.3 | Robin's friend tells authorities about the man at the beach, and a sketch of the stranger gets circulated. |
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