The Dating Game Killer

20/20

ABC News

True Crime

3.8 • 7.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2023

⏱️ 82 minutes

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In the 1970s, a notorious serial killer makes a winning appearance as a contestant on a popular dating show in the midst of his killing spree. (Original Air - 01/08/2021) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Please welcome Rodney Alcala.
0:03.0	I'll take one.
0:05.0	It was one of the most famous dating shows ever.
0:09.0	Looking back, it is showing to realize that this iconic show
0:14.0	would unknowingly feature a remorseless killer.
0:19.0	The horror story begins.
0:23.0	I remember wanting to jump out of the car.
0:28.0	The so-called dating game killer is one of the country's most notorious criminals,
0:32.0	but one most people have never heard of.
0:35.0	He had sociopathic personality traits. He had no shame.
0:45.0	He walks up and down the streets and asks people if he could take their picture.
0:49.0	What better place to be a sexual predator than go to a feeding frenzy like New York?
0:55.0	She's been strangled with nylon stockings.
0:58.0	It's the talk of the town.
1:01.0	Rodney Alcala has murdered at least five women.
1:04.0	The FBI put Rodney Alcala on the 10 most one of us.
1:08.0	Oh my god, will Alcala get away with it?
1:10.0	The body count is piling up.
1:12.0	He goes on the hunt for more victims and there's absolutely nothing to stop him.
1:16.0	And five, four, three, two, one.
1:24.0	Five, four, three, two, one.
1:29.0	The
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