Rodney James Alcala is an American convicted serial killer and rapist who was sentenced to death in California for five murders committed in that state between 1977 and 1979, and received an additional sentence of 25 years to life after pleading guilty to two homicides committed in New York in 1971 and 1977. Alcala's true victim count remains unknown, and could be much higher.
Alcala compiled a collection of more than 1,000 photographs of women and teenage girls and boys, many in sexually explicit poses. In 2016, he was charged with the 1977 murder of a woman identified in one of his photos. Alcala is known to have assaulted one other photographic subject, and police have speculated that others could be rape or murder victims as well.

Prosecutors have said that Alcala "toyed" with his victims, strangling them until they lost consciousness, then waiting until they revived, sometimes repeating this process several times before finally killing them.[6][7] One police detective described Alcala as "a killing machine",[8] and others have compared him to Ted Bundy.

Alcala is sometimes called The Dating Game Killer because of his 1978 appearance on the television show The Dating Game in the midst of his murder spree.
CREDIT: ABC 2020
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