Rodney Alcala, The Dating Game Killer

Solved, Unsolved or Spooky - A True Crime Podcast

• This week Steph is covering a story of horrific proportions, yet again
• Rodney Alcala, used peoples vanity and sense of self worth, to manipulate them into situations where he could do what ever he wanted with them before taking their lives.
• Rodney, was a handsome man who could sweet talk both males and females into anything.
• His ruse as a professional photographer, was every parents worst nightmare.
• The number of victims will probably never be known,
• so sit back and have a listen and make sure that you have a look at the extra reading and photographs section, there are a heap of photos that are yet to be identified in this case and police believe that they may be victims of his terrible crimes.
• | Timeline
  | 1968 | Tali Shapiro | Rape, attempted murder; pleaded guilty to assault,
  | 1971 | Cornelia Crilley | Murder; indicted, 2011/New York
• | 1974 | "Julie J." | Parole violation, providing marijuana to minor; Convicted, 1974/California
  | 1977 | Ellen Hover | Murder; indicted, 2011
  | 1977 | Antoinette Wittaker | Murder; suspect,
  | 1977 | Jill Barcomb | Murder; convicted, 2010
  | 1977 | Georgia Wixted | Murder; convicted, 2010
  | 1977 | Pamela Jean Lambson | Murder; accused, 2011
  | 1977 | Christine Ruth Thornton | Murder; charged, 2016
  | 1978 | Joyce Gaunt | Murder; suspect
  | 1978 | Charlotte Lamb | Murder; convicted, 2010
  | 1979 | Jill Parenteau | Murder; convicted, 2010
  | 1979 | Robin Samsoe | Murder; convicted, 1980, 1986, 2010
  | 2003 | DNA collected, 4 additional murders discovered
  | 2003 | Motion to join Samsoe case with 4 others proposed; contested by Alcala
  | 2010 | Conviction #3, sentenced to death for murders of Samsoe, Parenteau, Lamb, Wixted, and Barcomb | California
  | 2011 | Indicted for murders of Hover, Crilley
  

References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Alcala
https://allthatsinteresting.com/rodney-alcala-dating-game-killer
https://murderpedia.org/male.A/a/alcala-rodney.htm
https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/rodney-alcala
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2010/03/alcala_serial_killer_photos_da.html
Photographs and additional reading.
https://www.ocregister.com/2010/03/11/prosecutor-worries-alcala-might-have-killed-others-2/
Resources:
https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/mentalhealth/Pages/contact-service.aspx#24-hour
https://www.beyondblue.org.au
https://www.betterhelp.com
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