The Dating Game Killer: The Crimes of Rodney Alcala
In 1978, a charming photographer named Rodney Alcala appeared as Bachelor Number One on The Dating Game—and won. What the audience, the bachelorette, and the producers didn’t know was that he was already a serial killer.
Host Alexander Lawson examines Alcala’s trail of violence across New York, California, and beyond, the systemic failures that allowed him to keep killing, and the victims whose lives he destroyed. From the near-fatal assault of an 8-year-old girl in 1968 to the 1979 murder of 12-year-old Robin Samsoe, this episode traces how one of America’s most prolific predators hid in…
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