He Was Smiling on Primetime the Whole Time: Dating Game Killer Rodney Alcala
He Won the Date on Live TV: The Rodney Alcala "Dating Game Killer" Case
In September 1978, ABC's The Dating Game introduced bachelor number one as a "successful photographer." He was a twice-paroled registered sex offender who had already murdered women on both coasts, and he won the date. Why did the bachelorette refuse to go out with him? How did a rerun of that same episode help detectives catch him a year later? And why are hundreds of photographs found in his Seattle storage locker still unidentified today?
In this episode, we follow the Rodney Alcala case far beyond the game show: from…
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