The Dating Game Killer: The Crimes of Rodney Alcala
In 1978, America watched a charming photographer win a date on national television. By then, Rodney Alcala had already murdered women and girls across the United States — and he would kill again after the cameras stopped. Host Alexander Lawson traces Alcala’s path from the 1968 assault of eight-year-old Tali Shapiro, through New York, California, and Wyoming, to the 1979 kidnapping and murder of twelve-year-old Robin Samsoe, the storage-locker photographs, the overturned death sentences, and the DNA that finally tied him to multiple victims. This episode of A True Crime Podcast covers sexual…
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