A retired detective who led the investigation into serial killer Rodney Alcala reflects on the case and the TV show appearance that helped bring the 'Dating Game Killer' down.
Retired detective Craig Robison explained in a new interview how a re-run of ‘The Dating Game’ led to Alcala’s arrestBailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023 and interned with the brand in 2022. Her work has previously appeared in digital publications like Paper Magazine and TV Insider.may not have resulted in an actual date, but it did set him up for a date with destiny.
Despite his intelligence, however, Robison was able to pin the convicted murderer down, and it was all thanks to his appearance onselected Alcala out of a lineup of three for a date, though it was later revealed that she opted out of the commitment, reportedly telling the producers that he was “very strange” and had “weird vibes.”
"If you believe in divine guidance … that certainly would be a good clue,” he later added. “The finger of God comes down and says, ‘Hey, you should look at this guy.’ ”The detectives had also “just identified as a potential suspect” because of another rape case that occurred months before Samsoe’s disappearance. In February 1979, the serial killer was arrested — and later released on bail — for the rape of a 15-year-old hitchhiking girl.
However, prosecutors soon discovered that Alcala's DNA matched evidence connected to four other women murdered between 1977 and 1979: Jill Barcomb, 18; Jill Parenteau, 21; Georgia Wixted, 27; and Charlotte Lamb, 31. In 2010, a jury convicted Alcala on five counts of first-degree murder, for which N.C. Woman Speaks Out After Ex-Husband Kills Her Partner and Then Dies in Police Shootout: 'I Thought I Was Going to Be Dead'
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