Rodney Alcala, the serial murderer who became known as the “Dating Game Killer” because of his 1978 appearance on the game show, died July 24 at a hospital near California’s Corco…
, the serial murderer who became known as the “Dating Game Killer” because of his 1978 appearance on the game show, died July 24 at a hospital near California’s Corcoran state prison at the age of 77.
Just two years after his “Dating Game” appearance, Alcala was sentenced to death row in California for the 1979 murder of 12-year-old Robin Samsoe. In 2010, he was convicted of five counts of first degree murder for Samsoe’s death as well as the 1977 deaths of 18-year-old Jill Barcomb and 27-year-old Georgia Wixted; the 1978 death of 32-year-old Charlotte Lamb, and the 1979 death of 21-year-old Jill Parenteau, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Alcala’s initial death sentence for Samsoe’s death was overturned in 1984 amid the reckoning then over the death penalty. He was retried in 1986 and again sentenced to death, but a federal appeals court overturned that conviction in 2003. That led to his third trial for Samsoe in 2010, albeit this time with four more counts and the mounting signs he was implicated in more heinous slayings.
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