playing card B3: Daniel Barbosa (* 1936 – † 1994)
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playing card F1: Fritz Haarmann (* 1879 – † 1925)
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Rodney Alcala (* 1943 – † 2021)
age at first kill
years undiscovered
number of victims
born
The Dating Game - a popular TV show
Rodney Alcala competed on the popular TV show "The Dating Game", where he won a date with Cheryl Bradshaw. In this show, the lady asks several questions that several men have to answer one after the other. The questioner sits separately between a wall and the men. Based on the answers, the woman then chooses a man to spend a date with him. “The Dating Game” is thus the forerunner of the German television show “Herzblatt”.
Serial killer wins Date on TV show
When it came to the date between Cheryl Bradshaw and Rodney Alcala, she suddenly canceled the meeting. "It seemed kind of scary to me," she said afterwards. That probably saved her life. Since Cheryl Bradshaw rejected him on the date, it is believed that Charlotte Lamb, Jill Parenteau and Robin Samsoe subsequently died.
Serial killer Rodney Alcala was sentenced to death in 2010. The indictment is a fivefold murder he committed between 1977 and 1979. He is also called the dating game killer: in 1978 he appeared on the TV show The Dating Game and won a date with a woman. Photo: San Quentin State Prison, CA
Rodney Alcala: Death penalty canceled twice
He was charged and suspected at the time for the murders of Cornelia Crilley, Ellen Hover, Antoinette Wittaker, Pamela Jean Lambson and Joyce Gaunt. The death penalty had to be withdrawn due to errors in the investigation.
In 2010, the multiple serial killer Alcala in California was sentenced to death for five murders. In 2013, a New York court sentenced the serial killer, born in 1943, to a minimum sentence of 25 years in prison. The Alcala case is one of the longest-running murder trials in US history.
The death of Rodney Alcala
Rodney Alcala died of natural causes on July 24, 2021 at the age of 77 in California State Prison, Corcoran (COR).