The Dating Game Killer - The Rodney Alcala story
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Who was Rodney Alcala?
You may have heard of this show from the 60s and 70s called The Dating Game. Well, there was a contestant on that show who ends up murdering a bunch of people. Now, the contestant's name is Rodney, and Rodney's 25, he's an army vet living in Los Angeles, and bro is an absolute psychopath. Just for like no reason.
What crimes did Rodney Alcala commit?
Like one day in 1968, he sees this eight year old girl walking alone and he pulls up and he's like, hey, want a ride to school? And she gets in his car and instead of taking her to school, he takes her to his apartment. And there he does horrible things to her that I won't get into. But after this, police are looking for Rodney and the FBI ends up putting him on the most wanted list. And so Rodney has to go on the run and he goes from Los Angeles all the way to New York and there he changes his identity and he changes his name and he ends up going to film school at NYU. But Rodney isn't about to change his ways. I mean, he's still a psychopath. Because a few years later, he meets a nice woman, and she's moving into a new apartment.
And Rodney offers to help her move some furniture. And once he's inside her apartment, suddenly, bam, he attacks her. And he strangles her with a pair of nylon stockings until she's unalived. Then he leaves New York City and he travels up to New Hampshire. And there he somehow gets a job as a counselor at a kid's summer camp.
How did Rodney Alcala evade capture?
And he lays low there for a few months, but then a couple of his students are at the post office one day, and there just happens to be an FBI's Most Wanted poster there. And it happens to have Rodney's face on it. So the students are like, yo, is that our counselor? And they freak out and they report him. And then, boom, Rodney gets arrested and he takes a plea deal and they throw his ass in prison. Less than two years later, he gets out. He's a free man. But only two months after he's out, he approaches a 13-year-old girl while he's in his car and he offers her a ride to school. And he ends up doing terrible things to her and he gets caught and he gets thrown back in prison again. And then two years after that, he gets out again. And he travels from California back to New York City. And there he meets another nice woman and he offers to take modeling photos of her. Like, hey, you look like a model. I want to take your picture. And she agrees. And once they get alone, he ends up attacking her and unaliving her. And after that, I guess he travels to Wyoming.
And there he meets another nice young woman and he's like, let me take modeling pictures of you. And she agrees and once they get alone, he attacks her and he unalives her too. And after that, he ends up back in Los Angeles. And while he's there, he really uses that whole, oh, you look like a model, let me take your picture bit to lure women in. And he offers to photograph this 19 year old woman and then he unalives her and he dumps her on the side of the road. And he does the same thing to a 27-year-old woman that he meets. He unalives her too. And it just keeps going. About six months later, he kidnaps and unalives a 31-year-old woman. Now, at this point, the dude's gotta feel unstoppable.
I mean, he just keeps SA-ing and attacking all these random women, and it's so easy for him. He just, like, asks them if he can take modeling photos of them, and they agree. And then he gets them alone, and then, bam, he attacks. In fact, he's so confident that he'll never get caught, he decides to put himself out there more, and he auditions for a TV show, The Dating Game, which is apparently the first reality dating TV show ever. And so, Rodney auditions for this show, and he's a handsome enough guy, and he makes a decent first impression, and so the producers cast him. I guess they just don't do background checks on these things. Now, if Rodney wins this show, if he beats out all the other bachelors, the prize is he'll get to go on a date with the bachelorette, which means he'll get her alone with him. And we've seen what he does to women when he gets them alone. And so the day comes, and it's time to tape the show.
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