Rodney Alcala, who was dubbed the Dating Game Killer, was known for biting his dead victims naked bodies before photographing them in sexually explicit poses.
The smooth-talking charismatic photographer was nicknamed the Dating Game Killer, due to his appearance as a bachelor on the TV show of the same name in 1978.
Morgan Rowan was just 16 years old when she was brutally beaten and raped by Alcala during a party at his Hollywood home in 1968. Here, FEMAIL has laid bare the details of his crimes.
Anna Kendrick directed and starred in Woman of the Hour, her new movie which follows the game show contestant who picks Rodney Alcala, a serial murderer and rapist, to go out on a date.
Convicted mass murderer Dating Game Killer Rodney Alcala died of natural causes at 77 in a California hospital while on death row
Serial killer Rodney Alcala, 77, had died of natural causes in a California hospital on Saturday at 1:43 am
He infamously appeared on the The Dating Game in September 1978, when he was in the midst of a brutal killing spree
Two years after appearing on the show he was convicted of killing a 12-year-old girl in Los Angeles after abducting her on her way to ballet
In the years that followed he was connected to seven other murders
Police believe he could be connected up to 130 killings of women and children but the exact number of his victims is not known