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.
Rodney Alcala, the âDating Gameâ Serial Killer, Dies
A longhaired photographer who lured women by offering to take their picture, Mr. Alcala, 77, had been convicted of five murders in Orange County, Calif., and two in New York, all in the 1970s.
Rodney Alcala at Manhattan Supreme Court in 2012. Mr. Alcala, who appeared in a 1978 episode of âThe Dating Game,â was convicted in seven murders.Credit.Pool photo by Jefferson Siegel
July 24, 2021Updated 9:00 p.m. ET
Rodney Alcala, who was known as the âDating Game Killerâ and was convicted in the murders of six women and one girl in the 1970s, died on Saturday at a hospital in Kings County, Calif. He was 77.