Police say a photographer and one-time contestant on "The Dating Game" was also a chameleon and a serial killer perhaps the deadliest in U.S. history and investigators are unsure if they will ever know how many victims he left behind
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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.
Many serial killers collect twisted, chilling souvenirs (often referred to as "trophies") from the scenes of their crimes. These trophies can be anything
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HUNTINGTON BEACH (CNS) - A 77-year-old inmate who spent time on California s death row for kidnapping and murdering a 12-year-old Huntington Beach girl and killing four other people has died of natural causes, state officials said.
Rodney James Alcala died of natural causes at 1:43 a.m. Saturday at a hospital in the community near Corcoran State Prison, according to the California Department of Corrections.
Alcala was sentenced to death in Orange County in 1980 for the 1979 kidnapping and murder of 12-year-old Robin Samsoe. That judgment was reversed in 1984 by the California Supreme Court and Alcala was granted a new trial.