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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 died Saturday of natural causes, state officials said.
Rodney James Alcala died of natural causes at 1:43 a.m. at a hospital in the community near Corcoran State Prison, according to the California Department of Corrections.
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Alcala, who appeared as a contestant on the television show “The Dating Game” in 1978. 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.
New-yorkUnited-statesArizonaMarin-countyCaliforniaNew-hampshireWyomingOrange-countyWashingtonCorcoran-state-prisonSeattleHuntington-beachIn 1986, Alcala was sentenced to death a second time for Samsoe's murder; however, a federal appeals court in 2003 overturned the sentence and Alcala was given a new trial. His DNA matched evidence in other murders, and Orange County prosecutors indicted Alcala for the murders of four other women.
In 2010, an Orange County jury convicted Alcala of five counts of first-degree murder, and he was sentenced to death for the killing of Samsoe as well as the 1977 deaths of 18-year-old Jill Barcomb and 27-year-old Georgia Wixted; the 1978 death of 32-year-old Charlotte Lamb, and the 1979 death of 21-year-old Jill Parenteau.
Five Victims: The u2018Dating Game' Serial Killer Rodney Alcala Slayings
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By Andy Rose, CNN
A convicted serial killer known as the “Dating Game Killer” died early Saturday morning at a hospital near Corcoran State Prison in central California, prison officials said.
Rodney James Alcala, 77, had been on the state’s death row since being condemned in 2010 for the murders of four women and a 12-year-old girl, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Alcala was first sentenced to death in 1980 for the 1979 kidnapping and murder of 12-year-old Robin Samsoe, but his conviction was reversed by the California Supreme Court and he was granted a new trial.
He was sentenced to death again in 1986 after a second trial, but that sentence was overturned by a federal appeals court in 2003 and a third trial was granted.
New-yorkUnited-statesCaliforniaCorcoran-state-prisonOrange-countyJill-barcombJill-parenteauRobin-samsoeSusannah-cullinaneAndy-roseCharlotte-lambCornelia-crilleyA serial murderer dubbed “The Dating Game Killer” has died at the age of 77 while awaiting execution in California, authorities said.
Rodney James Alcala died of natural causes at a hospital in San Joaquin Valley, California, prison officials said in a statement.
Alcala was sentenced to death in 2010 for five murders in California between 1977 and 1979, including that of a 12-year-old girl, though authorities estimate he may have killed up to 130 people across the country.
He received his nickname after his appearance on US TV show The Dating Game in 1978.
Rodney James Alcala at a court appearance in New York (AP)
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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.
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