[10], Rodney Alcala was born Rodrigo Jacques Alcala Buquor in San Antonio, Texas, to Raoul Alcala Buquor and Anna Maria Gutierrez. The sketch was recognized by Alcala’s parole officer, and Alcala was arrested and held without bail in 1979. Deshalb wurde er aus der Armee entlassen und studierte trotz seiner mentalen Störungen an der UCLA School of Fine Arts, dort erhielt er den Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1968. [2] Alcala's true victim count remains unknown, and could be much higher. [12][13], In 1961, at age 17, Alcala joined the United States Army and served as a clerk. [3][4], Alcala compiled a collection of more than 1,000 photographs of women and teenage girls, many in sexually explicit poses. In 1964, he was diagnosed with antisocial personal disorder, after a nervous breakdown.
[6], Alcala was arrested in July 1979 and held without bail. [17][21], Richard Rappaport, a psychiatrist paid by Alcala and the only defense witness, testified that borderline personality disorder could explain Alcala's claims that he had no memory of committing the murders. [9], Alcala is sometimes called the "Dating Game Killer" because of his 1978 appearance on the television show The Dating Game in the midst of his murder spree. Rodney Alcala (* 23. [34] Jed Mills, the actor who competed against Alcala on the show, told a reporter that earrings were not yet a socially acceptable accoutrement for men in 1978. She testified against him in the court, but he was again paroled after serving two years of an “indeterminate sentence.”. His father left, leaving Anna Maria to raise Alcala and his sisters alone. "One wonders what that did in his mind", Brown said. Im September 2016 wurde Alcala aufgrund von DNA-Spuren für den Mord an der fotografierten 28-jährigen Christine Thonton angeklagt, die 1977 in Wyoming verschwand. Christine had disappeared in 1977 and was six months’ pregnant at the time of her murder. By serial, we mean lots and lots of recorded and unrecorded killings that involved humiliating the victims. [17] Unable to convict him of rape and attempted murder without their primary witness, prosecutors were forced to permit Alcala to plead guilty to a lesser charge of assault. Interestingly, Rodney was at the peak of his stint as a serial killer when he appeared as a contestant on the TV matchmaking show ‘The Dating Game.’ Thus, he is also known as the “Dating Game Killer.”, https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Death-sentence-for-serial-killer-Rodney-Alcala-3194512.php, http://criminalminds.wikia.com/wiki/Rodney_Alcala, https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/15/nyregion/rodney-alcala-admits-to-killing-2-in-new-york-in-the-70s.html, https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/dating-game-killer-rodney-alcala-234623366.html, https://abc7.com/news/convicted-serial-killer-rodney-alcala-charged-in-wyoming-cold-case/1521055/, http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/nypd-not-releasing-pictures-sicko-serial-killer-rodney-alcala-victims-article-1.165533, http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2012/06/serial-killer-rodney-alcala-returns-to-new-york.html. He committed his first crime in 1968, before joining film school at ‘NYU.’ He lured an 8-year-old girl, Tali Shapiro, to his apartment in Hollywood. "[25], "He said he was a professional, so in my mind I was being a model for him," said a woman who allowed Alcala to photograph her in 1979.