The “Dating Game Killer” Rodney Alcala’s actions are portrayed in Anna Kendrick’s film Woman of the Hour.
Two years before to his conviction for the murder of a 12-year-old girl, in 1978, Alcala made an appearance on the Blind Date-style show as a bachelor.
Although he was ultimately convicted of eight killings in all, it is believed that he murdered numerous other women and girls. In 2021, Alcala passed away in prison.
Between 1971 and 1979, serial killer and sex offender Rodney Alcala was found guilty of eight murders in New York, California, and Wyoming.
He is suspected of murdering over 100 women and girls, though.
Alcala frequently targeted women by complementing them and then requesting to snap their photos while posing as a fashion photographer.
Alcala was given a death sentence in California in 1980 for killing 12-year-old Robin Samsoe.
The California Supreme Court later reversed his sentence and gave him a fresh trial. In the second trial in 1986, he was given the same punishment, but that was also reversed in 2003.
Investigators found forensic evidence in later years that connected Alcala to other homicides in California.
