Re: Timelines for these photos
In 1968 Alcala fled after attacking "Tali S.," "leaving her surrounded by photography equipment" in his De Longpre, Hollywood apartment.
Source:
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/predators/rodney_alcala/2.html
He ran out the back and fled to NY, and wasn't arrested until August 1971 at the summer camp in NH. He served 34 months for the attack on Tali S.
Source:
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/predators/rodney_alcala/3.html
So if he fled, wouldn't he have forfeited all his belongings he had up to that point? What would police procedure have been? Did they search the place for evidence and then release the apartment and its contents to his landlord (who, I imagine, kept or sold what he wanted and put the rest out on the curb for a free-for-all) or were they legally required to notify Alcala's relatives of the abandoned property?
Can anyone find any reference to Alcala archiving his photos at his mom's home? If he did not, then is it safe to assume he lost all his photos taken prior to whatever month he fled in 1968? If we can be sure of that, then he had to have taken all these photos in 1968 or later, even the ones that are cropped and are hard to otherwise date because there's nothing but the headboard of the bed visible in them.
Also, if those are definitely two different apartments (the blue-walled one and the white-walled one) then there's enough of the same furniture seen in both apartments to suggest he didn't fit it all in the Datsun F10 to move. My guess is he hired a truck or U-Haul or
maybe made several trips in the F10, but I'm not even sure that big dresser/chest of drawers would have fit in the hatch.
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Someone suggested this girl as a match for 9-year-old Julie Moseley, one of the missing Forth Worth trio. Any ideas how old the girl in this photo could be? I'm stumped.
http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2010-03/52806037.jpg