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They found a dead woman lying against an overturned bed, with a rope tied around her neck.
Then last month, almost 40 years after he was assigned to the case, Mr. Donnelly, now retired, heard for the first time the name of the man the authorities now believe killed Ms. Crilley: Rodney Alcala, a photographer and a one-time contestant on The Dating Game who is on death row in California for murdering five people in the late 1970s.
I went to the grand jury and heard significant things about the case that I didnt know, Mr. Donnelly, 73, said in an interview this week.
I worked on that case solely probably for a week, he said. I didnt come up with a lot. And bear in mind, Im catching other cases every day. He had to move on, he said, speaking of an era when the annual homicide tallies in New York City were three times as high as they are today. But he still picked up the Crilley case file from time to time. He retired from the force in 1979, and now lives in Rhode Island.
Despite his early work on the Crilley case, Mr. Donnelly does not plan to follow the trial. It wasnt that unique of a case to me, he said. I think theyre going to make a whole big thing out of this.
This really makes me nuts - so who is this actually supposed to help? Certainly not the victims or the victims families..
But Im sure Alcala will enjoy getting to go to somewhere new for the first time in 30 years, nothing like a bit of a road trip across country to 'punish' someone whos been stuck in the same place forever.
Then Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. announced in January that Alcala had been indicted in the separate murders of two 23-year-old women here the 1971 strangling of flight attendant Cornelia Crilley and the death of Ellen Hover, a onetime Hollywood nightclub owners daughter whose remains were found in 1978 after she disappeared the year before. Alcala had been eyed as a suspect in Hovers death since at least 1979; prosecutors said new technology and information that emerged in the California trial helped them put together a case.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...rder-charges/2011/11/30/gIQANy7mDO_story.html
I can't remember, were either of these women UIDs in the huge stack of photos?