Convicted serial killer 'Dating Game Killer' Rodney Alcala died of natural causes at 77 | Daily Mail Online
"Serial killer Rodney Alcala, 77, had died of natural causes in a California hospital on Saturday at 1:43 am. He infamously appeared on the The Dating Game in September 1978, when he was in the midst of a brutal killing spree
Convicted serial killer Rodney Alcala, 77, died of natural causes in a California hospital on Saturday at 1:43 am, according to California prison officials.
He was awaiting a death sentence at Corcoran State Prison.
Alcala was convicted of killing seven women in the 1970s, with five murders in California and two in New York. His youngest murder victim was just 12-years-old, whom he abducted as she made her way to ballet practice in Los Angeles in 1979.
Billing himself as a professional fashion photographer, Alcala, who is said to have an IQ above 160, convinced hundreds of young men and women to pose naked for him for his ‘portfolio’.
He would also often lure in his murder victims the same way, before strangling them until they passed out. When they'd reawaken, he'd begin torturing them by raping and beating them within an inch of their lives.
Alcala would then kill them, often by strangulation, then rearrange their limbs into explicit positions and photograph their naked bodies.
He was eventually detained for the final time in 1979, after murdering 12-year-old Robin Samsoe."
