![]() ![]() He achieved morbid notoriety as the “Dating Game Killer” after winning the coveted date on “The Dating Game” TV show in 1978, but then getting rejected by said date for being too “creepy” and going on to kidnap and murder 12-year-old Robin Samsoe the following year.Īlcala was sent to Orange County Death Row for those crimes in 1980 but his conviction was overturned in 1984 by the California Supreme Court and was granted a new trial. He was 77.Īlcala was serving on California’s death row in Orange County but died of natural causes Saturday morning at a hospital in San Joaquin Valley, prison officials said in a statement. ![]() Rodney Alcala, the so-called “Dating Game Killer,” has died. ![]()
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