L.A.’s “Dating Game” Killer…
Over the years, 3 separate juries have found Rodney James Alcala guilty of first degree murder and sex crimes perpetrated on 5 victims (4 young women and a girl), during the late 1970s. In a third trial, recently concluded, Alcala, now 66, and acting as his own attorney, posed himself questions and played a vintage “Dating Game” clip (taped in the middle of his 1977-79 SoCal murder spree, he was an ex-con and registered sex offender at the time ) that shows him to be adept enough at sexual banter to have actually won the date (she wisely elected no to go). In custody since 1979, he was just sentenced to death…. again! Alcala is also the prime suspect in the 1977 murder of Ellen Jane Hover, the 23-year-old daughter of Herbert Hover, one-time owner of legendary Ciro’s nightclub on the Sunset Strip!