October 3, 2025 • 12 mins
Rodney Alcala, known as The Dating Game Killer, lived a terrifying double life. By day, he appeared on national TV as a charming contestant on The Dating Game. By night, he was a manipulative predator and serial killer responsible for the brutal murders of women and girls across California and New York. In this episode, hosts Jace and Summer uncover Alcala’s shocking story — from his early crimes against 8-year-old Tali Shapiro, to his years on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list, his chilling appearance on The Dating Game, and the murder of 12-year-old Robin Samsoe that finally led to his capture. We also dive into the cold cases later solved through DNA, linking him to victims like Jill Barcomb, Georgia Wixted, Charlotte Lamb, Jill Parenteau, and more. Authorities believe Alcala may have had over 100 victims. This episode explores his crimes, his trials, and his final years on death row — exposing one of the most disturbing cases in true crime history.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
How fun would it be to go on a game
show right lights, cameras and a little chance at of
fame or maybe even love.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
You totally go on, wouldn't you? Oh?
Speaker 1 (00:10):
For sure? But I'd probably freeze up and give the
most awkward answers.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Describe yourself in three words, oh hungry?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
What if I told you that one of the contestants
who actually won wasn't asking or looking for love at all?
He was in the middle of a brutal killing spree.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
And luckily the woman who picked him never went on
that date. She said he gave her creepy vibes.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
That instinct may have saved her life.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Today we're talking about Rodney Alcallo, the dating game killer.
Rodney Alcala was born in nineteen forty three in San Antonio, Texas.
His dad walked out on a family when Rodney was ten,
and his mom moved them to Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Once in Los Angeles, Rodney went to Cantwell Sacred Heart
of Mary High School, a private Catholic schoo will and Montabello.
On the surface, he was the kind of student parents
bragged about, smart, athletic, active in school.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Clubs, but beyond that, he had the streak of manipulation.
At seventeen, he joined the Army. Not long after, he
had a breakdown, was diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder and discharged.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
And the guy wasn't dumb either. His IQ was one
hundred and thirty five. He later studied film at NYU
under Roman Planski. That's a dark little coincidence, considering that
Planski's wife, Sharon Tate was murdered by the Manson family, It's.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Like Rodney was always orbiting around chaos. September twenty fifth,
nineteen sixty eight, Rodney spots eight year old Tally Shapiro
walking down Sunset Boulevard heading to West Hollywood Elementary School.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
He pulls over, talks her into his car, and takes
her back to his Hollywood apartment. Luckily, a passing motorist
saw what happened and called the police.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
When officers kicked in the door, they found Tally clean
into life. She'd been raped and beaten with the steel boar.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Miraculously, she survived, but Rodney slipped out the back and
vanished before police could grab him.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Well on the run, Roney made his way to New York.
In nineteen seventy one, Cornelia Crilly, a flight attendant, was
found strangled in her Manhattan apartment. That murder went on
south for decades.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Meanwhile, Rodney reinvented himself as John Berger. He was even
working as a counselor at a new Hampshire arts camp
for kids, which.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Is horrifying a wanted man hiding a plain sight surrounded
by children.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
By this point, the FBI had caught on. In early
nineteen seventy one, they added him to their ten Most
Wanted Fugitive list. His face was plastered on posters all
across the country, and.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Get this, two kids at the New Amshare arts camp
recognized him on one of those FBI posters at the
post office.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
And that's when it all came crashing down. He was
finally arrested in August of nineteen seventy one and extradited
back to California for the Shapiro case.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
He is the frustrating part because Talley's family had moved
to Mexico, she couldn't testify, So instead of attempted murder,
Rodney was convicted only of the child molestation.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
And he got three years and served just thirty four months.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
After his release in nineteen seventy four, Rodney wasted no time.
Within two months, he was arrested again, this time for
luring a thirteen year old girl into his car and
assaulting her.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
And guess what, he got paroled again.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Oh, it's so maddening. Psychiatrists even won parole board that
Rodney was a danger to society, but he charmed his
way through every time.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
It's like the system and handed him opportunity after opportunity,
and he used every one of them to hunt.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Nineteen seventy eight ABC's hit show The Dating Game. The
format was simple, one woman asked questions, three hidden bachelor's
answer and at the end she picks one for a
dream date.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
And bachelor number one is Rodney Alcala.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
A photographer who enjoys skydiving and motorcycling.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Sounds like fun until you realize photographer means he lured
women into secluded places with his camera.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Here's the kicker. He actually won. The woman, Cheryl Bradshaw
picked him.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
But after the show she refused to go on a date.
She told producers he gave her really creepy vibes.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
That good feeling probably saved her life. Rodney alcalis killing
spree in California between nineteen seventy seven and nineteen s
seventy nine was horrifying. His first known victim in this
period was eighteen year old Jill Terry Barcoe, a run
away from Oneida, New York. On November ninth, nineteen seventy seven,
(05:12):
he murdered her and left her body on a dirt
path near Mulholland Drive.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Jill was found naked from the waist down, poison and
fetal position, rolled up like a ball. She had been
sexually assaulted, beaten, and strangled with the blue rope ties.
There were even bite marks on her breast. At first,
authorities thought she was the victim of the Hillside strangler,
but eventually they determined these murders were separate.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Just a months later, on December sixteenth, nineteen seventy seven,
her twenty seven year old nurse Georgia Marie Wixted, was
discovered dead in her Malibu apartment. She'd last been seen
driving a friend home from a bar. When police arrived,
there were signs of fourth century Georgia was found pose naked,
strangled with her own nylons, and sexually assaulted. Her skull
(06:02):
had been bashed in and her genitals were mutilated. A
handprint at the scene and let her DNA evidence would
tie Rodney to the crime.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Then came Charlotte Lee Lamb, a thirty one year old
legal secretary from Santa Monica. On June twenty fourth, nineteen
seventy eight, she was found dead in her apartment laundry room.
She was beaten, strangled with the shoelace, sexually assaulted, and
posed with her hands behind her back. DNA from the
scene matched Rodney, and earrings found in his storage locker
(06:32):
would later confirm the link.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Oh Rodney didn't stop there. On February fourteenth, nineteen seventy nine,
he picked up a fifteen year old hitchhiker, Monikoy, in
Riverside County. He lured her to his apartment, assaulted her,
then took her to Joshua Tree bound and gagged her,
assaulted her again, and even blooded her with a rock. Miraculously,
(06:57):
she escaped when he stopped at a gas station, went
straight to police, and Rodney was arrested, only to be
released on bell when his mother posted it.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
And then there was Jill Marie Parento, a twenty one
year old computer keypunch operator on June thirteenth, nineteen seventy nine,
she never returned from a baseball game. Police found signs
of forced entry in her Burbank apartment. Jill had been beaten,
sexually assaulted, strangled, and posed with pillows under her shoulders.
(07:29):
Blood evidence would later link Rodney to the murder.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Finally, the case that would lead to his eventual conviction.
Twelve year old Robin Christine Samso from Huntington Beach on
June twentieth, nineteen seventy nine. She disappeared a while riding
her bike to ballet class. Twelve days later, her body
was bound off Santa Anna. Cannon wrote she had been raped, beaten,
and stabbed. Witnesses described the man approaching girls on the
(07:56):
beach asking to take their photos. The police sketched circulated
and Rodney's prole officer immediately recognized him.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
It was the last of his California spree that finally
put authorities on the path to justice.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
After Robin SAMSO's murder, Rodney was finally arrested in July
nineteen seventy nine and held without bail.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Finally, his trial for Robin's murder started in May of
nineteen eighty and he was found guilty, the court would
sentence him to death, but it wasn't over.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
In nineteen eighty four, the California Supreme Court overturned the
verdict because jurors had been improperly informed about his prior
sex crimes.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Fast forwards. In May of nineteen eighty six, his second
trial almost mirrored the first, minus the prior criminal record testimony.
He was convicted again and sentenced to death in August
of nineteen eighty six.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
The California Supreme Court upheld the verdict in nineteen ninety two,
but Rodney kept by appeals, even managing to get his
second conviction partially overturned in two thousand and one.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
The legal back and forth was insane, but DNA evidence
really came into play.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
In two thousand and three, new DNA evidence leaked Rodney
to the murders of four additional women, Jill Barcombe, Georgia Wixted,
Charlotte Lamb, and Jill Parenton.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Even more chilling, the evidence included a pair of earrings
found in his storage locker that matched Charlotte Lamb's DNA.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
When the court combined Robin SAMSO's murder with these four
cold cases, Rodney acted as his own attorney during the
third trial in twenty.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yes, he literally cross examined himself five hours of questioning
himself in a monotone voice, mister Alkala, where were you
on June twentieth, nineteen seventy nine, and then he would
answer himself.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
He even tried to use his nineteen seventy eight dating
game appearance as part of his defense, claiming the ear
rings in his locker were his, not robins.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
It didn't work, however, After less than two days, the
jury convicted him on all five counts of first degree murder.
He was sentenced to death again in March twenty ten.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Meanwhile, in New York, prosecutors waited for appeals to play out.
In twenty eleven, he was indicted for the murders of
Cornelia Krilly in nineteen seventy one and Ellen Jane Over
in nineteen seventy seven.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
He pled guilty in December of twenty twelve, partly so
he could return to California for his death sentence appeals.
In New York, he was sentenced to twenty five years
to life in January of twenty thirteen.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Investigators also found hundreds of photographs in his collection, some
which remained unidentified. Police hoped that the public may still
help identifying potential victims from those images.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Even decades later, new victims are still being connected. For example,
Morgan Rowan came forward describing being attacked in nineteen sixty
eight at the age of sixteen, and Pama Lamberson and
Christine Thornton were later linked through DNA evidence.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Rodney o'kala died of a heart attack on July twenty fourth,
twenty twenty one, at a hospital in King's County, California.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
He was still on death row. Decades of trials, appeals,
and horrors finally over, but the echoes of his crime remained.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
And sadly, we may never know the full scope. Investigators
belief over one hundred victims may have passed through his hands.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
It's chilling to think that a man like Rodney Alcala
could charm his way onto national television while committing some
of the most horrifying crimes in American history.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
It makes you appreciate the power of instinct. Like Shoel
Bradshaw trusting her gut on the dating game, that choice
may have saved her life.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
If you're fascinated or horrified by this story. You're not alone.
These cases remind us of how dark human behavior can
get and why law enforcement and forensic breakthroughs are so vital.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Thank you for joining us on a steep dive into
the life and crimes of Rodney Alcala. Make sure to follow, subscribe, like,
and share so you don't miss future episodes about True
crime series. And remember trust your gut sometimes it could
save your life.
How fun would it be to go on a game
show right lights, cameras and a little chance at of
fame or maybe even love.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
You totally go on, wouldn't you? Oh?
Speaker 1 (00:10):
For sure? But I'd probably freeze up and give the
most awkward answers.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Describe yourself in three words, oh hungry?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
What if I told you that one of the contestants
who actually won wasn't asking or looking for love at all?
He was in the middle of a brutal killing spree.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
And luckily the woman who picked him never went on
that date. She said he gave her creepy vibes.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
That instinct may have saved her life.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Today we're talking about Rodney Alcallo, the dating game killer.
Rodney Alcala was born in nineteen forty three in San Antonio, Texas.
His dad walked out on a family when Rodney was ten,
and his mom moved them to Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Once in Los Angeles, Rodney went to Cantwell Sacred Heart
of Mary High School, a private Catholic schoo will and Montabello.
On the surface, he was the kind of student parents
bragged about, smart, athletic, active in school.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Clubs, but beyond that, he had the streak of manipulation.
At seventeen, he joined the Army. Not long after, he
had a breakdown, was diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder and discharged.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
And the guy wasn't dumb either. His IQ was one
hundred and thirty five. He later studied film at NYU
under Roman Planski. That's a dark little coincidence, considering that
Planski's wife, Sharon Tate was murdered by the Manson family, It's.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Like Rodney was always orbiting around chaos. September twenty fifth,
nineteen sixty eight, Rodney spots eight year old Tally Shapiro
walking down Sunset Boulevard heading to West Hollywood Elementary School.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
He pulls over, talks her into his car, and takes
her back to his Hollywood apartment. Luckily, a passing motorist
saw what happened and called the police.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
When officers kicked in the door, they found Tally clean
into life. She'd been raped and beaten with the steel boar.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Miraculously, she survived, but Rodney slipped out the back and
vanished before police could grab him.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Well on the run, Roney made his way to New York.
In nineteen seventy one, Cornelia Crilly, a flight attendant, was
found strangled in her Manhattan apartment. That murder went on
south for decades.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Meanwhile, Rodney reinvented himself as John Berger. He was even
working as a counselor at a new Hampshire arts camp
for kids, which.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Is horrifying a wanted man hiding a plain sight surrounded
by children.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
By this point, the FBI had caught on. In early
nineteen seventy one, they added him to their ten Most
Wanted Fugitive list. His face was plastered on posters all
across the country, and.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Get this, two kids at the New Amshare arts camp
recognized him on one of those FBI posters at the
post office.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
And that's when it all came crashing down. He was
finally arrested in August of nineteen seventy one and extradited
back to California for the Shapiro case.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
He is the frustrating part because Talley's family had moved
to Mexico, she couldn't testify, So instead of attempted murder,
Rodney was convicted only of the child molestation.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
And he got three years and served just thirty four months.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
After his release in nineteen seventy four, Rodney wasted no time.
Within two months, he was arrested again, this time for
luring a thirteen year old girl into his car and
assaulting her.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
And guess what, he got paroled again.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Oh, it's so maddening. Psychiatrists even won parole board that
Rodney was a danger to society, but he charmed his
way through every time.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
It's like the system and handed him opportunity after opportunity,
and he used every one of them to hunt.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Nineteen seventy eight ABC's hit show The Dating Game. The
format was simple, one woman asked questions, three hidden bachelor's
answer and at the end she picks one for a
dream date.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
And bachelor number one is Rodney Alcala.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
A photographer who enjoys skydiving and motorcycling.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Sounds like fun until you realize photographer means he lured
women into secluded places with his camera.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Here's the kicker. He actually won. The woman, Cheryl Bradshaw
picked him.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
But after the show she refused to go on a date.
She told producers he gave her really creepy vibes.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
That good feeling probably saved her life. Rodney alcalis killing
spree in California between nineteen seventy seven and nineteen s
seventy nine was horrifying. His first known victim in this
period was eighteen year old Jill Terry Barcoe, a run
away from Oneida, New York. On November ninth, nineteen seventy seven,
(05:12):
he murdered her and left her body on a dirt
path near Mulholland Drive.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Jill was found naked from the waist down, poison and
fetal position, rolled up like a ball. She had been
sexually assaulted, beaten, and strangled with the blue rope ties.
There were even bite marks on her breast. At first,
authorities thought she was the victim of the Hillside strangler,
but eventually they determined these murders were separate.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Just a months later, on December sixteenth, nineteen seventy seven,
her twenty seven year old nurse Georgia Marie Wixted, was
discovered dead in her Malibu apartment. She'd last been seen
driving a friend home from a bar. When police arrived,
there were signs of fourth century Georgia was found pose naked,
strangled with her own nylons, and sexually assaulted. Her skull
(06:02):
had been bashed in and her genitals were mutilated. A
handprint at the scene and let her DNA evidence would
tie Rodney to the crime.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Then came Charlotte Lee Lamb, a thirty one year old
legal secretary from Santa Monica. On June twenty fourth, nineteen
seventy eight, she was found dead in her apartment laundry room.
She was beaten, strangled with the shoelace, sexually assaulted, and
posed with her hands behind her back. DNA from the
scene matched Rodney, and earrings found in his storage locker
(06:32):
would later confirm the link.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Oh Rodney didn't stop there. On February fourteenth, nineteen seventy nine,
he picked up a fifteen year old hitchhiker, Monikoy, in
Riverside County. He lured her to his apartment, assaulted her,
then took her to Joshua Tree bound and gagged her,
assaulted her again, and even blooded her with a rock. Miraculously,
(06:57):
she escaped when he stopped at a gas station, went
straight to police, and Rodney was arrested, only to be
released on bell when his mother posted it.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
And then there was Jill Marie Parento, a twenty one
year old computer keypunch operator on June thirteenth, nineteen seventy nine,
she never returned from a baseball game. Police found signs
of forced entry in her Burbank apartment. Jill had been beaten,
sexually assaulted, strangled, and posed with pillows under her shoulders.
(07:29):
Blood evidence would later link Rodney to the murder.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Finally, the case that would lead to his eventual conviction.
Twelve year old Robin Christine Samso from Huntington Beach on
June twentieth, nineteen seventy nine. She disappeared a while riding
her bike to ballet class. Twelve days later, her body
was bound off Santa Anna. Cannon wrote she had been raped, beaten,
and stabbed. Witnesses described the man approaching girls on the
(07:56):
beach asking to take their photos. The police sketched circulated
and Rodney's prole officer immediately recognized him.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
It was the last of his California spree that finally
put authorities on the path to justice.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
After Robin SAMSO's murder, Rodney was finally arrested in July
nineteen seventy nine and held without bail.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Finally, his trial for Robin's murder started in May of
nineteen eighty and he was found guilty, the court would
sentence him to death, but it wasn't over.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
In nineteen eighty four, the California Supreme Court overturned the
verdict because jurors had been improperly informed about his prior
sex crimes.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Fast forwards. In May of nineteen eighty six, his second
trial almost mirrored the first, minus the prior criminal record testimony.
He was convicted again and sentenced to death in August
of nineteen eighty six.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
The California Supreme Court upheld the verdict in nineteen ninety two,
but Rodney kept by appeals, even managing to get his
second conviction partially overturned in two thousand and one.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
The legal back and forth was insane, but DNA evidence
really came into play.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
In two thousand and three, new DNA evidence leaked Rodney
to the murders of four additional women, Jill Barcombe, Georgia Wixted,
Charlotte Lamb, and Jill Parenton.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Even more chilling, the evidence included a pair of earrings
found in his storage locker that matched Charlotte Lamb's DNA.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
When the court combined Robin SAMSO's murder with these four
cold cases, Rodney acted as his own attorney during the
third trial in twenty.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yes, he literally cross examined himself five hours of questioning
himself in a monotone voice, mister Alkala, where were you
on June twentieth, nineteen seventy nine, and then he would
answer himself.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
He even tried to use his nineteen seventy eight dating
game appearance as part of his defense, claiming the ear
rings in his locker were his, not robins.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
It didn't work, however, After less than two days, the
jury convicted him on all five counts of first degree murder.
He was sentenced to death again in March twenty ten.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Meanwhile, in New York, prosecutors waited for appeals to play out.
In twenty eleven, he was indicted for the murders of
Cornelia Krilly in nineteen seventy one and Ellen Jane Over
in nineteen seventy seven.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
He pled guilty in December of twenty twelve, partly so
he could return to California for his death sentence appeals.
In New York, he was sentenced to twenty five years
to life in January of twenty thirteen.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Investigators also found hundreds of photographs in his collection, some
which remained unidentified. Police hoped that the public may still
help identifying potential victims from those images.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Even decades later, new victims are still being connected. For example,
Morgan Rowan came forward describing being attacked in nineteen sixty
eight at the age of sixteen, and Pama Lamberson and
Christine Thornton were later linked through DNA evidence.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Rodney o'kala died of a heart attack on July twenty fourth,
twenty twenty one, at a hospital in King's County, California.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
He was still on death row. Decades of trials, appeals,
and horrors finally over, but the echoes of his crime remained.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
And sadly, we may never know the full scope. Investigators
belief over one hundred victims may have passed through his hands.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
It's chilling to think that a man like Rodney Alcala
could charm his way onto national television while committing some
of the most horrifying crimes in American history.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
It makes you appreciate the power of instinct. Like Shoel
Bradshaw trusting her gut on the dating game, that choice
may have saved her life.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
If you're fascinated or horrified by this story. You're not alone.
These cases remind us of how dark human behavior can
get and why law enforcement and forensic breakthroughs are so vital.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Thank you for joining us on a steep dive into
the life and crimes of Rodney Alcala. Make sure to follow, subscribe, like,
and share so you don't miss future episodes about True
crime series. And remember trust your gut sometimes it could
save your life.
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