Convicted serial killer won on 'Dating Game'

simplyred1962 · Mar 9, 2010

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-- Before he was a convicted serial killer, Rodney Alcala was a winning bachelor on "The Dating Game."
"Oh yeah, I remember it quite clearly," said Jed Mills, the game-show contestant who sat next to Alcala in 1978. "He was creepy. Definitely creepy."
Found guilty in February of murdering four women and a child, Alcala, 66, is acting as his own attorney in the penalty phase of the trial. He is hoping to persuade the jury in Santa Ana, California, to spare his life.
The crimes Alcala committed date to the late 1970s. Nobody at the time knew the man with the wavy long hair and toothy grin was an apparent psychopath -- an unstable, antisocial personality.
That includes Mills, a veteran television and film actor, whose only encounter with Alcala was when both of them appeared on "The Dating Game."
"That's when I became part of a nightmare, and I didn't realize it was a nightmare until 32 years later," Mills said.
Alcala, who already had been convicted for the 1968 rape of an 8-year-old girl, was the first contestant to be introduced in the game-show episode.
"Bachelor No. 1 is a successful photographer who got his start when his father found him in the dark room at the age of 13, fully developed," host Jim Lange said. "Between takes you might find him skydiving or motor-cycling. Please welcome Rodney Alcala."
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http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/03/08/dating.game.killer/index.html

That's just CRAZY.
How in the world did he get on the show with a rape conviction of an 8 year old girl?????

Judi Kay

Hardlyevr · Mar 9, 2010

simplyred1962 said: ↑

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/03/08/dating.game.killer/index.html

That's just CRAZY.
How in the world did he get on the show with a rape conviction of an 8 year old girl?????

Judi Kay

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And that how is different than Roman Polanski?

kajidono · Mar 9, 2010

simplyred1962 said: ↑

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/03/08/dating.game.killer/index.html

That's just CRAZY.
How in the world did he get on the show with a rape conviction of an 8 year old girl?????

Judi Kay

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It was 1968. They still communicated with smoke signals back then.

"Fully developed", *snerk*.

simplyred1962 · Mar 9, 2010

Hardlyevr said: ↑

And that how is different than Roman Polanski?
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I never said it was.....

Giggles the Original · Dec 31, 2011

this world is such a mess

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