

Alcala was arrested and extradited to California. A few months later, two children attending the arts camp noticed his photo on an FBI poster at the post office. The FBI added Alcala to its list of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives in early 1971. To evade the resulting arrest warrant, Alcala left the state and enrolled in the NYU film school, using the name "John Berger." In 1971, he obtained a counseling job at a New Hampshire arts camp for children using a slightly different alias, "John Burger." In June 1971, Cornelia Michel Crilley, a 23-year-old TWA flight attendant, was found raped and strangled in her Manhattan apartment. When the police arrived, the girl was found alive, having been raped and beaten with a steel bar, but Alcala had fled. Early criminal history Īlcala committed his first known crime in 1968 when an eyewitness in Los Angeles called police after watching him lure an eight-year-old girl named Tali Shapiro into his Hollywood apartment. Īfter leaving the army, Alcala graduated from the UCLA School of Fine Arts and later studied film under Roman Polanski at New York University. Other diagnoses later proposed by various psychiatric experts at his trials included narcissistic personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, and malignant narcissism with psychopathy and sexual sadism comorbidities. In 1964, after what was described as a nervous breakdown-during which he went AWOL and hitchhiked from Fort Bragg to his mother's house-he was diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder by a military psychiatrist and discharged on medical grounds.

In 1961, at the age of 17, Alcala joined the United States Army and served as a clerk.

In 1954, when Alcala was about 11 years old, his mother moved him and his two sisters to suburban Los Angeles. In 1951, Alcala's father moved the family to Mexico, then abandoned them three years later. Rodney Alcala was born Rodrigo Jacques Alcala Buquor in San Antonio, Texas, to a Mexican-American couple, Raoul Alcala Buquor and Anna Maria Gutierrez. 8 Additional associations, charges, and convictions.4 Samsoe murder, arrest, and first two trials.Īlcala was sometimes referred to as The Dating Game Killer because of his 1978 appearance on the television show The Dating Game in the midst of his murder spree. One police detective described Alcala as "a killing machine," and others have compared him to Ted Bundy. Prosecutors have said that Alcala "toyed" with his victims, strangling them until they lost consciousness, then waiting until they revived, sometimes repeating this process several times before finally killing them. Alcala is known to have assaulted one other photographic subject, and police have speculated that others could be rape or murder victims as well. In 2016, he was charged with the 1977 murder of a woman identified in one of his photos. Īlcala compiled a collection of more than 1,000 photographs of women, teenage girls, and boys, many in sexually explicit poses. Alcala's true number of victims remains unknown and could be much higher.
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Rodney James Alcala (born Rodrigo Jacques Alcala Buquor Aug– July 24, 2021) was an American serial killer and rapist who was sentenced to death in California for five murders committed in that state between 19, and received an additional sentence of 25 years to life after pleading guilty to two homicides committed in New York in 19.
