Rodney Alcala: Once, a winning bachelor on "The Dating Game." Now, a convicted serial killer.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Convicted serial killer won on 'Dating Game'
By Gabriel Falcon, CNN

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/03/08/dating.game.killer/index.html?hpt=T1



A fellow conestant on a 1978 episode of "The Dating Game" recently said he found Alcala "creepy."



Rodney Alcala, 66, is representing himself in the penalty phase of his trial.

(CNN) -- 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.

[derby378]

1. Hol-ee shee-it...

:scared:

[Maru Kitteh]

2. He raped an 8 year-old in 1968 and was on a game show in '78?

Sexual predators who kill should get automatic life without parole.

All repeat offenders (rapists) should get the same.

Once - you get an opportunity for counseling while you do some serious jail time.
Twice - so sorry. You have terminated your social contract with civilized humanity. You get to live in prison till you die.

[Imagevision]

3. Sexual predators who kill should get there heads shot off in public execution ASAP!

[subterranean]

4. I guess the announcer didn't mention that "Bachelor No. 1" was a convicted child rapist.

You would think they'd have run a background check on the contestants.