via wikipedia:
Rodney James Alcala (born Rodrigo
Jacques Alcala Buquor; August 23, 1943) is a convicted rapist and serial killer.
He was sentenced to death in California in 2010 for five murders committed in
that state between 1977 and 1979. In
2013 he received an additional sentence of 25 years to life after pleading
guilty to two homicides in New York in 1971 and 1977. His true victim
count remains unknown, and could be much higher. Prosecutors say 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.
He is sometimes labeled the "Dating
Game Killer" because of
his 1978 appearance on the television show The Dating Game in the midst of his murder spree. Police
discovered a collection of more than 1,000 photographs taken by Alcala, mostly
of women and teenaged boys, most of them in sexually explicit poses. They
speculate that some of his photographic subjects could be additional victims.
One police
detective called Alcala "a killing machine" and others have compared
him with Ted Bundy. A homicide investigator familiar with
the evidence speculates that he could have murdered as many as 50 women, while
other estimates have run as high as 130.
