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Jul 25, 2021 · Alcala was originally sentenced to death in 1980 for the 1979 murder of 12-year-old Robin Samsoe. That conviction was overturned in 1984, and Alcala was granted a new trial. He was convicted and ...
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- Jordan Freiman
Jul 25, 2021 · Alcala, who was on death row in California, died Saturday at age 77. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said he died at 1:43 a.m. at a hospital in Kings County but did not ...
Jul 24, 2021 · California’s death row is in San Quentin State Prison near San Francisco, but for years Alcala had been housed more than 200 miles away at a prison in Corcoran where he could receive medical ...
Jul 24, 2021 · Rodney James Alcala, 77, had been on the state’s death row since being condemned in 2010 for the murders of four women and a 12-year-old girl, according to the California Department of ...
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- Andy Rose
Jul 24, 2021 · FILE - This Jan. 11, 2010 file photo shows, Rodney Alcala, a former death row inmate who was twice convicted of the 1979 killing of a 12-year-old Huntington Beach girl, sitting in Orange County Superior Court in Santa Ana, Calif. Alcala, a prolific serial torture-slayer dubbed “The Dating Game Killer” has died while awaiting execution in ...
Rodney James Alcala (born Rodrigo Jacques Alcala Buquor; August 23, 1943 – July 24, 2021) was an American serial killer and sex offender who was sentenced to death in California for five murders committed between 1977 and 1979, receiving an additional sentence of 25 years to life after pleading guilty to two further homicides committed in New York State in 1971 and 1977.
Mar 26, 2010 · Rodney Alcala (AP Photo) LOS ANGELES (CBS) Being sentenced to death for committing murder has become old hat for 66-year-old convicted serial killer Rodney Alcala. Earlier this month, and for the ...
