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Nov 20, 2014 · November 20, 2014, 3:24am. Snap. Images courtesy Huntington Beach Police Department. On July 26 1979, homicide detectives from Huntington Beach, California, found hundreds of photographs of ...
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Apr 22, 2022 · Above victims of Rodney Alcala. Alcala managed to escape justice multiple times, even having a death penalty murder conviction overturned by the California Supreme Court, and later by the United ...
Mar 16, 2010 · March 18, 2010 -- A 48-year-old woman is shaken and unable to sleep after spotting her teenage photograph among a mountain of pictures found among the belongings of convicted serial killer Ronald Alcala. Liane Leedom told ABC News that the photo was taken in June 1979 when she was 17 -- and in between Alcala's murders of a woman and a girl.
Charlotte Lamb was a legal secretary from Santa Monica who was killed at age 32 by serial killer Rodney James Alcala. Lamb's naked body was found on June 24, 1978, in the laundry room of a large apartment complex in El Segundo. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled with a shoelace.
- Woman Attacked, New York City: 1963
- Tali Shapiro, Los Angeles: 1968
- Cornelia Crilley, New York City: 1971
- Alcala Arrested and Charged in Shapiro Case, New Hampshire: 1971
- Ellen Hover, New York City: July 1977
- Jill Barcomb, Georgia Wixted, Charlotte Lamb and Jill Parenteau: 1977-1979
- Alcala Wins ‘The Dating Game’: 1978
- Alcala Convicted of Murder Three Times: 1980-Today
While assigned to Fort Campbell on the Kentucky–Tennessee border, Pfc. Rodney Alcala went AWOL multiple times. In June 1963 he took a routine weekend pass to Nashville, Tennessee. According to an Army report, after stealing a car and robbing another driver of their credit card, he fled to New York City. “One night after leaving a bar [in New York],...
Shapiro was on her way to school in Los Angeles on a sunny September day in 1968, when a car pulled up beside her. A stranger leaned out and asked if she needed a ride to school. At first, she rebuffed him, said Shapiro, who is now 60 years old. Then he told her he knew her parents -- though she was still hesitant, she got in the car. A good Samari...
Crilley grew up in Queens, New York. At 23, she achieved her dream of becoming a TWA stewardess, and lived in an apartment with several of her stewardess friends on East 83rd Street in Manhattan. On June 24, 1971, Crilley’s boyfriend Leon Bornstein, received a call from her mother in which she said she hadn’t heard from her daughter. Bornstein offe...
In August 1971, Alcala was caught while working as a camp counselor in New Hampshire under his assumed name of “John Berger.” Campers had recognized his face from an FBI’s 10 most wanted poster at the local post office. He was brought back to Los Angeles and was charged with kidnapping, rape, child molestation and torture in Shapiro’s case. But bec...
Alcala roamed New York City’s streets, hoping to photograph any passerby who agreed. Eventually he approached nightclub heiress Ellen Hover, and the two started talking. “Ellen was strikingly beautiful. She had long dark hair and long slender arms and legs and carried herself like a dancer,” Hover’s childhood friend Anita Feinberg said. “Ellen was ...
These four young women were killed in the Los Angeles, California area between 1977 and 1979. Their cases went cold until 2003, when DNA technology helped connect them to Alcala. The bodies of Jill Barcomb, a 19-year-old New York native living in the Los Angeles area; Georgia Wixted, a 27-year-old cardiac care nurse in Malibu; Charlotte Lamb, a 32-...
By 1978, Alcala had murdered at least five women across two coasts and had been charged with the attempted murder of an 8-year-old girl. Instead of laying low, he made his primetime debut on “The Dating Game,” which was enormously popular at the time. “The Dating Game” was a TV game show that involved one contestant asking questions to three potent...
In 1980, Alcala was tried for Robin Samsoe’s murder. The jury convicted him and sentenced him to death. He was taken to San Quentin State Prison, where he was put on death row. Four years later, Alcala appealed and won. The verdict was overturned after the California Supreme Court determined the jurors in his trial had been improperly informed of A...
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May 14, 2022 · From 1991 through 1994, Wallace murdered 10 Charlotte women: Sharon Nance, Caroline Love, Shawna Hawk, Audrey Spain, Valencia Jumper, Michelle Stinson, Vanessa Mack, Betty Jean Baucom, Brandi...
Mar 19, 2010 · SANTA ANA, Calif. (CBS/AP) Investigators from Washington State to Arizona are looking at cases from before 1979 to determine if any of them can be connected to Rodney Alcala, the convicted...
