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May 4, 2024 · Photo: In 1968, he attacked 16-year-old Morgan Rowan. Weeks later, he raped and nearly killed 8-year-old Tali Shapiro. Alcala was arrested in 1979 for the murder of 12-year-old Robin Samsoe. He ...
Mar 30, 2023 · Tali Shapiro was an 8-year-old California second-grader who Alcala abducted in September of 1968 while she walked to her school along Sunset Blvd. in Los Angeles. “I told him I didn’t talk to strangers,” Shapiro told “20/20” in an episode that aired in 2021. “That is when he told me he knew my parents.
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Per the outlet, Morgan Rowan and Tali Shapiro detail Alcala’s attacks on them when they were girls in the 60s. Rowan talked about the incident for the first time decades after the serial killer ...
6 days ago · Warning: This article contains discussion of rape which some readers may find distressing. A woman has spoken out about surviving the brutal attack of a serial murderer known as the 'Dating Game Killer', having bravely teamed up with a fellow victim in a harrowing new documentary. Tali Shapiro was ...
- 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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Tali Shapiro saved from the clutches of Rodney Alcala. Alcala, infamously dubbed 'The Dating Game Killer,' due to his stint as Bachelor #1 on the eponymous television show of the same name, raped ...
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Jul 22, 2023 · What happened to Tali Shapiro? Tali Shapiro was eight years old on September 25, 1969, when a car pulled up alongside her as she was walking to school on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard. The driver was 25-year-old UCLA fine arts student Rodney Alcala, asking her if she needed a ride. “I told him I didn’t talk to strangers,” said Shapiro told ...
