![]() ![]() But a psychopath's true nature comes seeping through. "He watched the game and he gave those answers and he won, so he learned some tricks. "He was aware that he could say things that were considered sexy and funny and the girl would like that," Brown told CNN. Before the decade was over, Alcala would claim four more victims, according to testimony at his trial.ĬNN asked noted crime profiler Pat Brown to analyze Alcala's appearance on "The Dating Game." Within months of his "Dating Game" appearance, Alcala would become a killer, prosecutors said, abducting and murdering a 12-year-old girl in 1979. He was a standout creepy guy in my life." "And he was very obnoxious and creepy - he became very unlikable and rude and imposing as though he was trying to intimidate. "He was quiet, but at the same time he would interrupt and impose when he felt like it," Mills said. If Alcala appeared likable to viewers at home, Mills said he was the complete opposite when they sat together in the show's green room, where the show's contestants waited before going on air. "I'll take One ," Bradshaw said, and out strolled Alcala. "Who will it be?" the host asked her at the end of the show. But thinking back on that, I probably did."Īlcala was able to charm Cheryl Bradshaw from the other side of the "Dating Game" wall. "I am kind of bending toward the other guy to get away from him, and I don't know if I did that consciously. "Something about him, I could not be near him," Mills recalled. 2, said he had an almost immediate aversion to Alcala. "The best time is at night," Alcala answered with a wide smile. Please welcome Rodney Alcala."Īfter the three bachelors were announced, the young woman who would choose one of them for a date began asking questions. ![]() ![]() "Between takes you might find him skydiving or motor-cycling. 1 is a successful photographer who got his start when his father found him in the dark room at the age of 13, fully developed," host Jim Lange said. "That's when I became part of a nightmare, and I didn't realize it was a nightmare until 32 years later," Mills said.Īlcala, 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. That includes Mills, a veteran television and film actor, whose only encounter with Alcala was when both of them appeared on "The Dating Game." Nobody at the time knew the man with the wavy long hair and toothy grin was an apparent psychopath - an unstable, antisocial personality. The crimes Alcala committed date to the late 1970s. He is hoping to persuade the jury in Santa Ana, California, to spare his life. Definitely creepy."įound 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. "Oh yeah, I remember it quite clearly," said Jed Mills, the game-show contestant who sat next to Alcala in 1978. (CNN) - Before he was a convicted serial killer, Rodney Alcala was a winning bachelor on "The Dating Game." Watch a fellow game show contestant who knew convicted killer Rodney Alcala on tonight's AC 360, 10pm ET Watch an inteview with fellow contestant Jed Mills on tonight's AC 360 10 p.m.Fellow contestant remembers Alcala as "very obnoxious and creepy".Prior to committing the crimes, he had won a 1978 episode of "The Dating Game".Rodney Alcala was convicted in February of murdering four women and a child. ![]()
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