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Nothing much changes in the TV world. Rodney Alcala, who is currently awaiting sentencing after being convicted of four women and a child in the late 1970's, was a 1978 contestant on The Dating Game ... and won. Fortunately for her, the woman who picked Alcala decided not to go out on a date with him. Apparently, screening of contestants wasn't any better in the 1970s than it is now, because Alcala had a previous conviction of child rape which didn't prevent him from appearing on the show. It also appears that Alcala may already have killed a couple of women before he appeared on the show.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... spree.html

The clip in the link contains Alcala's Dating Game appearance. FWIW, Bachelor #2, Jed Mills, who wasn't picked, has a resume of about 30 bit TV and film roles on IMDB.

Imagine if he had lost...

Buffacuse wrote:Imagine if he had lost...

I'm not sure if it's in this link or not, but they talked to a profiler who said that his being rejected by the girl on this show might have triggered his violent impulses. (Since there's some evidence he had already killed one or two women before he appeared on the show, I'm not too sure how accurate this analysis is).

‘Dating Game' Serial Killer Rodney Alcala Dies in Prison

A 77-year-old inmate who spent time on California's death row for kidnapping and murdering a 12-year-old Huntington Beach girl and killing four other people died Saturday of natural causes, state officials said.

Rodney James Alcala died of natural causes at 1:43 a.m. at a hospital in the community near Corcoran State Prison, according to the California Department of Corrections.

Alcala, who appeared as a contestant on the television show “The Dating Game” in 1978. was sentenced to death in Orange County in 1980 for the 1979 kidnapping and murder of 12-year-old Robin Samsoe. That judgment was reversed in 1984 by the California Supreme Court, and Alcala was granted a new trial.

https://www.nbcboston.com/news/national ... n/2440304/