Hemeroteca The 'seductive' murderer
The Hispanic serial killer
Rodney Alcalá,
suspected of killing up to 130 women in the United States, died this Saturday at a hospital in California, authorities at the jail where he was imprisoned reported.
Alcalá, 77, was taken to hospital
from death row
in a California jail, where he was sentenced to the death penalty in 2010 for the murder of four women and a 12-year-old girl.
Known in the United States as
the "Dating Game Killer"
for appearing in a 1978 television contest of the same name, Alcalá received another conviction in 2013 for killing two other victims in New York.
Authorities suspect that he was
able to kill up to 130 women and girls
in the 1970s, in addition to raping several, before being arrested and imprisoned in 1979, the date from which he remained in prison although his litigation took decades to resolve.
Alcalá died of
"natural causes,"
the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a statement.
His death sentence was related to
the murder of 12-year-old Robin Samsoe,
who was abducted while biking to ballet class on June 20, 1979 in Huntington Beach, southeast Los Angeles.
The same jury found Alcalá guilty of the torture, rape and murder
of 18-year-old
Jill Barcomb
, which occurred in 1977;
Georgia Wixted,
27, in 1978;
Charlotte Lamb,
32, in 1978 and
Jill Parenteau,
21, in 1979.
In another 2013 New York trial, Alcalá admitted that he raped and strangled
Cornelia Crilley,
a 23-year-old flight attendant
,
in 1971 at
the victim's apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
In addition, he confessed that six years later, he murdered the biologist
Ellen Hover,
also 23, whose body was found eleven months later in a forest in Westchester County, north of New York.
An amateur photographer and former student at the University of California, Alcalá
possessed a very high IQ
and photographed hundreds of his victims.
In January of this year, the Huntington Beach (California) authorities
published dozens of those photos
in the hope that the public would help them identify the people portrayed, and determine if they could be Alcalá's victims.
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