Rodney James "Rod" Alcala (born Rodrigo Jacques Alcala Buquor), a.k.a. "The Dating Game Killer", was a convicted (possibly prolific) pedophilic, hebephilic, and ephebophilic serial killer, rapist, and one-time abductor. Alcala was born Rodrigo Jacques Alcala Buquor in Texas in 1943. His father, Raoul Alcala Buquor, abandoned the family when he was young. When he was 12, he, his mother Anna Maria Gutierrez, and his sisters, Christine and Marie, moved to suburban Los Angeles. At the age of 17, he

Serial killer Rodney Alcala had already killed at least several women by the time he won The Dating Game in 1978.

'The Dating Game Killer' To Face More Murder Charges

Rodney Alcala More News Rodney Alcala, who was known as the “Dating Game Killer” and was convicted in the murders of six women and one girl in the 1970s, died on Saturday at a hospital in Kings County, Calif. He was 77. Mr. Alcala, who was on California’s death row, died of natural causes, according