20/20: The Dating Game Killer

Network 	Network
ABC: January 8, 2021 	
Starring 	Starring
David MuirAmy RobachRodney AlcalaBruce BarcombJill BarcombLeon BarcombSteve BracciniCheryl BradshawAl BurkeChris CamachoChris ConnellyMarianne ConnellyCornelia CrilleyAnita FeinbergJami FloydDavid GreefieldSteve HodelEllen Hover	
Packagers 	Packagers
ABC NewsRock'n Robin Productions 	
20/20: The Dating Game Killer was an episode of the long-running news magazine program focusing on Rodney Alcala where in the 1970s, a notorious serial killer makes a winning appearance on a popular dating show in the midst of his killing spree.
==Plot==
When The Dating Game host Jim Lange introduce Rodney Alcala as bachelor number one, a successful photographer, he didn't know that the man had already murdered at least five women and been charged with an attempted murder of a little girl.
Alcala has since been convicted of killing seven women in the 1970s. He was charged with murder for the first time in 1979 for the death of 12-year-old Robin Samsoe, who disappeared in June that year on her way to a ballet studio. Her remains were found two weeks later in San Gabriel Mountains north of Los Angeles.
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==Full Episode==
Watch 20/20 Season 43 Episode 9 The Dating Game Killer
Category:The Dating Game