US serial killer Rodney Alcala could be new Ted Bundy

By Nick Allen in Los Angeles Published: 7:00PM GMT twenty-six February 2010

Rodney Alcala looks up after being found guilty on all counts Photo: AP

Alcala, 66, well known as the "Dating Game Killer" given he once appeared on the US version of Blind Date, was found guilty of carrying out a little of the majority unfortunate killings ever seen in Los Angeles.

Alcala, a photographer with an IQ of some-more than 160, murdered Robin Samsoe, 12, in California in 1979, as well as 4 women whose deaths had left unsolved for decades.

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But military hold Alcala, who has been in control given 1979 and has twice overturned prior convictions, is obliged for dozens some-more deaths in New York and Los Angeles in the 1970s.

A justice in Orange County, California listened dual of the victim"s bodies were acted bare and presumably photographed after their deaths.

One plant was pounded with a scratch produce and others regularly strangled and resuscitated during their deaths to lengthen their agony.

Alcala, who is expected to be condemned to genocide on each of the five counts, represented himself in a weird justice opening in that he acted questions and afterwards answered them himself.

During the 6 week hearing he insisted on display the jury a video of his coming on an part of The Dating Game in 1978. He was successful in being picked by a lady for a date.

Police claimed Robin Samsoe"s bullion earrings had been found in his receive but Alcala claimed they were his. He claimed the video showed him wearing the earrings on the dating show that was filmed a year prior to the girl"s death.

Recent DNA advances additionally helped integrate him to the killings of helper Georgia Wixted, 27, authorised cabinet member Charlotte Lamb, 32, computer programmer Jill Parenteau, 21, and Jill Barcomb, 18.

Prosecutor Matt Murphy pronounced he wanted women similar to prey, even keeping binoculars in his car.

"He gets off on the detriment of suffering on alternative people," Mr Murphy told the court. "He committed accursed acts of horror."

Detectives in New York are right away questioning unsolved murders of women there that occurred whilst Alcala was vital in the city in between 1968 and 1971, and again in 1977. The intensity victims embody an air stewardess and a nightclub heiress.

Steve Hodel, a late Los Angeles military investigator who interviewed Alcala, said: "This could simply be an additional Ted Bundy. It could be 20, thirty victims. the acts he committed, you"ve got this beast inside of him."

Los Angeles Police Detective Cliff Shepard said: "He"s right up somewhere only next Hitler and right around Ted Bundy. We know he"s been cross-country a integrate of times. We hold there"s some-more out there."

Bundy bludgeoned, raped and strangled dozens of victims in the United Statesin the 1970s.

Alcala had graduated with a excellent art grade from the University of California and is believed to have complicated movie in New York underneath Roman Polanksi prior to operative as a typesetter at the Los Angeles Times newspaper.

He used the alias John Berger, the name of a British Booker Prize winning author.

He additionally deployed his skills as a photographer to captivate victims to their deaths, receiving cinema of women in bikinis on the beach for "photo contests."