Convicted serial killer 'Dating Game Killer' Rodney Alcala died of natural causes at 77

The 'Dating Game Killer' Rodney Alcala, 77, died on Saturday of natural causes while awaiting a death sentence in a California prison. Pictured on his death bed Convicted serial killer Rodney Alcala, 77, died of natural causes in a California hospital on Saturday at 1:43 am, according to California prison officials. Alcala appeared as Bachelor Number One on the show winning the affections of bachelorette Cheryl Bradshaw Alcala pictured during his third trial in the early 2000s, after appealing his murder charge in the death of a 12-year-old girl Alcala’s first known committed crime occurred in 1968, when an eye-witness called police after seeing him lure an eight-year-old girl named Tali Shapiro into his Hollywood apartment. Samsoe was on her way to ballet class when she was abducted Georgia Wixted, 27, was a registered nurse whose bruised and battered body was found on the floor of her Malibu studio apartment near her brass bed on December 16, 1977 The American serial killer is believed to be connected to crimes in New York, Washington, San Francisco, and Wyoming Alcala compiled a collection of more than 1,000 photographs of women and teenage girls and boys, many in sexually explicit poses. Alcala was incarcerated at Corcoran State Prison as his execution was postponed indefinitely because of a moratorium on the death penalty instituted by California State in 2019 Police believe he could be connected up to 130 killings of women and children but the exact number of his victims is not known Some of the DNA unearthed matched that of four other woman who were either found dead or disappeared during the 1970s, confirming Alcala to be a serial killer.