Alcala is confirmed to have killed at least seven women and girls in California, New York and Wyoming. Rowan and at least one other girl were able to escape Alcala’s attacks — which occurred a decade ...

Alcala, a convicted serial killer, appeared as a bachelor on an episode of “The Dating Game” in 1978, competing with two ...

“The Dating Game,” which first premiered in 1965, paired a bachelorette with three eligible bachelors who were obscured behind a wall. The young lady would ask a series of saucy questions to each ...

Rodney Alcala is confirmed to have killed at least seven women and girls across three states, but at least two girls were able to escape death at his hand. Tali Shapiro and Morgan Rowan survived his ...

There’s a troubling pattern over the years of murderers and serial killers appearing on television, namely game shows. One example is Rodney Alcala, who was on the hit game show “The Dating Game” in ...

'Woman of the Hour,' inspired by the real-life story of 1970s serial killer Rodney Alcala, begins streaming on Netflix Oct. 18 Anna Kendrick steps behind the camera for her new thriller. On Tuesday, ...

Plenty of people from Tom Selleck to Farrah Fawcett went on "The Dating Game" looking for love, fame and fortune — or at least a free trip. One woman got more than she expected: An encounter with a ...

While the recent release of a new film has brought the infamous case of serial killer Rodney Alcala back into the public eye, a former detective who helped put the "monster" behind bars for life told ...

Our cultural obsession with serial killers is proving hard to kill. From "Silence of the Lambs" to "Psycho," and from Netflix's "Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story" to "Mindhunter," movies and TV shows ...

Approximately one-third of the Netflix true crime thriller “Woman of the Hour” takes place on set of “The Dating Game,” where real-life serial killer Rodney Alcala was a contestant in the 1970s. So, ...

It has been four years since the 'Dating Game Killer' Rodney Alcala died on July 24, 2021 Jessica Sager is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has ...