当局周六称，加州死囚区的连环杀手罗德尼·阿尔卡拉(Rodney Alcala)已经死亡。
加州惩教改造部在一份声明中称，现年77岁的阿尔卡拉于周六凌晨1点43分在科科伦州立监狱附近社区的一家医院自然死亡。
阿尔卡拉被称为“约会游戏”杀手因为他在1978年的电视游戏节目中作为获胜选手出场。
在奥兰治县法院为自己辩护后，他于2010年被判处死刑，罪名是1979年谋杀12岁的罗宾·萨姆索(Robin Samsoe)和谋杀其他四名妇女——18岁的吉尔·巴尔科姆(Jill Barcomb)和27岁的乔治亚·威斯特德(Georgia Wixted)，两人都是在1977年被谋杀的;1978年32岁的夏洛特·兰姆;以及1979年21岁的吉尔·帕朗托。
他曾因谋杀萨姆索两次被判处死刑，一次是在1980年，另一次是在1986年，尽管这些判决后来在上诉中被推翻，他获得了新的审判。
大卫·汉卓赫/美联社，档案
在这张2013年1月7日的档案照片中，被定罪的连环杀手罗德尼·詹姆斯·阿尔卡拉出现在纽约的法庭上。
阿尔卡拉还承认在纽约谋杀了另外两名女性——1971年的科妮莉亚·克里利和1977年的艾伦·简·霍弗。2013年，他被判处25年无期徒刑。
他与其他州的谋杀案有关联或涉嫌谋杀。2016年，他被怀俄明州检察官指控谋杀了28岁的克里斯汀·露丝·桑顿，她于1978年失踪，当时她怀孕六个月，四年后她的尸体被发现，尽管当局最终决定不将他引渡到怀俄明州受审，因为他的健康状况不佳。
由于加州在2019年暂停执行死刑，阿尔卡拉在加州的死刑被无限期推迟。
调查人员说，作为一名成功的摄影师，阿尔卡拉经常在街上接近妇女和女孩，并主动提出在攻击她们之前给她们拍照，以此来引诱她们。在调查1979年萨姆索谋杀案时，调查人员在属于阿尔卡拉的西雅图储物柜中发现了数百张身份不明的妇女、女孩和男孩的照片，以及被认为是他的一些受害者的战利品的珠宝。
2010年，亨廷顿海滩警察局发布了照片被阿尔卡拉带走几十年前没收，以确定他们是否可能是他的受害者。在他去世之前，他没有透露是否还有其他受害者。
'Dating Game' serial killer Rodney Alcala dies on death row
Rodney Alcala, a convicted serial killer who was on California's death row, has died, authorities said Saturday.
Alcala, 77, died of natural causes at 1:43 a.m. Saturday at a hospital in the community near Corcoran State Prison, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a statement.
Alcala was known as"The Dating Game" killerfor his appearance as a winning contestant on the television game show in 1978.
After representing himself in Orange County court, he was sentenced to death in 2010 for the 1979 murder of 12-year-old Robin Samsoe and the murders of four other women -- 18-year-old Jill Barcomb and 27-year-old Georgia Wixted, both in 1977; 32-year-old Charlotte Lamb in 1978; and 21-year-old Jill Parenteau in 1979.
He was previously sentenced to death twice for the murder of Samsoe -- in 1980 and then again in 1986 -- though those sentences were later overturned in appeals and he was granted new trials.
Alcala also pleaded guilty to the murders of two other women in New York -- Cornelia Crilley in 1971 and Ellen Jane Hover in 1977. He was sentenced to 25 years to life in 2013.
He has been linked to or suspected of murders in other states. In 2016, he was charged by Wyoming prosecutors with the murder of 28-year-old Christine Ruth Thornton, who disappeared in 1978 when she was six months pregnant and whose body was found four years later, though authorities ultimately decided not to extradite him to Wyoming for trial due to his failing health.
Alcala's execution in California had been postponed indefinitely due to a moratorium on the death penalty instituted by the state in 2019.
A successful photographer, Alcala often would lure women and girls by approaching them on the street and offering to take their picture before attacking them, investigators said. While investigating the murder of Samsoe in 1979, investigators found hundreds of photographs in a Seattle storage locker belonging to Alcala of unidentified women, girls and boys, as well as jewelry believed to be trophies of some of his victims.
In 2010, the Huntington Beach Police Departmentreleased the photostaken by Alcala confiscated decades earlier to determine whether they may have been victimized by him. Prior to his death, he had not disclosed whether there were other victims.
