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Rodney James Alcala (born Rodrigo Jacques Alcala; August 23, 1943 – July 24, 2021) was an American serial killer and convicted sex offender who was sentenced to death in California for seven murders committed between 1977 and 1979.
John William Kelley (born March 9, 1963) is an American serial killer and rapist. Following his 2012 arrest for the 1986 rape-murder of a hitchhiker in Ben Lomond, California, Kelley additionally confessed to murdering a couple two years later in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, near Crescent City. [2]
Serial killers at some point active in their killing in the state of California, United States of America. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
The Hillside Strangler (later the Hillside Stranglers) is the media epithet for an American serial killer—later discovered to be a duo, Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono—who terrorized the women of Los Angeles between October 1977 and February 1978, during a time when Southern California was plagued by several active serial killers.
Ricardo Leyva Muñoz Ramirez (/ r ə ˈ m ɪər ɛ z /; February 29, 1960 – June 7, 2013), better known as Richard Ramirez, and nicknamed the Night Stalker, was an American serial killer and sex offender whose killing spree occurred in Greater Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area in the state of California.
Alcala, a convicted serial killer, appeared as a bachelor on an episode of “The Dating Game” in 1978, competing with two other men to win a date with bachelorette Cheryl Bradshaw.
California: 1968–1979: 8+ Serial killer sometimes known as "The Dating Game Killer" because he won an episode of The Dating Game television show [10] [61] [118] 7: Samuel Little: 19 states: 1970–2005: 60–93: Confessed to murdering 93 women, most prolific serial killer in U.S. history [9] 8: Juan Corona: Sutter County: 1971: 25+
In February 1979, the serial killer was arrested — and later released on bail — for the rape of a 15-year-old hitchhiking girl. She escaped him by pretending to enjoy their time together and ...