How did a serial killer wind up on a good-time national ... According to the book “The Dating Game Killer: The True Story of a TV Dating Show, a Violent Sociopath, and a Series of Brutal Murders ...

Rodney Alcala was a serial killer and sex offender who was ... Alcala became retrospectively known as the Dating Game Killer because of his television appearance in the midst of his killings.

Shapiro later told PEOPLE Magazine Investigates: Surviving a Serial Killer that “it was ... A True Story of Surviving the Dating Game Killer. She later wrote a letter to Shapiro over Facebook ...

Alcala, who was known as the "Dating Game Killer" after taking part in a US TV show, was convicted in 2010. As well as the California killings, he had also pleaded guilty to the murders of two ...

How one of America’s most infamous rapists and serial killers wound up on The Dating Game TV show in 1978 and even beat out his fellow contestants.

In 1978, Rodney Alcala won a date on the popular TV show, The Dating Game. What no one knew was that he was a prolific serial killer in the middle of a cross-country murder spree.

In her directorial debut, "Woman of the Hour," the star plays a woman who crosses paths with a serial killer on "The Dating Game." It's dark, it's tense, and it's exactly what she wants to be doing.