"Someone like Alcala escaped true justice.”Īlcala, who was known as "The Dating Game Killer" for an appearance on the 1970s game show, frustrated police, victims, and justice itself during his life.ĭeputy district attorney Matt Murphy reacts quietly after the jury recommended death in the penalty phase of the trial for convicted serial killer Rodney James Alcala Tuesday afternoon Main Santa Ana, Calif. “There really is no death penalty in the state of California - between the 9th Circuit, circuit and federal judges, the current governor, and weak anti-death penalty attorneys general,” said Steve Cooley, who served as Los Angeles County District Attorney from 2000-2012. Gavin Newsom placed a moratorium on executions immediately after he took office in 2019. By some estimates, the trio killed more than 200 people - only to avoid the gallows.Įven though voters twice upheld capital punishment ballot measures, the state's last execution was in 2006. Like Alcala, fellow torture killers Richard "Night Stalker" Ramirez and Lonnie “Grim Sleeper” Franklin died of natural causes on death row.
"This sociopath chose not to work with authorities for the betterment of society and his victims. Alcala was convicted of killing Barcomb's sister, Jill Barcomb.
"Though I consider it rude to speak ill of the dead, his passing on in to the gates of hell will be a well deserved journey," wrote Bruce Barcomb on Facebook. Authorities have long believed many of the girls and women in the photos were Alcala's victims. Lorren Au Jr./APĮven after his conviction, Alcala refused to divulge clues to hundreds of unidentified female photographs found in a Seattle storage locker he rented. "I heard he had a pacemaker and dementia."ĭeputy District Attorney Matt Murphy in court. Rodney Alcala is a monster, and if there is a hell, he is in the deepest, darkest part of it right now,” said former Orange County Deputy District Attorney Matt Murphy, who prosecuted Alcala in his final trial. Jurors on three occasions prescribed execution for Alcala, who was convicted of killing four women and a 12-year-old girl in California during the 1970s but is believed to have had many more victims. The death last week of Rodney James Alcala, 77, in a California hospital was welcomed by victim advocates, though many considered Alcala's demise a mockery of the state's toothless death penalty.ĬALIFORNIA'S CORCORAN PRISON IS A WHO'S WHO OF SERIAL KILLERS For four decades, victims awaited justice for one of the most sadistic and prolific serial killers in American history.
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