Alcala fled, and Rowan was pulled from the apartment by her friends. Rowan was then rescued by friends and acquaintances who broke into the room through a window. When they arrived, Alcala dragged Rowan into his bedroom and barred the door. Instead, Alcala drove to his apartment a few blocks away, where he said he was having a party. Rowan's claims, which were corroborated and confirmed by law enforcement after her admissions came to light, were that while she was living in Hollywood in July 1968 (before Shapiro's abduction), she was approached by Alcala who called himself "Rod" at a teen nightclub on Sunset Strip, and got into his car believing she was going to an IHOP restaurant. Sexual assaults Morgan Rowan Īfter Alcala's death in 2021, 68-year-old Morgan Rowan contacted retired LAPD Detective Steve Hodel, one of the original investigators on the Shapiro case, and described being attacked by Alcala when she was 16 in 1968. After leaving the army, Alcala graduated from the UCLA School of Fine Arts and later studied film under Roman Polanski at New York University. Other diagnoses later proposed by various psychiatric experts at his trials included narcissistic personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, and malignant narcissism with psychopathy and sexual sadism comorbidities. In 1964, after what was described as a nervous breakdown-during which he went AWOL and hitchhiked from Fort Bragg to his mother's house-he was diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder and was estimated to have an intelligence quotient of 135 by a military psychiatrist and discharged on medical grounds. Alcala was disciplined on several occasions for assaulting young women. During his time in the army, Alcala was noted by his commanding officer as being manipulative and vindictive as well as being an individual who frequently disobeyed orders and resisted authority figures. In 1961, at the age of 17, Alcala joined the United States Army to become a paratrooper and served as a clerk. He was on the yearbook planning committee and the track and cross-country teams. Alcala attended various private schools during his youth before graduating from Montebello High School. Alcala was an academically gifted student who was reasonably popular amongst his peers and was supported by his family. In 1954, when Alcala was 11-years-old, his mother moved him and his two sisters to suburban Los Angeles. In 1951, Alcala's father moved the family to Mexico, then abandoned them three years later. Rodney Alcala was born Rodrigo Jacques Alcala Buquor in San Antonio, Texas, the third of four children born to a Mexican-American couple, Raul Alcala Buquor (Aug– January 8, 1962) and Anna Maria Gutierrez (Janu– February 18, 1999). Alcala is often referred to as The Dating Game Killer because of his 1978 appearance on the television show The Dating Game in the midst of his murder spree. One police detective described Alcala as "a killing machine," and others have compared him to Ted Bundy. Prosecutors have said that Alcala "toyed" with his victims, strangling them until they lost consciousness, then waiting until they revived, sometimes repeating this process several times before finally killing them. Alcala is known to have assaulted one other photographic subject, and police have speculated that others could be rape or murder victims as well. In 2016, he was charged with the 1977 murder of a woman identified in one of his photos. Īlcala compiled a collection of more than 1,000 photographs of women, teenage girls, and boys, many in sexually explicit poses. While he has been conclusively linked to eight murders, Alcala's true number of victims remains unknown and could be much higher – authorities believe the actual number is as high as 130. He was sentenced to death for five murders committed in the state between 19, and received an additional sentence of 25 years to life after pleading guilty to two homicides committed in New York in 19. Rodney James Alcala (born Rodrigo Jacques Alcala Buquor Aug– July 24, 2021) was an American serial killer and sex offender who died of natural causes while on death row in California. California State Prison, Corcoran (died there) and San Quentin
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