Police found a trove of Alcala’s photos and do not know how many, if any, other victims are pictured in the collection.
Watch the full story on "20/20" THIS FRIDAY at 9 p.m. In 2016, He was also charged in a murder in Wyoming, but authorities decided not to extradite him for trial due to his failing health. He was found guilty and sentenced to death. He was charged with their murder and stood trial in 2010.
In 2003, DNA from four missing women in Los Angeles, California, were connected to Alcala.
He pleaded guilty to murdering two women in New York City and was convicted of murdering a 12-year-old in Orange County, California. Rodney Alcala was at the height of his murderous spree in the 1970s when he put himself in the spotlight of primetime television - winning a date with a woman on the hit TV show “The Dating Game.” It was decades before authorities discovered he was a prolific serial killer.Īlcala has been connected to the murders of at least eight women, according to authorities.