Convicted Serial Killer Rodney Alcala Now Suspected in Bay Area Murder
Alcala is currently on death row at San Quentin.
LOS ANGELES (KTLA) -- Convicted serial killer Rodney Alcala, who was sentenced to death last year in Orange County for five murders in the 1970s, is now a prime suspect in a murder in the Bay Area.
Alcala is suspected by the Marin County Sheriff's Department of murdering a 19-year-old woman in 1977.
Deputies say a photo of Alcala in the 1970s is very similar to a sketch of the suspect in the Bay Area murder.
Alcala, 67, a photographer and one-time "Dating Game" contestant, is currently on death row at San Quentin.
He was convicted last year of strangling four California women and a 12-year-old girl in the 1970s. He was sentenced to death last March.
Alcala was sentenced to death three times for killing 12-year-old Robin Samsoe in Huntington Beach on June 20,1979. He represented himself in court.
Alcala's other victims were: Jill Barcomb, an 18-year-old runaway who was killed in the Hollywood Hills on Nov. 10, 1977; Georgia Wixted, a 27-year-old registered nurse killed on Dec. 16, 1978; Charlotte Lamb, 32, slain on June 24, 1978; and Jill Parenteau, 21, who was killed June 14, 1979.
After his conviction, police released more than 100 photographs that were seized more than 30 years ago from a storage locker Alcala rented.
Alcala has also been indicted by prosecutors in Manhattan in the murders of Cornelia Crilley and Ellen Hover.
Crilley was found strangled in her Manhattan apartment in 1971.
Hover disappeared in 1977 and her remains were later found on an estate outside the city.
Alcala lived in New York at the time of the murders.
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