When Rodney Alcala appeared as smiling Bachelor One on a popular TV dating show, he was concealing a dark and devastating secret that eventually earned him the death sentence.
The confident contestant seen by viewers across the USA in 1978 was actually entrenched in a brutal two-year murder spree.
Somehow the 29-year-old, now known as one of the world’s worst serial killers, charmed his way onto The Dating Game, even though he had served a jail sentence for child molestation following the vicious rape of an eight-year-old girl in 1972.
