Rodney Alcala: The Killing Game | Full Episode

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  • @48hours
    @48hours  ปีที่แล้ว +92

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    •  9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      this dude had it going on. wins on the dating game?

    • @gerrenelwood8089
      @gerrenelwood8089 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      😊😊

    • @gerrenelwood8089
      @gerrenelwood8089 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      😊

    • @mandymetcalf8564
      @mandymetcalf8564 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      😊

  • @kimbattles2399
    @kimbattles2399 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +467

    The gentleman who noticed the car , thinking this is suspicious and called the police
    A HERO

    • @UnknownUser-j3n
      @UnknownUser-j3n 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      May be in those days, its people like him, who made up for the advanced technology etc of our times. Good old bravery and heroism.

    • @Kado1609
      @Kado1609 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@UnknownUser-j3n alot of psycho experiments through history is also the reason we advanced our tech etc... its sad but its so true

    • @kathleenrogers10
      @kathleenrogers10 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes, but what was an 8 year old girl doing walking alone on Sunset Blvd? Insane.

    • @UnknownUser-j3n
      @UnknownUser-j3n 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      May be she lived close by. ​@@kathleenrogers10

    • @oliviablackburn3907
      @oliviablackburn3907 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@Kado1609there was non harmful research done too. Such as interviewing criminals and psychos/ sociopaths. They put a lot of information together and profiles from doing that. So it wasn't all bad but the mental institutions and experiments were terrible. Sadly.

  • @hannahkushan175
    @hannahkushan175 ปีที่แล้ว +1344

    The judge who gave him one year for rape and almost killing his first victim is as guilty as he was

    • @didibolter9362
      @didibolter9362 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      Absolutely and definitely!

    • @vladtheimpala5532
      @vladtheimpala5532 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +89

      Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
      Adam Smith

    • @juancarlosvillasenor-hp7iz
      @juancarlosvillasenor-hp7iz 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      My name is Monique hoyt

    • @vladtheimpala5532
      @vladtheimpala5532 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@juancarlosvillasenor-hp7iz
      Do you have a twin sister named “Unique”?

    • @mikerivera7509
      @mikerivera7509 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

      That judge should have been thrown in jail

  • @aliwooz913
    @aliwooz913 ปีที่แล้ว +1433

    What is with our justice system??? The amount of innocent people who have lost their lives due to judges being lenient is despicable

    • @ThisIsJ.Nicole
      @ThisIsJ.Nicole ปีที่แล้ว +118

      He should have never been let go for his first crime. These women would still be alive.

    • @bods1
      @bods1 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      These sort of people have infiltrated various positions of power across various professions, it's not called a "ring" for nothing.

    • @Kristenm28
      @Kristenm28 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Starts with the cops.

    • @kelseymariel2127
      @kelseymariel2127 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      @@Kristenm28 It starts with judges. And prior to that, local and state Legislators. Weak penalties for violent criminals and judges who legislate from the bench are to blame. Police hands are tied.

    • @rickhughesprints
      @rickhughesprints ปีที่แล้ว +54

      @@Kristenm28 The cops in this case did their jobs. The first judge is guilty for giving a sentence shorter than some get for nonviolent crimes.

  • @laurenjames2877
    @laurenjames2877 ปีที่แล้ว +839

    Under A year for what he did to that little girl ? The judge and everyone involved with that should lose their jobs/licenses /degrees and be ashamed. Thank you to that PO for speaking up .

    • @nanzyz
      @nanzyz ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Closer to 3 years, but yeah, should have been life.

    • @gaslitworldf.melissab2897
      @gaslitworldf.melissab2897 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      He's a physical cross between Ramirez and Manson. His eyes look like the latter; while his hair and other features look like Ramirez, both of whom were monsters that terrorized the US as long as they lived. Even from prison, Manson seemed like a threat to me. They all emote evil, especially in the eyes.

    • @truth9270
      @truth9270 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      I hope they all pay. I don’t care when and how. They need to pay

    • @jps3b
      @jps3b ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@nanzyz thanks technical Tom

    • @didibolter9362
      @didibolter9362 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I certainly agree with you lauren!!

  • @RaleighLink
    @RaleighLink ปีที่แล้ว +335

    I can't believe they let him go after the first one. We need to start holding the individuals accountable who release murderers back onto the streets.

    • @Tess-163
      @Tess-163 ปีที่แล้ว

      They should be charged with manslaughter when someone they releases kills again

    • @didibolter9362
      @didibolter9362 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Definitely!

    • @purplerain6742
      @purplerain6742 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      It'll never happen unfortunately

    • @mistersquare7327
      @mistersquare7327 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      it was long ago, in the 70s, I`m sure such a thing wouldn`t happen now.

    • @VictoriaDxz
      @VictoriaDxz 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      We all say that. How do we actually change legislation???

  • @KatSut1978
    @KatSut1978 ปีที่แล้ว +435

    Making that family go through 3 trials for that POS is absolutely unjust and sick. Shame on the justice system. CARE ABOUT THE VICTIMS!!!

    • @baronsaturday2103
      @baronsaturday2103 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Most 'justice' systems are as sick as this ugly monster.

    • @l-b284
      @l-b284 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      it's been my experience that most judges are either too green, or so out of touch with reality, a lot like the bubble of most state governments and the bubble of Washington, DC, that they fail to see the big picture. They spent their lives always at work or commuting which creates this "theoretical world" in which they govern. They fail to experience what normal people experience and lose touch with what matters, pushing their personal agendas, or too obtuse to connect all the dots.

    • @nameless1313
      @nameless1313 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      😂😂😂

    • @latoyiamackey1947
      @latoyiamackey1947 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That's gotta be traumatizing on a psychological level beyond imagination

    • @Gamerdad90s
      @Gamerdad90s 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @CraveyMike creeper

  • @newjawn9004
    @newjawn9004 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +198

    Isn't it remarkable how courts will do everything possible to help a serial killer while not giving a tiny s*** about the victims' families.

    • @y.peffle2802
      @y.peffle2802 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      it's California, are your surprised? they aren't any better now

    • @michaelb.42112
      @michaelb.42112 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Stop voting Democrat !

    • @tude17
      @tude17 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      stop talking nonsense!

  • @mizzury54
    @mizzury54 ปีที่แล้ว +326

    Rodney Alcala had already served time for attacking a child when he was on the Dating Game. Their vetting was horrible.

    • @jlbaker2000
      @jlbaker2000 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      No background check.

    • @Deborahtunes
      @Deborahtunes ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Background checks were unheard of back then. Vetting processes didn't really begin until the early 90's for the average job and such. Unless a person was going into high end security positions such as secret service, police officers, etc...

    • @mizzury54
      @mizzury54 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Deborahtunes That’s simply untrue.

    • @Deborahtunes
      @Deborahtunes ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@mizzury54 ~ It is true. I use to perform background checks for a security company...

    • @cherylmillard2067
      @cherylmillard2067 ปีที่แล้ว

      How did you perform background checks back then? @@Deborahtunes

  • @michaelleonard4826
    @michaelleonard4826 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +84

    I would like to thank you all for exposing the justice system failures far too often we hear about criminals who should never had been released.

    • @therexbellator
      @therexbellator 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Humans are fallible, and so are the institutions they create. There is no such thing as an infallible justice system. Nobody truly knew what Alcala was capable of back then, but you people in these comments calling for blood are benefiting from 20/20 hindsight.
      As was stated through the first half of the documentary, he was a very charming person who fooled a lot of people, like the judge, and that translated into a lighter sentence. People like Alcala took advantage of a system designed to rehabilitate most criminals and used it to re-offend multiple times. That doesn't mean the system is inherently flawed, but simply the people who were in charge were.
      I'm more concerned about people who are so quick to mete out justice like this is the Wild West. A justice system that lets a guilty person go free is preferable to one that often incarcerates the innocent.

  • @SamanthaGBeauty
    @SamanthaGBeauty ปีที่แล้ว +455

    When Robin’s mom described smelling her daughter’s shampoo, feeling the warmth on her hand and her not being able to pull her hand out her purse….i got instant chills.

    • @YaLittleFriend
      @YaLittleFriend ปีที่แล้ว +22

      I cried. SMH

    • @TheRetroWoman80
      @TheRetroWoman80 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      It's amazing when stuff like that happens. After my dad passed, for while I would smell his cologne oil in the air or on different random guys. So weird.

    • @YaLittleFriend
      @YaLittleFriend ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@TheRetroWoman80 🥺💕💕

    • @sharonharrison3611
      @sharonharrison3611 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      😥😥😥😥😥

    • @michaelsinclair3321
      @michaelsinclair3321 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Don't be fooled, there are many more predators like this individual out there that people don't know about

  • @ilovebrandnewcarpets
    @ilovebrandnewcarpets ปีที่แล้ว +155

    There's no justice for this monster. He has gotten to live his entire life. Death penalty or no death penalty; the system failed the victims multiple times.

    • @anh7807
      @anh7807 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      He got to outlive almost all his victims (minus 1) and the victim's parents.

    • @didibolter9362
      @didibolter9362 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@anh7807 Shameful!

  • @guslevy3506
    @guslevy3506 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +61

    There’s a good argument that Rodney Alcala is one of the top 5 serial killers of all time.
    Guys like Ed Fein and Jeffrey Dahmer entered our consciousness because of their complete depravity- it’s literally hard to grasp the things that they did to their victims - but both killed relatively few people.
    As for Alcala, it’s hard to imagine him NOT having killed at least 50-100 young women given his travels and ability to leave few tracks…

  • @Panwere36
    @Panwere36 ปีที่แล้ว +504

    When I heard that the woman who "chose him" on *_The Dating Game_* refused to go on the date with him and verbalized that she felt things "off" about him, I really wonder if she had some kind of intuition or perhaps she really could see the evil in him.

    • @49ers_red_and_gold2
      @49ers_red_and_gold2 ปีที่แล้ว +108

      She is nothing special. We all have that gut feeling she just listened to hers.

    • @sherrikinney6633
      @sherrikinney6633 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      Agreed, we all have that intuition, there are just some people who refuse to listen to it. It’s because so many want a relationship so bad they ignore all signs or red flags or that gut feeling.

    • @tjones673
      @tjones673 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      Even if she did go out on a date with him, I doubt he would do anything to her because it would put a huge target on his back as their date was publicized

    • @Madamegato
      @Madamegato ปีที่แล้ว +54

      @@tjones673 I honestly believe with a game player like him, it would have been a challenge. Regardless, good for her for listening to her gut. It is a powerful tool when you listen.

    • @Trendyviews.
      @Trendyviews. ปีที่แล้ว +44

      ​@49ers_red_and_gold25 Cold blooded much? Everyone is special in their own way.
      Plus, not all individuals have the gift of a strong intuition.
      Be kind.

  • @TenFalconsMusic
    @TenFalconsMusic ปีที่แล้ว +238

    The lady he was paired with on the game show certainly dodged a bullet by not going out with him.

    • @Justice-ef9sk
      @Justice-ef9sk ปีที่แล้ว +18

      RIGHT!!!
      But then again, I wonder...Ehhhh, I don't know if he would have hurt her, since they were both very publicly paired together, ya know what I mean? He would have definitely been questioned if something happened to Cheryl, and Alcala always tried to stay below the radar.
      But then again, he was a sick psychopath so who knows...🤷‍♀️ Either way, she's a lucky lady!

    • @caroltenge5147
      @caroltenge5147 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      How would he ever get on a show like that anyway?

    • @Tess-163
      @Tess-163 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      He probably would have gone on the date taken photos etc and then stalked her at some time in the future lucky she listened to her intuition .

    • @BrittMFH
      @BrittMFH ปีที่แล้ว +5

      ​@@caroltenge5147He was charming and attractive and knew how to apply to the show.

    • @sharonroller8849
      @sharonroller8849 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Learn to follow your instincts it might save your life , has mine

  • @kelseymariel2127
    @kelseymariel2127 ปีที่แล้ว +210

    This remains one of the most chilling 48 Hours episodes imo. Mind blowing what this guy did.

    • @beverlywhite5438
      @beverlywhite5438 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I know.

    • @veronikahk1826
      @veronikahk1826 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      48 hours stole this. Known about this Psycho years ago

  • @lorettokennedy4647
    @lorettokennedy4647 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +128

    Absolutely disgusting that he got off with a year sentence for beating a defenseless young girl to near death.... the judge and justice failed on all counts

    • @thecaseclosedpikachufiles2446
      @thecaseclosedpikachufiles2446 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I agree

    • @n0odles86
      @n0odles86 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      So many judges have a lot of blood on their hands. I can't stand how society gives them so much power.

    • @Mythos189
      @Mythos189 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@n0odles86 l agree mate

  • @angelsv
    @angelsv 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +170

    The judge that got him out of prison the first time should be prosecuted and sent to jail.

    • @damien2339
      @damien2339 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      the judge should be prosecuted?? do you realize it was in 1968? he must be long dead.

    • @650AFTERHOURSOC
      @650AFTERHOURSOC 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      If you don't know the law don't speak about it things don't work like that

    • @wmonger
      @wmonger 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      or worse....

  • @meredithmucha4644
    @meredithmucha4644 ปีที่แล้ว +130

    If a cop follows a man that snatched a little girl off the street to a house, you don’t give him 10 sec to get dressed from a shower.

    • @didibolter9362
      @didibolter9362 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      EXACTLY!

    • @joshuamartinez7409
      @joshuamartinez7409 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      True, at least give him 5 seconds.

    • @UnknownUser-j3n
      @UnknownUser-j3n 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      It wasnt the cop who followed him. A good citizen did that. I think he gave police the address. So for cops it wasnt a sure case of kidnapping.

    • @karenhill3970
      @karenhill3970 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Thank G-! for the good citizen bring observing and called Police

  • @TallianAdventures
    @TallianAdventures ปีที่แล้ว +104

    The judge that gave him only 1 year for what he did to 8 year old tally should be in prison. He has every one of this monsters victims blood on his hands.

    • @titsmagee4469
      @titsmagee4469 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      1 year to life. The parole board let him out.

    • @joselbazcom4221
      @joselbazcom4221 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      It should have been life without parole. The one year should have not even been considered. So yes the judge should be in prison as well as the parole minions.

    • @someonehadtosayit2566
      @someonehadtosayit2566 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That judge was likely a part of “the big club”.

    • @3BK235Y
      @3BK235Y 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I have been looking for his name, but so far I have found nothing. I have found very litle about that specific incident. But I hate the man even not knowing who he is, or was. What a miserable individual. One year to life. That's laughable, and the parole board let Alcala go after 34 months.

  • @janflower4068
    @janflower4068 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    My God that call from that person who thought it was suspicious with that little girl getting in the car my God you did it you essentially saved her life whoever, regardless love how close it came you were thinking and actions made all the difference

  • @karenkennedy6331
    @karenkennedy6331 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

    My mom told me not to talk to strangers or go with them. When I was around 6, my friend and her brother were walking alone to a store. A creepy guy on a bike approached us, and promised us money if we got on the bike with him to go a field. I told him no, my mom said not to. He kept at us the whole way, even in the store. I wish my mom would have told me to tell adults about it. I never told anyone at the store.

  • @Unqualifiedtake
    @Unqualifiedtake ปีที่แล้ว +128

    Prior sex crimes are ALWAYS relevant

  • @123verona1
    @123verona1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

    All of these "educated professionals "think they know how to handle sociopaths.....they are DEAD wrong. You cannot ever let monsters out on the streets

    • @hoibsh21
      @hoibsh21 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It's the paper pushers that are ruining society.

  • @jaym3796
    @jaym3796 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

    Crazy how easy it was to be a serial killer back then. No dna, cell phones, cameras, etc crazy times

  • @rsharma6716
    @rsharma6716 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +60

    you know there is something really really wrong within judicial system when a monster is allowed to roam free on the streets and the judge who allowed this to happen was never held accountable

    • @y.peffle2802
      @y.peffle2802 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      typical for California

    • @Basement811
      @Basement811 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@y.peffle2802it’s the 70s

    • @justinedse8435
      @justinedse8435 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @Basement811 No excuses. They put Charles Starkweather to death in a few couple months. That was in the 50's.

  • @OMo-m7d
    @OMo-m7d ปีที่แล้ว +98

    This is an 13 years old, originally 41:54 minutes long, re-done 48 hours episode, that has been released on the cbs yt-channel ("48 Hours Mystery: The Killing Game"). Sadly, they cut out what Robin Samsoe's mother Marianne Connelly had said in her interview with 48 hours after Rodley Alcala has been sentenced to death: that she wished to live long enough to live just one day in a world without her child's perpetrator and murderer in it and was looking forward to his death on death row.
    Sadly, though, Marianne Connelly (Robin Samsoe's mother)'s wish of living just one day in a world without her child's perpetrator and killer in it never came true, she died on july 23rd 2019, aged 75, 2 years before Rodney Alcala died of natural causes in prison. All this could have been prevented, would he have only be held in prison after what he had done to his first victim, as she herself stated at 28:57

    • @cindyrose4155
      @cindyrose4155 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I wondered, thank you for the info. 😢

    • @OMo-m7d
      @OMo-m7d ปีที่แล้ว

      you're very welcome :) I just recently watched the old episode and wondered as well if her wish came true@@cindyrose4155

    • @xxdeviousv2
      @xxdeviousv2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      How cruel

    • @joshuamartinez7409
      @joshuamartinez7409 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Life can be cruel.

    • @3BK235Y
      @3BK235Y 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you for the information. Interesting.

  • @megagregg
    @megagregg ปีที่แล้ว +63

    How is justice really served if a person receives a death penalty, is never executed and lives behind bars until dying of natural causes? The punishment was never given if this occurs.

    • @didibolter9362
      @didibolter9362 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I completely agree!

    • @hubes96
      @hubes96 ปีที่แล้ว

      It’s a great argument. My Mother workes at a prison, she was in charge of all the staff at the prison. She was in a nice office, not in the actual prison. So 1 group of staff, she had was in charge of the inmate’s paperwork and dealing extended sentences and release dates, discharge the inmates. She always made the point, the death sentence is unconstitutional. Because the majority of the inmates on Death row usually die of old age before they are executed; and that person who committed that crime when they were younger is a totally different person by the time they either die of old age or are executed 30 or so years after they commit the crime. So you are killing someone at that much older age, that would never commit that crime they did at their much younger age.

    • @bushmonster1702
      @bushmonster1702 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      @@hubes96no offence to your mum but she’s a wally. Them being different years later is irrelevant to the fact that they killed people earlier in life.

    • @billiejean4882
      @billiejean4882 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      exactly..

    • @thecook8964
      @thecook8964 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@hubes96 not true

  • @catherinecoetzee8888
    @catherinecoetzee8888 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    For all he did to his victim's, he did not dererve a natural death, because none of them had a choice

    • @didibolter9362
      @didibolter9362 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I totally agree! I was thinking about this case and just imagine for a sweet moment that he was just kept alive so research could be done on him, that would be payback for that poor, sweet, innocent little girl!

  • @jmo2104
    @jmo2104 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    My heart goes out to all of these families and my deepest respect to the sister who never gave up❤

  • @lessoriginal
    @lessoriginal ปีที่แล้ว +45

    I like how the cop at the end there calls it "luck". Nah, Homeboy. That was pure love and determination on Christine's sister's part. No luck to do with it.

  • @Desertfox14
    @Desertfox14 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    The bad thing about cross country killers is that nobody ever knows how many people they have killed. Years and even decades later, the killer's victims still get discovered. This story, like many others, are not over yet. There are still thousands of missing people out there. I hope the families find peace.

  • @kvn_d_rmrz
    @kvn_d_rmrz 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    "He was a registered sex offender and no one ever checked."
    Simpler times

  • @sandeesimons6045
    @sandeesimons6045 ปีที่แล้ว +160

    Rodney Alcala is just one example of how the criminals have all the rights here in California and the victims and their families have zilch!

    • @dcarts5616
      @dcarts5616 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Why is this happening in CA? Are there certain policies or political views that cause the lawlessness to go on there? I’m curious…

    • @Seabacon346
      @Seabacon346 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That’s why they’re all moving to Texas

    • @anh7807
      @anh7807 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@@dcarts5616governor paused all death penalty so everyone previously on death row is now on hold until they die. Even when we did have death row, it would take many many years for the process.

    • @myoffbeatlife273
      @myoffbeatlife273 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@anh7807at least 195 people on death row have been exonerated. Rushing to execution ensures that innocent folks die while not doing anything to prevent other folks from committing the same crimes.
      Not to mention that its a barbaric practice only legal in authoritarian regimes like China, Iran, Somalia, Russia, etc. America should be better than that.

    • @mizzury54
      @mizzury54 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This happens in a lot of states . Many of these appeals are heard by appellate judges that aren't even in California.

  • @amandahoffman6912
    @amandahoffman6912 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    It’s chilling to imagine how nice, flirtatious, and a soft spoken gentleman he was to these women. And all of a sudden a switch would flip and the monster would take over. When the woman saw it coming, it was already too late.

    • @el7jake
      @el7jake ปีที่แล้ว +5

      He's like the 21st century version of Ted Bundy.

    • @beckyblueish
      @beckyblueish ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@el7jakeHe was a contemporary of Bundy’s in the 20th century, not the 21st. One of many prominent serial killers in the 1970s.

    • @ellie.l6585
      @ellie.l6585 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ​@@el7jake?? They were both murdering people in the 1970's.

    • @unschuldshascherl
      @unschuldshascherl ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@el7jake🤦🏻‍♀️

    • @Denise_Suzanne
      @Denise_Suzanne ปีที่แล้ว +5

      ​@@el7jakethis was the 70s, so same Era. The 20th century.

  • @frankez99
    @frankez99 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    That police sketch was pretty good actually

  • @nancyann1014
    @nancyann1014 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    48 Hours is always done professionally. Thank you.

    • @anh7807
      @anh7807 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I agree. I watch plenty of other crime shows (many by amatures) and none are as good. They really do their research, while others just copy off them.

    • @ellie.l6585
      @ellie.l6585 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes, I'm in UK and agree it's one of the best true crime programs on TV. I'm guessing all the presenters are properly trained and experienced journalists. They weigh up all the evidence so professionally and in a balanced way.

    • @n0odles86
      @n0odles86 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's because they're uploads of TV broadcast shows. This one is a very old episode.

  • @petyachakarova
    @petyachakarova ปีที่แล้ว +31

    I can't believe the audacity of this guy to go on TV for women.. 🤯 It blows my mind!

    • @neva.2764
      @neva.2764 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      And doing his own defence. Very cruel!!

  • @QueenSugar72
    @QueenSugar72 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    I can't believe they let him play that song!

    • @angieg3624
      @angieg3624 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Right?! And what was his point in playing it anyway,

    • @shay4ojibwa638
      @shay4ojibwa638 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      If anything, it made him look like he was confessing.

    • @meredithmucha4644
      @meredithmucha4644 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That judge was pathetic. Talk about losing the room.

    • @alessia_giaquinto_
      @alessia_giaquinto_ 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Yes I didn't understand

  • @antisocialmermaid
    @antisocialmermaid ปีที่แล้ว +26

    That’s so sad that she died being 6 months pregnant and her body wasn’t found until years later 😢😢😢😢😢

    • @herpaderp-bp4pe
      @herpaderp-bp4pe 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      He was a damn monster. He killed a child. Brutally raped two children and also killed a pregnant woman. It's so sick.

  • @laural1784
    @laural1784 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    The woman on the game show was lucky. Alcala told an inmate in prison that he would have strangled and revived her repeatedly, and killed her.

  • @cafezo87934
    @cafezo87934 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    So sad. All his victims were so beautiful.

    • @herpaderp-bp4pe
      @herpaderp-bp4pe 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I noticed this too. He never killed average looking women . Only beautiful ones. And he was so ugly and it shined through his looks

    • @Manaritzis88
      @Manaritzis88 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Is beauty your measure? Stupid epiphany....

    • @melisentiapheiffer3034
      @melisentiapheiffer3034 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@Manaritzis88 We all know beautiful people get more opportunities than less pretty people. He took those opportunities away from them. Calm down.

    • @melisentiapheiffer3034
      @melisentiapheiffer3034 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@Manaritzis88 We all know beautiful people get more opportunities than less pretty people. He took those opportunities away from them. Calm down.

    • @markuss4133
      @markuss4133 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah, imagine they would have been ugly. This would have been so good. Shame on you

  • @TheOlive32
    @TheOlive32 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    Hearing the mother say there wasn't any hair on her daughter to help identify her. I just cant imagine the mental gymnastics her brain went through trying to conceive how that was even possible. The lump in my throat just wont go down.

  • @craigime
    @craigime ปีที่แล้ว +34

    the judge that gave him one year to life needs to be under the jail

  • @nursepatience8876
    @nursepatience8876 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    As the survivor said, why wasn’t she the only one!?

    • @123verona1
      @123verona1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      How could any justice system put someone who brutally raped and strangled a little girl back on the streets! Wtf?!!

    • @nursepatience8876
      @nursepatience8876 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@123verona1 the million dollar question

  • @tencentpistol1
    @tencentpistol1 ปีที่แล้ว +97

    Im genuinely curious about what Alcala's childhood and early teen years were like. I bet there's several warning signs, incidents and events other than were stated that warped this creep into the soulless, deviant, monstrosity that died in Corcoran prison. He even got off on re-living that Wyoming killing one last time which is beyond unfortunate. The world is a far better place without this human putrescence using up valuable air.

    • @stoveboltlvr3798
      @stoveboltlvr3798 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      38:22 flies collect where there is evil. I too want to know what knocked him off his rocker. There had to be early signs.

    • @MrGrumpyGills
      @MrGrumpyGills ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@stoveboltlvr3798 Flies usually collect where there is rotting or decaying matter to eat it and lay their eggs. Evil OTOH is a human concept. There's no connection.

    • @shaylow988
      @shaylow988 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Some people are legitimately born that way. It doesn’t have to be some “he had an awful childhood” drama. Tons of ppl endure horrific childhoods, yet grow to be wonderful people. There is no excuse for these monsters to be the way they are, it’s simply what they are. Yes, there are people who have terrible childhoods that go on to repeat the cycle. However, that is their choice not an automatic outcome.

    • @iriedance70
      @iriedance70 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I believe the person that you are commenting back to you was just curious about their childhood. I don't think they were specifically stating that that was the reason why he became who he was

    • @Trendyviews.
      @Trendyviews. ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ​@@iriedance70Some people are just oppositional and try to be Mr/Miss know it all's.
      I'm sure that is all the other person was wondering.

  • @5GreenAcres
    @5GreenAcres 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    This is bone chilling about the 8 yr old. I was followed by a man in a white car. He drove slowly following me down our narrow street. He swung the car door open and he had a trench coat on and was "satisfying himself." I ran as fast as I could to school, running in between houses and yards until I got to school. I was crying and I told my teacher. The police were called and they questioned me. I was also 8 years old and it was in 1968 in Wisconsin. Wonder if that creep was in Wisconsin at that time?

    • @jimwerther
      @jimwerther 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Different MO completely

    • @STORMDAME
      @STORMDAME 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I'm so sorry this happened to you.

  • @markthomas3730
    @markthomas3730 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    how much $$$ was wasted keeping this animal alive in prison all those years...?

    • @normasouthwood3182
      @normasouthwood3182 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Animal???? Don't insult the Animal Kingdom. No offence.

    • @3BK235Y
      @3BK235Y 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@normasouthwood3182 It is common in the English language to use the word in the sense of a very cruel person. There is nothing wrong with that. And it is no insult to the animal kingdom. You seem to believe that all animals are very nice blokes and sheilas. They are not. There are very cruel species of animais. The difference is that we don't judge them by the moral standards we apply to human beings. You seem to have what Stephen Jay Gould calls "A Franciscan view of nature." The "animal kingdom" means much more than your pets, the good boys you probably have in mind.

    • @kimkardashianlostearring5277
      @kimkardashianlostearring5277 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@3BK235Yit’s not that deep

    • @3BK235Y
      @3BK235Y 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@kimkardashianlostearring5277 I have problem undertanding people who write in an ejaculatory style.

  • @Janettoi
    @Janettoi ปีที่แล้ว +48

    I refuse to address this demon by name, he literally just went around assuming new identities and harming women 😢 this has been the most twisted case I've seen so far that didn't have to go on for such a lengthy duration he literally got a slap on the wrist for little miss Shapiro! Condolences to all those families of the known and unknown victims 🕊

  • @ThisIsJ.Nicole
    @ThisIsJ.Nicole ปีที่แล้ว +24

    He should've been left to rot in jail for life for his first crime. These women would still be alive.

  • @kellycuckoo3143
    @kellycuckoo3143 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    It’s atrocious how this monster was released over, and over again. Although I am relieved the other victims were able to receive justice, because of that process. I am really glad to hear he was in a horrible prison cell. Hell is the only place for him.

    • @currypowder15
      @currypowder15 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Society cares very little about women and children. Over and over its shown in our justice system. If you do something affect the big guys money then that's different. Until the late 80's early 90's, then we see more time given to child abusers.

  • @isadiasheikh
    @isadiasheikh 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Those are CHILDREN, stop referring to them as YOUNG WOMEN in your cases.

  • @meredithmucha4644
    @meredithmucha4644 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Who cares that the jury had prior info about his sexual assault?! He was convicted and it’s absolutely relevant. These legal loopholes are repugnant.

  • @rockinmama007
    @rockinmama007 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Huntington Beach ca has a memorial plaque for Robin samsoe at the pier entrance ❤

  • @annazaman9657
    @annazaman9657 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    What really angered me was him being let out again and again and given such short sentences

  • @lisayork2624
    @lisayork2624 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Insane how CA kept letting him out early on then kept turning over his convictions.

    • @snickerinmuttley1204
      @snickerinmuttley1204 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @lisayork2624, ya, and with the way he was criss crossing the states from east to west, I would say there's a lot more victims that they've yet to discover, and all those photo's he had, not saying he killed them all, but maybe some of them. one scary dude. 😡😡

    • @klgm63
      @klgm63 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nothing's changed in California. In fact, it's worse. Believe me, I live here. The defendant has all of the rights. And they wonder why people don't come forward when they're victimized. They know that nothing will be done and they will be victimized all over again.

  • @LaurieG.-fn2cr
    @LaurieG.-fn2cr 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    How could the state allow this monster to talk so much in court and even play sick thater?unbelievable

  • @throwbaqs
    @throwbaqs ปีที่แล้ว +30

    I love your documentaries ❤.

  • @49ers_red_and_gold2
    @49ers_red_and_gold2 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    Evil is real, and it's out there 😩

  • @purposeiseverything753
    @purposeiseverything753 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    The justice system is horrible and caters to the suspects in most cases involving children and women. It’s sickening.

    • @el7jake
      @el7jake ปีที่แล้ว +2

      But not surprising with the way women are being treated in our country these days.

    • @MermaidDolphinNYC
      @MermaidDolphinNYC ปีที่แล้ว

      Ask all the black men wrongfully arrested as well or why Donald Trump a convicted sexual abuser could become president.

  • @HKim0072
    @HKim0072 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    People have no clue how bad crime used to be. That’s 4x as many murders back then vs today.

    • @Sovereign_Citizen_LEO
      @Sovereign_Citizen_LEO 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The bad consequence of that (in part anyway), is that it has seemingly made law enforcement more lazy, corrupt, ignorant, incompetent, and unbeholden to the people and communities they are supposed to serve (and Rights and Ideals they are supposed to uphold). Now they manufacture crime where none exists and victimize innocent people for career advancement and revenue generation. The point is, in the old days they were moral and the amount of crime kept them busy and experienced/ knowledable before DNA and Forensic technology existed.

  • @georgiawhite8470
    @georgiawhite8470 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    For this man to still be alive is a tragedy of our failed judicial system

    • @riveranicole
      @riveranicole 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      He's dead

  • @daphne3717
    @daphne3717 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    All of those deaths are on the hands of that first judge.

    • @didibolter9362
      @didibolter9362 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yes, they are!

    • @3BK235Y
      @3BK235Y 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The judge and the parole board that let Alacala go after 34 months, after what he did to Tali Shapiro.

  • @kystars
    @kystars ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Ted Bundy must have been his brother. I think this guy was right up there with him. I could not believe how many second chance trials he got! He looked a lot like Charles Manson at the end.

    • @Misternicepair
      @Misternicepair 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Same thing I was thinking watching this

    • @herpaderp-bp4pe
      @herpaderp-bp4pe 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yeah he looked completely different from the dating game by the end.

  • @sophiaisabelle01
    @sophiaisabelle01 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Rodney Alcala thought he could get away with his crimes, but boy, sh*t went through the fan quickly before he could even have the chance to escape.

    • @ko-rp7ge
      @ko-rp7ge ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah

  • @sulynn72
    @sulynn72 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The dating game had 2 serial killers on their show. This is how charming these people can be

  • @gabrielletanner5339
    @gabrielletanner5339 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Those girls would be around my age now 70years, with families and lives of their own.

  • @221rabiyat00
    @221rabiyat00 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    If they started going after police and judges who let go of criminals, maybe some will start doing their jobs correctly

    • @Ais-eb9bk
      @Ais-eb9bk 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      HELL YES

  • @rsharma6716
    @rsharma6716 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    To all the families and law officers who never gave up and helped catching and making sure this monster stays behind bars my deepest respect for them all.

  • @robertwilliam5527
    @robertwilliam5527 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Off topic but I think people back then were much prettier, look at those gorgeous women with no 22mm eyelashes, botox lips or such

  • @rb5325
    @rb5325 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    What kind of 'justice' system puts families through that three times.

  • @michellelloyd4811
    @michellelloyd4811 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    It's frightening to think about how many other victims of his have still not been found. He had hundreds of photos of women and boys and I suspect he murdered all of them. One of the most frightening serial killer too because he didn't exhibit any signs growing up. And look what he was all along inside. A monster who wore the skin of a human being.

  • @MrCJ-qz9dl
    @MrCJ-qz9dl 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    And to think that such a soul as Rodney was allowed to be set free after numerous brutal attacks is beyond my comprehension. Such is the likes of a judicial system that is supposed to "protect and serve"! Heaven help us. And he was even allowed to die at an old age--77--while incarcerated.

  • @ilovebrandnewcarpets
    @ilovebrandnewcarpets ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Brutalizes an 8 year old, changes his name to hide, but then...34 months sentence??? WTF MAN

  • @XcZuNiTy
    @XcZuNiTy 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This case always gave me chills, especially seeing him on the daytime show.

  • @kdallas3966
    @kdallas3966 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Acala got into the US army. Then they realized, too late he was a paranoid psychopath and released him back to the unsuspecting civilian population. I can easily imagine what he would have pulled in other countries he was deployed to. He is a classic example of why I think psychological testing should be mandatory for entry and exit to the military and I am a combat medic veteran. We're unleashing too many trained killers unto the civilian communities.

    • @Basement811
      @Basement811 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He went awol and assaulted women and was insubordinate that’s why

    • @Basement811
      @Basement811 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He was a paratrooper

  • @memj89
    @memj89 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I remember when i first heard of this story. I was wondering if the woman, on The Dating Game show, was some kind of psychic? She was a very smart woman, to say NO!.
    M deepest condolences to all the families and friends.

    • @oxcart4172
      @oxcart4172 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Nobody is psychic. She is/was just a very good judge of character

    • @memj89
      @memj89 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@oxcart4172, I was saying psychic as a little bit of since of a joke.
      I agree she did have a good since of judgment.

    • @NicholasShade-eq1ts
      @NicholasShade-eq1ts 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      🔮

  • @Savage209er
    @Savage209er 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Justice served? Nah. He lived to be 78+ just chilling on death row. 😂

    • @EquineMetalhead
      @EquineMetalhead 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He was 77 actually.

    • @Savage209er
      @Savage209er 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@EquineMetalhead either way.

  • @teripealer2786
    @teripealer2786 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    THIS GUY SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN ON DEATH ROW FOR 30 YEARS. OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM IS RIDICULOUS.

  • @sisterhoney61
    @sisterhoney61 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I remember watching that episode of The Dating Game on TV when I was a kid.

  • @n0tofthisw0rld
    @n0tofthisw0rld ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Our justice system is full of incompetent idiots.

  • @joshuawayneyork
    @joshuawayneyork 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    I grew up in Huntington Beach in the 90s, it's so safe there that it's hard to imagine something like this happening😢

  • @Ms.Andrist
    @Ms.Andrist ปีที่แล้ว +8

    No, if it hadn't been for the CITIZEN, she would have died. Stop giving the police the credit when it is citizens who solve crimes.

  • @sweetpea_bythesea
    @sweetpea_bythesea ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Such wonderful, strong, brave women: Robin's Mum, Tali, Kathy, so glad we heard their stories ❤

  • @Pap1978
    @Pap1978 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    5 minutes alone with this guy please give ME

    • @JerryOrbachFan
      @JerryOrbachFan 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He died a few years ago.

  • @ericalampley480
    @ericalampley480 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm glad to finally have closure on this. I remember when you first aired this case.

  • @krishoward1360
    @krishoward1360 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I don’t think the Justice system takes predators like him seriously as seriously as they should. Thinking they can be rehabilitated??? Giving him less than 2 years for what he did to that little girl. These predators seem to reoffend more and they get worse and more vicious upon release!

  • @ABCDEF-pf2nt
    @ABCDEF-pf2nt ปีที่แล้ว +25

    DISRESPECTFUL justice.
    May all the victims rest in peace.

    • @MermaidDolphinNYC
      @MermaidDolphinNYC ปีที่แล้ว

      Ask all the black men wrongfully arrested as well or why Donald Trump a convicted sexual abuser could become president.

  • @amybostic1439
    @amybostic1439 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Our justice system is such a sad joke-especially in California

  • @blackiemittens
    @blackiemittens หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    One of the most compelling arguments for the vigilante solution I've seen in a while.

  • @Justice-ef9sk
    @Justice-ef9sk ปีที่แล้ว +13

    ...Had it not been for that CIVILIAN/GOOD SAMARITAN that called the cops--Tally would be dead.

  • @UnknownUser-j3n
    @UnknownUser-j3n 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Its sad to see the friends and surviving family members of the victims. After all these years, the grief that still envelopes them. For the killer, its just another day, for these people, its a lifetime of sorrow.

  • @Danimeows
    @Danimeows 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    May Robin's mother rest in peace and forever be with her daughter forever.

  • @thangarajpalaniswamy308
    @thangarajpalaniswamy308 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    That was a good job done by the detective or cop. He asked Alcala if he left her alive. He replied 'yes' and that made him confess that he was with her.

  • @JustAThought155
    @JustAThought155 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Gruesome! Weird how he had the same eyes as Manson in his latter years. As the one lady said, I agree: to think he was the last person their loved one saw before being murdered; that is absolutely horrific, in my opinion. Honestly, at first glance, I thought he was the other sick California psycho: Richard Ramirez.

    • @ttx3
      @ttx3 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Ramirez & Alcala were both of mexican descent. that’s why they shared the same ‘hungry’ eyes

    • @herpaderp-bp4pe
      @herpaderp-bp4pe 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@ttx3um what????? That sounds very racist. What do you mean the same "hungry" eyes because they were Mexican??

  • @tonibray488
    @tonibray488 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    My heart goes out to all the family 😢😢😢

  • @WanjiruMuya
    @WanjiruMuya ปีที่แล้ว +22

    The justice system failed the Women if he stayed behind bars😔

    • @aliwooz913
      @aliwooz913 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      As the justice system always did back then, hell even today.

    • @ThisIsJ.Nicole
      @ThisIsJ.Nicole ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Right. He never should've been released the first time

    • @Janettoi
      @Janettoi ปีที่แล้ว +3

      **injustice system

    • @anh7807
      @anh7807 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      At least he died behind bars and could not hurt anyone else but himself.

    • @didibolter9362
      @didibolter9362 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@anh7807 But, he had already done his damage, CREEP!!

  • @jaredwalla3064
    @jaredwalla3064 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    That woman’s account around the 17:00 minute mark is mortifying. Hope everyone involved has found peace.

  • @jeffbybee5207
    @jeffbybee5207 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Before execution the murders should be interrogated by the best methods to get all possible information from them. Truth serum. Waterboarding, everything

    • @klgm63
      @klgm63 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      💯 agree

  • @j.scottcaudill7543
    @j.scottcaudill7543 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I thought it was Jim Morrison in the thumbnail at first

    • @stoveboltlvr3798
      @stoveboltlvr3798 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Transformed into Howard Stern and then Geraldo Rivera and back to HS.