{"id":296861,"date":"2010-02-08T22:00:53","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T03:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0128777b55e7970c"},"modified":"2010-02-08T22:00:53","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T03:00:53","slug":"suspected-serial-killer-to-show-clip-from-the-dating-game-in-santa-ana-courtroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/296861","title":{"rendered":"Suspected serial killer to show clip from &#8216;The Dating Game&#8217; in Santa Ana courtroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Serial murder suspect Rodney James Alcala is expected to testify Tuesday morning and show a video clip of himself as the winning contestant on &quot;The Dating Game.&quot;<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Alcala, 66, is in court facing the death penalty for the third time in the June 1979 killing of 12-year-old Robin Samsoe of Huntington Beach. He is also charged with raping and killing four Los Angeles County women in the two years prior to Samsoe\u2019s death.<br \/><\/br>\u00a0<br \/><\/br>Alcala is acting as his own lawyer in the trial, which is being held at Orange County Superior Court in Santa Ana.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>In his opening statement last week, the former photographer told the jury that\u00a0&quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktla.com\/videobeta\/?watchId=c535e9e1-320f-4269-b10e-09416deb6fc8\">The Dating Game<\/a>&quot; would prove he is the owner of a gold ball earring. Toward the end of show, Alcala told the jury, they will see that his long hair flips back and reveals the earring.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>The earring has long been considered a key piece of evidence in the case. According to prosecutors, Alcala took the earring as a trophy after he kidnapped and killed Samsoe. It was found in Alcala\u2019s storage locker shortly before his arrest in the case.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Alcala says he bought the earring one year before Samsoe was killed, shortly after he had his ears pierced. <br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>&#8212; Paloma Esquivel<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<div id=\"refHTML\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"refHTML\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serial murder suspect Rodney James Alcala is expected to testify Tuesday morning and show a video clip of himself as the winning contestant on &quot;The Dating Game.&quot;Alcala, 66, is in court facing the death penalty for the third time in the June 1979 killing of 12-year-old Robin Samsoe of Huntington Beach. He is also charged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4132,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}