{"id":355320,"date":"2010-02-23T17:47:42","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T22:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8ca6eaa970b"},"modified":"2010-02-23T19:48:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T00:48:36","slug":"oc-jury-set-to-decide-fate-of-accused-serial-killer-rodney-alcala-for-a-3rd-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/355320","title":{"rendered":"OC jury set to decide fate of accused serial killer Rodney Alcala — for a 3rd time"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The case against alleged serial killer Rodney James Alcala is expected to go to jury late Tuesday, setting the stage for a possible third conviction of a man who has twice been condemned to death row in the kidnapping and murder of a 12-year-old Huntington Beach girl.<\/p>\n

Each conviction has been overturned, though the case has expanded as authorities said they were able to tie Alcala to other 1970s-era\u00a0slayings.<\/p>\n

Alcala is accused in the 1979 kidnapping and murder of Robin Samsoe, 12, after a visit to the beach. He is also charged with murdering four\u00a0Los Angeles County women between 1977 and 1979. Earlier this decade, investigators said they linked Alcala to the torture, rape and murder of Jill Barcomb, 18; Georgia Wixted, 27; Charlotte Lamb, 32; and Jill Parenteau, 21, with DNA, blood and fingerprint evidence.<\/p>\n

In closing arguments Tuesday, Orange County Deputy Dist. Atty. Matt Murphy called Alcala a \u201cpredatory monster.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t feel sorry for him,\u201d he told the jury.\n<\/p>\n

Alcala, who is acting as his own attorney, gave a long, somewhat rambling closing argument in which he mostly ignored the four Los Angeles cases and focused on rebutting the prosecution\u2019s contention that he killed Samsoe.<\/p>\n

The prosecution\u2019s case, Alcala said, was based merely on \u201cmagical thinking.\u201d<\/p>\n

The former photographer denied being the photographer who approached Samsoe and her friend the day she disappeared, though he conceded taking pictures of a 15-year-old girl in a bikini nearby on the same day.<\/p>\n

— Paloma Esquivel<\/p>\n

Photo: Mark Boster \/ L.A. Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The case against alleged serial killer Rodney James Alcala is expected to go to jury late Tuesday, setting the stage for a possible third conviction of a man who has twice been condemned to death row in the kidnapping and murder of a 12-year-old Huntington Beach girl. Each conviction has been overturned, though the case […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355320","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\/4135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}