{"id":409615,"date":"2010-03-09T19:50:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T00:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a91cf20e970b"},"modified":"2010-03-09T20:04:33","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T01:04:33","slug":"long-road-to-justice-in-case-of-serial-killer-rodney-alcala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/409615","title":{"rendered":"Long road to justice in case of serial killer Rodney Alcala"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/span><\/strong><\/span>\"Alcalahicks\"<\/img><\/a><\/p>\n

1972 <\/strong>\u2014 <\/strong>Alcala is convicted in the
\n1968 rape and beating of an 8-year-old girl. <\/p>\n

Nov. 10, 1977 \u2014<\/strong> The body of 18-year-old Jill Barcomb
\n is found in the Hollywood Hills. She had been sexually assaulted,
\nbludgeoned and strangled with a pair of blue pants. <\/p>\n

Dec. 16, 1977<\/strong> \u2014<\/strong> Georgia Wixted, 27,
\n is found beaten to death at her home in Malibu. She had been sexually
\nassaulted and strangled. <\/p>\n

1978<\/strong> \u2014<\/strong> Alcala appears in an episode
\n of \u201cThe Dating Game\u201d as Bachelor No. 1. <\/p>\n

June 24, 1978 \u2014<\/strong> Charlotte Lamb, a 32-year-old legal
\nsecretary from Santa Monica, is found in the laundry room of an El
\nSegundo apartment complex. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled
\n with a shoelace.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\t<\/a><\/p>\n

June 14, 1979 \u2014<\/strong> Jill Parenteau, 21, is
\nfound strangled on the floor of her Burbank apartment. <\/p>\n

June 20, 1979 \u2013 <\/strong>Robin Samsoe, 12, disappears near
\nthe Huntington Beach Pier. Her body is found 12 days later in the Sierra
\n Madre foothills. <\/p>\n

\"http:\/\/50cases.freedomblogging.com\/files\/2009\/11\/alcalap0210.jpg\"<\/img>July 24, 1979 \u2014<\/strong> Rodney James
\nAlcala, an unemployed photographer, is arrested at his parents\u2019 Monterey
\n Park home.<\/p>\n

September 1980 \u2013 <\/strong>Alcala is convicted of the 1978
\nrape of a 15-year-old Riverside girl and sentenced to nine years in
\nstate prison. <\/p>\n

June 20, 1980 \u2014 <\/strong>Orange County Superior Court Judge
\nPhilip E. Schwab sentences Alcala to death after he is convicted of
\nSamsoe’s murder.<\/p>\n

July 11, 1980 \u2014 <\/strong>The Los Angeles County district
\nattorney\u2019s office files murder, burglary and sexual assault charges
\nagainst Alcala in the slaying of Parenteau. <\/p>\n

April 15, 1981 \u2014<\/strong> The L.A. County district attorney\u2019s office
\n tells a judge that prosecution of Alcala in the Parenteau case could
\nnot proceed because a key witness admitted that he had committed perjury
\n in another case. <\/p>\n

Aug. 23, 1984 \u2014<\/strong> The state Supreme Court reversed
\nAlcala\u2019s murder conviction in connection with Samsoe, ruling that the
\njury was improperly told about Alcala\u2019s prior sex crimes. <\/p>\n

June 20, 1986 \u2014 <\/strong>For the second time, Alcala is
\nconvicted of Samsoe\u2019s murder and sentenced to death in Orange County
\nSuperior Court. <\/p>\n

Dec.
\n 31, 1992 \u2014<\/strong> The California Supreme Court unanimously upholds
\nAlcala\u2019s death sentence. <\/p>\n

April 2, 2001 <\/strong>\u2014 A federal appellate court overturns
\nAlcala\u2019s death sentence in the Samsoe case, ruling that the Superior
\nCourt judge precluded the defense from presenting evidence \u201cmaterial to
\nsignificant issues.\u201d <\/p>\n

June 5, 2003<\/strong> \u2014 The Los Angeles County district
\nattorney\u2019s office files murder charges against Alcala alleging that he
\nkilled Wixted during a burglary and rape. <\/p>\n

Sept. 19, 2005 <\/strong>\u2014 Additional murder charges are filed
\n against Alcala in connection to the deaths of Barcomb, Wixted and Lamb.\n <\/p>\n

Jan. 11, 2010 <\/strong>\u2014 Alcala\u2019s trial for the five murders
\nbegins. He represents himself. <\/p>\n

March 9, 2010<\/strong> <\/strong>\u2014 Alcala is again sentenced to death.<\/p>\n

— Kimi Yoshino<\/p>\n

<\/em><\/p>\n

For Times coverage of the Alcala sentence see: Orange County jury orders death for Alcala for third time.<\/a> Click here for more
\n photos.<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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1972 \u2014 Alcala is convicted in the 1968 rape and beating of an 8-year-old girl. Nov. 10, 1977 \u2014 The body of 18-year-old Jill Barcomb is found in the Hollywood Hills. She had been sexually assaulted, bludgeoned and strangled with a pair of blue pants. Dec. 16, 1977 \u2014 Georgia Wixted, 27, is found beaten […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5893,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409615","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\/5893"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}