{"id":477682,"date":"2010-03-26T14:28:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T18:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310fe39a87970c"},"modified":"2010-03-26T14:42:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T18:42:07","slug":"detectives-eye-serial-killer-alcala-in-1970s-killing-of-two-seattle-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/477682","title":{"rendered":"Detectives eye serial killer Alcala in 1970s killing of two Seattle women"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Authorities<\/img><\/a>Seattle police said Friday that detectives are looking for links between convicted serial killer Rodney Alcala <\/a>and two women who were killed in the late 1970s. <\/p>\n

Seattle police are seeking DNA samples to determine whether Alcala is a suspect in the slayings of Antionette Witaker, 13, and Joyce Gaunt, 17. Both were killed in Seattle, and their cases were never solved. <\/p>\n

Det. Mark Jamieson of the Seattle Police Department said officials don’t have any definitive evidence yet linking Alcala to the homicides but are exploring whether there is a connection.\"\"<\/img><\/p>\n

Last month, an Orange County jury found Alcala guilty of five counts of murder in the killings of four women and a teenage girl. <\/p>\n

Days later, Huntington Beach detectives released a trove of photographs<\/a>
\nof women and children they seized more than 30 years ago from a storage
\nlocker the killer rented just as police were closing in on him.<\/p>\n

Detectives
\n said they wanted to know who these people were and whether they might
\nhave gone missing during Alcala’s murder spree in the late 1970s. Since
\n then, detectives have spent their days fielding a flood of phone calls
\nfrom people whose loved ones have been missing for decades.<\/p>\n

The photos were found in a Seattle storage locker Alcala rented soon
\nafter the 1979 kidnapping and murder of Robin Samsoe, 12, of Huntington
\nBeach.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The locker also contained what prosecutors called Alcala’s
\n"trophies" — earrings that linked Alcala to Robin and another pair
\nlater linked to Charlotte Lamb, a Santa Monica legal secretary who was
\nstrangled in the laundry room of an El Segundo apartment complex. <\/p>\n

— Ruben Vives
<\/br>\n<\/p>\n

Here are some of the Alcala photos<\/a> released by authorities.<\/p>\n

Photo: Rodney Alcala. Credit: Los Angeles Times\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Seattle police said Friday that detectives are looking for links between convicted serial killer Rodney Alcala and two women who were killed in the late 1970s. Seattle police are seeking DNA samples to determine whether Alcala is a suspect in the slayings of Antionette Witaker, 13, and Joyce Gaunt, 17. Both were killed in Seattle, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477682","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\/4131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}