{"id":489850,"date":"2010-03-30T14:13:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T18:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0133ec564981970b"},"modified":"2010-03-30T16:04:08","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T20:04:08","slug":"serial-killer-rodney-alcala-sentenced-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/489850","title":{"rendered":"Serial killer Rodney Alcala sentenced to death"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/img>An Orange County judge on Tuesday sentenced serial killer Rodney Alcala to death for five killings in the 1970s, marking yet another turn in a three-decade-long legal drama.<\/p>\n

Judge Francisco Briseno’s decision came several weeks after a jury\u00a0recommended the death penalty\u00a0for Alcala<\/a>\u00a0after\u00a0convicting him on charges of\u00a0slaying four women and a teenage girl.<\/p>\n

Briseno said photos of the women taken by Alcala show he had "sadistic sexual motives" and that "some of the victims were posed after death." The judge said Alcala had an "abnormal interest in young girls."<\/p>\n

It was the third time that Alcala, 66, had been convicted for the murder of Robin Samsoe, 12, last seen riding her bike to ballet class in June 1979. He had been condemned to death both times, but the convictions were overturned. He has been in custody since his 1979 arrest. <\/p>\n

Before the third trial began in January, he was linked through DNA, blood and fingerprint evidence to the deaths of Jill Barcomb, 18, whose body was found in the Hollywood Hills; Georgia Wixted, 27, of Malibu; Charlotte Lamb, 32, of Santa Monica; and Jill Parenteau, 21, of Burbank. <\/p>\n

During his closing arguments earlier this month, Alcala — a onetime photographer and \u201cDating Game\u201d contestant who acted as his own attorney in this trial — asked jurors to spare him from the death penalty, saying they would become killers themselves if they sent him to death row and arguing that the sentence would lead to decades of appeals.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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A sentence of life in prison without parole "would end this matter now," he said.<\/p>\n

— Paloma Esquivel in Santa Ana<\/p>\n

Photos: Serial killer Rodney Alcala listens as he is sentenced to death by Judge Francisco Briseno in a Santa Ana courtroom Tuesday.\u00a0 Credit: Michael Goulding \/ Pool photo <\/em><\/p>\n

<\/br>Alcala: The long road to justice<\/span><\/span>
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<\/span><\/strong><\/span>\"Alcalahicks\"<\/img><\/a> <\/p>\n

1972 <\/strong>\u2014 <\/strong>Alcala is convicted in the 1968 rape and beating of an 8-year-old girl. <\/p>\n

Nov. 10, 1977 \u2014<\/strong> 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. <\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

April 15, 1981 \u2014<\/strong> The L.A. County district attorney\u2019s office tells a judge that prosecution of Alcala in the Parenteau case could not proceed because a key witness admitted that he had committed perjury in another case. <\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Kimi Yoshino<\/p>\n

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An Orange County judge on Tuesday sentenced serial killer Rodney Alcala to death for five killings in the 1970s, marking yet another turn in a three-decade-long legal drama. Judge Francisco Briseno’s decision came several weeks after a jury\u00a0recommended the death penalty\u00a0for Alcala\u00a0after\u00a0convicting him on charges of\u00a0slaying four women and a teenage girl. Briseno said photos […]<\/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-489850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489850","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=489850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}