Rodney Alcala is already on California 's death row , convicted of killing 4 women and a girl . As he awaited a third trial , Alcala 's DNA was linked to the crime scenes in the Barcomb , Wixted and Lamb cases , and he was charged with killing them and Parenteau . He faces two new 25-years-to-life sentences in the '70s deaths of two women in New York . Comment: In 1978 , Alcala was a winning bachelor on the television show `` The Dating Game ''
Rodney Alcala is already on California 's death row , convicted of killing 4 women and a girl . He faces two new 25-years-to-life sentences in the '70s deaths of two women in New York . Comment: In 1978 , Alcala was a winning bachelor on the television show `` The Dating Game ''