The Dating Game Killer, Stella Sands
The Dating Game Killer, Stella Sands
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The Dating Game Killer
The True Story of a TV Dating Show, a Violent Sociopath, and a Series of Brutal Murders

Author: Stella Sands

Narrator: Charles Constant

Unabridged: 9 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/31/2018


Synopsis

In 1978, Rodney Alcala was a contestant on the "The Dating Game," one of America's most popular television shows at the time. Handsome, successful, and romantic, he was embraced by the audience—and chosen as the winner by the beautiful bachelorette. To viewers across the country, Rodney seemed like the answer to every woman's dreams. Until they learned the truth about his once and future crimes . . .

Ten years before his TV appearance, Rodney was charged with the sexual assault and attempted murder of an eight-year-old girl. In the decades that followed, he would be accused of seven murders—and, as new DNA evidence continues to be uncovered, the list may grow. The case is so disturbing that it's been documented in several news outlets, from People magazine and USA Today to 48 Hours Mystery and Dr. Phil.

About Stella Sands

Stella Sands is Executive Editor of Kids Discover, an award-winning magazine with over 400,000 subscribers. She is the author of many crime books, including The Good Son, Murder at Yale, Behind the Mask, and Baby-faced Butchers, as well as other works, including Odyssea and Natural Disasters.


Reviews

Finished this book yesterday morning and I must say Stella Sands did a very good job. This book contains a lot of small chapters. For example one thing she did was write in bulleted form about the mayor news events that happened for example in 1977 and then she also added something Rodney Alcala was......more

This was a grisly read, not for the faint of heart or the weak of stomach. The author spares no detail in telling us what the killer -- diagnosed over and over as a sexual sadist with a Narcissus complex the size of Alaska -- did to his unlucky victims, but she does spare us the deadly details of th......more

Goodreads review by Nat

If you don’t know anything about Rodney Alcala, then this is a good place for you to start. It’s a fairly thorough telling of the “Dating Game Killer”, a moniker given to him after he appeared on a dating show in 1978. Fun fact; he was picked by the woman on the dating show although they never went......more