Serial killer Rodney Alcalá has died on suspicion of killing 130 women in the United States

Hispanic serial killer Rodney Alcalá, suspected of killing up to 130 women in the United States, died on Saturday in a California hospital, authorities at the prison where he was incarcerated reported.

Alcalá, 77, was rushed to hospital from death row in a California prison, where he was sentenced to death in 2010 for the murder of four women and a 12-year-old girl.

Known in the United States as the “killer of the Dating Game” for appearing in a television contest of the same name in 1978, Alcalá received another conviction in 2013 for the murder of two other victims in New York.

Authorities They suspect he may have killed up to 130 women and girls in the 1970s, in addition to raping several, before being arrested and jailed in 1979., the date from which he remained in prison, although his litigation took decades to resolve.

Alcalá died of “natural causes,” the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a statement.

His death sentence was linked to the murder of 12-year-old Robin Samsoe, who was kidnapped on his way to a ballet class by bike on June 20, 1979 in Huntington Beach, southeast Los Angeles.

The same jury found Alcalá de la torture, rape and murder of 18-year-old Jill Barcomb in 1977; Georgia Wixted, 27, in 1978; Charlotte Lamb, 32, in 1978 and Jill Parenteau, 21, in 1979.

In another New York City trial in 2013, Alcalá admitted to raping and strangling Cornelia Crilley, a 23-year-old flight attendant, in 1971 at the victim’s apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

In addition, confessed that six years later he murdered biologist Ellen Hover, also 23, whose body was found eleven months later in a forest in Westchester County, upstate New York.

Amateur photographer and former student at the University of California, Alcalá had a very high IQ and photographed hundreds of his victims.

In January of this year, authorities in Huntington Beach, California released dozens of the photos in the hopes that the public would help them identify those depicted and determine if they could be the victims of Alcalá.

With information from the EFE

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