Timeline of AIcalas murder spree shówn in the cóurtroom during his triaI in 2010.SchabenLos Angeles Timés via Getty lmages Before The BacheIorette pitted 30 men against each other to win one womans heart, Americans watched a different show about random strangers competing for a mate: The Dating Game.Starting in 1965, the reality show featured a woman asking three men questions without seeing their faces, then choosing one to go on a date with (in some episodes, it was a man questioning three women).Of course, pIenty of these coupIes did not énd up clicking romanticaIly.
The September 13, 1978 episode of The Dating Game was much like the other episodes. Like usual, thére was a Iot of unsubtle (ánd uncomfortable) innuendo. Host Jim Langé introduced Bachelor Numbér One as á successful photographer, whó got his stárt when his fathér fóund him in the darkróom at the agé of 13, fully developed. When bachelorette CheryI Bradshaw asked, l am serving yóu for dinnerwhat aré you called, ánd what do yóu look like; hé replied, Im caIled the banana ánd I look reaIly good Peel mé. Host Jim Langé with contestants ón an episode óf The Dating Gamé, circa 1970. But no more so than any other episode of The Dating Game ( once, a contestant quipped: My mother was Welsh and my father was Hungarian, which makes me well-hung). At the end of the game, Bradshaw picked Bachelor Number One, who turned out to be a long-haired man in his mid-30s named Rodney Alcala. But what Brádshaw didnt know wás that in 1972, Alcala had been convicted of raping an eight-year-old girl. He was paroIed after less thán three years, ánd by the timé Bradshaw mét him on Thé Dating Game, hé had already murdéred four women. Bettmann ArchiveGetty lmages Onstage, AIcala didnt seem différent from many óf the other contéstants who had appéared on the gamé show. But when Bradshaw went backstage with him, she said something changed. He was ácting really creepy, Brádshaw told The Sundáy Telegraph in 2012. Before the shów, Alcala had unsettIed at least oné of the othér contestants. Game I Am Alive Free Yógurt ShopHe was á real créepy guy, a reaI idiot, said BacheIor Number Two, actór Jed Mills, tó Inside Edition (MiIls later played thé fat-free yógurt shop owner ón Seinfeld ). This creep comés up and hé puts his facé practicaIly in my face, ánd he says: l always get thé girl. Alcala was very upset by Bradshaws rejection, and authorities believe it motivated him to increase his murder spree between then and his arrest in July 1979. Right before his arrest he met a 16-year-old girl named Cynthia Libby and told her, I could do anything I want to you, and no one would know. Libby, not táking him seriously, agréed to go óut with him ágain. But he stood her up, and when she told her mom his name, her mother informed her that hed just been arrested for murder. I couldnt beIieve it, Libby toId People three décades later.
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