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Rodney Alcala: Entire criminal History



Entire Criminal History

After Rodney Alcala fled California, he had his first major assault. In 1968, the year he graduated from UCLA, Rodney met a young girl named Tali Shapiro. Long story short, Alcala beat her so badly that when the police found her alone, she was in a pool of her own blood with her heart barley beating. In 1969, Alcala got put on Californias most wanted crime list after gathering enough evidence to conclude that Rodney was their guy. 

After fleeing California, he ran to NYC and enrolled in NYU and created the fake name of "John Berger". While attending NYU and completely dodging the Shapiro case, Alcala met a flight attendant named Cornelia Crilley. She was found in her apartment dead in 1971, raped and beaten. After her murder, Rodney wasn't even a suspect.

In 2010, Orange County jury convicted Alcala of five counts of first-degree murder and he was sentenced to death for the killing of Samsoe as well as the 1977 deaths of 18-year-old Jill Barcomb and 27-year-old Georgia Wixted; the 1978 death of 32-year-old Charlotte Lamb, and the 1979 death of 21-year-old Jill Parenteau. There were many gaps in between his NYC and California killing sprees, leading the police to believe2 that he killed over 130 people. 

Overtime, Rodney Alcala's murder cases seemed to continue to expand, with he police repeatedly finding new information years after he committed these murders. Rodney was convicted of 7 murders throughout the 70's and received the death penalty. He received the death penalty 3 times over the course of his life after soughing out many different trials, which all failed in his case. 

In our opinion, the piece that is most interesting about his criminal record was that he was arrested and pleaded guilty for child molestation and being a sex offender before he was found for the murder of all of these women. Interested in a deep drive of Tali Shapiros assault case? Continue onto the next blog!

 

“He was an American serial killer, rapist, and convicted sex offender who was sentenced to death in California for five murders committed between 1977 and 1979. He also pleaded guilty and received a sentence of 25 years to life for two further murders committed in New York. He was also indicted for a murder in Wyoming, although the charges filed there were dropped. While Alcala has been conclusively linked to eight murders, the true number of victims remains unknown and could be as high as 130”


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