This week Murder Made Me Famous spotlights serial killer and rapist Rodney Alcala, who became infamous after appearing on TV show The Dating Game in the middle of his murder spree. Rodney Alcala was born in Texas, 1951, and at 17 he joined the army, though he went AWOL four years later in what was described as a nervous breakdown and was later discharged. His first recorded crime was in 1968 when a driver reported him for luring an 8-year-old girl into his apartment. When police arrived they found the girl, Tali Shapiro, alive, but she’d been raped and beaten. Alcala...read more