Seattle and Arizona. Alcala’s initial death sentence for Samsoe’s death was overturned in 1984 amid

correction A previous version of this article incorrectly said that Rodney James Alcala was convicted of the murders of six women and a teenage girl.... The article has been corrected.On “ The Dating Game, ” he was introduced as “ Bachelor No.... arrow-right But in the years that followed his 1978 turn on the popular show, Alcala would come to be known as the “ Dating Game Killer.” He was convicted of the murders of six women and a 12-year-old girl, with some of the crimes committed before his