It's all Rodney Alcala, all the time on tonight's True Crime with Aphrodite Jones, a weekly program on cable TV's I.D. (Investigation Discovery) channel.
The show will attempt to get inside the mind of the serial killer who was convicted in March 2010 and returned to Death Row for the murder of Huntington Beach 12-year-old Robin Samsoe and four Los Angeles County women. He is linked to several other working murders and feared to have killed many more.
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The program will draw from this profile of Alcala by criminal profiler Candice Delong, who compares him to another infamous serial killer:
Where do I begin? Rodney Alcala, a thrice convicted
rapist/kidnapper/serial killer, is a criminal profiler's dream–or
nightmare–depending on your perspective. As I read several articles
about Rodney and his many horrible crimes, it occurred to me that this
guy, if nothing else, was at least guilty of channeling the notorious
serial killer Ted Bundy.
Both of these killers possess a rather high IQ, which sadly, they chose
to squander on a life of self-indulgent, violent, sexual crimes. These
men focused on attractive, (mostly) brunette young women and adolescent
girls to unleash their unspeakable deeds, luring them to their deaths
with disarming good looks and “charming ways.” In the end, Alcala and
Bundy both represented themselves at their own murder trials, and,
thankfully, their representation was, to say the least, inadequate and
they were both convicted by a jury and sentenced to death.Both Bundy and Alcala had the brain power to do great and wonderful
things with their lives, a gift most of us can only admire or envy. Yet
they chose to go to the dark side, and between the two of them during
their criminal careers, brutally killed many innocent women and
children. What we all want to know is–WHY? My many years in clinical
psychiatric nursing as well as an FBI profiler lead me to conclude that
it's probably a result of two things: A combination of a bad DNA
cocktail (85%) and bad parenting and childhood circumstances. In these
two cases, it all came together to create a Personality Disorder only a
mother could love: Narcissistic and Anti-social Personality Disorder.
When these two “conditions” are seen in the same person it can be a
lethal combination.
True Crime with Aphrodite Jones is shown at 10 p.m. on I.D., but check your particular delivery system's listings.
OC Weekly Editor-in-Chief Matt Coker has been engaging, enraging and entertaining readers of newspapers, magazines and websites for decades. He spent the first 13 years of his career in journalism at daily newspapers before “graduating” to OC Weekly in 1995 as the alternative newsweekly’s first calendar editor.
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