Alcala was convicted of killing Barcomb's sister, Jill Barcomb. "Though I consider it rude to speak ill of the dead, his passing on in to the gates of hell will be a well deserved journey," wrote Bruce Barcomb on Facebook. Authorities have long believed many of the girls and women in the photos were Alcala's victims. Lorren Au Jr./APĮven after his conviction, Alcala refused to divulge clues to hundreds of unidentified female photographs found in a Seattle storage locker he rented. "I heard he had a pacemaker and dementia."ĭeputy District Attorney Matt Murphy in court. Rodney Alcala is a monster, and if there is a hell, he is in the deepest, darkest part of it right now,” said former Orange County Deputy District Attorney Matt Murphy, who prosecuted Alcala in his final trial. Jurors on three occasions prescribed execution for Alcala, who was convicted of killing four women and a 12-year-old girl in California during the 1970s but is believed to have had many more victims. The death last week of Rodney James Alcala, 77, in a California hospital was welcomed by victim advocates, though many considered Alcala's demise a mockery of the state's toothless death penalty.ĬALIFORNIA'S CORCORAN PRISON IS A WHO'S WHO OF SERIAL KILLERS For four decades, victims awaited justice for one of the most sadistic and prolific serial killers in American history.
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