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Rodney Alcala: The Dating Game Killer

Aug 06, 202515 min
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Hello and welcome back to the show! I hope you were able to enjoy the full episode of Randy Kraft: Government Cheese Anus Killer, over on the Cosmic Peach patreon. That one was definitely worth the deep dive! I have included the link to Patreon in the show notes if you have not already subscribed to enjoy the full episode.

As promised at the end of the Government Cheese episode, we are back today to discuss our next programmed killer.
Today we are going to meet Rodney Alcala, The Dating Game Killer.


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Transcript

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Baby, I'm a gamester too. It takes a little tangle. You don't mess with me.

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Mess with me, baby, I'm a gangster too. Oh pouch baby, you're a Gamesterato for the Warner.

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This podcast is designed to take you outside of your comfort zone and make you question reality.

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Listener Discretion is a vibe what the fellas?

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This ain't my first time at the rodeos mhmm.

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Hello, Hello everyone, and welcome back to the show.

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I hope you were able to enjoy the.

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Full episode of the discussion on Randy Kraft aka the Government cheese anus killer over on the Cosmic Peach Patreon. That one was definitely worth the deep dive, and I have included the link to my patreon in the show notes. If you have not already subscribed to enjoy the full episode, This one, again is going to be a full episode on Patreon only. I'll give you a little preview obviously, but you'll have to head on over to cosmic Peach Patreon and make your reservation to room two three seven

to enjoy the full episode. So, before we get started, I know that.

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I already he.

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Said this in a previous episode, but I don't expect you to listen to every single episode, that's fine, some of them are going to catch your fancy more than others. So just in case you missed it into the further part three episode, I do have a little announcement. I am currently about seven months pregnant. Yes, I have been

keeping it a little secret. Colby and I he loaded me up with his unvaccinated magic Baby sauce in December, So baby is going to be making his arrival at some point in either late August or September.

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And so whenever you're listening to this could already be here. We'll see.

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I've been trying to stock up on episodes and get everything prepared for taking a couple of months off.

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But yes, the couple people that.

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I have already announced this to in the podcast world, some of our closest friends. They have been asking me about baby registry and.

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Such like that. So in the case that.

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You are listening to this and you're feeling frisky, I have included the baby registry.

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We really have all.

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The essentials, but Diype Best Wipe East stuff like that.

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You can never have enough. So if you are wanting.

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To get a gift for a little baby, Cosmic Peach. You can click the link to the registry and the show notes as well. And you know, I am considering these gifts. If I were a long time listener to a show and someone announced the pregnancy, I would be stoked to get them a gift, and I'd like to give you the opportunity to do that. Everything that we receive is much appreciated, and I do want to engage with the listeners who have been with me from the

very beginning. And so if you feel frisky and you want to check that out, the.

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Link is in the show notes.

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I do plan on doing like a mini series on my journey so far, and afterwards, maybe I can get Janet from Deplorable Nation to join with me in a conversation on all things infertility, pregnancy, you know, postpartum, all of that, and that's something that you can be looking forward to. I may make it a Patreon exclusive mini series just because it is extremely personal and.

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I'm suffering from many maladies.

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I guess you would say nuts that I'm not extremely grateful to be going through this process, but it has been quite a journey, so more of that is going to be on its way and something to look forward to. But anyways, as promised at the end of the Government Cheese episode, we are back today to discuss our next programmed killer. Today we are going to meet Rodney Alcala,

the Dating Game Killer. Now, if I were to give this human sack of program dog shit a new moniker, because I love to do that, right, we all enjoyed Government Cheese, and so it's no different with the Dating Game Killer quote unquote. He's got to get a cosmic peach moniker. There's no way around it. And if I were to do so, it would have to be something in the neighborhood of Taco Bell Berger, far of Fawcet,

haircutted freak strangler. But since that's a little long, we can just call him the Bell Beefer.

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So shall we jump right in? Let's do it.

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Where does the Bell Beefer story begin. Rodney James Alcala, also known as Rodrigo Jacques al Calla, was born August twenty third, nineteen forty three, also known as John Berger, and he was an American serial killer and convicted sex offender who was sentenced to death in California for five murders committed between nineteen seventy seven and nineteen seventy nine.

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While al Calla has.

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Been conclusively linked to nine murders, the true number of his victims remains unknown, but is most likely as high as one hundred and thirty victims. So I'll call A compiled a collection of more than a thousand photographs of women, teenage girls and boys, many in sexually explicit poses, and was a complete dirt bag. Prosecutors have said that I'll call A toyd with his victims strangling them until they lost consciousness and then waiting until they revived, sometimes repeating

this process several times before killing them. One police detective described Rodney Alcohola as a killing machine, and others have compared him to the one and only Ted Bundy. He is often referred to as the Dating Game Killer, as he appeared as a contestant on the telege vision show The Dating Game in nineteen seventy eight during the height of his murder spreed, but of course, more recently he

will be referred to as the Bell Beefer. So Rodney Alcala again born August twenty third, nineteen forty three, in San Antonio, Texas was the third of four children born to a Mexican American couple Raoul and Anna Maria Gutierrez. Alcola's father moved the family to Mexico in nineteen fifty one, then abandoned them three years later. In nineteen fifty four, when he was eleven, Alcolo's mother moved him and his

two sisters to suburban Laos Angelus. And it's said that Alcola was an academically gifted student who was reasonably popular amongst his peers and was supported by his family. So, as we've talked about with Jeffrey Dahmer and some other program serial Killers and Randy Kraft, Patrick Kearney, he was a really smart guy, extremely so. And I do believe that he was scouted out at an early age for possibly being a psychopath and enrolled in some of these programs.

So he attended various private schools in the Los Angeles area during his youth and graduated from Cantwell Sacred Heart of Mary High School.

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And here's the ringer.

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In nineteen sixty one, at the age of seventeen, al Khala joined the United States Army Ding Ding Ding to become a paratrooper and served as a cl But how odd during his service, al Caola was noted for being manipulative, vindictive, and insubordinate, and was disciplined on several occasions for assaulting

young women. So someone with a genius IQ who attended private schools and then joined the United States Army again noted for being manipulative, vindictive, and insubordinate and assaulting young women. I do believe that he was scouted out as being

a prime candidate for the program to Kill Academy. So in nineteen sixty four, after what was described as a nervous breakdown during which he went a wall and hitchhiked from Fort Bragg in North Carolina to his mother's house in California, al Calla was diagnosed with anti social personality disorder and split personality disorder and estimated to have an IQ of one thirty five by a military psychiatrist. Literally, the bells were probably going off for them immediately when

they discovered this guy. So he was subsequently discharged from the Army on medical grounds, just like Randy Craft. Other diagnoses later proposed by various psychiatric experts at Rodney's trials included narcissistic personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, dissociative personality disorder

and malignant narcissism with psychopathy and sexual sadism co morbidities. So, just like in the case of all of our program killers, Belle Beefer is a highly functioning psychopath destined for great strangling adventures and was used in these programs. There is no doubt about it. And the fact that he was dismissed on medical grounds much like Randy Kraft who was destined for great anal adventures, there is a connection here

and get this shit. After being discharged from the Army, I'll Callage graduated from the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture. It was later claimed that he would go on to study film under none other than Processed Church ask Roman Polanski at New York University. Similar to Patrick Kearney in our last episode becoming Besties with Lee Harvey Oswald, it cannot be overlooked who these programmed killers end up

hanging out with. But let's talk about his series of debauchrous murders and rapes that led him to being one of the most prolific serial killers of all time, shall we. Oh yeah, we're just getting to the good part. Head on over to the cosmic Peach Patreon and make your reservation to Room two three seven to enjoy the rest of this episode. Not sure how to get there, download the app or go to patreon dot com slash cosmicpeach what's in Room two three seven?

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