translated from Spanish: The “dating game killer” suspected of at least 130 murders of women in the U.S. died.

Alcala, 77, was taken to the hospital from death row in a California jail, where he was sentenced to death in 2010 for the murder of four women and a 12-year-old girl. Known in the United States as the “Dating Game Killer” for appearing in a 1978 television game show of the same name, Alcalá received another conviction in 2013 for killing two other victims in New York.Authorities suspect he was able to kill up to 130 women and girls in the 1970s, in addition to raping several others. , before being arrested and imprisoned in 1979, from which date he remained in prison although his disputes took decades to resolve. Alcalá died of “natural causes,” the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a statement California.Su death sentence was related to the murder of 12-year-old Robin Samsoe, who was abducted while cycling to her ballet class on June 20, 1979 in Huntington Beach, southeast of Los Angeles.The same jury found Alcalá guilty of torture. , rape and murder of 18-year-old Jill Barcomb, which occurred in 1977; Georgia Wixted, 27, in 1978; Charlotte Lamb, 32, in 1978 and Jill Parenteau, 21, in 1979.In another trial in New York in 2013, Alcala admitted that he raped and strangled Cornelia Crilley, a 23-year-old stewardess, in 1971 in the victim’s apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.He also confessed that six years later , murdered biologist Ellen Hover, also 23, whose body was found eleven months later in a forest in Westchester County, north of New York.Amateur photographer and former student at the University of California, Alcala possessed a very high IQ and photographed hundreds of his victims. In January of this year, authorities in Huntington Beach, California, released dozens of those photos in the hope that the public would help them identify the people portrayed, and determine if they may have been victims of Alcala.

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