Posted on 03/10/2010 12:51:51 PM PST by Niuhuru
Relatives of four women and a 12-year-old girl brutally slain in the late 1970s exploded in applause yesterday when a jury recommended death for a convicted serial killer. Rodney Alcala's bizarre defence strategy included lyrics from an Arlo Guthrie song and showing an episode of sixties US TV show 'The Dating Game' - the American forerunner of Britain's 'Blind Date'. Jurors took just an hour to return the death recommendation after a six-week trial in which the 66-year-old Alcala - who was representing himself - grilled the mother of one of his victims. He also cross-examined police investigators and answered his own questions while taking the stand in his own defence.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
“Your honor, I have an idiot for a client!”
Director John Waters went to the Manson trial, Patty Hearst trial, Sid Vicious’ pre-trial hearings, and the Watergate hearings. He doesn’t go to them these days because he feels he is too high profile.
40 YEARS TO COME TO TRIAL??
Prosecutors refiled charges in that case and added the four other murders in 2006 after investigators linked them to Alcala using DNA samples and other forensic evidence.
Video at the link is creepy! Glad that these families finally got justice!
Came back to finish watching the dating game video after my children went outside. The woman on the dating game chose him. O my, wonder what she feels now realizing that she chose a a serial killer?
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