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    The Dating Game Killer: The True Story of a TV Dating Show, a Violent Sociopath, and a Series of Brutal Murders
    The Dating Game Killer: The True Story of a TV Dating Show, a Violent Sociopath, and a Series of Brutal Murders
    The Dating Game Killer: The True Story of a TV Dating Show, a Violent Sociopath, and a Series of Brutal Murders
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    The Dating Game Killer: The True Story of a TV Dating Show, a Violent Sociopath, and a Series of Brutal Murders

    Written by Stella Sands

    Narrated by Charles Constant

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    About this audiobook

    In 1978, Rodney Alcala was a contestant on the "The Dating Game," one of America's most popular television shows at the time. Handsome, successful, and romantic, he was embraced by the audience-and chosen as the winner by the beautiful bachelorette. To viewers across the country, Rodney seemed like the answer to every woman's dreams. Until they learned the truth about his once and future crimes . . .

    Ten years before his TV appearance, Rodney was charged with the sexual assault and attempted murder of an eight-year-old girl. In the decades that followed, he would be accused of seven murders-and, as new DNA evidence continues to be uncovered, the list may grow. The case is so disturbing that it's been documented in several news outlets, from People magazine and USA Today to 48 Hours Mystery and Dr. Phil.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJul 31, 2018
    ISBN9781977385390
    The Dating Game Killer: The True Story of a TV Dating Show, a Violent Sociopath, and a Series of Brutal Murders
    Author

    Stella Sands

    Stella Sands is Executive Editor of Kids Discover, an award-winning magazine with over 400,000 subscribers geared to children 7 to 12 years old. She is author of the true-crime book Baby-faced Butchers, as well as other works including Odyssea and Natural Disasters. Her plays, Lou Passin’ Through, Black-eyed Peas, and E-me, have been produced in Off-Off Broadway theaters in New York City.

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    • 1/5
      Is any one else missing chunks of chapters? Some are only a couple minutes and get cut off mid sentence.

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    • 4/5
      The audio book cuts off in mid sentence in many of the chapters, I'm assuming, near the end of the chapters. It may be a lot more that is missing, no way to tell.
      Other than that, the narration is great, and the story of the sick sick Ocala is told very well, and with graphic detail. So beware if you get upset easily. I mean, just imagine how his poor victims felt, they lived it and deserve for ppl to know the horrible things they were put through. You will definitely almost be able to feel what these girls went through. If you manage to be able to not get cut off in mid sentence that is.
      I recommend this book. Especially to those really into true murder and serial killer stories.
    • 4/5
      Finished this book yesterday morning and I must say Stella Sands did very good job. This book contains a lot of small chapters. For example one thing she did was write in short the mayor news events that happened for example in 1977 and then she also added something Rodney Alcala was doing, or had done. Killed someone.

      I also liked that she did start from the beginning. With his first victim. She lets us in on the lives of all his victims, trying so that we get to know the girls that were murdered and their families. Only negative thing is that at the end it got just a little bit long-winded but all in all I do recommend this book.
    • 5/5
      I haven't read anything by Stella Sands, but I will look for more of her work. So many true crime books are a listing of facts in a dry almost textbook manner, but Sands turns the facts into an interesting tale. Although I knew that the women she previews are going to die in the upcoming pages, it doesn't take away from the "oh no" factor. I kept hoping that one of them would get away; would turn up some place, safe.The one word of warning I would add is that Rodney Alcala was a sadistic murderer and Sands doesn't hold back in the graphic descriptions of how his victims were tortured or found. It might be a bit upsetting to some. I found the book hard to put down but I had to because life/work got in the way, but I highly recommend this book.