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Did Anyone Survive the 'Dating Game Killer' Rodney Alcala’s Attacks? Here’s Where Tali Shapiro and Morgan Rowan Are Now
Jul 24, 2025
It's been four years since Rodney Alcala died on July 24, 2021.
Known as the "Dating Game Killer," his reign of terror spanned decades, leaving behind survivors. Alcala is confirmed to have killed at least seven women and girls across three states, but at least two girls were able to escape death at his hand. Tali Shapiro and Morgan Rowan were attached by him and lived to tell their stories, both incidents taking place a decade before he appeared on The Dating Game.
Rowan was 16 and Shapiro 8 years old when Alcala raped and attempted to murder each of them. Known as The Dating Game Killer for his appearance on the hit TV game show in 1978, Alcala is suspected to have murdered as many as 130 victims throughout the 1960s and 1970s before finally being brought to justice.
In 1979, Alcala was arrested for the murder of 8-year-old Robin Samsoe, and was convicted in California in 1980 of her slaying, as well as those of Jill Barcomb, 18; Jill Parenteau, 21; Georgia Wixted, 27 and Charlotte Lamb, 32. He was also convicted of the murders of Cornelia Michael Crilley, 23, and Ellen Hover, 23, in New York. He was sentenced to death for the California murders and died of natural causes while awaiting his execution.
His crimes and infamous moment on The Dating Game was the subject of the 2023 Netflix movie Woman of the Hour, directed by and starring Anna Kendrick.
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