Serial killer on dating game
Alcala was soon arrested and sent back to California.Picture now identified as Christine Ruth Thornton, released by the Huntington Beach Police Department after it was found among a series of photographs in the possession of serial killer Rodney Alcala It was one of the photographs of women found with the personal belongings of death row inmate Rodney Alcala, 73, that helped link him to the 1977 killing of Christine Ruth Thornton, sheriff’s officials and prosecutors in Sweetwater County, Wyoming said Tuesday.He later studied film at New York University under the tutelage of Roman Polanski.
His father left, leaving Anna Maria to raise Alcala and his sisters alone.According to Sweetwater County officials, a relative of Thornton who had been searching for her since her 1977 disappearance was looking through those photographs in 2013 when they recognized the young woman.A new trial would start with Acala charged for five murders (including the murder of Robin Samsoe).Alcala fled the state and rolled in the NYU film school under the alias of “John Berger.” In 1971, the FBI added Alcala to its “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives” list.Alcala was working as a counselor at a children’s arts camp in New Hampshire, when two of the children saw his Wanted poster in the local post office and reported him.
