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"I hope you don’t sleep at night. I hope you have dreams of us coming after you."--

It's 1978, and Ron Jenkins, a detective with the Huntington police department, suddenly straightens up on his couch at home, unable to look away from the TV. The popular "Dating Game" is on, where a young bachelorette is blind dating 3 men, and Bachelor no. 1 is terrifyingly familiar to Detective Jenkins. That same afternoon, a parole officer called him to identify a suspected serial killer from a sketch, giving him a name: Rodney Alcala—that man is the same one who's on TV now, winning the show. However, the Dating Game Killer has no idea that his 8 year old victim from years ago is actually alive, and that she will be the one to ultimately take him down. 

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Credits:

Directing, writing & editing by Justin Chalifoux

Research & script revision by Manon Lafosse & Tanvi Rajvanshi

Produced by Alexandra Salois & Salim Sader

Voiceover by William Akana

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Sources:

ABC 20/20

Discovery+ / Surviving a Serial Killer

Australian Broadcasting Corporation 

True Crime Central 

Peninsula Television Production

Woodcut Media Production 

Sky

CBS / 48 Hours

A&E Television Network

ABC News

Reelz Channel

Investigation Discovery 

Make Believe Media

HLN Prime News

CNN

Orange County Register

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