# Dream Date or a Dud? I'd say this one's a Dud!

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 20, 2005, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-date-or-a-dud-id-say-this-ones-a-dud/322502 "2005-09-20T05:39:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-date-or-a-dud-id-say-this-ones-a-dud/322502/1 "2005-09-20T05:39:44Z")

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[California man accused in serial killings  
One-time ‘Dating Game’ contestant indicted in slayings of 4 women](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9402428/)

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> LOS ANGELES - A California man who twice has had death sentences overturned for the 1979 murder of a 12-year-old girl has been indicted for strangling four Los Angeles area women in a serial killing spree, prosecutors said Monday.
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> Rodney James Alcala, who won new trials after both of his death sentences for the slaying of Robin Samsoe, was linked to four other unsolved murders from the 1970s through DNA and blood evidence, prosecutors said.

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-date-or-a-dud-id-say-this-ones-a-dud/322502/2 "2005-09-20T06:23:59Z")

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You’d think they would have been tipped off by his disturbingly literal answer to the question, “Bachelor #2, if I were a gourmet meal, how would you prepare me?”

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**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-date-or-a-dud-id-say-this-ones-a-dud/322502/3 "2005-09-20T15:00:05Z")

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> [@Larry Mudd](#):
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> You’d think they would have been tipped off by his disturbingly literal answer to the question, “Bachelor #2, if I were a gourmet meal, how would you prepare me?”

Oh - ouch. 😃