Michael Goulding,
Pool, File/Associated Press - March 30, 2010 file
photo, of convicted serial killer Rodney Alcala.
The above
pictured 68 year old Serial killer Rodney Alcala
was flown to New York City just this past Wednesday to face charges of allegedly
killing two women from the New York area.
Alcala had
previously been convicted and served prison time for another crime which he had
committed just prior to his being indicted, for a single killing back in 1979.
Now, having
served more than 33 years of a death sentence here in California’s San Quentin
State Prison, and currently residing on death row there awaiting fulfillment of
his death sentence, which was handed down to him nearly three decades after
having been incarcerated in California, he was found guilty in a local court,
for the killing four women and a twelve year old girl back in the 1970’s in a
2010 conviction.
Alcala was
also indicted on two additional homicide accounts, back in January of 2011. Already having served more than 30 years in a
state prison, with a portion of the time served on death row, Alcala was now flown
to the New York City Manhattan area where a grand jury has indicted him for the murders
of
Cornelia Crilley, a flight attendant for TWA, was found, strangled in her
Manhattan apartment in 1971 and Ellen Hover, the Ciro's heiress
who was 23 and living in Manhattan, her remains on a wooded suburban estate in 1978,
a year after her disappearance.
My initial
thoughts of course, were of disgust, it’s sickening to think that such an
individual would be allowed to survive another day after being convicted of
such crimes, while many of his victim’s lives were taken more than 30 years
prior.
What
purpose does it serve to keep an already convicted serial killer, who is
currently to serve a death sentence in California alive a single day thereafter
his conviction? And with so much damning
evidence against him that there is no way possible that California’s
court systems could have possibly got it wrong?
And then fly
Alcala
with our tax-payer dollars, across the US to a New York City Court to
further convict him of additional crimes which he allegedly committed? I could not understand why the US justice
system seems to be so broken.
That was my
initial reaction… however, upon further conversation; another view point was
soon pointed out to me. The families of
his victims in the New York area, who haven’t obtained, any form of justice for
their loved ones death.
Don’t they
deserve some sort of closure, and in flying Alcala to face the relatives and
their memories of his victims head on in the NY justice system, is exactly that
for these families… some sort of justice and closure. That is… if convicted of these additionally
accused crimes.
In my
attempt to refrain from any glorification of this monster, I have chosen to
omit any of his life’s details other than his age and name.
For further
detailed information see the additional links below, Alcala remains on death row at San Quentin State Prison.
Additional Link:
Additional
photos taken by Alcala of possible victims:
