Seinfeld Actor Jed Mills met "creepy" alleged Dating Game Serial Killer Rodney ... LA Weekly (blog)
. He was not an actor getting paid for the episode but a guy looking for a date.
"I was really surprised he won," recalls Mills, the actor who later played the fat-free yogurt shop owner on " Seinfeld ," now 69 and living in Valley Village. "I didn't believe his smile. I didn't believe his charm and I didn't like him. I was surprised that I wasn't picked because I know the other guy [Bachelor Number Three] didn't do well, and I didn't like what Rodney did."
Mills, who also made guest appearances on television shows " Baretta " and " Laverne & Shirley ," said he spent more than two hours with Alcala sitting in ABC's "green room," drinking soft drinks and trading stories with him and the other bachelor. He recalled Alcala as a man of few words.
"Rodney was kind of quiet," he said. "I remember him because I told my brother about this one guy who was kind of good-looking but kind of creepy. He was always looking down and not making eye contact. Every once in awhile he would spit out things then go back to his aloofness. He was a kind of a creepy guy."
Wells had no idea just how creepy.
Today, Alcala, 66, is on trial in an Orange County Superior courtroom for the rape murders of 12-year-old Huntington Beach ballerina student Robin Samsoe, teen runaway Jill Barcomb, Santa Monica legal secretary Charlotte Lamb, Burbank keypunch operator Jill Parenteau and Malibu nurse Georgia Wixted. So sly was Alcala that prosecutors believe that he brutally murdered them within months of his appearance as winning Bachelor Number One on "The Dating Game."
