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Criminal

Feb. 27, 2010

SoCal Killer Gets Convicted

An Orange County jury on Thursday convicted Rodney James Alcala of the first-degree murders of a 12-year-old Huntington Beach girl and four Los Angeles-area women in the late 1970s.

By Don DeBenedictis

Daily Journal Staff Writer

An Orange County jury on Thursday convicted Rodney James Alcala of the first-degree murders of a 12-year-old Huntington Beach girl and four Los Angeles-area women in the late 1970s. The jury also found nine special circumstances counts true, including rape and torture, making Alcala, who represented himself, eligible for the death penalty. Alcala, now 66, twice before had been sentenced to death for the 1979 slaying of you...

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