How Tali Shapiro survived Rodney Alcala and faced Dating Game killer in court

Netflix's Woman of the Hour shows what happened to fewer of serial slayer Rodney Alcala's victims, but what happened to those that escaped him?

New Netflix movie Woman of the Hour recreates immoderate of the brutal crimes including killings committed by Rodney Alcala who became known arsenic the Dating Game Killer.

While the movie doesn't usage the aforesaid names arsenic his victims for characters, galore scenes represent representations of what happened to them. This includes the relation of Amy, who is simply a basal successful for Monique Hoyt, a teenage hitchhiker who was attacked by Alcala but managed to aboriginal get distant and study the incidental to police.

However determination is different Alcala unfortunate who managed to flight their ordeal that wasn't included successful the Anna Kendrick directed film. She besides yet assisted successful convicting Alcala for his crimes years aft the attack.

In September 1968, past eight-year-old Tali Shapiro was walking to schoolhouse from the Chateau Marmont edifice successful Los Angeles wherever her household were staying temporarily astatine the time.

Alcala, past 25, approached her successful his car and offered her a assistance to which Shapiro initially said nary but Alcala convinced her helium knew her parents. He past told her helium was a nonrecreational lensman and offered to amusement her a poster astatine his home.

Speaking to PEOPLE Magazine Investigates: Surviving a Serial Killer, Shapiro said: "He drove maine to his house. I followed him in, and that's each I remember. There was thing other to remember. He evidently deed maine implicit the caput close aft that and that was it."

Shapiro was raped and beaten with a metallic bar. Donald Haines, a income typical who was successful the country connected a enactment call, had spotted Alcala instrumentality Shapiro to his location and was suspicious of however helium was acting astir a child.

As a result, helium decided to travel them, telling People: "He was fixated connected this small girl. That disturbed me. All the signs were there." Haines saw Shapiro taken into Alcala's flat and called police. When officers arrived they recovered her unresponsive and successful a excavation of blood.

Shapiro says authorities made the determination to prevention her beingness implicit chasing Alcala arsenic portion she was receiving aesculapian attraction the slayer managed to fly done the backmost door.

It was much than 2 years aboriginal earlier Alcala was charged implicit the incidental during which clip helium killed astatine slightest 1 woman.

Shapiro's parents refused to fto her attest for fearfulness of retraumatising her, aft she spent 32 days successful a coma pursuing the onslaught and months recovering. Lacking a cardinal witness, Alcala served 34 months successful situation for kid molestation.

His quality connected The Dating Game would travel astir 4 years aft helium was released and helium would spell connected to perpetrate astatine slightest 8 different rapes and murders successful California, New York and Wyoming.

In 2010, erstwhile Shapiro was 50 years old, she appeared successful tribunal to yet attest against her attacker arsenic a assemblage decided whether helium should look the decease punishment oregon beingness successful prison.

She said: "I didn't person immoderate feelings but of duty, of justice. I ne'er erstwhile looked his way. I consciously didn't privation to springiness him immoderate vigor whatsoever. I didn't glimpse astatine him, I didn't admit him, I ne'er spoke his name. I didn't springiness him immoderate satisfaction."

Following Alcala's decease successful 2021, Shapiro told The New York Times: "The satellite is simply a amended spot without him, that's for sure."

Woman of the Hour is disposable to watercourse connected Netflix now