
Bradford then sliced off her tattoos and ditched the body in an alley. He took her to a remote campsite, where she posed for him.
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In 1984, Bradford met Shari Miller at the bar she worked at and told her he was a professional photographer who could help build her modeling portfolio. William Richard Bradford was sentenced to death in California for the murders of his 15-year-old neighbor Tracey Campbell and a Los Angeles bartender at The Meet Market, Shari Miller. Thanks to some of the photos going public, Alcala was charged in 2016 with the 1977 slaying of 28-year-old Christine Ruth Thornton. In March 2010, the less explicit photos were released to the public in hopes of identifying the people in them, the photo above is but a single example.

This assumption was made after detectives found over 1,000 photos belonging to Alcala in his Seattle storage locker, many of the subjects in the photos appearing nude. He was described as a “killing machine” by investigating detectives as he would strangle his victims, revive them from unconsciousness, and then strangle them again-repeating this twisted process until they died or he got bored.Īlcala won his episode of The Dating Game as well as a date with bachelorette Cheryl Bradshaw, but she refused to go out on the date with him because she said she found him “creepy.” Alcala is known to have killed three more women after his appearence on television.Īlcala was eventually sentenced to death for the murders of five women committed in California between 19, although it’s believed the real victim count could be as high as 130. Rodney Alcala was known as The Dating Game Killer because he appeared as a contestant on a popular dating show during his killing spree. Glatman was executed on Septemin a gas chamber at San Quentin State Prison. When Glatman was questioned about Vigil, he willingly confessed to his past kidnappings and murders, later revealing his “toolbox” which contained all the chilling photos of the victims.ĭuring his sentencing, Glatman dutifully accepted his death penalty, and requested his warden to make no executive effort to save his life. Glatman was finally arrested in 1958 after an attempted abduction of Lorraine Vigil who was seen trying to escape her would-be killer’s grasp. Glatman would then strangle them and hide the bodies in the desert, all while taking pictures of his victims up until the moment before they lost their lives-each victim appearing terrified and desperate. He’d then lure hopeful model back to his apartment in order to take their portraits only to tie them up, and rape them. Sometime around 1957, Glatman posted Lonely Hearts adverts in newspapers to lure his victims in addition to prowling modeling agencies in Los Angeles, eventually posing as a photographer himself.
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The Lonely Hearts Killer, was a truly frightening and twisted serial murderer in the late 1950s. Harvey “The Glamour Girl Slayer” Glatman, a.k.a. Later in 2012, he pleaded guilty to the 1990 murder of a newlywed couple-Patricia Walsh, 24, and her husband Douglas Zyskowski, 28. In 1994, Rhoades was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole. This photo of Walters was also used as evidence that he had held her captive for a long time, based on her hair growth and the bruising on her tiny frame. (Pictured above in an abandoned Illinois barn.) Rhoades captured a chilling moment where Walters appears to back away from him, clearly frightened. But Rhoades didn’t get life in prison for that crime, he went away for the death of 14-year-old runaway Regina Kay Walters. Rhoades’ was finally caught on Ap(after a self-admitted 15-year murder spree) when Arizona State Trooper Mike Miller found Kathleen Vine nude, handcuffed, and screaming in the cab of his truck. As he traveled throughout the United States using interstate highways, it’s believed that Rhoades’ picked up and killed more than 50 people beginning in 1975, although he was only convicted of three murders. Eventually, Rhoades became a sadist who took his sexual fetish on the road. Eventually, he’d kill them in the most brutal manner imaginable-a vicious cycle of “kidnap, torture, kill.”Īccording to the numerous biographies and documentaries about him, Rhoades was also involved in the swinger and BDSM scene in Houston during the ’80s with his wife. Rhoades, a long-haul trucker, converted the sleeper cab of his 18-wheel semi truck into a small, makeshift sex chamber where he would torture his victims and rape them for weeks on end.

Serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades stalked the highways of Texas in his mobile torture and death chamber.
