The victims and Alcala.
Jill Barcomb was a woman from Oneida,
NY, who was killed in Southern California at age 18 in 1977 by
serial killer Rodney James Alcala. Barcomb had been in Southern
California for about three weeks when her body was found on a dirt
path near Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles. Barcomb was found in a
knee-to-chest position and naked from the waist down. There were
signs of sexual assault, and she had been strangled with a pair of
blue slacks and beaten. She also had three bite marks on her right
breast, according to the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office
Georgia Wixted was a registered nurse
who was killed at age 27 by serial killer Rodney James Alcala. Wixted's
bruised and battered body was found on the floor of her Malibu
studio apartment near her brass bed on Dec. 16, 1977. She was naked
and had been sexually assaulted before she was tortured, bludgeoned
and strangled. A hammer was found next to her body.
Charlotte Lamb was a legal secretary from
Santa Monica who was killed at age 32 by serial killer Rodney James
Alcala. Lamb's naked body was found on June 24, 1978, in the laundry
room of a large apartment complex in El Segundo. She had been sexually
assaulted and strangled with a shoelace. The apartment manager found
her body lying face up with her hands behind her back, but residents
said they had never seen her before
Jill Parenteau was a computer program
keypunch operator who was killed at age 21 by serial killer Rodney
James Alcala. Parenteau was killed on June 14, 1979 by an intruder
broke into her Burbank apartment by jimmying window louvers. She was
21. Her nude body was found on the bedroom floor propped up by pillows.
Robin Samsoe was a girl from Huntington
Beach who was abducted and killed in 1979 at age 12. Her slaying
quickly became one of the most notorious murder cases in Orange
County history. Serial killer Rodney James Alcala has been thrice
tried and convicted for her death. Samsoe was abducted on June 20,
1979 as she rode a borrowed bicycle from her neighborhood in
Huntington Beach to ballet practice. Her decomposing body was found
about 12 days later, dumped off Santa Anita Canyon Road.
