Other women suspected to have become Alcala victims include 19-year-old Pamela Jean Lambson, from San Francisco. I couldn't allow my children to go to the beach after that." You know, that changed the course on how my children were going to be raised, and what they weren't going to be allowed to do. Ellen Hoover from New York and the girls from Los Angeles, and then ours from Huntington Beach. And they are the photos I think about actually-the known victims. "I was a Huntington Beach patrol officer when Robin was kidnapped. "This was a personal case for me," recalled Mack, who is now retired. He could talk them into posing for his photographs, and it worked over and over." Well, he wasn't afraid of talking to anyone. "I think the average guy-and I consider myself an average guy-you see an attractive girl in a bar and you probably won't talk to her because you think she'll shut you down. "He had a gift of the gab that worked with the girls," explained Mack.
But it was Polanski who taught Alcala to use a camera, which began his career as a self-proclaimed "fashion photographer." In a dark twist of fate Polanski's wife would be murdered by Charles Manson the following year, and he himself would be indicted for sexually abusing a 13-year-old a few years after that.
He left for New York with a fake name and enrolled at NYU, where he studied film under Roman Polanski. When the police arrived they found the girl had been raped, beaten, and was barely alive, but Alcala had somehow escaped. A motorist watched him lure an eight-year-old girl into his car and followed him back to his Hollywood apartment. After a failed stint in the army (he was discharged because of a personality disorder) he enrolled in fine arts at UCLA and graduated in 1968, which is when he committed his first known crime.
Rodney Alcala was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1943, but moved to LA at the age of 12.
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