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[Music] some of the general traits and characteristics that would be consistent with Rodney Alcala as well as other
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serial killers would be very glib and charming a lack of empathy extremely callous very grandiose and extremely
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manipulative Rodney was able to use that manipulation and his extraversion his smile he's not threatening in his
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appearance in fact he was handsome and all those things together allow him to go up to somebody and say hey can I give
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you a ride or I'm a photographer do you mind if I if I take your picture so his ability to lure people away from their
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comfort zone into another zone he was able to accomplish with his interpersonal skills when you talk to
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surviving victims they'll tell you it's like he went from dr. Jekyll to mr. Hyde
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I think that's what he was doing used his interpersonal skills move them into a place where he had them by himself and
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then he would use blunt force trauma to overwhelm them and overpower them [Music]
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Rodney had no idea that in the mid 80s early 90s there was going to be a new forensic technology called DNA he had no
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idea about that so there was no way that he could have prepared for that the wonder of today's forensic science
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is that we now have Rodney's DNA and we will have it for all time it's in the FBI's database so if 10 years from now
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we find the remains of one of his victims and we are able to compare that with DNA that may have been left at that
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crime scene we still can solve a number of cases so it won't end when he dies because his DNA will live forever