Murder of Robin Samsoe

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On the afternoon of June 20, 1979, 12-year-old Robin Christine Samsoe (December 13, 1966 – June 20, 1979) was kidnapped and murdered by serial killer Rodney Alcala (August 23, 1943 – July 24, 2021) in Huntington Beach, California. Her skeletal remains were discovered twelve days later, approximately 50 miles north of Huntington Beach. Samsoe was Alcala's eighth and final victim. In addition to killing Samsoe, Alcala murdered seven other young women between 1971 and 1979, in at least three states. He was convicted of killing two women in New York and charged with the 1977 murder of a woman in Wyoming in 2016. Alcala was convicted of Samsoe's murder and sentenced to death on three occasions. The first conviction, which was handed down in 1980, was overturned in 1984 on an appeal. His second conviction from 1986 was overturned in 2001 after Alcala filed a habeas corpus petition. In 2010, he was convicted of Samsoe's murder, and the murder of four other young women he murdered in Southern California...

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