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dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)
Sat May 10, 2014, 01:58 PM May 2014

Turkey dating show contestant reveals he killed ex partners

A man who appeared on a Turkish television dating show shocked the audience by revealing he had murdered his former wife and a former lover.

Sefer Calinak, 62, told Flash TV's Luck of the Draw he had served prison sentences for both murders and had been released under an amnesty programme.

"I'm an honest person looking for a new wife," he said.

Calinak was asked to leave the show by the host, in an episode that made headlines in Turkish newspapers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-27349394

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Turkey dating show contestant reveals he killed ex partners (Original Post) dipsydoodle May 2014 OP
I am looking not to be murdered shenmue May 2014 #1
I'd definitely vote him off the island pinboy3niner May 2014 #2
Not me LadyHawkAZ May 2014 #5
So they don't vet their participants? malaise May 2014 #3
His history probably earned him bonus points pinboy3niner May 2014 #6
What?! KittyWampus May 2014 #4
Let bygones be bygones and hew to the old adage, third time's a charm. DisgustipatedinCA May 2014 #7
Rodney Alcala Ichingcarpenter May 2014 #8
Murders two women, is a free man? The dangers of leniency. I'll take our justice system all day. JJChambers May 2014 #9
maybe he should date turkeys lame54 May 2014 #10
 

DisgustipatedinCA

(12,530 posts)
7. Let bygones be bygones and hew to the old adage, third time's a charm.
Sat May 10, 2014, 02:13 PM
May 2014

What a horrifying individual. I'm guessing the other contestants fared better by default.

Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)
8. Rodney Alcala
Sat May 10, 2014, 02:23 PM
May 2014

He is sometimes labeled the "Dating Game Killer" because of his 1978 appearance on the television show The Dating Game in the midst of his murder spree.
A homicide investigator familiar with the evidence speculates that he could have murdered as many as 50 women,while other estimates have run as high as 130

In 1978, despite his status as a convicted rapist and registered sex offender,[29][30] Alcala was accepted as a contestant on The Dating Game. By then he had already killed at least two women in California and two others in New York.[31] Host Jim Lange introduced him as a "successful photographer who got his start when his father found him in the darkroom at the age of 13, fully developed. Between takes you might find him skydiving or motorcycling".

Actor Jed Mills, who competed against Alcala as "Bachelor #2", later described him as a "very strange guy" with "bizarre opinions".[11] He asserted that Alcala did not wear earrings on the show, as he claimed during his 2010 trial; earrings were not yet a socially acceptable accoutrement for men in 1978. "I had never seen a man with an earring in his ear", he said. "I would have noticed them on him".[32]

Alcala won the contest, and a date with "bachelorette" Cheryl Bradshaw, who subsequently refused to go out with him, according to published reports, because she found him "creepy




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Alcala#Dating_Game_appearance

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