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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
shenmue
(38,506 posts)I think that's a reasonable expectation.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)Reason being, I'd already be swimming like hell for the mainland by then.
malaise
(269,004 posts)Damn!!!
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Reality TV is a dog-eat-dog game, after all.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)What a horrifying individual. I'm guessing the other contestants fared better by default.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)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