Rodney Alcala and his murders are the main subject in Woman of the Hour – here are the details on his cause of death.

Netflix's Woman of the Hour shows some of Rodney Alcala's victims but one not included survived her ordeal and helped to convict him years later

Little did she know, the man she chose to go on a date with - Rodney Alcala - was in fact a notorious serial killer. Alcala was part-way through a crime spree when he appeared on the show, having raped and assaulted multiple people and committed several murders.

Serial killer Rodney Alcala was handed the death penalty three times and once appeared on The Dating Game but one of his survivors faced him in court decades after being attacked

Anna Kendrick's directorial debut Woman of the Hour, based on the true story of a serial killer who made an appearance on a TV dating show, is now streaming on Netflix.