NEW YORK, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- A grand jury in New York has indicted "Dating Game" killer Rodney Alcala on charges he murdered two women in New York in the 1970s, officials said.
Alcala was indicted on the deaths of Cornelia Michel Crilley in 1971 and Ellen Jane Hover in 1977, The New York Times reported.
The Manhattan district attorney's office declined comment on the indictments.
Alcala, 67, is on death row in California for the deaths of a 12-year-old girl and four women in the late 1970s.
Alcala won "The Dating Game" as Bachelor Number 1 in 1978, but the woman he won a date with ultimately refused to go out with him.
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. opened a cold case unit to review unsolved murders last year and the cases of Crilley and Hover were among those reviewed.
The district attorney's office wouldn't comment about its role in the investigation leading to the indictment, but in a statement Vance said, "Cold cases are not forgotten cases."
Crilley was an airline flight attendant who was raped and strangled in her New York apartment in 1971. Hover disappeared in the summer of 1977. Her remains were found nearly a year later. Both were 23 at the time of their deaths.
Alcala was convicted and sentenced to die twice but won appeals both times. After the second reversal, investigators linked Alcala to four unsolved killings in the 1970s.
