SAN QUENTIN, Calif., Feb. 9 (UPI) -- A death row inmate, sentenced to die for five murders in California, can be extradited to New York for trial in two other homicides, a judge ruled.
Rodney Alcala, 68, a photographer and one-time "Dating Game" contestant in the 1970s, was indicted in New York in 2011 in the strangling deaths of Cornelia Crilley and Ellen Hover in the 1970s.
His extradition is set for April 6 unless a higher court intervenes, KTLA-TV, Los Angeles, reported Wednesday.
Alcala lived in New York when the two women were killed. Crilley was raped and strangled in her apartment in 1971 and Hover disappeared in 1977. Her remains were later found in Westchester County.
Alcala is on death row at San Quentin. He was convicted in 2010 of strangling four California women and a 12-year-old girl in the 1970s, the Times said.
Alcala was "Bachelor No. 1" on a 1978 episode of "The Dating Game." The female contestant chose Alcala as her blind date over the other two bachelors, but reportedly decided not to go out with him, KTLA said.
