The “Dating Game” serial killer is coming to New York, but he’s taking the scenic route.
Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr., worried that serial slayer Rodney Alcala might spook passengers on a commercial flight from LA, ordered him handed off to the feds instead of having him flown directly to the city, where he’ll face charges he killed two young women in the 1970s.
US marshals plan to bring him to New York by moving him with other prisoners from one lockup to the next, crisscrossing the nation via charter plane and bus.
New York cops pulled Alcala off death row in San Quentin last week and took him to a county jail.
He will eventually be handed off to the marshals.
“To take one prisoner from one location to another isn’t cost-effective,” said Marshals Service spokesman William Dundon.
“They’ll keep moving him — from Nevada to Oklahoma to Colorado,” said another source. “It could take four weeks or more. There’s no rush. It’s going to cost thousands of dollars. Meanwhile, it’s $300 for a one- way ticket.”
Alcala has been dubbed by some the “Dating Game” killer because of his 1978 appearance on that TV game show in the midst of a killing spree of at least five victims.