{"id":1302,"date":"2013-01-15T19:14:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T23:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2013-01-15T19:14:19","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T23:14:19","slug":"a-moving-piece-about-the-recent-rodney-alcala-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/?p=1302","title":{"rendered":"A Moving Piece about the Recent Rodney Alcala Conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was written by Sheila Weller, the cousin of one of his victims.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On a hot July day in 1977, one of New York\u2019s ugliest summers, my 23-year-old cousin, Ellen Hover, left her Third Avenue apartment. She had an appointment with a young photographer who had asked to take pictures of her. His name, he\u2019d told her, was John Berger &#8230;&#8221; The full story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/01\/13\/opinion\/sunday\/a-cold-case-of-cold-blooded-murder.html?hp\">is here<\/a>.  It&#8217;s worth reading.  She makes it very clear why it matters to prosecute these old, cold cases.<\/p>\n<p>This is a screenshot of the news from two years ago, when it was announced that Rodney Alcala would be extradited to New York.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/datinggame.jpg\" alt=\"datinggame\" title=\"datinggame\" width=\"386\" height=\"247\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1016\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was written by Sheila Weller, the cousin of one of his victims. &#8220;On a hot July day in 1977, one of New York\u2019s ugliest summers, my 23-year-old cousin, Ellen Hover, left her Third Avenue apartment. She had an appointment with a young photographer who had asked to take pictures of her. His name, he\u2019d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piV6s-l0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1302"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1305,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions\/1305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}