In the Premier of the new season of ’48 Hours’, Harold Dow’s unfinished work is completed prior to his death last month, unexpectedly. Dow was investigating Rodney Alcala’s death, the final story investigated by the journalist with an award to his name. It was aptly dedicated to his memory.

Harold had a couple of interviews with ex-girlfriend to Rodney Alcala, including another score of girls as well as the victim’s family members. To honor Dow, Jay Dow, the Journalist’s nephew, presented the premiere.
Alcala’s first crime was believed to have taken place in 1968, on September, after the police had been alerted of a home where a little girl was believed to be a victim of abduction. After entering the home, the police came across a girl about 8 years old, barely alive and severely beaten with her airflow being restricted by a bar. Rodney Alcala, the responsible male was not arrested and lived to kill again, although the little girl did not die.

Eleven years in 1979 two young girls, Robin Samsoe who was 12 years old and best friend known as Bridget Wilvurt came across a photographer who asked to take a picture of them. They allow agree but late in the night, 12 year old Robin disappears. She is found 12 days later about 40 miles in a very remote place from where she was seen last.

The interviews by Harold Dow were very candid and in a frightening way, a true representation of the Journalist’s skill he had developed all his life. ‘Killing Game’ stands as a shining star of a career that was successful in all tenets and hard to replicate.