Georgia Wixted was the middle of three children raised by a widowed mother.
Rodney Alcala, she said, “is truly a devil who does not belong on this earth.” “I’ll never forget what it was like to see my mother, who always held her emotions in control, sob uncontrollably over losing her youngest daughter,” Jill’s sister, Deidreann Parenteau, told the court. On June 13, 1979, Parenteau’s naked body was found inside her apartment. They briefly met the curly-haired man, but he made little impression and the two friends didn’t give him much thought, Franco said. One night that summer, Parenteau and Franco visited the Handlebar Saloon, a Pasadena watering hole frequented by Alcala. Parenteau and her friends “did classic girlfriend things,” Franco said - they shared recipes and shopped and imagined where life would take them. She had long brown hair and a big smile, and was smart and funny, but she could also be shy and reserved with those who didn’t know her well, said her childhood friend Katherine Franco.
In the summer of 1979, Jill Parenteau was 21 and ecstatic about moving out on her own. On Tuesday, in a Santa Ana courtroom before Orange County Superior Court Judge Francisco Briseno, the story of each victim’s life and death came into sharp relief as, one by one, their loved ones took to a lectern and spoke, at times directing their words at the former photographer and onetime “Dating Game” contestant who had been convicted of their murders. Before the third trial began in January, Alcala had been linked through DNA, blood and fingerprint evidence to their deaths. Less is known about the other victims, whose names during Alcala’s latest trial were often listed briefly, in order of the date of their deaths: Jill Barcomb, Georgia Wixted, Charlotte Lamb and Jill Parenteau. Much has been written about the brief life and brutal death of 12-year-old Robin Samsoe over the three decades during which Alcala, now 66, was tried and retried for kidnapping and murdering the young ballet dancer. Before Rodney James Alcala was led away by sheriff’s deputies Tuesday, having been sentenced to death for the third time, the friends and families of his victims addressed the defendant and the court.
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