Person doing a backbend or hanging upside down in dense foliage

[DS2021]

From what we've seen of RA photo collection, this person is probably a woman. I can't recall any adolescent or adult males, just male children

 

[Beekarina]

The idea that there were thousands of photos that were too disturbing for the public to view combined with the fact that a select few were released, may suggest that many of the unidentified women seen in the photos are likely to be already known as deceased by the police.
It therefore becomes more a matter of identification, rather than trying to decipher each woman's individual fate.

In other words, it's likely that the fate of some of the women caught in the photographs that have been released to the public, may already appear as deceased in other photographs that have not been released.

It would be interesting to determine how many women from all of the photos released to the public, have actually been proven to NOT be deceased.

It would then be a case of separating the women into different categories; those confirmed definitively to have NOT been one of his victims, and those who remain unaccounted for.

Identification is really important. That is exactly why I do not understand the secrecy. If LE knows Alcala killed hundreds+ individuals (assuming some of the thousands of images were of the same people), then I think holy crap, think of all of the family and friends out there who will NEVER know what happened? This is the 1960s and 1970ss....people are getting older, many have passed away. Closure would be good. They should be more transparent, if at all possible, IMO. There should be a way to be respectful AND share more information. Even if they could describe the victims and anything about the settings, that could be helpful.

There were some women who did come forward and say they recognized themselves or a friend who was alive after the photographs. The member who wrote a book about some of the images was a good source of information for some of this. I think you can probably find some of it on social media==Facebook for the book, if it is still up. I no longer use Facebook, so am not sure, but someone else may know.

 

[Beekarina]

From what we've seen of RA photo collection, this person is probably a woman. I can't recall any adolescent or adult males, just male children

There is the one young man with long hair who is probably in his late teens.

Personally, I think Alcala just liked to kill. I think this is a woman in the photo shared here, but I am certain Alcala would have killed another man given the opportunity. He almost certainly did, IMO, if the estimates about the number of lives he took is accurate.

 

[Daphne1972]

In one of the photos of the girls at the club there's a guy with blond curls. Nobody but me pointed him out. There's also a scary man who looksike an older Alcala. Don't understand what his role was at the club.

Then there's the native American boy. The man and the woman at his place. Also the many holding up the kid but he doesn't look like a victim to me.

 

[Daphne1972]

This “backbender” may be “helmet girl” who may be a person frequently seen at concerts and other events in the northeast when Alcala was there. If so, she was alive a few years ago.

Post in thread 'Woman in helmet'

May 7, 2022

It's all been linked before, so might as well see what everyone thinks. Here's a cropped version of the girl dancing at a concert in 1970 and Helmet Girl, cropped and rotated from one of the familiar set. If it's a match, she's still alive.

• WildHuncher

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I found this dancing girl. And she's alive! At least a few years ago.