Woman identifies her photo, says 'charming' serial killer persuaded her to pose for him

Judy Cole then and now, who thinks she is the subject of photo #169 of photos taken by serial killer Rodney Alcala and released by NYPD.

Two women have come forward to share what they say were chilling encounters with a serial killer after cops released a trove of photos he may have taken in New York.

The women told the NYPD they met now-notorious sicko Rodney Alcala decades ago when he lived in the city and asked them to pose for him.

"He was very charming. I should have known better," said Judy Cole, who told cops she thinks she is the subject of photo No. 169.

Cole, a writer who lives in North Carolina, told cops she remembered meeting Alcala on the upper West Side in 1978 when she was 19 and agreed to pose on the roof of a building.

A California woman also told the NYPD she thinks she is among those in the 215 New York-linked photos of unidentified women and children snapped by Alcala throughout the 1970s, police said.

The trove of photos was released Tuesday after the Daily News revealed cops had been sitting on the stash for a month.

Cops got eight tips in all.

Alcala - a photographer who studied film under Roman Polanski and has a genius-level IQ - is on California's Death Row for killing four women and a 12-year-old girl.

The 66-year-old Alcala is also a suspect in the deaths of two 23-year-old Manhattan women found dead in the 1970s: TWA stewardess Cornelia Michel Crilley and young college grad Ellen Hover.

Investigators believe he lured his beautiful prey by asking them to take suggestive pictures - and then tortured and murdered the women.

Cops found more than 1,000 pictures in Alcala's storage locker while investigating him in the death of the 12-year-old girl. Those that appear to have a link to New York were sent to the NYPD.

Investigators believe there could be more unknown victims among the photographs.

Manhattan wine critic Alice Feiring did not see herself in the newly released portraits, but she told cops she had a close call with the killer when she was just 13.

Feiring said Alcala persuaded her to go to his East Village apartment in 1968 and then locked her inside. She said she managed to escape.

"I just thought he was a pervert," Feiring said.

(215 more of Alcala's photos here)
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