Who is Jed Mills in The Woman of the Hour? Bachelor #2 suspecting dating game killer Rodney Alcala was creepy

ANNA Kendrick’s powerful film Woman of the Hour depicts the horrific true story of serial killer Rodney Alcala.

What’s even more shocking about Netflix film is that the murderer was allowed to appear on The Dating Game. Here is the story of the man who sat there next to him on the show, Jed Mills AKA Bachelor No.2.

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In September 1978, serial killer Rodney Alcala took part in the dating game.

The killer’s appearance in the series happened unbeknownst to the producers, in the middle of his killing spree.

Hosted by the late Jim Lange, The dating The game was popular across the states and ran from 1965 to 1999.

In the matchmaking series, a single woman asked questions of three potential dates hidden behind a screen.

She then chose a man based on which answers to her questions she liked best.

On Alcala’s episode of “The Dating Game,” Cheryl Bradshaw was the single woman asking the questions — and she chose him.

However, she backed out of the date after a “creepy” encounter with him backstage.

This decision likely saved her life, as he was convicted as a serial killer just a year later.

Seat from hell

One person who knows this story all too well is Jed Mills.

At the time, he was an actor looking for work, so he signed up for the show and became Bachelor #2.

This meant that he was sitting in the middle of the trio of men and was also next to the murderer Alcala.

In an interview with ABC’s 20/20 in 2021, he described Alcala as “creepy” and said he had “bizarre views.”

“I was really surprised he won,” Jed remembers. “I didn’t believe his smile. I didn’t believe his charm and I didn’t like him.”

He continued: “I was surprised I wasn’t picked because I knew the other guy didn’t do well and I didn’t like what Rodney did.”

Rodney was kind of calm. I remember him because I told my brother about this one guy who was kind of good looking but kind of scary.

Jed Mills

Jed said he spent more than two hours with Alcala in ABC’s green room, swapping stories with him and the other bachelor.

However, he recalled that Alcala was a “man of few words”.

“Rodney was kind of calm,” he said. “I remember him because I told my brother about this one guy who was good-looking but kind of scary.”

Jed added: “He always looked down and didn’t make eye contact.”

“Every now and then he would spit things out and then fall back into his reserve. He was kind of a scary guy.”

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Woman of the hour

Jed’s story Features in Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut, the Netflix film Woman of the Hour.

In the film he is played by Jedidiah Goodacre, and scenes show him talking to Alcala backstage and being visibly frightened by him.

In the film, the actress portrays Anna Cheryl Bradshaw, whose encounter with danger is immortalized in the disturbing episode of The Dating Game.

In the Netflix film, Jed is seen talking to Alcala in the green room about who gets to “win” a date with Cheryl.

Alcala ends the conversation with a disturbing remark: “I always get the girl.”

This eerie scene actually happened in real life and is based on an interview Jed gave to ABC’s 20/20.