Randy Kraft

[Toby]

Randy Steven Kraft is an American serial killer known as the Scorecard Killer, the Southern California Strangler and the Freeway Killer who murdered a minimum of 16 young men between 1972 and 1983, the majority of which had been committed in California. Here I will post some images relating to him, and some graphic descriptions about how he murdered his victims.





Let's start with something tame, Kraft's vehicle and driver's license.

[Toby]

Here are some items which were found in Kraft's vehicle




This is a house in Long Beach which Kraft occupied at one time

[Toby]

Now it's time to post some victims. Here's a picture of his scorecard

[Toby]

Keith Crotwell and Kent May (Crotwell is pictured)

On the evening of March 29, 1975, Kraft lured two youths named Keith Crotwell and Kent May from a Long Beach parking lot into his Ford Mustang. The youths were plied with beer and Valium as Kraft drove in an apparently random, directionless manner around Belmont Shore and Seal Beach. May later recalled feeling catatonic as a result of the Valium and alcohol he had ingested before he passed out.

In the Long Beach parking lot where Crotwell and May had last been seen, two friends of the youths observed a distinctive black and white Ford Mustang rapidly enter and draw to a halt before the driver leaned across towards the back seat, opened the rear door, and pushed the unconscious (but otherwise unharmed) Kent May onto the ground. The driver then sped away from the parking lot. As he did so, the friends of Crotwell and May noted Crotwell slumped against the unknown driver's shoulder.

On May 8, the skull of Keith Crotwell was found in a jetty close to the Long Beach Marina; the remainder of his body was found six months later. Upon hearing the news, the two youths who had observed the Ford Mustang entering the parking lot and discarding May onto the ground, suspecting Crotwell's murderer to have been a patron of a Belmont Shore gay bar, scoured their neighborhood for the distinctive Ford Mustang they had observed. Upon locating the vehicle less than one mile (1.6 km) from their home, the youths noted the license plate number and relayed the information to police. The registration of the vehicle was traced to Randy Steven Kraft.

[Toby]

Mark Hall

Perhaps because Kraft had been questioned as a suspect in Crotwell's murder and because of additional turmoil in his personal life in the summer of 1975, Kraft is not known to have killed again until December 31, when he abducted 22-year-old Mark Hall in San Juan Capistrano.

In this murder, later described by prosecutors as "the worst" of all of the known murders committed by Kraft, the man was driven to a remote canyon, where he was bound to a tree. The autopsy report listed the cause of death as being asphyxiation caused by leaves and earth found lodged deep into the youth's trachea. The autopsy also revealed Hall had been sodomized and emasculated, with his severed genitals then inserted into his rectum. The youth's chest, scrotum, nose and cheeks had been burned with an automobile cigarette lighter, with his eyes being destroyed by the same object. In addition, Hall's legs bore numerous incisions inflicted by a broken bottle. Forensic experts were able to deduce that Hall had been alive throughout much of the ordeal.

[Toby]

Robert Loggins

On September 3, 1980, one month after Randy Kraft's return to California from Oregon, the bound body of a 19-year-old Marine named Robert Loggins was found discarded in a trash bag located close to the El Toro Marine Air base. Loggins had last been seen alive by two fellow Marines close to the Pacific Coast Highway on August 23. Photographs—and the negatives—subsequently found in Kraft's possession depict Loggins in Kraft's living room slumped fully clothed on his sofa, apparently intoxicated, and in various nude, pornographic postures. All these pictures depict Loggins with his eyes closed and it is unknown whether the victim is alive or dead at the time they were taken.

This murder took place in Kraft's Long Beach residence.

[Toby]

Arne Mikeal Laine

On November 1, 1982, Kraft abducted and murdered a 24-year-old Modesto man named Arne Mikeal Laine. Laine was last seen hitchhiking towards Orange County in search of work. His body was not found until January 1984, discarded on a hillside close to the town of Ramona.

[kellyhound]

That was one cruel bastard and Cali was the place to be for a serial killer

[zeb247]

Thanks. I had never heard of him.

[EMason88]

some detailed info

https://murderpedia.org/male.K/k/kraft-randy.htm