Hello!
Welcome to Diagnosing a Killer, I'm Koelle.
And I'm Kenna.
Kenna is...
I'm Kenna.
I've been sick the last couple weeks.
Kenna!
I know you're always so concerned that you sound so nasally.
I do!
I have constantly had a stuffy nose and this time I'm actually going to have a stuffy nose.
Because I...
There's an undiagnosed problem with me right now.
It's not COVID, it's not Strep.
It's not my OCD.
We're going to be talking about a one Randy Sebencraft also known as the Scorecard Killer.
Okay, I don't think I've heard this one.
He was also known as the Freeway Killer, but I'm pretty sure that's someone else.
And they were like straight up after a while he was like, I'm not the Freeway Killer, so and so is the Freeway Killer.
He just knows and they just like hang out.
Yeah, well I think that because a lot of his victims were found near a Freeway, people just started calling him the Freeway Killer.
And he's like, no that title is already somebody else's.
I'm not going to also be a Freeway Killer.
So Randy Sebencraft was born in Long Beach, California, March 19th, 1945.
45.
He had three older sisters and then a younger sister and he was the only boy of the family.
His parents were Opal Lee and Harold Herbert Kraft.
Herbert Kraft.
Hibbit.
Craft parents had moved to California from Wyoming at the beginning of the World War II.
His father was a production worker and his mother was a sewing machine operator.
I don't know why they couldn't just say a seamstress, but.
Well that was a title and she didn't have to have a title back in the 40s apparently.
Yeah.
So Opal had quite a few jobs to help supplement Opal was super doting of her children and
even though she probably worked three times as much as Harold did.
Harold was described as being very distant from the family growing up and again Randy
was doted on not by just his mother but his three older siblings as well.
A little fun fact about Randy, he was known to be accident prune.
Ooh.
So I guess he was just kind of a clups.
Any young boy is though, I feel like.
Not a clutz but accident prone.
Yeah.
Doing reckless shit.
In 1948 the Kraft family had moved from Long Beach to Midway City in Orange County.
Their home was small.
It was described as a wood frame.
It was actually a women's army core dormitory, but Harold had revamped it into being a three-bedroom
home.
So they reused the building, repurposed the building and then that was going to be their
family home.
So in Midway City, Kraft attended Midway Elementary School.
His mother was also a member of the PTA.
So Opal is super involved.
Yeah.
She's just a Jane of all trades over here.
Yeah.
She's like super mom.
So as a student he was known to be intelligent by his classmates and his teachers.
He really excelled at school.
Even in elementary school he was really bright.
In 1957 Kraft was judged intelligent enough to attend accelerated classes in his junior
high school.
So he was definitely excelling.
By adolescence Kraft had taken into a really big interest in the politics and he was a
staunch Republican even at a very young age.
Sounds like Ted Bundy.
I know, right?
Even more like Ted Bundy in a little bit.
So he was actually aspiring to become a U.S. senator.
He was that passionate about politics.
See, just do that.
Why do you have to turn words to a dream turned back?
Go ahead and do that, little Randy.
You could be a criminal in that field too.
It's true.
So shortly after his enrollment in his high school he had really two close friends that
he started like a world affairs club with that was all politically driven.
So in his high school Kraft was again regarded as a pleasant bright student who regularly
achieved a grade.
So he was again, there was no problem when it came to him become like being studious
and doing what he needed to do.
Yeah, this sounds like a different dynamic than what we're used to hearing.
He looks like he has a good home life and his mom's really nice.
He has a good relationship with mostly his mom, but both his parents, you know, abuse
that's been noted and good student all in school and stuff like that.
So what goes wrong?
Exactly.
What does go wrong?
So he was known to occasionally date girls, although some of his classmates had the sneaking
suspicion that he was gay.
Oh, he's gay.
So Kraft later stated that he had known from early high school days that he knew he was
gay, although he initially kept his sexual orientation to himself.
Well, of course, this is like the what the 60s?
Yeah, this is early 60s.
On June 13th, 1963, he graduated 10th in his class of 390 students.
Wow.
Yeah, super smart dude.
Impressive.
So that fall he went ahead and enrolled at an Allman's College.
Where he pursued a bachelor arts degree in economics.
Where he pursued a bachelor.
He pursued a bachelor.
Shortly after his enrollment in college, Kraft had enrolled in a training corps of some kind
and he regularly attended demonstrations of support of the Vietnam War.
So he was like, again, staunch Republican.
He was in favor that we needed to put our big fat fucking noses into this war.
And in 1964, he campaigned rallies for the Republican presidential candidate who was
Barry Goldwater.
Who?
Barry Goldwater.
Who?
Clearly, he did not win.
He later declared these actions were merely a simulation of his parents own political
views.
So it was because he was brought up in that way and of course his parents clearly were
in support of World War II because they worked really, really hard during that time and stuff
like that.
So it's just that his second year at his Allman's College would be the year that he abandoned,
if you will, that ideology.
Okay.
So he's coming into his own thoughts and his own theories and stuff.
So later that same year, he actually entered his first same sex relationship.
So he's kind of like his thoughts are shifting now a little bit.
Well, good for him for coming into his own.
So in 1964, Crafty and working as a bartender at a local is like a garden cocktail lounge
and it's specifically catered to gay clientele.
Okay.
So we worked for Gay Bar.
The one we went to in Vegas, Vanderpump Gardens.
Well, yeah, but that's not specifically towards gay people.
Oh, no, I was just talking about the garden aspect.
Yeah, yeah, like it's very like, they called it the garden grove.
So and again, yeah.
So it was the Gay Bar.
He was also known to regularly travel to Laguna Beach and Huntington Beach to have casual
sex with hustlers that escalated quickly.
Right.
He's in a perfect first same sex relationship.
Yeah.
Now he's hustling.
Yeah.
So yeah, and I guess it was just again, because it it was something that he started dipping
his toes into and he's like, well, let's go full speed.
Well, it's the same concept as like growing up in a really strict household.
Like as soon as you're out of the house, you're going to do all these things that you've
been thinking about doing for a long time now that you have the freedom to do so.
So around this time and kind of an effort to reveal who his real identity and like how
he identified and what his orientation was, he would regularly bring male friends over
to his parents' house to introduce him.
So to kind of like ease them into like, I'm spending a lot of time with a man.
Yeah.
And also like directly saying it.
I'm not a parent and I've never been a parent in a situation where my child is in the closet
gay, but they usually know.
Yeah, you would say that.
It's usually pretty obvious unless they're in denial.
Not obvious and same, but they know their child.
So again, talking about escalating quickly, two years later, within two years, Kraft was
actually arrested in charge with lewd conduct after propositioning an undercover policeman
in Huntington Beach.
Yeah.
Right?
It's like the, what is it?
Like George Michael all over again.
He had no previous criminal record, however, so no charges were ever filed.
But the following year he developed a radical shift in his political beliefs.
He became a huge supporter of liberal views and eventually registered as a Democrat in
1967.
Registered Democrat.
Yeah, what?
He's going to carry around that card.
That was probably more shocking to his parents because he was a Democrat.
Kraft quickly became a Democratic Party organizer and he campaigned tirelessly for the election
of Robert F. Kennedy, RIP, and received a personal letter from the senator thanking
him for his efforts.
So by a senior year, this is all by a senior year of college.
I was like, what?
He's 17 at the time.
By a senior year of college, Kraft became a laxative days old student, if you will.
He started drinking, taking drugs and regularly attending all night gambling parties with
his-
He waited until senior year to drink.
Yeah, I know.
He's getting real loose now.
So with all of this drinking and drugging and becoming liberal at all, he actually started
declining in his grades and he failed his final year in college.
Oh my God.
So he failed to graduate in 1967.
Like you were right there.
He was forced to repeat a few economic classes, but it did postpone his graduation, but just
until the following spring.
So he really only, I mean, if you think about it, he only took one more semester.
So we ended up graduating from Claremont Men's College with a Bachelor of Economics.
The four months after graduating college, Kraft went ahead and joined the Air Force.
He was sent to basic training in Texas before he was stationed in Edwards Air Force Base,
Southern California, where he supervised the painting of test planes.
That's an interesting profession.
And I'm not really like you just, yeah, you're just watching them paint?
I mean unless painting test planes means something different than-
Well, he supervised, assuming they're painting the actual planes and not painting photos
of the planes, because I thought originally they were painting photos of like self-portraits
of the planes.
This is me in a plane.
It seems like they're painting the actual transportation device.
Exactly.
They're like spray painting these things.
Well, I guess you have to supervise you for that to make sure the lines are right and
stuff.
But it's just painting lines.
I just didn't, I've never heard of anybody supervising painting test planes.
If anybody knows about that, hit us up.
Yeah, if anybody, if you've ever painted a plane, hit us up.
Even if you've painted a picture of one, we'd love to see it.
I would love to see your painting of a plane.
So during his service in the Air Force, he rose to the rank of Airman First Class and
the supervising manager.
So he was supervising the supervisor that was supervising the painting planes.
I guess.
Getting up there.
Yeah.
So his first year that he was there as an Airman First Class, he disclosed to his family
that he was gay.
So he wrote a letter to a friend and he described his father as having flown, quote, into a
rage, but that his mother was very much more understanding, although she was still disapproving.
Krav's family ultimately accepted his homosexuality and he did remain in close contact with his
parents and siblings, although the siblings noted that he had begun to basically distance
himself from the entire family.
I mean, if you get an adverse reaction like that, like what do you, you're not going to
want to stay around that situation.
You must feel like super alone.
I know.
It's awful.
It's really sad.
Especially being the only boy.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Like he grew up, I don't know.
He grew up in a house full of women pretty much and his dad was never there.
He would think that he would feel like a little bit more comfortable.
So on July 26, 1969, Kraft received a general discharge from the Air Force because he had
announced his sexual orientation to his superiors.
And that, in that state of time, it was really, really, don't ask, don't tell.
Yeah.
But like now you're getting it from not just your family, but like your job, your lifestyle.
And so what his discharge was officially listed as was medical reasons.
That's interesting.
Right.
So in response, Kraft sought legal advice from an attorney to attempt to challenge the
reason that he was terminated.
But the Air Force was like no go.
We're sorry.
Like we're still not going to, we're not going to give you your job back.
You can take us to court, which he never did.
Wow.
Yeah.
So at this point, he didn't really have anywhere to go because he was staying on base.
So he moved back into his parents' home and then he started working as a bartender.
That's really a bummer.
That's like letting the, like the system kind of like let him down.
Yeah.
Like not the system, but like if you're willing to fight for your country, who the fuck cares
who you are, what do you have to do with your family?
The way it is now, but still it's so taboo still.
Not to mention the military has like the highest reports of rape like ever.
Yeah.
Homosexual and heterosexual.
Like it's, it's not.
And it gets covered up, which is even worse because then it's like, you feel like you
can't even tell anybody because there's no point.
Nobody's going to do anything and everybody's just going to look at you like you're a problem.
Not to say that that's everybody's military experience, but it is very prevalent.
So in March 1970, Kraft had encountered a 13 year old, when Westminster youth named
Joseph Gerald Foncher.
The two youths.
The one youth.
Youths, two youths at Huntington Beach, which was, you know, the place that he would frequent.
I think, I guess it's Fancher or Foncher.
I want to say Fancher.
So Fancher explained to Kraft that he had run away from home literally that day.
In response, Kraft had invited this kid over to his apartment and then he promised that
Fancher could live with him for a little bit while he got on his feet.
Okay, that's creepy.
I'm sorry.
He's 13.
Yeah.
And this guy has to be what, like 23 or 24 at this point?
Right.
So Fancher was like, cool.
Thanks for the couch to sleep on, I guess.
So he went to his, to Kraft's Belmont Shore apartment.
He was then drugged and sexually assaulted.
Okay.
This is all escalating very quickly.
It is.
He calmed down for a minute and then all of a sudden he's like, boom.
Yeah.
What the hell triggered that in his mind?
I have no idea.
He's like, it's so taboo.
Anyways, I might as well just like do something horrible with it.
I guess.
And like who's to say that like he wasn't already like baby trying drugs or drinking.
It's that he was, you know, drinking and actually did say that he was drinking and doing drugs
in college.
So I don't know.
Maybe it's just, it does seem very cut and dry.
Like this is just the facts.
Yeah.
So Aras later, Fancher escaped the apartment after Kraft left to go to work.
So he was just like, bye, see ya when I get back home from work.
And he's like, peace out.
Yeah.
What the hell?
So actually a member, like a neighbor or something had seen Fancher like walking around looking
disheveled and like possibly on drugs.
So that she called an EMS.
Fancher was so full of drugs they actually had to pump his stomach.
Oh my God.
How was he like coherent?
I know.
I mean, you hear like stories about people getting drugged and of course in severe cases
that would happen.
But I mean, that's gotta be a lot.
I mean, good for him though, for having the mind to like get out of there, you know, even
under the influence of all that shit.
That's terrifying.
Yeah.
So at the hospital, Fancher had informed the police, of course, because they're like,
the police shown up, that he had been given drugs and that he was beaten, but he never
disclosed a sexual assault.
Well, again, it's the 70s now.
It's a lot of shame in that and he's young.
It might be embarrassing.
Yeah.
Exactly.
So a search of Kraft's apartment was conducted because of all this with the information, stuff
like that.
And the room, he was living with a roommate, which it never really disclosed in the roommate's
name.
But the roommate was really cooperative and was like, you know, yeah, sure, search the
apartment.
So there wasn't a lot of evidence, I guess it was, if it were, that anything had really
happened involuntarily.
And so again, they don't know about the sexual assault.
There doesn't seem to be evidence of a sexual assault.
In fact, Fancher had actually said, well, I took the drugs willingly because I thought
they were just like fun party drugs.
Like by all accounts, he kind of like put himself in that situation, unfortunately.
So unfortunately, no charges were ever filed.
And not victim blaming at all.
But by the lack of evidence, it looks that way.
Like he was just going along with it and then he kind of backed out.
Right.
There was no signs of a struggle.
There was no real physical evidence that didn't look like...
Well, especially if they didn't do any sort of sexual assault kit or whatever, you know,
that they couldn't test that.
Right.
Well, they wouldn't have known.
Exactly.
So yeah, no charges were ever filed against him for that one.
So in 1971, Croft had found new employment as a forklift driver in Huntington Beach.
Seems to be his favorite place, right?
Excalated quickly again.
All of a sudden, he's operating a heavy machinery.
I work for Porter Potties.
So in an effort to further his career, he went to school again at Long Beach State University,
majoring this time in education.
Weird.
I know.
He's all over the map.
Right?
He really is.
Well, maybe he's trying to get closer to like the children, the youths.
The youths.
Those two youths.
I guess.
I think he just maybe probably felt after being discharged and then he got a Bachelor
of Arts.
I think that maybe he thought if he had another degree, it would be like he, it's almost like
the thing that he was good at was going to school.
Yeah.
So I think that's really rewarding for him.
And I think that's maybe why he decided to do that.
So at Long Beach State University, he became acquainted with a one, Jeff Graves, a following
teacher student from Minnesota who was four years younger than Croft.
I think he was like 19.
So they began a relationship together.
So on October 5th, 1971, police found the nude body of a 30 year old in Long Beach resident
named Wayne Joseph Duquette.
Don't you do?
So unfortunately, Duquette was found by the Ortega Highway.
If you're from Long Beach, you might know where that is.
Duquette was a bartender at a gay bar named The Stable in nearby Sunset Beach.
He was last seen alive on September 20th, 1971.
And he had been decomposed so much that any signs of foul play on the body wasn't really
tall tail.
Yeah.
Cause it was what, like two, two and a half weeks later that he was found.
Right.
So he was last seen alive to her fifth and then he was last seen on the 20th of September.
So yeah.
The cause of death was listed as acute alcohol poisoning due to high blood alcohol levels.
So the toxicology report came back basically.
So the first entry in Croft's personal journey, which he was referred to as a scorecard, reads
stable.
Shut.
Hold on.
This is news.
He has like documentation.
Well remember this is his first murder.
But he does have a journal, a personal journal.
That was later discovered.
And the first words in the journal just say stable.
And remember that Duquette worked at the stable.
Yeah.
The gay bar.
Also he was just like going to school to be a teacher and then all of a sudden he just
killed a dude.
Exactly.
It's so out of the blue.
It's so strange.
What the hell?
So this of course later on would leave investigators to believe that Duquette was Croft's very first
murder victim.
Wow.
15 months after the murder of Duquette, Croft killed a 20 year old Marine named Edward
Daniel Moore.
Moore was last seen leaving the barracks at Camp Pendleton on December 24, 1972.
His body was found beside the 405 Freeway and Seal Beach during the early hours of December
26.
So two days later.
Abraisions on Moore's body indicated that he had been pushed from a moving vehicle.
An autopsy revealed that he had been bound at the wrist, ankles, and then beaten with
a blunt instrument about the face before being garotted.
What's that?
It's when you have a tourniquet around your neck.
Oh yeah.
That's awful.
So this is content warning here.
The body had also exhibited numerous bite marks, but the most intriguing part about the discovery
of the body was that a sock was placed inside of him.
Inside of him.
In his rectum.
Why?
We'll get to that.
Oh my god.
I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to ask, but I was thinking mouth.
That's why I was confused.
You know sometimes they, some animal stuff things.
Yeah.
Oh my god, that's awful.
I might just say inside so that everybody knows what we're saying and I don't have to
say rectum every five seconds, by the way.
So that becomes his like M.O.
We will see.
So early forensic sketches of a second unidentified male was located in Wilmington, California.
Six weeks after the murder of Moore on February 6, 1973, the body of an unidentified male
estimated between 17 and 25 years old was found alongside the Terminal Island freeway
in Wilmington.
Wonder why they consider him to be the freeway counter.
So this victim had been strangled with a ligature and also had a sock inserted inside of him.
Oh my gosh.
Two months later on April 14, the body of a 17 year old Kevin Clark Bailey was found
beside a road in Huntington Beach.
Bailey had been emasculated and sodomized prior to his murder.
By July 28, a further two more victims had been murdered.
One was an unidentified youth whose dismembered body was found in Wilmington on April 22.
The other was a 20 year old man named Ronnie Gene Weave whose strangled body was discarded
besides an on-ramp of the 405 freeway on July 30.
This is two days after he had disappeared.
Weltmarks on Weave's wrist and ankles suggest that he had been bound and potentially suspended
from a device before his murder.
Oh my god.
How is he staying away with this?
This is all over the wall.
All over the place, right?
There's like, it's, some people have been bound, some people haven't, some people have
been emasculated, some people haven't, but most all of them have been discarded by major
highways or on major roads.
Kraft is also known to have killed at least one more in 1973.
The victim was a 23 year old bisexual art student named Vincent Cruz Mestas whose body
was found in the San Bernardino Mountains on December 29.
This is the last of that year.
The victim's sock had been inserted inside of him.
Mestas hands had been severed from his body and were never found.
That's terrifying.
Which is like the first one that he's ever severed hands on.
Yeah, and also dental records too.
So like, what is the purpose of that?
What's the purpose?
Like, literally.
So by November 1974, five more victims have been found beside either major roadways in
Southern California or major cross sections.
Three of these victims have been conclusively linked to the same killer.
Clearly, there's a few emas that are happening, like with the socks or maybe being bound.
Two of these victims, 20 year old Malcolm Eugene Little and 19 year old James Dale
Reeves had each been found beside freeways with foreign objects inserted into their bodies.
Whereas the body of the third victim, which was 18 year old Marine Roger Edward Dickerson,
bore evidence of bite marks much like the other victims.
So it almost seems like he's somehow luring these young men to him, drugging them or getting
them extremely intoxicated and then doing what he's doing.
And what's interesting is they all contain at least one of his emas, but he has like
three or four, which is incredible I think.
Because it's usually the same way every time with most until they progress.
But this is kind of like, some are bound, some have socks.
Some have bite marks, some have, but they're all the same.
It's interesting.
So on January 3rd, 1975, Crafts had abducted and murdered a 17 year old high school student
named John Learis.
The youth was last seen boarding a bus in Long Beach and his strangled body was found
the following day discarded at Sunset Beach with a foreign object protruding.
Drag marks along the beach close to where his body were found suggested that possibly
two individuals had carried Learis body to the water.
So I guess they see like two people and then him, right?
In the sand.
Two weeks after this murder on January 17th, the body of a 21 year old named Craig, I
guess it's Johnnitas, Johnnitas was found discarded in the parking lot of a Golden Sales
Hotel, which is interesting because I feel like this is the first hotel near the Pacific
Coast Highway.
So it was pretty much right out the house.
So what are investigators doing about all these bodies?
They're just like, you just have a killer on the loose because it doesn't seem like...
Got another one.
Yeah, it doesn't seem like they're really doing much to kind of pinpoint who's doing
this.
Yeah, I'm not entirely sure.
I mean, we'll get to the investigation here in a little bit, but this is just like, this
is all happening.
Like boom, boom, boom.
Yeah.
Very, very quick.
I mean, I mean, we're probably already at probably 15, 20, maybe 15 victims.
Johnnitas had been strangled with string possibly a chelise, that's what they say, but very
little else is done to his body.
By January 1975, a total of 14 victims by this point, they've all been found discarded
across several parts of the counties, but all close to highways.
And this is over the total amount of about three years.
So it had all been linked to the same killer given the different MOs.
While victims had been Caucasian males with similar characteristics physically, on January
24th, homicide investigators from several jurisdictions in Southern California convened
in Orange County to discuss the progress.
Oh, finally.
Finally, right?
After three years, no big deal.
An FBI profile of the killer was read to the investigators describing the individual as
a methodical, an organized lust killer of above average intelligence who exhibited an
indifference to quote the interests and welfare of society.
So him.
Yeah.
I mean, I thought on, it seems to me like what's happening here.
And this is just me speculating that maybe he's been told, you know, by military and
his family that his sexual status is incorrect.
And so maybe he's kind of feeling like, well, I'm going to get off the way that I want to,
but then no one can know about it or no one, you know, and not no one can know, but I'm
going to, maybe he feels guilty for feeling that way and getting enjoyment out of that.
And so he in turn kills the people that he is, you know, engaging in that stuff with.
Yeah.
And that's a, that's a really sound point because honestly, like he, like we had discussed
that maybe a few of these victims had come from Huntington Beach and maybe it was known
to be a gay spot, you know, or some of these people, you know, might have been speculated
to be gay or, you know, clearly he was already seeing hustlers.
So maybe that's kind of it.
You know, I mean, we all know the police and investigators have a tendency to not, you
know, really look into if somebody has a high risk lifestyle that, you know, usually a lot
of that stuff gets pushed aside.
So maybe it wasn't until they started making the MO connections and they're like, oh, wow,
all of these kids are within this age range.
All of them look the same.
All of them, you know, that they realize that it's the same person doing these things.
So during the investigation, most of these detectives realized that the murderers, they
might be more than one murderer.
So what was another really interesting thing is that it's one or more, one or more perpetrators
that have military background.
And the reason they believe this is because two of the victims had had paper tissue residue
in their nostrils.
And it's a procedure to be known to use in the military to protect from like expelling
when somebody passes, meaning like blood or brain matter or whatever.
Right.
That was also the reason that they thought that socks were being inserted is that it's
to keep from the body purging before you can get it to another location.
That's disgusting.
But that's how they knew that they were military.
Isn't that interesting?
Yeah, it is interesting, but that's also disgusting.
It's awful, but it sounded like from the beginning it might just be something that's like, has
no rhyme or reason, but it actually has a huge reason.
And it's actually part of the reason why they developed the profile, the FBI profile.
So I thought that was interesting.
So on the evening of March 29th, 1975, Kroff had lured two used Keith Crawell and Kent
May from a long beach parking lot into his Ford Mustang.
The user were given beer and volume as Kroff drove in an apparently random, aimless way.
Like he was just driving around, probably just waiting for them to pass out.
So May later recalled feeling catatonic.
Later recalled.
Yeah.
So he's the first survivor.
Oh, so now he has someone that can tell this is the guy.
Exactly.
So he said that he started feeling catatonic before he eventually passed out in the car.
So in the parking lot where Kroff and May had last been seen, two friends of the kids
had observed a distinctive black and white Mustang that pulled in and stopped before
the driver leaned across.
I'm assuming that it's like a bench seat because he leans across the two kids, opens
up the passenger side door and forces May out.
Okay.
Kent May.
So, and then he speeds away.
So he took Kroff with him.
Oh no.
That's probably terrifying.
And so the kids had come over or whatever and assisted May.
So on May 8th, Krocwell's skull was found near a jetty close to the Long Beach Marina.
Oh my God.
I can't even imagine being May guy that like, why did he choose the other guy?
The other guy?
I don't know.
Like why did I get to survive?
Yeah.
I guess maybe he thought it would be too much to have two people.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I can't imagine that.
Like because they got in the car that way, the other guy was closer to him.
Maybe it was easier.
Maybe.
Oh my God.
Or maybe one just fit a description a little bit more that he wanted him to be his victim.
Let's talk about survivor's guilt.
Yeah.
So the rest of his body was found six months later.
After hearing the news, the two friends that had witnessed the mustang, of course, approached
the police about it.
And they suspected that he was a patron of the Belmont Shore gay bar.
So they recognized this guy or recognized his car.
They found the car at less than one mile away from their own homes.
And they had written down the license plate, the license plate information, and then given
it to the police.
Smart.
And the vehicle was registered to Randy Kraft.
Oh, so he's making mistakes.
Dummy.
Idiot.
So Long Beach police, of course, questioned Kraft about Kratwell's abduction and the
murder on May 19th of that year, 1975.
Initially he denied I ever have meeting Kratwell or May, but the police were, of course, skeptical
knowing that there was witnesses.
So therefore, and eventually Kraft did admit that on or around March 29th, that he had
encountered two kids in the Long Beach parking lot and had basically persuaded them to drink
with him and to partake in consuming drugs.
At first, he's like, I have no idea about any of this.
Oh, wait.
I did lure two children into my car.
Wait a minute.
I do remember those kids.
I drove around aimlessly for hours with them banging out.
And one just decided to just jump out of the car.
What the hell?
So again, he did admit to consuming Valium and drinking alcohol while they drove around.
He did claim that he had returned to May safely to the parking lot and then driven Kratwell
to a side road that was kind of close to his own house, but that eventually the car had
stalled out or gotten stuck in an embankment.
So then he claimed that he had him being Kraft, that he had walked to the nearest gas station
to call for help, and then by the time he had gotten back to the car, Kratwell was gone.
Oh, he was just gone.
He was just gone.
Disappointed.
Yeah.
He was like, he must have hitched hiked somewhere.
Maybe he got scared because he knew he was drunk and he was a kid or whatever it was.
What a likely story.
And then he left.
So Kraft's roommate did confirm that Kraft did call him from a pay phone that night and
that he claimed that his vehicle was stuck and detectives had remained pretty much unconvinced
of his version of things.
So the following week, two detectives attempted to file homicide charges against him.
However, Los Angeles District Attorney's Office had declined, citing that the coroner's
conclusion of the autopsy from the remains thus far, which was only the skull, Kratwell's
skull, there basically wasn't enough evidence saying that he had ever been murdered.
And since his skull was found by the jetties, they're like, well, he could have drowned.
It doesn't mean that he was murdered.
Unfortunately, that's like good for Kraft.
So perhaps because you've been questioned as a suspect in Kratwell's murder, he pretty
much slowed down on killing for a little bit.
He didn't kill anybody until the following summer.
Oh, wow.
Good for him.
What a tragedy.
So all throughout the summer of 1935, because I think that was in May.
So not again until December 31st when he abducted a 22-year-old Mark Hall in San Juan, Capistrano.
One New Year's Eve.
Yeah, New Year's Eve.
So unfortunately in this instance, this is later described by prosecutors as the worst
of all of Kraft's murders.
Oh no.
And it's really bad.
I'm going to detail in the kindest way possible what happened to Hall.
Facts are important.
Yeah, hardcore content warning.
So Hall was driven to a remote canyon where he was bound to a tree.
The autopsy listed the cause of death as exfixiation caused by leaves and earth found lodged into
his throat.
Oh.
So he was suffocated by, yeah, forcefully exfixiated.
The autopsy had also revealed that Hall had been sodomized, had been emasculated.
Basically his own genitals were inserted into him.
Oh my gosh.
Basically his chest, scrotum, nose, cheeks had all been burned with an automobile cigarette
lighter.
This was also used to destroy his eyes.
Oh my god, this poor thing.
Like he was horribly tortured.
The autopsy report also listed numerous incisions on his legs which had been inflicted by broken
bottles, broken glass.
Oh my god.
Forensic experts were able to determine that Hall had been alive through most of his torture.
Oh my god.
Oh my god, that is absolutely horrendous.
So it's like, again, you talk about the way that he, like what is his MO other than some
very obvious ones like the insertions and stuff.
But other than that, it's like burned with cigarette lighters, like things like that.
It's definitely, it's very intense.
So by 1967, Krakt had ended his relationship with Graves and shortly thereafter he began
a relationship with a 19 year old apprentice baker named Jeff Sealing.
So the couple shortly thereafter moved to Laguna Hills.
Although neither man was ever inclined towards monogamy, the couple considered their relationship
to be permanent.
So they didn't enjoy each other's company.
Sealing later told investigators that he and Kraft regularly picked up and propositioned
hitchhikers who, if willing, would accompany them to their apartment for a lovely menage
at Sois.
So they were definitely in an open relationship.
That's all good and normal, whatever you're into, but don't kill people.
But just don't kill people.
Yeah, of course.
Sealing was always adamant that Kraft was never abusive towards him either, which is
really interesting.
He never raged or anything like that, right?
Yeah, he never had violent tendencies.
And Graves said the same thing?
I'm assuming so.
Seemed like him and Graves were together for quite a few years.
During this whole time that he was killing, he was with Graves?
For three years about, yeah, three or four years that he was with Graves.
And then he upgraded to a 19-year-old.
Although I think Graves was younger when he first started dating him, too, because I think
they met in college.
What a creepo.
Yeah.
So Kraft's relationship with Sealing was also believed to be a huge contributing factor
into why there weren't as many murders.
So it seemed like Sealing probably really filled up that space in Kraft's head, right?
And he didn't kill until the end of, so basically almost a year went past.
Because I think the last one was December 31st.
And so this is in 75, this is now 76, December 10th, so almost a year.
The body of the victim was 19-year-old Paul Joseph Fuchs.
I knew how to pronounce that name because they used to have a Fuchs.
Hey, Fuchs.
And his body has never been found.
Nonetheless, Fuchs's name was clearly listed on Kraft's scorecard, like in his journal.
Oh my God, that's so creepy.
I forgot about that.
This is why Kraft doesn't like to be referred to as the freeway killer.
Because he was basically confused with someone else that was also doing the same things.
Oh, God forbid.
You're getting confused with another fucking murderous asshole.
You know, we'll just call you the little dick murderer.
How's that?
We'll just call you a little dick.
Little dick.
You're the little dick murderer.
No, there's your new name if you don't like the freeway killer.
Following the December 1976 murder of Fuchs, Kraft is not known to kill again for another
16 months.
That's so interesting to me that people can take an extended hiatus off of their urges.
That sounds bad, the void of the murder.
No, I mean, ceiling never said that he was ever abusive towards him, but maybe their
open relationship kind of helped fill that need a little bit.
And he didn't feel like he had to kill because he was getting gratification through his relationship.
That's fucked up.
That's interesting.
So again, he didn't kill for another 16 months, but on January 3rd, 1978, homicide investigators
again convened to discuss the progress in the relation to the manhunt for the still unidentified
killer.
Yeah.
By this time, investigators knew that there was now more than one murderer at large.
In the previous July, police had arrested Patrick Kearney, who subsequently confessed
to the murders of 28 boys and young men.
Many of them he had dissected and discarded in trash bags besides freeways in California.
This is the real freeway killer.
Right.
We need to cover him.
Right.
Although Kraft had dismembered some of his victims, he never killed any of his victims
by shooting them in the temple like Kearney did.
So that was his MO.
Additionally, Kearney had never tortured any of his victims, and his modus operandi differed
significantly from Kraft's.
The investigators were certain at that time that the unrelated killer was at large.
On April 16th, 1978, Kraft had abducted an 18-year-old Marine named Scott Michael Hughes.
Hughes was of course given tons of allium before Kraft ultimately mutilated him and
strangled him with a ligature.
He clothed his body and then missing only his shoelace, the thing that he used to strangle
him.
He discarded him by a freeway on an onramp in Anaheim.
So two months later on June 11th, the body of their 23-year-old Roland Gerald Young was
found near a San Diego freeway.
Young had been emasculated before being stabbed to death.
Regions on his body indicated that he had been pushed from a vehicle traveling at a
high speed.
Again, it's another one of those MOs, but it's so strange.
It's not like the others.
Eight days later, the body of a 20-year-old Marine named Richard Allen Keith was found
discarded beside a road in, I guess it's Moulton Parkway.
Helps on Keith's wrist indicated that he had been bound and strangled with a ligature.
This is months in between and then all of a sudden it's like weeks and he's had three
victims.
Yeah.
That's so weird.
So content warning, another indication about how horribly he treated Keith.
While he was being strangled, he was actually drowning because he was trying to regurgitate
because he was so fucked up on pills and alcohol.
So the cause of death was actually drowning.
Oh, that's awful.
While being strangled.
That's horrible.
So three weeks after the murder of Keith on July 6, Kraft killed a 23-year-old hitchhiker
named, and that sounds a little silly, but Keith was the former victim's last name.
This is the next victim's name.
His first name is Keith.
So his last name is Klingbell.
So Klingbell had ingested large doses of drugs, of course, and alcohol before he was
strangled with his own shoelace and his body was discarded beside Interstate 5.
Although Klingbell was still alive when he was discovered, he would die shortly after
his-
What?
He was admitted to Mission County Hospital, Community Hospital.
A subsequent autopsy revealed that prior to his strangulation, he had been mutilated,
basically.
He had been seared with another cigarette lighter, like a car lighter.
Two months later on September 29, the body of a 20-year-old Richard Anthony Crosby was
found discarded 200 yards north of Highway 71 in San Bernardino.
Crosby had disappeared the previous day since he was hitchhiking home from the theater in
Torrance.
He had been suffocated and he was also mutilated as well and burned with a cigarette lighter.
What the fuck are investigators doing?
How do you- I mean, you have to know that this is the same person, but-
They're just like, oh well-
Where's Highway Patrol?
Should that be something like watching?
I mean, I guess there's a billion highways in California.
There's also a billion police officers.
It's true.
Dude, literally, California police officers grind my gears.
All of them.
Especially the LAPD.
Especially the 70s.
Yeah.
So the last known victim murdered in 1978 was a 21-year-old Long Beach truck driver named
Joseph Michael Enderbitten, whose castrated body was found beside the San Diego Freeway
on November 18, 1978.
In addition to having been castrated, Enderbitten had been violated with a foreign object and
had suffered similar burns to the one that Mike Hall, the really bad one.
He had similar wounds inflicted on him and his cause of death was listed as suffocation.
So he objected a 20-year-old Marine named Donnie Harold Tristle, whose body was thrown
from a moving vehicle on the 45 Freeway.
The cause of death was listed as acute alcohol poisoning, although rope and Burmarks did
indicate that Cristle had been bound and tortured prior to his body being discarded.
It's just like one right after the other.
It's just insane.
Literally, there's no like rhyme or reason to it.
It's not.
It's like, oh, you're a Caucasian young male.
Cool.
Dead.
Seriously.
Two months later, on August 9, this is 79 again, the dismembered remains of an unidentified
male estimated between 18 and 30 was found in two trash bags behind a Union 76 gas station
in Long Beach.
The entry on craft scorecard simply reads 76, and it is believed to be referring to this
victim.
Although only the head, torso, and left leg of this victim were found, he, like several
others, had a sock inserted into himself.
Two weeks later, on September 14, the body of 20-year-old Gregory Wallace Jolly was found
in Lake Arrowhead.
Jolly had been emasculated, and his head and legs had been severed after death.
Oh my God.
Later, his personal possessions were found in Crosthome.
Can you imagine finding this journal and like literally it just looks like a bullet
points of like random words?
Yeah.
And then realizing what it's connected to.
It looks like Death Note, like the Death Note journal.
That's so terrifying.
It is.
On February 24, 1979, a 15-year-old, Santa Anna Youth, named Jevrey Sair, is believed
to have been objected and murdered by craft.
Sair was last seen at a bus stop in Westminster while returning home from a date with his
girlfriend.
15?
He was just returning, taking the bus.
Yeah.
Like in the 70s.
The entry in craft scorecard just said Westminster date.
So he definitely knew that he was out on a date with his girlfriend.
That's.
He probably followed him.
Fucking creepy.
On February 18, 1980, the decapitated body of a 19-year-old Marine named Mark Allen
Marsh was found near the Templin Highway.
Marsh was last seen hitchhiking towards Buena Park.
His hands had been severed from his body after death.
Jesus.
It's so much.
Are we almost done with the victims?
That's a lot.
No.
Jesus.
There's 37 pages of research.
Jeez.
Well, this is definitely going to be a two-parter.
Yeah, I think so.
So that wraps up 1979.
Moving on to 1980.
Been busy.
In the summer of 1980, Craft traveled up to the neighboring state of Oregon on an extended
business trip.
What business, you ask?
During this trip, he lived in a small town that was close to Portland.
Before returning to California in August, he is believed to have been murdered at least
two victims there, both of whom were listed on his scorecard with cryptic references including
the word Portland.
Which they don't tell you what.
It just says that they both have Portland next to whatever it all said.
So the first victim is a 17-year-old Denver youth named Michael Sean O'Fallon.
He was killed on July 17th.
O'Fallon had been on a solo hitchhiking trip across the US and Canada prior to his
enrollment at college at the time of his murder.
He had consumed both alcohol and valium before he was strangled.
O'Fallon's nude and tied up body was discarded 10 miles south of Salem.
O'Fallon was listed on Craft's scorecard as Portland Denver.
So I guess because he was in Portland and from Denver.
Yeah.
O'Fallon's camera that was inscribed with his mother's initials was later found in
Craft's garage.
So he kept his camera.
What an asshole.
So the following day, Craft is believed to have killed a man estimated between 35 and
45.
What?
Which is totally out of whack, right?
Like not even when he's been doing.
But his body was found by the side of Freeway in the city of Woodburn.
This victim was listed as Portland Elk on Craft's scorecard.
Had him just at a toxic level of valium in Tylenol before he was strangled to death.
So a toxic level would almost kill you.
Yeah.
That's interesting.
Maybe he does that on purpose so that they're kind of incapacitated and then he has a lot
easier time doing what he wants to do, which is awful.
On September 3rd, 1980, one month after Craft returned to California from Oregon, the body
of 19-year-old Marine named Robert Loggins was found discarded in trash bags close to
the El Toro Marine Air Base.
Loggins had been seen alive by two fellow Marines close to the Pacific Coast Highway
on August 23rd.
Photographs and negatives subsequently found in Craft's possession show Loggins in Craft's
living room, slumped fully clothed on his sofa, apparently intoxicated.
Oh no.
And various, like, nude and pornographic postures.
Eww.
All of these pictures depicted Loggins with his eyes closed.
It is unknown whether or not the victim was alive or dead at the time these photos were
taken.
Oh my god, that's so eerie.
Isn't that creepy?
Fighting those photos.
No.
Oh, that's terrifying.
That's so creepy.
I wonder if they were taken by the other guy's camera.
Probably.
I wonder what kind of camera that guy had.
On April 10th, 1981, the body of a 17-year-old youth named Michael Cluck was found beside
Interstate 5 Freeway close to Goshen, Oregon.
Cluck had been abducted while hitchhiking from Kent, Washington to Baker's Hill, California
the day prior to his body being discovered.
The youth had been killed by 31 blunt force blows to the head, which destroyed the back
of his skull.
31 blows to the head.
Yeah.
How much of a monster do you have to be?
If you sit here and hit your hand 31 times, you know how long that takes?
That is terrible.
And again, it's, okay, is it blunt force?
Is it execiation?
Is it strangulation?
Is it, like, what is it?
This guy has problems.
I know.
I kind of wish that there was a little bit more about his background because, I mean,
I don't know, is it just that, that he just felt so repressed growing up, that he lashes
out violently?
He's in enough childhood, I guess not, Jesus.
Cluck had also been sodomized, of course, and beaten, kicked, and then he was burned.
Cluck was believed to have been recorded on Kraft's scorecard as Portland blood due to
the extensive blood and debris found at the murder scene.
Oh my God.
At the time of the murder, Kraft had once again been sent on an assignment to Oregon
by his employers.
In addition, on the day Cluck's body was discovered, Kraft visited Lane County Hospital
to receive treatment for a bruised foot.
Oh my God.
What a baby.
It hurts to have a bruise.
It also hurts to be brutally fucking mutilated by another fucking, I don't even want to
call him a human.
Yeah.
I hope you have a bruise on the inside of your eyeball for the rest of your life.
Seriously.
Like, total sidebar, but I was watching this video where a woman had left her kid in a
hot car by himself and was rescued.
And then complained about the heat in the back of the patrol car.
Yes, in the back of the patrol car.
Can somebody put some airbag here?
It's so hot.
Oh my God.
Fucking bitch.
So fucking annoying.
Four months after Cluck's murder on August 20th, 1981, the partially-closed body of a
17-year-old male prostitute Christopher Allen Williams was found in San Bernardino Mountains.
William had ingested both benzodiazepines and other drugs, and he was found with tissue
paper lodged deep into his nostrils, causing him to actually choke to death on his own,
I guess.
Oh.
That sounds really horrible.
By early 1982, the relationship between craft and ceiling had become marred by frequent
fights and episodes of temporary separation.
In efforts to resolve their personal differences, the couple began attending weekly counseling
sessions at Huntington Beach.
That's not going to help you, sweetie.
You're a fucking murderer.
No, exactly.
And the guy at the kitchen has no idea.
Right.
So these sessions began on June 22nd, 1982.
And I feel like that's a very important date.
Okay.
The complaints of residents from Echo Park regarding a foul odor emanating from the direction
of the Hollywood Freeway on July 29th, 1982, a Caltrans employee found a decaying body
of a 14-year-old Pittsburgh youth named Raymond Davis, 14, baby.
He was discarded along the rampart boulevard off-ramp.
Rudimentary efforts have been made to conceal Davis' body beneath leaves and soil and such.
He had last been seen alive in Echo Park on June 17th, and he was searching for his
missing dog.
The youth's wrists had been knotted behind his back in much the same manner that O'Fallon
had been two years previously.
He had been strangled to death with his own shoelace, which again, clear a mo.
The entry on Croskurecard reads, dog, and believes to refer to Davis looking for his
dog.
Which is terrifying.
Your dog got out, you're just looking for him, and then you get this.
Yeah.
I think that his entries are kind of creepy, like what he chooses to describe it.
Like date or dog.
Yeah.
Like that's really interesting.
So you took the time to learn about these things.
To learn about them.
Yeah.
Oh my god.
So just 40 feet from Davis' body, the same Caltrans crew had also found the body of
a 16-year-old Robert Avila.
What?
Like right next to each other.
At the same time?
Yes.
Same day.
Oh my god, he's getting ballsy as hell.
Avila had been missing since July 21st, and his body was also markedly decomposed.
He had been strangled to death with the length of stereo speaker wire.
Oh my god.
So it's kind of interesting, he strangles, but he only strangles with what he finds.
Yeah, he's not prepared like that.
Which I find interesting.
He's not prepared.
Like beforehand.
Right.
Craft is not known to have killed again until, I like that that's like a theme that I keep
saying.
Craft is not known to kill again until November 1st, 1982, when he abducts and murders a 24-year-old
Modesto man named Arnie Michael Lane.
Lane was seen hitchhiking towards Orange County in search of work.
His body is not found until January 1984.
So this is November, so that's a year and some change.
He was discarded on a hillside close to the town of Ramona.
Four weeks after Lane's murder, the semi-new body of a 26-year-old Brian Witcher was dumped
from a moving vehicle along Interstate 5, close to the city of Wilsonville, Oregon.
Witcher had ingested high levels of both alcohol and valium, but died of ex-sustiation.
On December 3rd, 1982, a 29-year-old carpenter named Anthony Jose Silvira disappeared while
hitchhiking towards Medford.
His body was found two weeks later, strangled, sodomized, and evidently violated with a foreign
object prior to his murder.
At the time of the murders of both Witcher and Silvira, Craft was again to have been
in Oregon on a business trip, and that concluded the day of Silvira's death.
So the last day that he was there is the day that he died.
On December 4th, Craft drove from Portland to Seattle to visit friends.
Oh, so popular.
He's so popular.
During his brief visit, he was observed wearing a military jacket inscribed with the name
Silvira.
Oh my god, what a motherfucking narcissistic piece of shit.
On December 5th, Craft flew from Seattle to Grand Rapids, Michigan, again on a business
trip.
Shoutout to Grand Rapids!
Two days after his arrival in Grand Rapids, Craft encountered cousins Dennis Ault and
Christopher Shoborn at a seminar at Amway Grand Plaza Hotel.
Craft was seen talking with the pair in the hotel's reception area shortly before midnight.
Their bodies were discovered on December 9th in an open field close to the hotel.
Both victims had been supplied with alcohol and volume prior to their sodomy and murder.
The bodies had been arranged in a sexually suggested position.
Ault at age 24 had died of ex-fixiation, whereas Shoborn at age 20 had been strangled to death
with his own belt.
Both victims were recorded upon Craft's scoreboard in a single entry reading GR2.
Oh my god!
Like the Grand Rapids, too.
What a dick!
A set of keys belonging to Shoborn plus Silvier's military jacket were left by Craft in the
hotel room.
So he just left those things behind.
This guy is really grinding my fucking ears.
On December 8th, Craft traveled from Michigan to Portland.
Within 24 hours of his return to Oregon, he had killed a 19-year-old hitchhiker named
Lance Taggs.
Taggs had been last seen hitchhiking from the city of Tigrid to the home of his relative
in Los Angeles on December 8th.
His body was discovered the following day, discarded along a rural road in Clackamas
County.
Stymax, oh my god.
Clack- Clackamas.
Stymax said Clackamas sounds like something like that you would celebrate in lieu of Christmas.
But you only eat mashed potatoes all day or you only get mac and cheese.
It's just Clackamas.
You get the worst gifts like socks and it sounds awful.
Anyways, he was discarded along a rural road in Clackamas County close to where the body
of Witter had been found just two weeks earlier.
As with Alt and Shoborn, Taggs had consumed alcohol with Valium prior to his murder,
although Taggs had died of suffocation caused by a sock being dusted down his throat.
So that's how he had died.
So noting the passage of time between the periods of activity when bodies of young
males had been found discarded near mass transportation with alcohol or pharmaceuticals in their blood
stream in Oregon, investigators are theorizing at this point that their killer resides in
another state and just strikes in Oregon, only one on business.
So they know that, right?
It's interesting that they know so much about him, but they don't know who it is.
Oh, but they just don't.
They're just not doing anything.
Yeah, I mean their profiles are on point.
Following the murders of Silvera, Witter and Taggs, Oregon investigators relay details
of the murder to police in other states, describing the MO of the killer that they were seeking
and then requesting feedback from police officers that have any other unsolved murders of young
males with similar things.
And let me guess, the investigators in California were like, nah, not related.
No, not really.
We caught that guy already.
A response from Southern California counties was swift.
The pattern of killings was identical to the victims linked to the unknown killer in California.
Six Oregon murders committed by Kraft and there were thus linked to the murders that
have been committed in California.
So they knew that.
Kraft did not kill again until January 27th, 1983.
He abducted a 21-year-old hitchhiker named Eric Church.
The victim was last seen alive hitchhiking from Orange County to Sacramento the day prior
to his murder.
His body was found discarded along I-605.
And on top of that, he concluded that Church had consumed high levels of alcohol and volume,
of course, and that he had been in some way.
Where is this guy getting so much volume?
Right?
You have to have a sense of that.
I just thought that.
I was like, you would have to have a prescription for volume.
So why aren't they like, hey, let's find all the people in this county that have a prescription
for volume and they keep refilling it every fucking month?
Who's buying mass amounts of volume?
Literally.
I could have solved this motherfucking case faster than them.
Rote Marks on Church's wrist indicated that he had been struggling against his restraints
before he died of a combination of ligature, strangulation, and blows to the side of the
skull.
He's becoming a blunt force person.
Yeah.
On February 12th, Kraft had killed two Buena Park men, an 18-year-old named Jeffrey Nelson,
and a 20-year-old named Roger Duvall.
Two men were last seen outside of the house of a friend named Bryce Wilson shortly after
midnight when they told Wilson that they intended to purchase something to eat.
I'm hungry.
Nelson's new body was then found alongside an off-ramp close to the Garden Grove freeways
several hours after he and Duvall were last seen.
He had been emasculated, strangulated, and thrown from a moving vehicle.
Duvall's body was found the following day discarded down a mountainside close to Mount
Baldi in San Bernardino County.
We have a Mount Baldi here in Texas.
We do?
At Green.
At Gardner State Park.
Mount Baldi.
Unfortunately, Duvall had been bound, sodomized, strangulated, again all part of that MO.
As had been the case with Nelson, Duvall had also ingested alcohol and pharmaceuticals
prior to the murder.
So at 1 a.m. on May 14, 1983, two California Highway Patrol officers had observed a Toyota
Celica driving erratically on Interstate 5 in Orange County in the community of Mission
Viejo.
Observing the vehicle performing an illegal lane change, the officers suspecting that
the motorist may have been driving under the influence signal for the vehicle to stop.
The driver has slowed the vehicle to a halt and exited the car and as he did, he discarded
the contents of a beer bottle, like just pouring it out onto the pavement.
After Michael Sterling met the individual who identified himself as Randy Kraft, at
the front of his patrol car, he had taken Kraft and he realized that his jeans were
unbuttoned.
Sterling had Kraft perform a fuel sobriety test, which he failed and then arrested Kraft
for drunk driving.
Wow.
Not even knowing he was one of the worst serial killers in the world.
By this point, he had to have 30 murders, if not more.
Sterling's partner, Sergeant Michael Howard, approached the Celica and observed a young
man in the passenger seat.
No.
Howard was in a car with his eyes closed.
He had been partially covered by a jacket.
Several empty moose head beer bottles and an open prescription of Lorazepam tablets were
strewn all around his feet.
Wow.
Howard attempted to wake the man, receiving no response.
Howard attempted to rouse the man by shaking his arm, only to know that the individual
had a very low body temperature.
Upon checking for a pulse, Howard noticed that the man was dead.
There was a ligature mark visible around his neck.
Lifting the jacket from the victim's lap, Howard noticed that the victim's jeans had
been open to expose himself.
In addition, the victim's hands had been bound with a shoelace and his wrists bore evidence
of welt marks.
Later, identified as Terry Lee Gambrill, a 25-year-old marine who was stationed at El
Toro Air Base, the victim had been strangled to death.
So he was just driving around with this dead body in the passenger seat?
Erratically.
Well, if you think about the MO, he might have been about to toss him out on the freeway.
So he's driving erratically just fucking off or whatever and then at a high speed.
So this is his last kill?
And that's where we're gonna stop.
Oh my god.
This is getting so good.
Okay, so.
It's so much information, it's a lot of victims, but I really honestly, I did want to take
the time to, I don't know if butchered a few of those names, but I wanted to take the
time and like actually say each one of the victims names.
Of course.
Because it's very important.
If you would sit here and list off every single one of his victims, it would take a
few minutes and that's so compelling to the piece of shit that this guy is.
And that's why we felt it was really important to include all that detail.
So we are gonna do a two parter for this episode, but hopefully we will have it coming out very
shortly after this so you won't have to wait too long for that second part, but we do want
to keep you waiting.
So what are we gonna talk about in part two?
We are gonna be talking about how the investigators find the scorecard, which I think is really
intriguing and just the, pretty much the trial process.
Alright, I'm really excited to hear about this.
So in the meantime, you guys can follow us on Instagram at Diagnosing a Killer.
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Love you.
Bye.
Sorry, I got here.
I'm never gonna get through this.
I swear, can I have 37 pages of research?
It's okay. It's like it's a lot.
Okay.
Uh...
Let me read this.
What was that?
I went uh...
Certainly it's an earlman.
Ehh.
You know, you talk about roofland and things like that and usually...
What did you say?
Roofland?
Roofie?
It's called a ruffinal.
Ruffinal?
Ruff- Rufflands?
Ruffland?
Rufflands?
Ruffland?
It's called a ruff-
Ruffline?
A Ruffline.
Put that in the fucking...
Don't know what it- Don't want to sound dumb.
Put that in the bloopers.
Okay, put it in the-
Ruff- Ruff- Ruffland?
Ruff- Ruff- Ruff- Ruffline?
Just googled Ruffline-R-O-O-F-L-I-N-E.
It's not acute, it's obtuse?
It's a lot.
Yeah.
Like an acute angle and an obtuse angle?
It was...
You didn't laugh.
I don't think it was funny.
I think I-
In July 28th...
By July 28th...
I cannot talk today.
If that's being said, can I go take an allergy pill?
Yeah.
Can you see if there's like,
Tums or something?
19 year old...
Recording.
So, for like the 20th time.
Named.
Oh my god, I feel like shit.
Interpretant?
God, I cannot talk today.
It's gotta be the caffeine.
Last known victim.
Sorry.
I feel like...
Sorry.
It's the 70s.
What's this?
Sorry, I keep getting messages.
I need to turn my phone off next time we do this.
They don't do that disturb.
I thought, how do I do that?
But I have it on this.
That's un-vibrate.
Oh.
Cool.
Didn't know.
Um...
I can never say that.
Oh gosh, why do I keep messing that up?
Lane was seen, hit, hit, hit.
At a specific seminar at Amanyway.
Shownborn.
Crap.
I don't know.
I thought you were doing something weird and I glanced over for a second and you weren't
doing anything weird so then I just went back to what I was doing.
Zoning out over here because I can't breathe?
On December 8th, Kraft traveled to...
traveled to...
to...
You don't have to put that in there.
I was kind of like...