Randy kraft serial killer wiki

On April 29, , each side opened their closing arguments , which lasted a total of three days: the prosecution again listing all the physical and circumstantial evidence pointing to Kraft's guilt; the defense arguing as to the circumstantial case put forward by the prosecution that all the murders were linked and accusing the prosecution of "glossing over" the truth.

Following the closing arguments, the jury deliberated for a total of eleven days before reaching their verdict. On May 12, , Kraft was found guilty of sixteen counts of murder, one count of sodomy, and one count of emasculation. I can take all those aggravating circumstances in those other cases and they don't match Mr. Kraft's record. I just can't comment. If anyone ever deserved the death penalty, he's got it coming.

Judge Donald A. McCartin passing the death sentence upon Randy Kraft November 29, On June 5, , the same jury reconvened to hear further testimony from the prosecution and defense as to the penalty for Kraft. This phase of Kraft's trial would last until August, [] and it was at this point that the prosecution introduced evidence of several additional homicides committed in both Oregon and Michigan which they were certain Kraft had also committed and for which he had not been tried in Orange County.

The defense dismissed the prosecution's assertions as being "highly speculative" [] and introduced testimony relating to a PET scan conducted on Kraft which, they asserted, revealed abnormalities in the frontal lobes of his brain, therefore reducing his ability to control both his emotions and impulse. Kraft's mind other than that he likes killing for sexual satisfaction", adding that the fact that his family and friends had found it difficult to believe he had committed any murders simply showed "what a good salesman he is.

On August 11, , the jury rendered a verdict of death. The sentence was upheld by the California Supreme Court on August 9, He continues to deny responsibility for any of the homicides for which he was either convicted or is suspected of committing. Both circumstantial and DNA evidence relating to some of Kraft's murders have caused many to strongly suspect that not all of the murders attributed to Kraft were committed by one person.

The prosecution believed these inconsistencies could only be explained by the presence of an accomplice. It is contended that Kraft would have had difficulty moving around pound 90 kg corpses. Dumping them from moving vehicles while alone would also be difficult to do unnoticed. Abrasions and debris found at some of the crime scenes, where bodies had been discarded upon or alongside freeways, indicated that they had been discarded from vehicles traveling at more than 50 miles per hour, and for one individual to perform this act without compromising his driving would be very difficult.

Moreover, footprints in the sand close to where the body of John Leras was found at Sunset Beach in unequivocally indicate two people had carried the youth's body to where it was discarded. In the case of Eric Church, semen samples found on his body were inconsistent with Kraft's blood type , and, while the photographs of the victims found in Kraft's car had to have been processed somewhere, no photo developer ever reported Kraft's morbid images to the police.

Kraft himself had no darkroom expertise or darkroom equipment. During Kraft's trial, members of the prosecution admitted privately that they did not charge him with several murders that they were certain he had committed because of facts relating to the cases which indicated more than one perpetrator.

The prosecution believed Kraft's former lover, Jeff Graves, may have assisted Kraft in several murders. Graves, who had lived with Kraft between and when sixteen known murders attributed to Kraft occurred had been questioned in relation to the Crotwell abduction and murder in , when he verified part of Kraft's statement to police.

When questioned further about the incident following Kraft's arrest in , Graves had informed investigators: "I'm really not going to pay for it, you know. In January , journalist Dennis McDougal , the author of a book about Kraft entitled Angel of Darkness , published an article which recounted interviews with a small-time criminal named Bob Jackson, who reportedly confessed to murdering two hitchhikers with Kraft: one in Wyoming in and another in Colorado in Authorities in both Colorado and Wyoming were unable to corroborate these claims.

Jackson also claimed to McDougal that Kraft's scorecard included only his "more memorable" murders; in Jackson's opinion, Kraft's total body count stood closer to McDougal reported these allegations to the police and provided tape recordings of the interviews. Detectives interrogated Jackson and eventually persuaded him to enter a mental institution ; no murder charges were filed against him due to an absence of direct incriminating evidence.

The suit contended that the book smeared his "good name", unjustly portrayed him as a "sick, twisted man", and destroyed his prospects for future employment by ruining his chances of overturning his conviction on appeal.

By , investigators had linked forty-three of the sixty-one entries upon Kraft's scorecard to identified and nameless young men murdered in the twelve years previous to Kraft's arrest. A further victim unidentified at trial yet linked to Kraft as an entry simply reading "76" has since been identified as Keith Jackson; a tourist from Manchester , England, meaning he may have been the entry in Kraft's journal logged as "England" as opposed to "76". This is due in part to the killings having occurred in several states, with bodies being discarded in varying locations, and several entries being cryptic.

The entry upon Kraft's scorecard reading "Navy White" is believed by investigators to refer to a year-old named James Sean Cox, an apprentice medic stationed at Mather Air Force Base who was last seen on September 29, , hitchhiking near Interstate 5 [] and whose body was found several weeks later in Rancho Santa Fe.

At the time of his disappearance, Cox was dressed in his white navy uniform. In addition to the color of his uniform, Cox was a blond youth. A further entry on Kraft's scorecard, simply reading "Iowa", is believed to refer to an year-old Marine named Oral Alfred Stuart, Jr. Investigators note a similarity of modus operandi in the murder and body disposal of Stuart to that of other victims Kraft is known to have killed. One unknown entry upon the scorecard simply reads "Hari Kari". This entry may refer to the stabbing murder of year-old David Michael Sandt, who was found sexually assaulted and stabbed to death close to a vacant house in Long Beach on January 13, The multiple stab wounds inflicted were to Sandt's stomach, and his body was found in a kneeling position with his arms extended in front of him in a position reminiscent of the Japanese ritual suicide practice known as Hara-kiri.

Patrick Kearney , a suspect in a series of killings of young men known as the "Trash Bag Murders", surrendered to Riverside Police in July He subsequently confessed to the murders of 28 boys and young men; many of whom he had also discarded along freeways in southern California. Although Kraft is also known to have dismembered some of his victims, Kearney invariably killed his victims by shooting them in the temple.

In addition, Kearney discarded the majority of his victims' bodies in trash bags. In , William Bonin and four known accomplices were arrested for a series of killings known as the "Freeway Murders", which displayed a markedly similar disposal method to those committed by Kraft.

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Kraft had to repeat his econometrics class, resulting in deferment of his graduation by eight months. Four months after his graduating from college, Kraft joined the U. Air Force.

He was sent to basic training in Texas before being stationed at Edwards Air Force Base in southern California, where he supervised the painting of test planes.

The same year Kraft became an Airman First Class, he disclosed to his family that he was homosexual. In a letter he wrote to a friend, Kraft described his father as having flown "into a rage", whereas he described his mother as being more understanding, if somewhat disapproving. On July 26, , Kraft received a general discharge from the Air Force after announcing his sexuality to his superiors. The discharge was officially listed as being on "medical" grounds. In response, Kraft sought legal advice from an attorney in an attempt to challenge the grounds regarding his discharge from the Air Force.

The Air Force, however, refused to change the status of his discharge. Following his military discharge, Kraft moved back into his parents' home and worked as a bartender. In response, Kraft invited the youth to accompany him to his apartment on the promise that Fancher could live with him. Fancher agreed and accompanied Kraft to his Belmont Shore apartment, where he was drugged and assaulted.

Hours later, Fancher escaped from Kraft's apartment after Kraft left the youth unattended to go to work. A member of the public summoned an ambulance, having observed Fancher's drugged and disheveled condition; he required having his stomach pumped as a result of the drugs he had ingested.

At the hospital, Fancher informed police Kraft had given him drugs and beaten him. However, as Fancher had confessed to police he had taken the pills offered to him voluntarily and the officers had conducted the search without a warrant, no charges were filed. In , Kraft found new employment as a forklift driver in Huntington Beach.

In an effort to further his career prospects following his military discharge two years earlier, he enrolled at Long Beach State University , undertaking teaching courses. There, Kraft became acquainted with Jeff Graves — a fellow teaching student from Minnesota four years younger than Kraft, and with whom he began a relationship. Between and , Kraft is believed to have killed a total of 67 victims.

All of his suspected victims were males between the ages of 13 and 35, [9] [29] the majority of whom were in their late teens to mid-twenties. Kraft was charged with—and convicted of—sixteen of these homicides, all of which had occurred between and Many of his victims had been enlisted in the United States Marines Corps , [30] and most of his victims' bodies bore evidence of high levels of both alcohol and tranquilizers in their blood systems, indicating they had been rendered insensate before they had been abused and killed.

Kraft's victims were typically lured into his vehicle with an offer of a lift or alcohol. They were then bound, tortured, and sexually abused before they were usually killed by either strangulation, asphyxiation , or bludgeoning, although some victims had also ingested fatal doses of pharmaceuticals and at least one victim was stabbed to death. Photographic evidence found at Kraft's home indicates several of his victims were driven to his house before their murder.

Many of the victims were burned with a car cigarette lighter, usually around the genitals, chest, and face, and several were found with extensive blunt force trauma to the face and head.

The majority of Kraft's murders were committed in California, although some victims had been killed in Oregon, with two further known victims murdered in Michigan in December Dukette, a bartender at a gay bar named "The Stable" in nearby Sunset Beach, had last been seen alive on September 20, Putrefaction had erased any signs of foul play upon the body, and the cause of death was listed as acute alcohol poisoning due to a high blood alcohol level.

Moore was seen alive leaving the barracks at Camp Pendleton on December 24 , His body was found beside the Freeway in Seal Beach during the early hours of December Abrasions on Moore's body indicated he had been discarded from a moving vehicle. An autopsy revealed he had been bound about the wrists and ankles, then beaten with a blunt instrument about the face before being garrotted.

His body also bore evidence of numerous bite marks , and a sock had been forced into his rectum. Facial reconstruction of an unidentified victim found in February , believed to have been logged upon Kraft's scorecard as "Wilmington". Six weeks after the murder of Moore, the body of an unidentified male , estimated to be around 17 to 25 years old, [42] was found alongside the Terminal Island Freeway in Los Angeles.

This victim had been strangled by a ligature and had also had a sock placed in his rectum. By July 28, a further two victims had been murdered: an unidentified youth whose dismembered body was found on April 22 and a year-old named Ronnie Gene Wiebe, whose strangled body was discarded beside an onramp to the Freeway on July 30 — two days after he had disappeared.

Welt marks on Wiebe's wrists and ankles suggested he had been bound and suspended from a device before his murder. Kraft is only known to have killed once more in The victim was a year-old bisexual art student named Vincent Cruz Mestas, whose body was found in the San Bernardino Mountains on December By November , a further five victims had been found beside or close to mass transportation in southern California; three of which had been conclusively linked to the same killer.

Two of these victims—year-old Malcolm Eugene Little and year-old James Dale Reeves—had each been found beside a freeway with foreign objects inserted into their bodies, whereas the body of the third victim, year-old Marine Roger Edward Dickerson, bore evidence of bite marks much like several earlier victims.

On January 3, , Kraft abducted and murdered a year-old high school student named John Leras. Drag marks along the beach close to where his body had been discarded indicated two individuals had carried Leras's body into the water. By January , a total of 14 victims, whose bodies had been found discarded across four separate counties within the previous three years, had been linked to the same killer. All the victims had been Caucasian males with similar physical characteristics.

On January 24, homicide investigators from several jurisdictions in southern California convened in Orange County to discuss progress in the hunt for the unknown killer. The placing of socks inside the victims' rectums was also theorized to be a method used by the killer to prevent purging as the body was driven to the disposal location.

May later recalled feeling catatonic as a result of the Valium and alcohol he had ingested before he passed out. In the parking lot where Crotwell and May had last been seen, two friends of the youths observed a distinctive black and white Mustang rapidly enter and draw to a halt before the driver leaned across, opened the passenger door, and pushed the unconscious but otherwise unharmed May from the rear seat onto the pavement. The driver then sped away from the scene.

As he did so, the friends noted Crotwell slumped against the unknown driver's shoulder. On May 8, Crotwell's skull was found in a jetty close to the Long Beach Marina; the remainder of his body was found six months later. Upon locating the vehicle less than one mile 1. The registration of the vehicle was traced to Kraft. Long Beach police questioned Kraft about Crotwell's abduction and murder on May 19, Initially, he denied having ever met either Crotwell or May and the police, initially skeptical of Kraft's denial, summoned him to the police station for further questioning.

He claimed to have returned May to the parking lot and then to have driven with Crotwell to a side road close to the El Toro offramp , where his car subsequently became embedded upon an embankment. He claimed to have walked alone to a gas station to call a tow truck while Crotwell remained with his vehicle.

Upon returning to his vehicle, Kraft claimed, Crotwell had disappeared. Although Kraft's roommate was able to verify to detectives that Kraft had phoned him on the date of Crotwell's disappearance, claiming his vehicle was stuck upon an embankment, detectives remained unconvinced with Kraft's overall version of events. The following week, two detectives attempted to file homicide charges against Kraft.

However, the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office dismissed the detectives' request, citing the coroner's conclusion from his autopsy of the remains thus far found solely the youth's skull that the youth had died of accidental drowning. 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 , Kraft is not known to have killed again until December 31, when he abducted year-old Mark Hall in San Juan Capistrano.

The autopsy report listed the cause of death as being asphyxiation caused by leaves and earth found lodged deep into Hall's trachea. The autopsy also revealed Hall had been sodomized and emasculated, with his severed genitals then inserted into his rectum. Additionally, his chest, scrotum, nose and cheeks had been burned with an automobile cigarette lighter, with his eyes being destroyed by the same object. Other injuries noted in the autopsy included numerous incisions on Hall's legs which had been inflicted with a broken bottle.

By , Kraft had ended his relationship with Graves. Shortly thereafter, he began a relationship with a year-old apprentice baker named Jeff Seelig, and the couple moved to Laguna Hills. Although neither man was inclined towards monogamy , the couple considered their relationship permanent. However, Seelig was adamant that Kraft had never been violent towards him and that he had never seen him display violent tendencies.

Kraft's relationship with Seelig is believed to be a contributory factor in the sudden lull in murders he is known to have committed. The body of the victim, year-old Paul Joseph Fuchs, has never been found. Nonetheless, Fuchs' name is clearly listed upon Kraft's scorecard. Following the December murder of Fuchs, Kraft is not known to have killed any further victims for sixteen months.

In addition, on the day Cluck's body was discovered, Kraft visited a Lane County hospital to receive treatment for a bruised foot. Four months after Cluck's murder, on August 20, , the partially clothed body of year-old male prostitute Christopher Allen Williams was found in the San Bernardino Mountains.

Williams had ingested both phenobarbital and benzodiazepine , and was found with tissue paper lodged deep in his nostrils, causing him to choke to death on his own mucus.

By early , the relationship between Kraft and Seelig had become marred by frequent fights and episodes of temporary separation. In an effort to resolve their personal differences, the couple began attending weekly counseling sessions in Huntington Beach.

These sessions began on June 22, Following complaints from residents of Echo Park regarding a foul odor emanating from the direction of the Hollywood Freeway on July 29, , [96] a Cal Trans employee found the decaying body of a year-old [97] Pittsburg youth named Raymond Davis discarded alongside the Rampart Boulevard offramp.

Rudimentary efforts had been made to conceal Davis's body beneath leaves and soil. He had last been seen alive in Echo Park on June 17, [98] searching for his missing dog. The youth's wrists had been knotted behind his back in much the same manner as had victim Michael O'Fallon two years previously, and he had been strangled to death with his own shoelace. The entry on Kraft's scorecard reading "Dog" is believed to refer to Davis.

Just forty feet from Davis' body, the same Cal Trans crew also found the body of year-old Robert Avila. Kraft is not known to have killed again until November 1, , when he abducted and murdered a year-old Modesto man named Arne Mikeal Laine. His body was not found until January , discarded on a hillside close to the town of Ramona. Four weeks after Laine's murder, the semi-nude body of year-old Brian Whitcher was dumped from a moving vehicle alongside the Interstate 5 freeway, close to the city of Wilsonville, Oregon.

Whitcher had ingested high levels of both alcohol and Valium, but he died of asphyxiation. On December 3, , a year-old carpenter named Anthony Jose Silveira disappeared while hitchhiking towards Medford. His body was found two weeks later, strangled, sodomized, and evidently violated with foreign objects prior to his murder.

At the time of the murders of both Whitcher and Silveira, Kraft was again known to have been in Oregon on a business trip, which concluded the day of Silveira's death. On December 4, Kraft drove from Portland to Seattle to visit friends.

During this brief visit, he was observed wearing a military jacket inscribed with the name "Silveira". Kraft was seen talking with the pair in the hotel's reception area shortly before midnight. Their bodies were discovered on December 9 in an open field close to the hotel. Alt, aged 24, had died of asphyxiation, whereas Schoenborn, aged 20, had been strangled to death with his own belt. In addition, a ballpoint pen had been inserted into Schoenborn's urethra prior to his murder.

Both victims were recorded upon Kraft's scorecard in a single entry reading "GR2". On December 8, Kraft traveled from Michigan to Portland. Taggs had last been seen hitchhiking from the city of Tigard to the home of a relative in Los Angeles on December 8. Following the murders of Silveira, Whitcher, and Taggs, Oregon investigators relayed details of the murders to police in other states, describing the modus operandi of the killer they were seeking and requesting feedback from any police force who had unsolved murders of young males on their files with similar characteristics.

The six Oregon murders committed by Kraft were thus linked to the murders he had committed in California. Kraft did not kill again until January 27, , when he abducted a 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 alongside I Rope marks on Church's wrists indicated he had struggled against his restraints before he died of a combination of ligature strangulation and numerous blows to the side of his skull inflicted by a blunt instrument.

The two young men were last seen outside the house of a friend named Bryce Wilson shortly after midnight, when they told Wilson that they intended to purchase something to eat.

Nelson's nude body was found alongside an offramp close to the Garden Grove Freeway several hours after he and DeVaul were last seen. He had been emasculated, strangled, and thrown from a moving vehicle. As had been the case with Nelson, DeVaul had ingested both alcohol and propranolol prior to his murder. In addition, the stomachs of both victims contained potato skins and grapes, which had been eaten shortly before their murders. At a. Observing the vehicle perform an illegal lane change, the officers—suspecting the motorist was driving under the influence —signaled for the vehicle to stop.

Officer Michael Sterling met the individual, who identified himself as Randy Kraft, at the front of his patrol car and observed that his jeans were unbuttoned. Sterling had Kraft perform a field sobriety test , which he failed. He then arrested Kraft for driving while intoxicated. Sterling's partner, Sgt. Michael Howard, approached the Celica and observed a young man slumped with his eyes closed in the vehicle's passenger seat, partially covered by a jacket.

Several empty Moosehead beer bottles and an open prescription bottle of Lorazepam tablets were strewn around his feet. Receiving no response, Howard attempted to rouse the man by shaking his arm, only to note the individual had a low body temperature. Upon checking for a pulse, Howard noted the man was dead, with a ligature mark visible around his neck. 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 Gambrel, a year-old Marine stationed at El Toro air base, the victim had been strangled to death. Kraft was initially charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, and was held in custody as detectives conducted a thorough search of his vehicle.

Upon the rear seat of the car, investigators found a belt, the width of which matched the bruising around Gambrel's neck. Other incriminating evidence included alcohol, tranquilizers, various prescription drugs, and stimulants. The passenger seat and carpet of the vehicle was heavily bloodstained; however, Gambrel had no open wounds. The upholstery was removed for forensic analysis , the results of which confirmed the blood was human. Beneath the carpet, investigators discovered an envelope containing more than 50 photographs of young men in pornographic poses.

Many of the subjects in the pictures appeared to be either asleep or dead. A search of Kraft's home revealed further incriminating evidence, including clothes and personal possessions of numerous young men who had been murdered over the previous decade. In addition, the couch in Kraft's living room was identified as being the one in the photographs found in Kraft's car. In one of these images, a ligature mark is clearly visible on DeVaul's neck. The coded list of 61 neatly printed terms and phrases found in the trunk of Kraft's car is believed to refer to each of Kraft's victims.

Many entries appear innocuous, but each is believed to refer to a specific murder victim or double murder. Several entries clearly reference victims' names for example, the entry reading "EDM" refers to the initials of victim Edward Daniel Moore, whereas "Vince M" refers to victim Vincent Mestas. Investigators contend that two victims of whose murders Kraft was convicted Church and Gambrel are not listed on Kraft's scorecard.

However, since the list is in code, the possibility exists that Church in particular is actually included on the scorecard as an entry which investigators cannot recognize as referring to him. October 18, The rest of his body, except for his hands, was found near El Toro. Cause of Death: Accidental drowning. Last seen in Long Beach with Kraft on March 30, Crotwell was unconscious in the front seat of Kraft's Mustang.

His friend, Kent May was unconscious in the back seat. The witness saw Kraft pull into the parking lot next to the Belmont Plaza Pool, push May out of the car and drive off with Crotwell. May told police that Kraft supplied drugs and alcohol to him and Crotwell and that he passed out soon afterward.

Davis was visiting relatives in Los Angeles. On the day that he went missing he was going to the park to look for his lost dog. Little's brother was a truck driver who had dropped him off on May 27, , at the Garden Grove Freeway and San Diego Freeway interchange. He was planning to hitchhike back to Alabama. His car was found with a flat tire parked at the Sportsman Bar in Los Alamitos.

Cause of Death: Ligature Strangulation. Cause of Death: Unknown - Emasculated and mutilated. Kraft often hunted for Marines. Jolley wore military clothing and told people he was in the Marines. A sketch pad belonging to Jolley was found in Kraft's home during a police search. June 22, Roger E. He was last seen on June 20 near a bar in San Clemente. He had planned to hitchhike to Los Angeles. Address unknown. Cause of Death: Strangulation Autopsy Results: - The body was fully clothed except for his socks and shoes.

Rug fibers found at Kraft's home matched rug fibers found on Hughes' body. He was one of the 16 victims that Kraft was found guilty of murdering. Cause of Death: Acute Intoxication alcohol and diazepam Body was dressed except for shoes and socks.

His head and hands were cut off. He was seen on June 18 hitchhiking from Carson. Keith was one of the 16 victims that Kraft was found guilty of murdering. Cause of Death: Acute Alcoholism and Suffocation. Dirt had been packed into his trachea. He was last seen on Jan. Hall was one of the 16 victims that Kraft was found guilty of murdering. He had intended on taking the bus home, but the buses had stopped running for the night. Cause of Death: Stabbed in the heart.

Young had been released just hours before his body was found from Orange County Jail on a misdemeanor violation. Young was one of the 16 victims that Kraft was found guilty of murdering. Cause of Death: Poisoned with alcohol and drugs - Burned on his left nipple with an automobile cigarette lighter. Crisel only had shorts on when his body was found.

Cause of Death: Suffocation - His left nipple was mutilated with an automobile cigarette lighter. On the night he was murdered he had gone to a movie in Torrance. Crosby always hitchhiked. The connection was made based on the reference to the location he was last seen and the code. Photo of Devaul was found at Kraft's apartment during a police search.

He appeared dead in the photo. They were two of the 16 victims that Kraft was found guilty of murdering.