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Randy Steven Kraft (born March 19, 1945) is an American serial killer and rapist known as the Scorecard Killer, the Southern California Strangler, and the Freeway Killer, [ 4] who committed the rape, torture, and murder of a minimum of sixteen young men between 1972 and 1983, the majority of whom he killed in California.
Mar 31, 2024 · Serial killer Randy Kraft, shown during a hearing in Santa Ana in 1988, will be among the death row inmates leaving San Quentin State Prison for other prisons when the facility is turned into a rehabilitation center under orders announced on Jan. 31, 2022, by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Nov 30, 2023 · After nearly half a century, authorities have identified the remains of a teenager who is believed to have been killed by Randy Kraft, California’s notorious “Scorecard Killer,” who targeted...
- noah.goldberg@latimes.com
- Staff Writer
Apr 18, 2018 · Kraft is a convicted serial killer who murdered at least 16 young men between 1972 and 1983. He mostly killed his victims via strangulation or suffocation, but often drugged them with pills and alcohol first, which sometimes led to fatal overdoses.
- Kara Goldfarb
- A Water Tank and Two Bodies
- Deadly Cocktails at The Amway Grand
- A Break on A California Highway
- Recorded in Notebook: “Gr2”
- Nearly 3 Decades on Death Row
- Incomplete Family Photos
It’s a steady climb up and around tree-lined curves heading west on Buth Drive NW from West River Drive, past century-old farm houses. In a clearing on the left, a massive water tank — stark, white — occupies the highest ground. Save for an occasional maintenance worker, Plainfield Township’s water tank gets few visitors. And why would it? But on D...
The cousins had last been seen alive two nights before their bodies were found at the annual horticulture convention at the Amway Grand Plaza in Grand Rapids. It was a big deal for fruit farmers: a chance to learn more about their trade and trade stories. It’s where the Michigan Apple Queen was crowned. They had drinks that night at Tootsie Van Kel...
In May 1983, six months after the murders in Grand Rapids, there was a break more than 2,000 miles away on a highway in southern California. California Highway Patrol pulled over then-38-year-old Randy Kraft for driving erratically on Interstate 5 in Mission Viejo. In the passenger seat of his Toyota Celica, they found a dying Marine — Kraft’s last...
California police sent out a nationwide alert looking for victims killed under similar circumstances. “Does anyone have information regarding males strangled, diazepam, body parts mutilated, things of that nature?” Rusticus remembered the note. It caught the attention of Kent County detectives. “There were actually, believe it or not, about 11 thin...
In 1989, after a California jury convicted Kraft of 16 murders in that state, Schoenborn’s and Alt’s moms testified at his death penalty hearing in Los Angeles. As a devout Catholic, Schoenborn’s mom struggled with the death penalty. She went to her priest for help. “He said, ‘You will find in the Bible that says an eye for an eye and a tooth for a...
Schoenborn’s mom says she has since tried to learn more about Kraft and even bought a book about him. “What is the mind of a serial killer like? What makes them do that they do?” she said. He was, according to reports, a high school honors student, played tennis and spent a year in the U.S. Air Force. He also had two prior arrests, both for lewd co...
Nov 29, 2023 · Michael Ray Schlicht is believed to be an early victim of infamous serial killer Randy Kraft -- who was sentenced to death in 1989 for the brutal murders of 16 young men in Orange County between 1972 and 1983 -- according to the Orange County Sheriff's Department.
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Nov 28, 2023 · The remains of a young man believed to be among the first victims of Randy Kraft — a notorious 1970s-era serial killer — have been identified through investigative geneaology.
