When Kraft's home was searched as well, more evidence was found, including possessions of murder victims and Kraft's "score-card", on which he listed his victims by strange nicknames related to their locations or personal habits, such as "Deoderant", "New Year's Eve", and "Iowa".
Kraft claimed the terms on the list referred to sexual encounters he'd had and other mundane things. In the end, Kraft was charged with 16 murders, among them a John Doe who was nicknamed as "Airplane Hill" on the "score-card" who wasn't identified until , his real name being Kevin Clark Bailey. He was found guilty on all counts as well as some other related charges of sodomy and torture. At first, he was sentenced to death for which he became briefly acquainted with William Bonin, another "Freeway Killer" on death row , but the sentence was upheld in Needless to say, the lawsuit was dismissed as frivolous.
Kraft continues to serve his sentence at the San Quentin death row to this day. Kraft targeted young Caucasian men and teenage boys aged in their late teens to mids, usually hitchhikers, runaways, or men he picked up in gay bars.
A number of his victims were military officers who were hitchhiking. He would also castrate them, either as another form of torture or post-mortem, or mutilate and dismember them.
He took photos of his victims while they were unconscious or even dead and would keep a record of his victims hence his nickname on a sheet of paper with nicknames for each victim written down on it. He would always dump the bodies were near highways in southern California.
Some of his confirmed and suspected victims were found with some object inserted into their rectums, most often a sock. The victims were also often found barefoot, sometimes fully clothed everywhere else; some suspect that Kraft did this because of a foot fetish.
Upon his arrest, the patrolmen searched Kraft's vehicle thoroughly. In it, they found Polaroid prints of nude men who appeared unconscious or maybe even dead. Aside from those, there was also a piece of paper with 61 vague entries, and that would end up being called "Kraft's Scorecard.
According to Gambrel's friends, the last time they saw him alive was when he was planning to hitchhike on his way to a party. It was then that Kraft picked him up and gave him a bottle of beer spiked with sedatives via Orange Coast Magazine. Our serial killer was busted, and his vehicle searched; this is when police found the notebook Randy had kept about his victims.
These notes were in code consisting of seemingly random words, letters, and numbers; it appeared to list more than 60 victims. Investigators were able to decipher some of what was written and link it to victims.
Police also found more than 40 photographs of young men under the passenger seat floor mat, many of the men in these Polaroids appeared to be deceased. Randy tried to tell police these men were only inebriated, but it was obvious that was not the truth. The Scorecard Killer was charged with 16 murders; in April of he was found guilty and sentenced to death.
There are still a few questions, mainly whether Randy had an accomplice or not. How this one man could overpower the strongest and most physically fit of younger men, sometimes even carrying or dragging their bodies for long distances all by himself is still in question. He has never once showed even an ounce of remorse or empathy. She baked cookies for the Cub Scout gatherings, was an active member of a church and worked a job on top of all of that.
She also ensured that all her children were devoted to religion. Kraft was known to be an outstanding student in school. With his grades that were above average, he was promoted to a more challenging course in junior high. He managed to maintain his good grades and even developed a passion for conservative politics. By the time Kraft got into high school, his sisters had all gotten married and left home. His parents were both busy with their jobs and often left Kraft alone at home.
Thus, Kraft ended up being an independent teenager who had the house, car, and earnings from his temporary jobs all to himself. Not only was he academically good, but he was also socially apt.
He was a joyful child who played well with his friends. He could play the saxophone, tennis, and was even the organizer of a conservative politics club. He was essentially an all-rounder. At 18 years old, he graduated high school in the top 2. Since he did so well, he got a full scholarship for the economics course at an all-male college.
He continued to pursue his interest in conservative politics and occasionally participated in pro-Vietnam war demonstrations. He eventually enrolled in the Reserve Officers Training Corps and was a loyal supporter of Barry Goldwater, the Republican candidate for president in After two years in college, he made a surprising switch to supporting the left-wing liberal. He later explained that he was only a conservative fan to please his parents. He also publicly had a relationship with another male during that time, although his parents were still unaware of his homosexuality.
On multiple occasions, Kraft even brought peers who were homosexual home to hint at his parents, who failed to get the clue about his orientation. At this point, his life began to take a turn for the worse. While he worked part-time at a well-known gay bar at Garden Grove, he started developing greater sexual urges.
He would go about Huntington Beach looking for male prostitutes. In , he made sexual advances towards a male policeman who was in disguise, causing him to get arrested.
However, Kraft was released on the account that this was his first offense. Four years after his first arrest, Kraft had a change in style.
He began growing out his mustache and hair. He also had frequent aches in his stomach and head which led to a prescription of pain killers and tranquilizers. He often downed the medicine with beer.
The consequence of his sexual flourishment, drinking habits, and drug usage was the negligence of academics. It took an extra eight months before he finally graduated from college because all he did in his supposed last year was work, drugs, and gambling.
After graduating and passing the AIr Force aptitude check with flying colors, Kraft managed to join the U. Air Force. Before he knew it, he had risen the ranks to become part of the First Class. At the peak of his career, he made the decision to come out of the closet to his family. Naturally, his traditional father got extremely upset.
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