13/04/2021
Randolf Kraft's case.
Title: Serial Killer.
Other Names: The Freeway killer, Southern California strangler, the Scorecard killer.
Born: 19th March, 1945
Place: Long Beach California.
Status in family: Baby(Last born), only boy.
Father: Super distant, wanted zero relationship with son. Spent all time with daughters and Wife.
Family: Very conservative.
Upbringing: Normal
Abnormal things: Randy is prone to accidents. E.g fell from a couch and broke his collar bone.. Later, fell down a flight of stairs and was knocked unconscious.
At 3yrs old: Family moves to Orange County California.
At 5yrs old: Joins Elementary school. Is an above average student performing very well. Is recognized by all teachers. Mother is a member of PTA, who ensures weekly Bible study for him and his sisters.
At High School: Sisters are all married and have moved away from home. He has his own room, car, is working part-time and is independent. Gets along well with peers. Plays saxophone at the school band.
Graduation: At 18 years of age, he graduates 10th in a class of 390 students.
Afterwards: Starts cruising around gay bars and hanging around them.
College: Enrolls and gets a full scholarship at Claremont Men's College. Majors in Economics. Students know he is homosexual but family doesn't. Takes a part-time job as Bartender at a popular gay bar. Starts discovering self. Picks male sexual workers at Huntington Beach.
Episode 1: Goes to take up a guy oblivious of the fact that his pick is an undercover police officer. Gets arrested.
Charges are then dropped on the account that he has no previous arrest records.
Episode 2: (1967) Starts getting recurrent headaches and stomach pains. Doctors prescribe tranquilizers and pain killers. He mixes these with alcohol.
Loses interest in school and grades start to plummet.
It takes him additional 8 months to graduate college but he eventually does, earning a Bachelor of Arts and Economics.
1968: (June) Scores exemplary well in the Air Force aptitude test and enlists in the Air Force. Works really hard and very quickly becomes Airman First Class. Is always good at everything he puts his mind into. At this point in time, he decides to tell his parents he is gay. Mother still loves and supports him despite not liking his style. Father, (ps refer to the father-son relationship status above). Both parents don't speak to him as much anymore.
1969: Is discharged from the military on medical grounds. Claims he is discharged after telling his superiors he is gay. Goes back home and takes up a job as A forklift operator as well as part-time bartender.
1971: Decides to become a teacher, enrolls in a university. Hits it off with a fellow student named Jeff and moves in together. Claims Jeff introduced him to Bo***ge and 3 persons coitus. Relationship gets rocky as Randy craves a monogamous relationship.
1975: Breaks off with Jeff
1976: Meets another guy, also named Jeff.(What a coincidence!) He is 29 yrs old while Jeff (let's call him 'the 2nd') is 19. They buy a home together. He (Randy),introduces Jeff (the 2nd) to gay bars and three persons coitus, the very things that caused his break-up with Jeff (the 1st). He gets a new job with a computer company. The new job entails a lot of business travel, and this doesn't sit well with Jeff.
1982: They split up.
1983: (May 14) Randy is spotted by patrol officers swerving the road and is pulled over. He is reeking of alcohol. His shirt is buttoned incorrectly and his pants zippers are down. He is completely disheveled. He fails the standard sobriety test, is handcuffed and shoved into the police car. The officers walk towards his car and what do they see?????
1) A young man slumped over the passenger seat.
2) The man's pants are down.
3) The man is barefooted.
4) He is totally unresponsive.
5) He has strangulation marks on the neck and,
6) His wrists are bound with a rope.
The officers try to take a pulse and realize the young man is dead. He is later identified as a 25yr old marine from a nearby base. Tests show high levels of alcohol and tranquilizers in the deceased's blood. (Remember the tranquilizers and pain killers for the headaches and stomach pains?) Anyways, it is also established that the young marine graced a certain party that day and decided to hitchhike home.
Also in the car are 47 photos of different men who are nude,appear unconscious and possibly dead. (My oh my!)
At the back of the car is a briefcase with a list of 61 cryptic messages in which Randy has given all the victims nicknames such as deodorant, Marine drunk overnight shots etc. The list is to later be dubbed, 'Randy's Scorecard'.
Randy is arrested. Further search in his apartment reveals 3 more photos of different previous cold case victims and evidence of other unsolved murders. It is said that the degree of torture inflicted on his victims corresponded with the treatment he received from his prevailing relationships.
I will not disclose Randy's Modus Operandi,Trial proceedings,verdict, people's opinions or his current holding, all which are heart breaking. Instead, I would like to ask you this question.
What do you think went wrong in Randy's life, and why? Please share your thoughts on the comment section.
Let us have these conversations as a society. Let's see what we are doing wrong and what we can do to correct it. My views on the case will be in the comments section.
Let's do our best to heal the world. Continue working hard and endeavor to do good.
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