Serial Killer Documentary: Randy Kraft (The Scorecard Killer)
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- Randy Steven Kraft is an American serial killer known as the Scorecard Killer, the Southern California Strangler, and the Freeway Killer. He murdered a minimum of 16 young men between 1972 and 1983, the majority of whom he killed in California.
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"Kraft is docile and hard working"
*here's four more bodies*
@Tracy Lehane to drop 4 bodies, that’s hard working lol, you know why they call it dead weight 😂that’s a lot of human to move alone
Lmao
Of course he voted democratic! Why is that even part of the story?
67 known victims is not the death toll of a slacker.
definitly working hard producing one of the highest kill counts in us serial killeing history
my uncle was Scott Hughes. though he was murdered many years before i was born, Randy’s actions tainted and destroyed my family forever.
since a child, ive seen Randy’s face over and over again, reading the book “Angel of Darkness.”
this man was truly sick.
I ran into Kraft when hitch hiking in 1980 in L A
that’s hot
Crazy Joseph and I have the same last name.
Crazy Joseph and I have the same last name.
@@marypowis7778sure
This is one reason why I gave my son the talk. It´s not just girls who have to watch out, though we forget. If this had happened to one of my kids, this man wouldn´t have made it to prison.
I can't imagine being the parent and hearing the details
Idk about that dude. Many of the guys he killed were trained kilkers themselves, being Marines. Yet they succumbed. You think you're kids would fare better than US Marines? Idk bout that
@@choosetolivefree no but making them aware of the possibilities gives them better chances. That's all he's saying.
@@aflawedhuman2046 Totally, I realize that MOST military people serve in support roles, the actual combat or operational roles are a small percentage... but the Marines in particular emphasize every single one of them be trained in combat. I assumed that he somehow would drug them, he must have had a way of making people put their guard down. It would be nice to know exactly how he subdued people
For real! You are one smart (and it seems, good) mom! (I'm assuming 'Mom, based off your name. Yes. I assumed your gender! 😁 ) Your son is lucky to have a parent like you, to think ahead, and teach him these kind of things, so he can stay as safe as possible. Good thinking. Good parenting. Good, Mom.
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"An unidentified object the size of a pencil was jammed into his urethra"
I physically recoiled just from hearing this.
It was a swizzle stick that you stir cocktails with.
SAME
My father told me about an encounter he had with Randy Kraft when he was 19. He was at a bus stop when Kraft came up to him and asked him to come with him to party. He had a pocket knife in his right hand fortunately , and made sure he could hear the click. I can’t imagine his shock when he recognized his face in the news later on
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Was your dad gay?
While my dad was on a motorcycle ride with his girlfriend they stopped for gas or something and they ran into Leonard Lake and Charles Ng. They were serial killers who would take couples and torture the girl making the guy watch before killing him then later the girl. The weirdest part of my dad running in to them was Charles Ng asking them to come party with them by saying, “cmon we’re gonna cook up a fat chicken” my dad was weirded the fuck out by them and thought they were gay together so he was like hell naw we’re good, then they got out of there
I had my own encounter with this son-of-a-bitch back in late 1979 when I was 13 years old. He stopped me in a neighborhood (Rossmoor) in Los Alamitos very near to his home in Long Beach and his dumping grounds along the 405 / 605 freeways) and was very persistent about wanting to sell me a surfboard. Fucker was trying to get me to get into his car to go back to his house to check out the "surfboard". Luckily I was in a place where he could not have forced me into his car without neighbors hearing or seeing him. I was also on my bike and could have easily have taken off since I was on the sidewalk and he was sitting in his idling car on the street. I never forgot that encounter and only later came to realize it was him when I later saw pictures of him with dark hair and a mustache which matched the guy who stopped me perfectly. I can still remember his face to this day. The sick bastard should have been put to death a long time ago.
Wow!! You’re dad was a badass and smart. So glad he wasn’t a victim. 😮
This was probably the most disturbing case I’ve seen so far.
Yes!!!, I had to pause it have way in order to catch my breath!!!🤢...✌
Wait for chikatilo
Me too
And Robert berdella and Dean corll
Check out Robert Berdella
It breaks my heart to know that this monster has been loitering around death row, at tax payer expense, for over 31 years ... This s.o.b. should have gone out the hard way a long, long time ago ...
A lot of serial killers sat in death row in California prisons. It’s disgusting
Serial killers have trophies the state of California a collection of serial killers.....
I don't even know why they have the death penalty. Its a joke.
Estimated at $31.000 a year per inmate. My opinion. Bring back hanging! And within weeks of verdict.
The longest death row inmate is in Texas. He has been on death row since 1976.
Randy kraft came to my work to program our computers. The ladies in the office thought he was handsome and asked him to go have drinks after work but he always declined. I sat next to him while he showed me how to use my computer program. He was polite but thought he was weird for bleaching his hair. We had lots of problems with the new computer system and tried many times to contact randy to come fix them but he was hard to get a hold of. We did not know he was out killing men until his arrest. We all worked for Lear seigler.
Creepy. He probably thought about it, you know?
Eek
@@superscatboy best comment. I’m going to use that now…‘I even tried putting a sock up my butt, unfortunately it did not work. I’ve really tried everything.’
Wow!!!
Were you a female or gay??
A child described as “accident prone” is a massive red flag for abuse
Or neglect at the very least.
By all accounts he had a good childhood. Some people are just evil freaks
@@williammcclurd7448 by who's account though? Abuse usually goes unseen by outsiders.
Me: 👀
They commented “red flag”, not for certain… but one year olds hurling themselves down stairs very often, is concerning. Especially considering the force it takes to break young children’s, more pliable bones. Trust me, I was a history major in college. 😑
"Accident prone" as a child. Falling down stairs, etc. Sounds more like child abuse, undiagnosed. That would fit into the backstory for most serial killers - abusive childhoods. Not an excuse, not at all, but it does help explain what went wrong with him.
Def. That “fall down the stairs” also knocked him unconscious, according to this narrator. Head injury confirmed
Abuse and probably brain damage too!
Southern California was going through hell in the mid to late 70s.
Really! It is just unbelievable how many serial killers were out there at the time, doing their thing, year after year. I believe they would be caught much quicker these days.
Mind control cia operations created a bunch of monsters
@@alexkid1076 Lol, you daft weirdos and your psy-ops conspiracies.
Serial killers were bumping into each other, but not bumping each other off. They all seemed to specialize😬
We are going through hell now have you seen this shithole, a few rich people taxing and regulating any path you have to success. Id take a pencil to the dick to get rid of the commies
10 years later the police noticed a pattern????
No digital Information sharing.
Not like local police bother to cooperate with other areas but still, it's marginally better today.
Yea, how slow can you be. Law enforcement should be more on the ball than that.
*It's not funny 🤪 but goddamn that was funny 🤣😂😅😆😝😂*
@@AdaptiveApeHybrid Oh.
If he was black...smh
I can't imagine one of the victims being my child and how that would haunt you for the rest of your life. Unbearable.
Oh me too
Imagine being a cop in the 1970s - Bodies drop like flies; serial killers thrill one after one; technology is primitive; cases go cold like popsicles; frustration is high like sky
Homicide detectives in 70s en 80s had alot of sleepless nights my brother
@@faizelwales and high rates of divorce, because of that. All that struggle and ptsd, to catch these depraved cowards😢
@@Maria..Carina-y6x 💯👊
@@faizelwaleshahahaha. Cuz they were drunk and staying up with Randy at the gay bars. Like they still do.
@@Maria..Carina-y6xPlease: cops whine constantly. They do not need your encouragement. PTSD my testicles.
There is barely enough room to list Kraft’s list of victims in this episode
Ah yes, another serial killer that could have been stopped if not for a police mistake, these people are the luckiest.
@kekenyukka you wanted him to have help killing people, you monster😜
@kekenyukka stfu people who deserve help are those who are trying to stop being monsters. People like him know what they're doing and only pretend to be sick when they're on death row.
Lackadaisical attitudes. Kid missing? Oh they ran away. Gays murdered? Ah well.
It's almost AS IF cops profit with more killers. Oh that's right, they do. Silly.
This is some sick shit. How can a human being be capable of shit like this. I listen to alot of true crime doco's & series & this is definitely one that is very hard to hear. I cant even imagine the absolute devastation you would feel being one of the victims parents. 😥😫😭
So fuckn sad...
I know right??
He's the kind of sicko that even your run of the mill serial killers would be offended by, and possibly scared of! 😨
Completely deranged and beyond crazy. Its past any kind of natural instinct to kill. Some serial killers seem to be killing out of some kind of twisted animalistic urge. His killings are the closest thing to "evil" that I've ever thought of, if I were to believe in inherent evil. Hes definitely a strong argument for evil to be a legit and actual thing, in my mind, at least. (I know a lot of people believe in evil, like good vs evil. But I've never seen it that way. But that's not to mean that I think any of the messed up things people do are okay or anything. Just more....organic, I guess.)
I agree
Yesssssss
@@kari7403 you stated all of that so perfectly. Literally my exact thoughts!
Damn homicidal sadistic freak..... one of the absolute worse. I had a hard time watching this one. Rip to his MANY victims who suffered such horrific deaths. I hope their families have found some sort of peace over time.
I don’t think as a mother I could live knowing what was done to my child...it would haunt my thoughts constantly.
Killing those kids really got me
They toned it down in this podcast probably due to UTube censorship I Studied Randy about 5 years ago. And how he tortured those poor dudes nobody should have to endure. An exceptionally cruel person
I read a book about him recently (Angel of Darkness). I consider myself fairly hardened, but the details of what Kraft did to his victims are truly horrifying. Truly he is one of the very worst.
@@joannaw5913 Angel of Darkness is a must read for any true crime/serial killer fanatic.
Prolific killers are bad enough, but these sadistic types are the stuff of nightmares
This dude was BEYOND evil. I just cannot imagine what the families went through after learning the details. This is one of those horrific heart tugging cases. The evil is just so sadistic.. Makes Dahmer seem like he was kind jeez..
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Right
Randy, Dean, Bonin were all worse than Dahmer, I am shocked to see how little known these other monsters are compared to Dahmer.
@@Solararisa Not even joking, I literally just watched about Bonin on a channel here called Monsters.. I have Dean on my list!! You are so right.. Do you know the full names of the other 2 so I can look them up? Thanks love...
@@Swnsasy Randy Kraft, William Bonin and Dean Corll are their full names, just recently learnt about Robert Berdella, even though his victim count was only 6, the way he tortured and kept his victims for a longer periods of time is easily one of the most horrific. You can check them out too.
@@Solararisa The photos of Berdella's victims are so chilling and horrific. And these three men are some of the worst I have ever heard. RIP to all of their victims who suffered and died so horribly. I can't even imagine suffering through the torture they went through.
The pain these young men went through. He is absolutely terrible! Makes me cringe.
A got dam monster devil his. Wait who every raised that boy it's they Fort dam shame i was about 4 them. 56 now i am lucky
Im glad there is equality not only women treated like sex toys and get their genitals eaten .
R U KIDDING ME! How did he get away with this for so long? I can't believe I've not even heard of it till now!
That's one thing that's missing. Surely the gay community connected Kraft with the killings.
Well it was the 70s. Easy to elude a lot longer back then.
I know me too
He didnt get much attention like bundy , dahmer gacey etc.may b because mostly he did in 70s , usually ppl drifting getting lifts & there were no girls involved ..May be you are not into serial killer crime stories...But what a monster evil he was in human shape.😱😱👹👹
@@j.khuster2024 But still, a drugged 13yo sodomized boy, his shoes found in Randy's house along with the drugs. Then after few years police found out that he picked up a boy who had his head cut off later. Even in 70s you'd think that police would start monitoring him more closely...
Jeezus so much of this video was just listing the victims one after the other
IKR!! This was a real SICKO!! DAYUUUUM!!
I've watched this stuff since 1994. This is amazingly prolific
I never listen to a documentary where all they did was list through each murder
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Please do Patrick Kearney, I'm still yet to find a documentary about him...And I have always wanted to see one, and I know if anyone can do it, you can :)
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Patrick Kearney? Him Kraft and William Bonin were know as the freeway killers, then Kraft was changed to score card killer and Kearney trash bag killer while Bonin kept freeway killer
This was extremely hard to get through. How can people not believe true evil exists?! Just brutal, disgusting, vile…
Evil exists, clearly. It is when people associate evil with some religious bullshit that it becomes laughable.
This guy takes the cake. I didn't know about him. Makes jeffrey dahmer look like Gandhi
Gandhi 🤔🧐
😂
@@Duranchula35 You got a thing for calling people silly boy? Feel like we’re about to see one of these come out about you, lol.
I thought of dahmer also .. .
WGAF. This is not a competition. But the kill count outdoes dahmer and others. I just said i never heard of him. There are far more worst that might be still out there
"Passive, non-violent and hard working" well.......he may very well have been with the exception of a shit tonne of murdering people here and there...
Here and there is an understatement 😳
Hey, we can't all be perfect. A little murder here, a bit of gentle, non-violent sodomizing of the unwilling there, occasionally stuffing victims like a turkey, with their own socks, ya know, nothing extreme, or anything. Mostly just passive and hardworking. It's hardwork killing all those people and trying to make sure you don't get caught!
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@@kari7403 😂😂😂
Thanks for doing this. I am always amazed that Kraft isn’t better known. He is a daunting subject because of the sheer numbers of victims involved. And I think the fact that he has never admitted to anything means that there are a lot of details missing from his story. Much of what we know about serial killers comes from their own mouths. Not Kraft though- he has never said a word (apart from denying everything!)
You are exactly right. Sadly, they never connected bodies to all of the list they found. He was truly a monster during a time when these types of killers were rare.
@@tinaweatherley4468 Angel of Darkness was pretty detailed. How typical that Kraft would sue the author for libel. Said it would ruin his chances for "future employment"
Dude has got to be the most evil serial killer ever.
@Eamon Wright I called San Quinton Prison a few years after he was sent there. The person on the phone told me that he was the most heinous killer on death row. He has brought court cases for so many things. Such a waste of time and money.
@@eamonwright7488 he also said the book ruined his “good name”…talk about deluded
I came here after reading a comment on another murder video from a guy who was invited to "party" by Randy. He trusted his gut instinct and refused, and he saw Kraft's photo in a newspaper later, linked to a murder. 😅
I've been a student of serial killer cases since the early 1980s. The absolute most savage "torture-killers" I've come across in my research are William Bonin - John Bunting - and Randy Kraft. Kraft cutting/burning off eyelids while his victims were still alive so they could not close their eyes to the torture?......absolute MADNESS beyond MADNESS. Excellent video, the best there is regarding this case. Thanks!!
Dean Corll was pretty God damned awful too. He was similar to Kraft.
Yes Corll and Robert Berdella.
A Couple more homo psychopaths
Randy Kraft was like Dean Corll on steroids! He also had a much longer crime spree...12 years
You seem to have missed Bob Berdella. This is the sickest torturer in my opinion.
Жертвы Крафта были опояны, без сознания. Уильям Бонин самый жестокий маньяк.
Jesus, the victim's list just doesn't end..
My heart goes out to them and living family members.
87+
Bundy or Dahmer who?
I remember reading an interesting article about a psychology teacher who did brain scans of serial killers to see if there was differences in theirs as opposed to “normal” people. His own brain scan was identical to Kraft’s.
frontal lobe trauma mostly
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It was about being a sociopath not serial killer
I remember that but I think I saw it on a tv show a few years back
I just saw what you're referring to on "inside the criminal mind" episode 1 on netflix
How have I never heard of this guy?!? He was unbelievably prolific.
How old r u? I was living up in Seatown at that time...
He has fallen through the cracks....He is truly in the "top" 5 of the "all time worst human beings"
not only prolific, but probably the 2nd most evil serial killer. the only worse is luis garavito. his m.o.(genital mutilation, burning with cigarette lighter) was similar, but his body count was much, much higher...and his victims were little kids
@@maxelldenomie6131 30, and I watch a lot of true crime. Guess he just hasn't been trendy to cover for some reason 🤷
@@hotdogwater7037
Dean Corll was absolutely vicious.
This guy tried to get me into his car!
I was skateboarding in La Mirada California early 80s and he pulled up and ask me if I wanted a ride. I said no thanks! And kept skateboarding he then pulled up again and said you sure you don’t wanna ride? I picked up my skateboard and ran up to a house and he took off! I never thought much of it until I saw the documentary and saw his face and remembered him .
reminds me of when I was a little kid in the early 80s when a guy in a tan car tried to get me in his car. I never bothered to report it to my mom.... but as a kid I knew it wasn't a good thing. Weird how I didn't because he kept driving by as I'd walk home from school. I've never been more fortunate.
This was really hard to listen to. I can't believe someone would do what he did... shocking and sick. Rest in peace to these boys
He also killed my mum's friends son who went missing over 30 years ago from BOLTON ENGLAND.. the family have been searching for their son Keith Jackson.. Ever since.. And been to America and put posters up Due to D.N.A. The link has only just been made in 2021 December.. But kieth has been a John Doe for 3 Decades... Horrific... R.i.p
I think he was ENGLAND on Kraft's scorecard ... I was over there in 1980 and actually ran into Kraft while hitch hiking ... and NO, I'm not mistaken as that creep was unforgettable as an obvious homo
Listening to the details of what he did to the victims genitals etc made my legs cross few times
Not really related, but, where/how did you come up with your rather... unique and awesome screen name? 2 words I would have never thought to put together before. 😆
But in relation to your comment, I agree. Man, some of the things that were said that he did... I can only hope that the victims were dead, unconscious, or might as well be unconscious, when he did the things he did to them. And, who or how, would anyone get the idea in their head to do these kind of things?!?! I've heard of guys putting things in their urethra while self pleasure, before, and it getting stuck so they have to go to the ER to get it removed. (One guy i read about, had like 20 pins and/or straightened metal paper clips in his pee hole and all the way up into his bladder, when he finally went to get medical help. And he only did that, because he couldn't pee anymore!!!) But to want to do it to someone else...and the socks in their bums...thats just REALLY odd. I've never heard of a sock bum kink, before. This guy was sick on a whole different level!!!
Kraft is one of the worst.
My stomach churned every time until wanting to find the fast-forward button to stop hearing what was stuffed where. Don't blame you for your reaction at all.
@@kari7403 It's a dryer story.... 😉 Seriously, it is a creative screen name.
I love how detailed all of your videos are. Every other channel skips the details and just tells a broad version of the story, but you tell me everything I wanna know! Best true crime channel out there 💯
I read the story of this guy a few years ago. He's definitely top of the list of serial killers that make my skin crawl. What makes him especially terrifying to me is that he was going after able-bodied men like myself. It's easy to be deluded into thinking these guys are cowards when they pick on women and what a man would do to them but this guy was so successful in taking out grown men that he's the one serial killer I think scares me relate most to the victims and the sudden feeling of helplessness when the torture was about to begin.
He is only 5'8", 145 lbs. He wasn't very physically imposing and many of his victims could have beaten the crap out of him had they not been sedated with drugs. Gacy, another gay (sorry, "bisexual") serial killer was way more imposing than him at 5'9", 230lbs , and, unlike Kraft, he killed his victims while they were fully awake, although he handcuffed most of them first.
@@robjef622 Good point, I guess Gacy has graduated to the top of the list of scariest serial killers for me. Den Corll is another contender.
@@commonsense8710 Yeah, Corll was an absolute beast. I wonder why he is hardly ever mentioned compared to the likes of Bundy and Dahmer. Really, California had _many_ serial killers in the 70s that don't receive enough notoriety for how savage their crimes were. William Bonin was another scourge of the Earth who doesn't get talked about much. Extremely brutal guy right there, just as bad as Kraft.
@@commonsense8710 there's also Pat Kearney, Rob Berdella and Will Bonin
Apex Predator!
If a lot of victims had the same characteristics of torture, why the police didn't think in a serial killer? Because the socks didn't match ?????
😂 didn't match. Seriously now. They were gay. Or supposed to be. So no attention paid.
What was up with the socks, anyway? I don't understand stuffing the socks into the digestive tract, how is this appealing? Its not even sadistic, its just strange.
@@w.harrison7277 I think it was to stop the bowels from emptying. At least that's what I recall from reading the book.
@@giovanna8187 gross
@@TheH10ne Yes , it is. I agree.
And this is why you never go anywhere not in public with anyone you dont know like family. Never get in a car with anyone, drive yourself.
Or join the Marines!
Everybody: PLEASE don't hitchhike!
Ikr. A lot of strangers offer me a ride home but watching these serial killers videos put me on high alert all the time, so I always refuse their offer. I’d rather spending some extra time and energy to walk myself home than risking my life taking offer from strangers. Strangers danger.
Kraft is nothing but a twisted, sick, evil bastard. If only he could've been stopped sooner.
All those young men and boys, and the unidentified victims, too😪.
It seems as though back then hitchhiking/accepting rides was considered almost commonplace.
Now we should recognize just how extremely dangerous/potentially deadly it can be. (No matter how the person looks or how harmess they may seem.)
@@anastasiaphan4202 it can also work the other way giving lifts to strangers who turn out to be the killers .Scam merchants who carry empty Gas containers making out they need a lift to get fuel .Eithier way its risky .The other one was Fred West & his wife culluded to lure victims into their car. UK.Beware !
Its not really a super common thing to do, anymore. More than likely, because people wised up, and saw how many serial killers there were out there, and how they were basically serving themselves on a silver player, to those killers. I don't think it's much of an issue, at this time. (Not saying that serial killers aren't an issue anymore. Just that people don't hitch hike all that often, these days.) I think most people are too wary and scared to hitch hike, and its kind of common sense, or a well known idea, to not do so.
I think people are almost just as weary about offering hitch hikers, and other people rides these days. Its not just the drivers that are scary and dangerous. A lot of stories about hitch hikers being psycho killers these days.
This guy makes Dahmer and Bundy look like teddy bears. I can't even imagine the pain and terror these poor boys/men went through. Their families must have been completely destroyed after finding out these details. I especially feel for the John Doe's who have never been claimed by any loved one's. I don't understand how you can have a child and they disappear and you don't look for them. So horrific and just plain sad.
Parents may have died before the child went missing....family relationships broken etc...
I can imagine with that kind of torture a persons mind breaking before death. Randy Kraft is in a league of his own. Truly the spawn of Satan.
how do you figure he’s worse than Dahmer?
Seems like Bundy may have been worse. Randy strangled them. Mutilated their genitals. Bundy did the same but also beheaded them, had sex with their corpses many times over the weeks, took some of their heads home. I give Bundy the edge. Unfortunately.
@@romanbotello15 And you would be very wrong. Bundy was brutal, but definitely did NOT have an edge over Kraft. Have you read Randy Kraft's wikipedia page and all the details of the murders learned just from the autopsys alone? And those are just the bodies that we know about and that he confessed to. His kill count was probably much, much higher based on his scorecard. Here's just a sampling from one of his victim's, Mark Hall, per wikipedia: "Hall was driven to a remote canyon, where he was bound to a tree. The autopsy report listed the cause of death as asphyxiation caused by leaves and earth found lodged deep in 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, which was also used to destroy his eyes. The autopsy report also listed numerous incisions on Hall's legs which had been inflicted with a broken bottle. Forensic experts were able to determine that Hall had been alive throughout much of the ordeal." Also, Kraft shoved a pen up Hall's urethra so hard that it ruptured his bladder. Again, all of this was while Hall was alive and breathing.
I understand the phrase “ you never really know someone “ but I feel like I’d notice if my partner was murdering people in our house. Scents, smell of death, bleach, them disappearing, photos, items of clothing that aren’t ours.
I worked for Lear seigler in 1977-1979. Randy kraft programed out new IBM 32 computers. I sat next to him while he showed me how to use the new system. The ladies in the office asked him several times to go out for drinks but he always declined. It was years later that we found out about his dark side.
Parents now days “why are parents so uptight now days? When I was young I stayed out all night, no cell phone.” Yeah and half you guys disappeared under some dudes house
Thats what im sayin man! Many more unsolved murders from back then.
Ya and shitty forensics back then. Many would be serial killers are caught on the first or second victim before they are caught nowadays
In 1983, it was a person offering you a ride that you should be worried about! In 2022, it's the person you're offering a ride or a hitchhiker you pick up you should be worried about!
@@kytaylor5080 maybe don’t ride with strangers. When I get in my car I literally check my back seats to make sure there are no strangers in it lol
@@michaelmiguel6937 To many Horror films will cause us to look in the back seat
Wtf the police should've kept tabs on this guy when they didn't charge him the first time. Come on people
Probably what he was doing on people
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I know you said there’s already videos on CZcams about this guy in your post. However, this one goes to you my friend. You have officially found content that I’ve never heard before. Thank you very much! It’s not an easy feat.^^
This is one of the most twisted killers I've ever heard of.
It’s a shame, too - predatory, sadistic men hang around our community a lot, often hurting or even killing vulnerable men who they know probably won’t go to the cops for help, out of fear.
I dont understand why there aren't alot of documentaries on this fella. He was sick!
Because there are so many other serial killers and he was active in 70s and in jail since then
There are!
@@hulkman129 I read Angel of Darkness in the 90's and wondered for many years why there wasn't much else written about him at all. William Bonin's another sadistic gay killer.
Because he is better off thrown in a whole and forgot about to the point of whipping even the memory of him from history, and good riddance to him.
@@michaelmunday7331 There are a lot of serial killers you could say that about.
The 80's and 90's were such wonderful carefree years for me, YET THE MAJORITY OR SERIAL KILLINGS, and a great deal of high profile crime happened too!! I'm GRATEFUL God had a protective shield around me and my "NAIVITEE"🙏😳🙏
You'd think God wouldn't make serial killers or at least protect all people like he apparently protected you. Very selective is this God it seems with all the terror he allows.
Naivete, is the word you're trying to spell. Spare us your horseshit about godd looking out for you while letting others get horrifically murdered. You think you're special? 😂😂
@@erichoberg3502 Negotiating that one is mind bending.
@@john.mcsharry5741 I guess "NAIVITEE" is the appropriate word even if it isn't a word.
@@erichoberg3502 😴
One of the worst ever... shouldn't have been allowed to go on so long
Exactly! Horrific!
Back in the 70's my husband and I were trying to buy a house Unbeknownst to us, it was a few doors down from Randy Kraft's at the time. Was unhappy it fell through at the time. Later, gave us the creeps.
Holy Shit !
This guy is a truly sick and sadistic monster. He sure liked young boys and Marines . Very sick twisted monster!!What makes monsters do these god awful things to other people 😳😳🫣🫣
This is intense. Poor dudes I can't imagine the pain and fear. Fuck.
Very very sick serial killer. Thank you very much for posting this video SKD
Wow... this is disturbing. Surprised I’ve never heard of him before. Dude was batshit crazy
Psychopath, not crazy
whoever wants to hate me for saying this feel free to hate me, but I REALLY think when a crime like his first one is committed the police should be automatically allowed to make the arrest. Warrant or no warrant. Had he been arrested right after his first crime, the rest of the victims might not have been murdered.
I was stationed at MCAS El Toro in 81/82; I was offered a ride and to party by Kraft just outside Disneyland. It wasn't till he was caught and his story hit the papers did I know who and what I had declined the offer to.
I don't think I have EVER shifted in my seat as many times as I did listening to this story 😳
These demonic monsters walk amongst us. They're vile & pure evil.
Excellent upload.
Among us
@@gleebybooer Both words mean the same thing & both are acceptable to use, the only difference is one word is more commonly used now. It's best not to try & split hairs in a corrective manner, when you're uneducated about a subject matter.
I'm glad I could help inform you a little better so you won't try & correct others in the future. Have a beautiful day.
@@gleebybooer there is 1 imposter among us
Psychopaths
@@gleebybooer English teacher here! 'Amongst us', is perfectly acceptable.
I feel like they didn't give a shit about these guys because the cops thought they were gay. It's unbelievable.
I know right? would they even have caught him if he wasn't drunk driving with a corpse in the car?
People say the same thing about Prostitutes
They were probably racists and Nazis too. There can be no other possible explanation. 🙄
@@GeneralZod99 I mean you said it.
Your comment says more about you than it does the investigation.
It's unbelievable that it took so long to catch this guy. Did he really leave that little evidence behind?
I just retired 15 years from Corrections in Florida. I met a lot of interesting people to say the least. Guys like Kraft are definitely rare, but I have met and worked in pods with people like Kraft over the years in the Mental Health Unit. If you like the Kraft documentary...You Tube search "Tyler Hadley" This was one evil creepy kid. I was assigned in his pod. I'll spare you the details of his crime. Most of the general public has no idea what goes on in prison/jails.
I vividly remember when this guy got caught. I was living in Southern California at the time and I remember his live-in boyfriend being heavily questioned by the cops but there really was no evidence that his lover knew what was going on. Apparently his lover worked the night shift at IBM and this creep was cruising around at night. I personally agree with you that it's hard to believe that his live-in lover wouldn't have figured out why there was so many Polaroid etcetera etc etc. What's really scary is that while craft was cruising around killing gay men there were also two other very prolific serial killers killing gay men as well at the same time. They talk about the cops not getting excited when black prostitutes disappear but during this time there were a hell of a lot of gay men disappearing and the cops didn't seem all that concerned. Craft was caught only because he got pulled over for weaving and had a corpse in the seat next to him but by then if there were an Untold number of men that he had killed
Kraft also killed straight men
Bayou Boy You've got them backwards: Kraft worked in the computer industry, his roommate ran a candy store nearby in Belmont Shore. They were never lovers. While they regularly socialized with other gay couples, Kraft guardedly kept his nocturnal activities from everyone.
The Kraft murders were suppressed by mutual agreement between the Orange County Register, the LA Times and law enforcement in both counties. With the two other gay murder sprees already in full swing, both papers felt yet another would have a damaging effect on the overall well-being of Southern California. That silence exists to this day, which is why Randy Kraft is never heard in the media.
One of the worst
@@lancasterritzyescargotdine2602 His roommate Jeff Selig the candy maker was most certainly Randys Lover.
@@jeffnelson2930 If you bother to do your research, as others here have, you'll learn differently, foo'.
Finally, a Serial Killer I’ve never heard of.
I’m SUPER impressed, cheers guys! 😉
We are unaware of _most_ of the serial killers.
Yeah same here first time I’ve came across anything about him.
Yes he one I heard one time he is really a twisted man I want his child hood I wonder
I know right!!??
What a depraved monster! You did a great job on this video!
They had the guy's fingerprints for years but never got prints from Any of the crime scenes? Bizarre.
Or teeth imprints
They did have his thumbprint.They got it from the neck of a vodka bottle at Mark Halls murder site.It was one of the strongest pieces of evidence in that particular part of the trial. RIP Mark Hall.
zita willingham back then they could not share information by computers...
massive body count. how this guy did all of this undetected is hard to believe.
Not a lot of people know about these guys yet the stuff they have done, you would think a lot more people would know about the ''Highway Killers''
another award winning documentary. thank you SKD. i look forward to each and every video
So here is my request: The Toolbox Killers, or at least just Lawrence Bittaker
That's funny, was brought here after watchin sumthin on them. I actually never heard of either of them. Crazy how many are out there.
@Milly May ok
@@aglabert5913 ok
Not Toolbox! All the work that went into his devises.He was absolutely disgusting.
@@thebluehotel426 You might be thinking of the Toybox killer David Parker Ray, who kidnapped and tortured prostitutes.
Imagine all the lives of people that knew these men and boys changed forever..So sad
Holy crap! How have I never heard of this guy! This is unbelievable! Thanks for the nightmares!
This man is a complete monster
Is a complete Monster. Still alive.
Yesssssss
Classic monster in shape of human
@@mrvn000 Why?!?
@@lili721 in jail. Not executed due to legal limitations.
So...just like with Dahmer, police incompetence allowed a monster to roam free and kill numerous innocent people. Absolutely shameful.
love u
@safari mang either you don't understand my comment or you're a troll.
@@sasomlakar9663 back at ya!💞
@@JennaLeigh ..u ar on fb??
Damn I didn’t know Long Beach had a history like this 💀.
You probably don't know a lot of things.
@@gorillanutswilson 🤷🏽♀️ I don’t but I can’t wait to find out it’s exciting!
@@ivanamiller449 😁
Did you know the sky was blue, or that you don’t have to commit a crime to be arrested? Feel like there so easy ones we can get out of the way
@@jackdenihan5333 I couldn’t understand the last sentence I think you meant to put “there are some easy ones”? But yes I didn’t know you could get arrested without committing a crime so thank you for that information :) .
A lot of these stories are a lot more graphic than I originally thought they'd be, so just a heads up to everyone out there.
No shit
I prefer the ones where you do a really deep dive into the psychology. This was too much of a laundry list of who he killed. Perhaps the information just isn't available on him.
I absolutely LOVE the outro on these videos!! Makes my day a bit brighter every single time! 💖. Thanks for that!
Not much shocks me anymore. I love serial killer documentaries!! But this one had my jaw dropping every 30 seconds. I can’t wrap my head around such evil. But BRAVO! This video is legit 💯👌
i really liked the intro!!
It's ever so slightly creepy but at the same time brilliant
Pop Goes the Weasel. It sounds "creepy" bcuz it's done in a minor key--usually it's in a major key. You can do that to any song. It's pretty fun I change stuff like that all the time for fun. It's really easy to do.
Me too!
The bit at the end was funky
its pop goes the weasel
Accident prone as a kid? Fell down the stairs? Gave himself a black eye?
Well, another abused child goes insane and the abuse is overlooked.
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Or, and hear this out, he was actually prone to accidents. Just as I was. Some people are just mad clumsy.
@Miles Maillet exactly my kids are accident prone always have bruises but mainly due to them and there friends wrestling ....and i was accident prone or unlucky as a teen when i was 17 got hit by a car going 55 at night even tho i was almost driving my bike in the dirt on the other side of the line on the street then next year i got shot by accident by some idiot pointing guns that had no previous knowledge of gun safety or how they worked and when i was younger broke all my toes on one foot when i was 12 ....so shit does happen by misake and some are lucky and others are not lol
This is actually a great theory. Don't understand why people are making all this absolutist statements about being legitimately accident prone. The level of brutality of the crimes would be better explained with a history of abuse. Accident prone is a common excuse from domestic abusers. Why are people so opposed to psychological evaluations of serial killers?
Well to shock you all, I don't have children and don't believe in hover mothering either. The fact that these were addressed in the video in my opinion means something. But your idea of ignoring it and turning it into some ridiculous argument on the internet is much more productive and will clearly start solving the world's problems. I'm glad you can go to bed at night knowing you've done your part folks.
Thanks I Like Girls for being open minded.
We don't know either way. He may very well have just been accident prone. But there's nothing at all wrong with questioning these claims of a child inflicting numerous injuries on themselves. Breaking collar bone at/before 1 year of age & then immediately accidentally throwing themselves down a flight of stairs is quite unusual & there's nothing wrong with questioning that. Especially considering that child abuse when he was growing up was much more hush hush. People could see & hear it & would not intervene because they considered it none of their business. The child advocate groups of today still have a long way to go but back then it was really not a thing. Back then some disgusting people beat & starved their kids & nobody really questioned them on it & they certainly weren't punished over it. It was a different time. Anyway we don't know either way but it doesn't hurt to question claims of parents whose children are constantly just appearing bruised & seriously injured.
Craft is the most prolific, and evil killer to date. You guys did a fantastic job with all of this.
Isn't it Samuel Little with 93 victims ?
@@k.hoeg2024 I’m not personally sure about him. I think he lied about a lot of it.
@@dorothykilgallenwasmurdere1653 they could formally match 60 deaths to Samuel Little
@@k.hoeg2024 a lot of police agencies want to close cases, and I personally know of one SK, meth Jesperson. They wanted him to admit to more than he did for a “deal” usually involving taking the death penalty off .
No, there are a lot of others in other countries.
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Totally get it, Tudor!
Have a great weekend, I'm gonna watch the video now! 😉
Hey, that's completely fair.
Nothing to do with this video, but did you do one on John Wayne Gacy? I have searched for it and not found it. Do you know where it is?
*sigh* thank you SKD for making Friday night so much better! 💖😁🌉
I see why everyone is requesting this case now, what a complete sicko! well, I hope at least that all the painkillers would have alleviated the pain inflicted on all the victims! Thanks SKD for such an extensive cover of the story.
Yeah, and hopefully he gave them enough Valium and alcohol to render them unconscious or unaware, more or less, during the abuse and torture. Man, this case REALLY got to me. And I've been reading up on/watching documentaries on serial killers for 20+ years!
@@kari7403
Yeah. Seriously beyond deranged.
Your uploads are literally the best part of my week! Thank you for such amazing content🖤
wow 😔 it never fails to be devastating to learn how savage these monsters can be.
Literally horrendous
Fly high to all these innocent young men 🕊️🕊️
I don't understand how he was able to overcome so many trained killers from the Marines. You'd think these guys would be able to defend themselves better
He probably put stuff in their drinks or got them high
They all looked like boots, in a peacetime military.
Drugs and alcohol man. A drunk man is a seriously defenseless one.. thats why I don't get drunk with ppl I don't fully know or trust.
He gave them massive amounts of valium and other sedatives.
Wasn't his boyfriend looked into!!?? Seems like he was involved and knew what Craft was doing!!
Yeah, I kinda wondered about that, also. Especially since they suspected that Kraft had an accomplice. At least, when disposing of the bodies, sometimes.
Maybe his boyfriend was more Krafty than Kraft was! 🤔
Lol. Okay. I know. That was bad. That was stupid. I just couldn't help myself!
@@kari7403 wow!!! LOL
@Carl's Brother u can probably blame auto spell my phone does that too
Incredibly homophobic
Man, sometimes I thought Hannibal was getting goofy with its murders/murderers, but this is just as insane...
I’m sorry but I couldn’t even finish this video. This was too much for me. Sadistic can’t even begin to describe these crimes.
@@AnalEyesAnalyzeAnalLiess Actually, I am female and I very much enjoy this channel and it’s content but this particular killer and the details of his crimes are just too sick for me. We’re all entitled to our opinions but I don’t think the content provided on this channel puts the content creator in a bad light. I appreciate the effort that goes into creating videos. I just can’t finish this one.
@@CRYPTICB3AUTY I almost feel as the cc enjoyed mentioning how victims were tortured and died. Creepy
Watching all these videos, you realize just how truly incompetent law enforcement actually is.
How do you not have ed kemper yet???? He was one of the most fascinating to me. That weird love hate relationship with his mother really screwed him up among other things
Meh
I think it’s because there’s so much content about Ed Kemper. I like this channel because I learn new thinks
SPOOKY POP GOES THE WHEASEL INTENSIFIES!!! I love it.
“What do you want for the intro music?”
“Can you make ‘Pop goes the weasel’ sound scary?”
“I got you fam!”
It’s amazing btw.
Dude tried to pick me up. Long Beach Ca, early early 80’s. Midday, nice suburban part of town, summer. He was asking for directions to get to a street I’m my tract. I watched him drive away and he did nothing that I told him to do, directions wise. I am mediately sensed trouble. He drove back again and his face had completely changed to one of evil and even more creepy, determination. I didn’t wait for a third time. I left about a 45 minute sprint away and I split. So, it’s not the drags of society and the idiots. This dude felt he had carte blanche to do whatever he wanted. Thank God I had the sense to realize something wasn’t right
Please do a video on Charles Allbright. He kept his victims eyes as trophies. I'd love to hear more about his childhood & if we can understand where his obsession with eyes stemed from. Thanks. Love your channel. Throughly in depth researched videos & excellent narration. 👍
a childhood interest with taxidermy apparently. I saw in some documentary that the eyes were expensive so he had to use buttons instead, which looked weird, and that became the focal point of his obsession which led to him later removing the eyes of his victims with surgical precision. apparently even in prison he draws lots of pictures of eyes 😱
@@vgclips3239 That's interesting. Thanks for the info. It's amazing what interests children can attach to. Good & bad. He might have been an excellent surgeon or research doctor if his interest had developed differently. I've heard before that there's a very fine line between killers & those wanting to go into law inforcement. Ed Kemper wanted to be a police officer, Ted Bundy studied law (even in prison).