Randy Kraft, the scorecard killer, originally called the Southern California Strangler by

the press, with some of his murders attributed to the Freeway Killer before he was caught.

Kraft brutally tortured most of his victims before strangling them, most of the time.

At least one had his head bashed in, he also emasculated several of his victims while

they were still alive.

This episode once again is full of some particularly brutal depictions of sexual violence.

Kraft also left behind a disturbing signature at numerous crime scenes that helped distinguish

him from several other serial killers active at the same time and in the same area.

A single bloody sock inserted in an especially disturbing place.

Kraft was both brutal and extremely prolific.

He was officially convicted of 16 murders, but prosecutors found a list of 45 victims

that were positive he was responsible for killing.

Now it's believed he killed a total of 67 people at least.

Kraft murdered over a long period of time from the fall of 1971 to the spring of 1983.

He targeted young men and boys, often either hitchhikers or random men coming and going from

various gay bars in Orange County, California.

He may have known some of them most were strangers.

Randy got away with brazen crimes for a long, long time, but then finally, thankfully,

his luck ran out.

When some California highway patrol officers pulled Kraft over for drunk driving on May 14,

1983, they were shocked to find not just a drunk driver, but a dead body in the passenger

seat.

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