Randy Kraft

Randy Kraft
1983 mugshot of Kraft
Born
Randy Steven Kraft

(1945-03-19) March 19, 1945
Other namesThe Freeway Killer,
Southern California Strangler,
The Scorecard Killer
Alma materClaremont Men's College
Convictions
Criminal penaltyDeath
Details
Victims16–67
Span of crimes
1971–1983
CountryUnited States
States
Date apprehended
May 14, 1983
Imprisoned atSan Quentin Rehabilitation Center

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, 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. Kraft is also believed to have committed the rape and murder of up to fifty-one other young men and boys. He was convicted in May 1989 and is currently incarcerated on death row at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, in Marin County, California.

Kraft became known as the "Scorecard Killer" because upon his arrest, investigators discovered a coded list with sixty-one entries on a scorecard containing cryptic references to his victims; he is also sometimes referred to as the "Freeway Killer" because many of his victims' bodies were discovered beside or near freeways.