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<v Speaker 1>Have you ever heard of the Scorecard Killer active in

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<v Speaker 1>Long Beach in the seventies.

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<v Speaker 2>That is this topic of our True Crime Tuesday.

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<v Speaker 3>The story is true, sounds true?

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<v Speaker 2>No, it sounds made up. I don't know.

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<v Speaker 3>Gerry and Shannon present True Crime.

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<v Speaker 1>Dan Salcito is a retired homicide detective with the Orange

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<v Speaker 1>County Sheriff's Department. He says he's not the media version

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<v Speaker 1>of what a killer looks like. If you put him

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<v Speaker 1>in a room filled with people, he's the last one

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<v Speaker 1>you'd pick. Talking about the Scorecard Killer.

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<v Speaker 3>It's weird.

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<v Speaker 4>So twelve thirteen years ago, Dan Salcedo was nearing retirement.

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<v Speaker 4>He and a partner were on a I guess you'd

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<v Speaker 4>say a field trip to visit Robert Craft Randy Craft, sorry,

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<v Speaker 4>different guy Randy Craft in San Quentin. And that been

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<v Speaker 4>about thirty years since Craft had been pulled over by

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<v Speaker 4>a couple CHP officers down in Mission Viejo, and they

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<v Speaker 4>found some pretty interesting clue that he may have been

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<v Speaker 4>a bad guy, the dead marine in his passenger seat.

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<v Speaker 4>Salcedo was already headed up to Santa Cruz part of

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<v Speaker 4>an active investigation, and decided he was going to stop

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<v Speaker 4>by San Quentin one more time, just take another shot

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<v Speaker 4>at Randy Craft, just to see if there was any

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<v Speaker 4>other information that he would be able to pull out

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<v Speaker 4>of him. And that description of not your normal serial

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<v Speaker 4>killer is kind of how he described it. He said

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<v Speaker 4>he looked like everyone else. To this retired detective, there's

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<v Speaker 4>nothing remarkable about Randy Craft's appearance or his persona. And

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<v Speaker 4>he said he had a kind of a pathetic, get

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<v Speaker 4>off my lawn attitude, but otherwise was utterly unimpressive. And

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<v Speaker 4>he didn't see what some detectives describe in the eyes

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<v Speaker 4>of killers. He didn't see the aura of evil or

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<v Speaker 4>the junkyard stare. Just a bitter old man, is the

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<v Speaker 4>way this retired detective described Randy Kraft.

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<v Speaker 1>He was referred to as a scorecard killer for a

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<v Speaker 1>codd list of more than sixty entries believed to correspond

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<v Speaker 1>to his victims, mostly young men and marines, whom he tortured,

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<v Speaker 1>raped and murdered before dumping their bodies, sometimes on roadsides,

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<v Speaker 1>off ramps, public spaces, and for a decade he trolled

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<v Speaker 1>and terrorized the Southern a Southern California area while confounding

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<v Speaker 1>law enforcement. Up until that random traffic stop with the

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<v Speaker 1>dead marine in the passenger seat.

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<v Speaker 3>When he was.

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<v Speaker 1>Convicted, he was believed to be the most prolific serial

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<v Speaker 1>killer in the country at that point.

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<v Speaker 3>And although his total may have been eclipsed.

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<v Speaker 4>He was convicted of sixteen murders, they said he's suspected

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<v Speaker 4>of at least sixty five more, and there are potentially

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<v Speaker 4>one hundred or more unsolved murders throughout California, Oregon, and

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<v Speaker 4>in Michigan.

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<v Speaker 1>He was born in Long Beach in nineteen forty five.

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<v Speaker 1>Parents had moved there from Wyoming, and they said the

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<v Speaker 1>ultra conservative nature of Orange County was befitting for him,

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<v Speaker 1>given high school classmates described him as somewhere right of

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<v Speaker 1>Attila the hun.

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<v Speaker 4>He went to Claremont College. After he graduated, studied economics.

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<v Speaker 4>Big Berry goldwater supporter, supported the Vietnam War.

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<v Speaker 3>He grew a beard.

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<v Speaker 4>They said that he kind of fell into the worldwide

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<v Speaker 4>protest back in sixty eight, which would have been an

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<v Speaker 4>unusual spin for him. He just as voraciously supported the

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<v Speaker 4>efforts of Robert F. Kennedy, and in nineteen sixty eight

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<v Speaker 4>he came out as gay. He was dismissed from the

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<v Speaker 4>Air Force on account of what they referred to at

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<v Speaker 4>the time as medical problems.

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<v Speaker 1>He went to Sun's at Beach a lot, the gay bars.

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<v Speaker 1>He would go back and forth from Laguna to la

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<v Speaker 1>He was fully entrenched in a newly gay social life,

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<v Speaker 1>apparently lived off a diet of meth and beer, diving

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<v Speaker 1>into excesses.

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<v Speaker 3>So it's about this time.

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<v Speaker 4>That he starts running into people and decides that he

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<v Speaker 4>could take advantage of them. He ran into one overly

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<v Speaker 4>confident runaway, asked him for a cigarette and being obliged,

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<v Speaker 4>this guy was then lured in not only by the

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<v Speaker 4>prospect of having a place to say, but Randy seduced

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<v Speaker 4>him with the idea that there may have been a

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<v Speaker 4>lady waiting at his apartment to take the young runaways virginity.

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<v Speaker 4>So they go up to pch in Belmont Shore, some wine,

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<v Speaker 4>some pot, a couple of pills handed out like juice

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<v Speaker 4>and candy until the kid was basically knocked out. Randy

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<v Speaker 4>took advantage of him. When the boy had a chance

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<v Speaker 4>to stumble into Belmont Chores. He nothing of the said

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<v Speaker 4>nothing of that attack, including a sexual assault.

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<v Speaker 3>For thirteen years.

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<v Speaker 1>He was so prolific and so active. They're still connecting

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<v Speaker 1>bodies to this guy. In twenty twenty five, we are

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<v Speaker 1>talking to or about the Scorecard Killer, the man who

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<v Speaker 1>created a lot of terror in the seventies, especially in

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<v Speaker 1>the gay man community, as he would troll the different

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<v Speaker 1>gay bars, ended up fixating on marines, young gay men

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<v Speaker 1>that he would drug and kill and dump along the

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<v Speaker 1>highways and byways.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 4>One of the reasons why I'd never heard of this

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<v Speaker 4>guy is because the southern California landscape of serial killers

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<v Speaker 4>was rampant, shall we say, in the seventies, especially for

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<v Speaker 4>young men, especially for hitchhikers, because not only did you

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<v Speaker 4>have Randy Craft again, the so called Scorecard Killer, but

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<v Speaker 4>you had William Bonnen, you had Patrick Kearney, and their

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<v Speaker 4>killing spreees overlapped. They are credited, is blamed, that's the

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<v Speaker 4>right word. They're blamed for at least one hundred and

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<v Speaker 4>fifty murders at different times. All of them were referred

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<v Speaker 4>to by the moniker the freeway killer because of the similarities.

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<v Speaker 4>So Patrick Kearney is caught in nineteen seventy seven, they

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<v Speaker 4>figure their detectives think they got their guy. Bodies keep

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<v Speaker 4>showing up. William Bonnen captured in nineteen eighty and they

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<v Speaker 4>figure they got their guy, but they continued. These bodies

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<v Speaker 4>kept piling up until Randy Craft was caught. And again

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<v Speaker 4>we talked about that random traffic stop in nineteen eighty

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<v Speaker 4>three when he was caught on suspicion of drunk driving

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<v Speaker 4>with the corpse of our marine in the passenger seat.

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<v Speaker 4>These stories. He's convicted of sixteen. They believed that he

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<v Speaker 4>had a list of more than sixty in the car,

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<v Speaker 4>hence the scorecard, but that they're still finding victims.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, they have identified recently a man who was found

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<v Speaker 1>dead along the highway up in Oregon more than forty

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<v Speaker 1>years ago that they now believed was the work of

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<v Speaker 1>the scorecard killer. Oregon State Police Captain Kyle Kennedy says

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<v Speaker 1>the man found identified as a thirty year old Larry

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<v Speaker 1>Eugene Parks, a Vietnam veteran whose family had lost contact

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<v Speaker 1>with him in seventy nine. His body was found in

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<v Speaker 1>July nineteen eighty along the five a suburb of Marion County, Oregon.

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<v Speaker 2>There would burn and they didn't identify him.

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<v Speaker 1>They just identified him last month and they have linked

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<v Speaker 1>his death Larry Parks to Randy Kraft.

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<v Speaker 3>Interesting because.

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<v Speaker 4>Parks's body was found just a day after a seventeen

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<v Speaker 4>year old was found along five, also near a different

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<v Speaker 4>exit there in Marion County. We're talking about the area

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<v Speaker 4>a long Eye five between Salem and Portland. And at

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<v Speaker 4>the time they said due to similarities in the evidence

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<v Speaker 4>and the conditions of the bodies and the age and

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<v Speaker 4>the gender, they suspected that the two murders were related.

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<v Speaker 4>But at the time the investigation into Parks's body into

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<v Speaker 4>Eugene Parks, it went cold. O'fallen, the seventeen year old

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<v Speaker 4>that was also found there, was later linked to Randy

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<v Speaker 4>Craft when investigators said they found a camera in his

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<v Speaker 4>garage after the drunk driving arrest in nineteen eighty three,

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<v Speaker 4>and it was Michael o'fallen's mother's initials that were inscribed

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<v Speaker 4>on the camera. During the trial that mom took the

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<v Speaker 4>stand was able to identify that camera. And again, as

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<v Speaker 4>I mentioned, one of the reasons why they had a

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<v Speaker 4>hard time figuring out who this was is that William

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<v Speaker 4>Bonnen was also active in the at that time.

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<v Speaker 3>He was that truck driver out of Downey.

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<v Speaker 4>And again they just assumed that there was there was

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<v Speaker 4>only one on their loose because why would you ever

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<v Speaker 4>assume that there were three serial killers that were active,

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<v Speaker 4>all at the same time.

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<v Speaker 2>Eighty years old, he is still alive, you wonder.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, what a time for serial killers the seventies

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<v Speaker 1>and the eighties and then DNA testing and all the things,

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<v Speaker 1>and people were.

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<v Speaker 2>More attuned to this sort of thing. But I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>it's not like.

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<v Speaker 1>DNA and environmental factors stopped producing serial killers.

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<v Speaker 2>They're just not. You're just going to get caught these days.

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<v Speaker 4>Well, that is a question is will there ever be

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<v Speaker 4>serial killers like we saw?

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<v Speaker 1>And what are they doing in lieu of the killing?

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<v Speaker 1>They walk amongst us, not killing.

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<v Speaker 3>But wanting to doing.

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<v Speaker 1>What now something to think about when you go to

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<v Speaker 1>sleep tonight. You know what the good industry

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<v Speaker 3>Answer that late night knocked at the door.