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14,1973. An autopsy shwed the victim had been bound, castrated IS to 30 minutes before death, suffocated and then thrown from a moving vehicle I -tmto the road, -r^The victim was of average :i3Bight, probably between 16 and years old, with shoulder^ -Heiigth brown hair and numerous :3ittoos: A swastika, a 13, a :aoss, a spider. Members of the :Zpng Beach gay community recognized his face but couldn't recall his nme. He was wearing blue trousers similar to those worn by a gas-station attendant. To date, the body never has been identified. Another victim, James Dale I^ieeves, 19, of Cypress, went to a dinner at a gay community church on the afternoon of Thanksgiving Day 1974. He left, saying he was going to a movie in Orange County. His car later was found in a parking lot in the ^Imont Shore area of Long Beach. The next afternoon, his l ^ y was found on Barranca Road in Irvine. Malcolm Eugene Little, a 20year-old from Selma, Ala., had t^wn visiting his brother William in Long Beach. His brother dropped him off at the entrance to the Garden Grove Freeway so he could begin his trip home. His body was discovered June 2, 1974, under a tree near a bridge ^ on Highway 86 in Imperial . County. His killer strangled him ^ with ts bare hands and sexually mutilated him. Z Ronnie Wiebe, 20, was a blue^ collar worker from FuUerton. - He had a wife from whom he had recently separated and a small child. He left a neighborhood bar in Los Alamitos where ^ he was a regular at 1:45 a.m. on the morning of July 28,1973. Po- lice believe he attempted to .hitch a ride after discovering his ; {r wouldn't start. He had been dead two days when his body was found on a freeway ramp in

Seal Beach. He had been strangled. Roger Edward Dickersoo, 19, a Marine statkmed at Camp Pendleton, was in Bud's Cove Bar in San Gemente the n i ^ t oi June 21,1974. He told his friends he had a ride to Los Angeles and would return the next morning. He did not say who was giving him the ride. His nude body was found the next evening on a dead-end street in South Laguna. He had been strangled and sexually assaulted. Investigators knew little about the killer or killers. According to Troup's memo, they thought at least a pair of killers were working together because of the difficulty involved in dumping the bodies. It was a theory that, many years later, the prosecution in the case against Randy Kraft would reject. Troup also noted that the killer or killers had plugged two of the victims' noses with tissue, a procedure used in the military for handling bodies. Over the next 12 years, a number of killers who used the freeways for their bloody acts were arrested and convicted, including WUliam Bonin, the "freeway killer"; Angelo Buono Jr. and Kenneth Bianchi, the "hillside stranglers"; and Patrick Wayne Kearney, perpetrator of the "trash-bag murders." Scores of cases were closed. Meanwhile, another list of murders continued to grow. Their styles did not fit the others. Various law-enforcement agencies met again and again to compare notes and wait for what it usually takes to solve such cases: a stroke of luck. On May 14,1983, two CHP officers pulled over the driver of a weaving car on suspicion of drunken-driving. The driver was identified as Randy Kraft. Later that year, Kraft was ordered to stand trial for the murders of 16 men and eventually was linked to the deaths of 21 others. Long before that, he would have a bizarre brush with the Long Beach police.

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Chapter 4
A Brush With the Law
or a while, police thought Keith Crotwell had drowned. But Michael Ditmar refused to believe that about his buddy. " H e was in good shape, a pretty good swimmer and body surfer," Ditmar remembers. Crotwell was good at a lot of things, Ditmar said. He was a muscular 6-footer and a natural athlete. " I f he would have stuck with it. warning that too many would he could have played semi-pro cause him to pass out and miss or professional baseball," the high. Crotwell kept about 10 Ditmar said. "He was pretty for himself, May testified. They good." put the pills in their mouths and Instead, Crotwell got into dirt washed them down with beer. bikes. He and his buddies would Kraft didn't seem to be drinking go to the country and ride on or taking any pills. May testiweekends. During the week, fied. they'd hang out in somebody's garage, work on their bikes and Things got fuzzy after that. listen to music. They got onto a freeway, went someplace in Seal Beach, Ditmar remembers his friend maybe stopped in a parking lot. as a quiet, shy high-school dropMay testified. The next thing out who looked older than his 19 May realized, he was in his bed years. He was mechanically inat home. It was early Sunday afclined, always willing to help a ternoon. friend or fix a car. "He had a lot of friends," Ditmar said. Witnesses later told police they had seen a driver push an Back then, according to intoxicated May out of the car Ditmar, they all did quite a bit and drive off with Crotwell in of drinking and partying. "None the front seat. Crotwell apof us were retdly thinking about peared to be unconscious and what we were going to do in the was leaning over the driver's future," Ditmar said recently. right shoulder, they said. ^ Crotwell and some of his !^.lriends went to Big John's, a On May 8,1975, a skull was Long Beach pool hall and game found in the Long Beach Marina. Tarcade, to hang out on Saturday It was identified as part of the night, March 29,1975. Ditmar remains of Keith Crotwell. was there. So was 15 year-old Police tot Kraft go T Kent May, who'd come with a On the afternoon of May 19, " new girlfriend. Between games, 1975, Michael Ditmar told Long tjiey sneaked out to drink beer Beach homicide investigator Mi; stowed in the trunk of a car bechael C. Woodward he had spotlonging to one member of the ted the Mustang that Crotwell group. had been riding in. It had been : : For May, the good time ended parked at First and Gaviota sometime after midnight. The streets in Long Beach six days ..$20 in his pocket was spent, he earlier. ! Q/as drunk, and he and his new Woodward found the Mustang girl had parted company after a and ran a check with the De^at. He was sitting in the parkpartment of Motor Vehicles to ^ lot drinking and talking to determine ownership. The DMV ^Crotwell when a man dressed in told him it was registered to Levi's jacket and cap walked Randy Steven Kraft. His address up and tried to join their conwas listed in another nearby : -r .^ersation. In court testimony city. Woodward asked a passing ' 'years later, May identified the mailman about the name and man as Randy Kraft. was directed to an address in ' - - May and Crotwell at first the 1700 block of Ocean Avenue. were a little suspicious of Kraft, Woodward testified that he May testified. It's not often that was met at the door by a darka man walks up to two strangers haired, mustachioed man of avand starts shooting the breeze, erage build in his early 30s. He " ' h e said. May and Crotwell asked fit the description of the driver : IKraft what he thought about the given by Crotwell's friends. He ; ; gay men who cruised the area. said his name was Randy Kraft When he said he disliked them, and he invited Woodward in. - they started to feel more comWoodward asked Kraft about : .fortable. the night of Crotwell's disap: May said Kraft asked them if pearance. According to ' they wanted to get high. They Woodward's testimony, Kraft said yes and the three went over denied picking up the two men. to Kraft's black-and-white MusWoodward suspected Kraft tang. Once inside, Kraft gave was homosexual. He had a male May a handful of yellow tablets, roommate, and Woodward noeach inscribed with a 10, he testiced what appeared to be a gay tified. magazine and a male photo on Crotwell, who was a few years the wall. He "spoke with a very older than May, tdd bi friend PleaM see CHAPTER 4/C8 to take seven of the tablets.

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