![]() If I don’t say something it will never be said.” And I am frustrated my attorneys aren’t saying these things. ![]() “This has been bottled up so long,” a graying Kraft, dressed in dark blue pants and a light blue shirt, said during an interview in March over a lunch of a microwaved southern fried chicken sandwich and a cheese and bean burrito. Kraft, 71, contacted the The Pride Los Angeles last fall about his desire to publicly discuss his case before he dies. After the trial court judge refused to grant his request to testify about only one of the murder charges he was facing, he opted, based on the advice of his attorneys, not to take the stand to defend himself. And other than an interview with a Los Angeles Times reporter six months after his arrest in 1983, Kraft has not spoken publicly about his case other than through copious court filings over the years.ĭuring his jury trial, Kraft did not testify on his behalf. To this day Kraft has never confessed to the murders he was found guilty of committing. Randy Kraft – The Scorecard Killer by billyjones2k14 He has been mired in the federal appeals system ever since, and on numerous occasions, he has petitioned to have a new federal public defender assigned to represent him. Kraft then turned to the federal courts to seek a new trial of his case. In the summer of 2000, with Kraft’s appeals of his verdict in state court exhausted, the California Supreme Court upheld his conviction and death sentence. Prosecutors had also tied him to the deaths of eight additional men in Oregon and Michigan. In May 1989 a jury convicted him of killing 16 men over the course of 11 years in southern California and, that November, recommended the death penalty. A gay man given the nicknames “the Scorecard Killer” and “the Freeway Killer,” Kraft has been described as one of the “deadliest and most depraved serial killers” in the state’s history. BY MATTHEW BAJKO | For nearly 30 years Randy Kraft has sat on California’s death row attempting to clear his name.
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