Randy Steven Kraft (born March 19, 1945) is an American serial killer known as the Scorecard Killer, the Southern California Strangler and the Freeway Killer who murdered a minimum of 16 young men between 1972 and 1983, the majority of which had been committed in California.
Kraft is also believed to have committed the rape and murder of up to 51 other boys and young men.
He was convicted in May 1989 and is currently incarcerated on death row at San Quentin State Prison in Marin County, California.Kraft became known as the "Scorecard Killer", because upon his arrest investigators discovered a coded list 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.
He shares the latter epithet with two separate and unrelated serial killers, William Bonin and Patrick Kearney.