Randy Kraft
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Randy Steven Kraft 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 mi
1983 mug shot of Kraft
Kraft (bottom left), pictured in the 1963 Westminster High School yearbook, Citadel
Forensic reconstruction of the first unidentified male located in Wilmington, California
Keith Crotwell
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A garrote or garrotte, or garrote vil, is a weapon and a method of capital punishment. It consists of a handheld ligature of chain, rope, scarf, wire, or fishing line, used to strangle a person.
Randy Kraft
…from a moving vehicle. An autopsy revealed he had been bound at the wrists and ankles, then beaten with a blunt instrument about the face before being garroted. His body also exhibited numerous bite marks, and a sock had been forced into his rectum. Six weeks after the murder of Moore, on February 6, 1973, the…
From the torture museum of Freiburg im Breisgau
In this 15th-century depiction of the burning of Albigensians after an auto da fé, the condemned had been garrotted previously. It is one of the first depictions of a garrotte. Pedro Berruguete, Saint Dominic Presiding over an Auto-da-fé.
Execution by garrotte in Spain
Execution by garrotte of a murderer in Barcelona