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Randy Kraft Personality

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All signs pointed to Randy Kraft living a normal lifestyle before his life turned into a serial murdering spree. Although, looking back at his young adult years, it is easy to gather intellect on what could have triggered Kraft’s extreme change in lifestyle choices. It was always thought that Randy Kraft is extremely intelligent, especially because he has an IQ of 129. After he graduated high school, he enrolled in Claremont College and joined the Reserve Officer Training Corps. His friends and family knew that he strongly supported the conservative party. Kraft was even in favor of the Vietnam War, even helping 1964 Presidential Candidate Barry Goldwater in the election. It was unknown why, but in 1965, it is believed that his political views …show more content…

At this point, it is thought that Kraft had become more open to others about his homosexuality, even by spending a vast amount of his time in gay bars throughout the region. During the next presidential election, Kraft supported the Democratic candidate, Robert F. Kennedy. After the assignation, his family said that he was devastated about the outcome of the election. After completing the remainder of his college classes he was based on the Edwards Air Force base. Although the relocation did not last long. He was discharged shortly after arriving for “medical” grounds in 1969, when he came out as homosexual. It was after his discharge that he became a full time bartender. Later on, after Kraft’s bartending days, he got employment as a computer programmer at a local business. He continued with this job when he began with his killings, but also started hanging around at a local marine …show more content…

During these years, William Bonin and Patrick Kearney- the other two members of the “Highway Killers”- were also on a murder spree and dumping their victim’s bodies on the sides of busy highways in southern California. Bonin and Kearney were caught and convicted before the police had suspected there was another killer, let alone Kraft. Kraft was the last of the “Highway Killers” to be caught. Kraft’s victims were all male and who all suffered some kind of sexual abuse along with torture before they were all strangled to death. Kraft’s first victim is believed to be Wayne Joseph Duquette whose body was found in 1971, even though he was never convicted of Duquette’s

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