Just The Tip-sters

What makes a prolific serial killer like Randy Kraft – who authorities say brutalized, sexually assaulted and mutilated at least 61 (and almost certainly more unknown) young men in Southern California, Oregon and Michigan in the 1970s and early 1908s – prolific?  How is it possible for such a large number of victims to fall prey to someone who is inarguably a monster?  The answer appears to be that the best monsters know how to transform their image so that they appear as the exact opposite – as genuine, good people.  And that is a terrifying thing to realize.  In this, the second of two parts focusing on Kraft – the so-called “Scorecard Killer” because he had a list of nicknames of all of this victims – Melissa takes a closer look not just at the trial and interminably delayed prosecution in this horrific case, but  at the question that most of us ask after serial killers are discovered: How could so many get tricked into Randy Kraft’s trap?  In the stories of the only two survivors known to experience the d