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People v. Kraft8/10/2000
ed a hair found on Young's pants to a hair sample from defendant's head. His examination showed that physical characteristics (color, thickness, curliness, and root and tip characteristics) and microscopic characteristics (pigmentation distribution) were consistent in the two samples. He could not, however, state definitively that the hair found on Young's pants came from defendant. One of defendant's sisters testified defendant's hair was bleached in the late 1970's.
12. Murder of Scott Hughes
In April 1978, Scott Hughes, 18 years old, was a United States Marine stationed at Camp Pendleton. He stood five feet 10½ inches tall and weighed 170 to 180 pounds. On Friday, April 14, 1978, Hughes told a fellow Marine he was going to travel to the State of Washington to visit his brother, who was suffering from cancer.
The following Sunday, around 7:00 a.m., Hughes's dead body was found about four feet from the eastbound on-ramp to the Riverside Freeway in Anaheim at Euclid. There were no laces in Hughes's shoes. The cause of death was found to be cerebral anoxia due to ligature strangulation. Ligature marks, consistent with a belt, appeared on the neck, most prominently on the left side. There were antemortem abrasions to the left temple, left eye, and left side of the chin. Hughes's scrotum had been cut and the left testicle excised, probably after death. There were road burns on the body. No alcohol was present in Hughes's blood, but diazepam was present at about three times the therapeutic level. This would have caused sleepiness and mental confusion.
Trace evidence consisting of fibers was collected from Hughes's clothing and compared with fibers from the carpet in the apartment on Molino in Long Beach where defendant lived in April 1978. (Defendant and his roommate/lover, Jeff Seelig, had moved to a different house, but the carpet had not been changed between April 1978 and June 1983, when the samples were collected.) The fiber taken from Hughes's shorts and fibers from the Molino carpet did not differ in terms of color, fiber type, diameter of the fibers, cross-sectional appearance, longitudinal appearance, delustrance or melting points. It could not be conclusively established, however, that the fiber on Hughes's shorts came from defendant's apartment on Molino. Fibers from a throw rug at defendant's house on Roswell were also compared with fibers taken from Hughes's clothing; they were found to be consistent with each other in terms of material, shape, melting points, and delustrance.
The prosecutor argued to the jury that the entry "EUCLID" on defendant's list, alluding to the location of the body, referred to Hughes. Terry Goodman testified he and defendant had a mutual friend who lived on Euclid in Long Beach, but Goodman had never heard defendant refer to the friend as "Euclid."
13. Murder of Mark Hall
On December 31, 1975, Mark Hall went drinking with his friend Philip Holmer. Hall, 22 years old, stood five feet eight or nine inches tall and weighed 160 to 170 pounds. After visiting a bar and attending one party, where Hall became drunk and smoked some marijuana, Holmer and Hall went to a second party, about two blocks from Interstate 5 in San Juan Capistrano. Because Hall was so drunk, he lay down on a sofa at the second party. Holmer last saw him alive around midnight and only later discovered Hall was no longer at the home where the party was taking place.
On January 3, 1976, an off-duty Santa Ana police officer was riding dune buggies with friends in the mountains near Silverado Canyon and Bedford Peak in the area of Saddleback Mountain. About 3:00 p.m., the group discovered the dead body of Mark Hall a
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