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People v. Kraft8/10/2000
he skull and hands, wrapped in a rug in a large pipe. The remains were later identified as Crotwell's.
The prosecutor argued to the jury that "PARKING LOT" on defendant's list referred to Crotwell.
The defense presented evidence that on May 31, 1983, Jeff Graves told detectives that defendant had telephoned him early one morning, probably in May 1975, saying he had had car problems and needed help. Graves said he had gone to defendant's location and assisted him.
15. Murder of Ronald Wiebe
About 8:30 or 9:00 p.m. on Friday, July 27, 1973, Ronald Wiebe left his mother's house in Los Alamitos to go to the Sportsman's Lodge for a few beers. He was 20 years old, five feet five inches in height, and weighed 125 to 130 pounds.
About 6:30 a.m. on July 30, 1973, Seal Beach police officers were dispatched to the Seventh Street on-ramp to the San Diego Freeway, where a body later identified as Wiebe's was found. There was no belt in the pants; the right foot was bare, but there was a sock on the left foot. The top of Wiebe's pants was undone, exposing his penis. There was a ligature mark on the victim's neck about one-quarter-inch wide. Death had occurred about two days earlier, caused by asphyxia due to ligature strangulation. Post-mortem road burns were all over the body. A sock had been stuffed into the victim's rectum, apparently post-mortem. The victim's penis had been "pinched" after his death. His blood-alcohol level was 0.02 percent at the time of death, and no drugs were detected in his system.
The prosecutor argued to the jury that "7TH ST." on defendant's list referred to Wiebe.
The defense presented evidence that Officer Earl Potter of the Los Alamitos Police Department knew Wiebe and was familiar with his car. While on bicycle patrol outside the Sportsman's Lodge during the early morning hours of July 28, 1973, Potter did not see Wiebe's car. Later that day or the following day, however, the car was found at a nearby Firestone Tire store. Latent fingerprints taken from Wiebe's car did not match defendant's.
16. Murder of "John Doe Huntington Beach"
About 1:00 a.m. on Saturday, April 14, 1973, a passing motorist saw a dead body on Ellis between Golden West and Gothard in Huntington Beach and called the police. There was no identification with the body, which remained unidentified at the time of trial. The victim appeared to be between 18 and 25 years old. He wore socks but no shoes, and there was no belt in his pants. The cause of death was suffocation, perhaps caused by a gag or something put over the nose and mouth. The victim's penis and scrotum had been removed antemortem, and the loss of at least two pints of blood may have been a contributing factor in the death. There were gag marks on the mouth and ligature marks on both wrists. The victim's nose and lips had been bruised before death. There were post-mortem road burns on the body. A sharp instrument had inflicted cuts on various parts of the body after death. The victim's blood-alcohol level was 0.07 percent. Rectal swabs taken from the victim at the autopsy were found to contain spermatozoa.
William Smith, a resident of the City of Huntington Beach since 1946, worked for the city on traffic signals at the time of trial. Smith testified that, when he was in elementary school, the area where the body of "John Doe Huntington Beach" was found was known as "Airplane Hill." Children would try to ride their bicycles down one side and up the other without stopping, and high school students would try to drive their cars down the hill fast enough to get a feeling of becoming airborne. The bottom of the hill was filled in in 1960.
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