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People v. Kraft8/10/2000
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The prosecutor argued to the jury that "AIRPLANE HILL" on defendant's list referred to "John Doe Huntington Beach."
The defense presented evidence that latent fingerprints on beer cans along the side of the road near where the victim's body was found did not match defendant's. A witness, who had grown up in Long Beach, knew the area where the victim's body was found as "Shell Hill" rather than "Airplane Hill." Another witness testified that a different location, between Pacific Coast Highway and Colorado Boulevard on Manila Avenue, was known as "Airplane Hill." Benjamin Paniagua, a friend of defendant's, testified defendant used to visit him in his apartment in Long Beach and that a nearby area on Manila Avenue was called "Airplane Hill." Paniagua acknowledged, however, that defendant never referred to him as "Airplane Hill." A defense investigator unsuccessfully looked for associates of defendant who were aware that defendant knew the area where the victim's body was found as "Airplane Hill."
17. Murder of Edward Daniel Moore
Around 1:45 a.m. on December 26, 1972, a California Highway Patrol officer driving in the area of the Seventh Street off-ramp from the 405 and 605 Freeways saw a group of pedestrians near a dead body later identified as that of Edward Daniel Moore. The body was on the shoulder of the off-ramp, about one-quarter mile from Seventh Street.
The victim's body was identified through his fingerprints. Moore was a United States Marine stationed at Camp Pendleton. When his body was found, Moore was wearing a jacket, T-shirt, sweater, pants with no belt, and one sock. The other sock was found in his rectum. Moore's boxer shorts had his name, as well as another person's name, stenciled on the back.
Moore had died about three days before his body was found. The cause of death was asphyxiation through strangulation. There were ligature marks on Moore's neck and two scratch marks on the left side of his scrotum. A fist or blunt instrument had caused antemortem trauma to Moore's nose and lip. Moore's blood contained only a trace of alcohol and no drugs.
The prosecutor argued to the jury that the entry "EDM" on defendant's list referred to Moore.
18. Defense Evidence Relating to the Charges Generally
Defendant's neighbors on Roswell, Pennie De Wees and Willy Sadler, did not see anything out of the ordinary with respect to visitors at defendant's house. De Wees considered defendant a "wonderful neighbor."
Thomas Schardt, a commercial photographer specializing in forensic reconstruction, photographed a Mustang manufactured in the same year (1974) as defendant's and testified it would be extremely difficult to push open a passenger door from the driver's side because one would have to pull up on the lever and push out on the door at the same time. The prosecution, however, contended the Mustang Schardt examined was significantly different from defendant's Mustang.
B. Penalty Phase Evidence
1. Overview of Prosecution Case
The prosecution presented evidence that defendant had committed an uncharged sexual assault and eight additional murders in Oregon and Michigan.
In 1970, defendant befriended 13-year-old Joseph F., who had just run away from home, took him to defendant's house, drugged him and sodomized him.
From 1980 to 1982, while on business trips to Oregon, defendant murdered six young men in separate incidents. One night in December 1982, while on a business-related trip to Grand Rapids, Michigan, defendant murdered two young men. Items belonging to the Oregon and Michigan victims were found in the sea
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