Kevin Clark Bailey was 17 when he disappeared from Middletown, New York, and was later connected to a body found in Huntington Beach, California, on April 14, 1973. Records show he had been living in Corvallis, Oregon, and had been fingerprinted there days before his death. The body was found on Ellis Avenue between Goldenwest and Gothard Streets, unclothed of shoes, with ligature marks on the wrists, bruising to the nose and lips, evidence of sexual assault, severe blood loss, and the victim’s genitals removed before death. Abrasions suggested the body had been dragged or dumped onto pavement. For years the victim was known as John Doe Huntington Beach and was identified as Kevin nearly twenty-two years later after a county deputy coroner matched fingerprints with records that led to contact with Kevin’s father, Clark R. Bailey.

The Huntington Beach death was among the homicides prosecutors linked to Randy Steven Kraft in an Orange County prosecution. The state presented the victim as John Doe Huntington Beach and argued that an entry reading Airplane Hill on a list tied to Kraft corresponded to the discovery site.

Did anyone who knew Kevin in Middletown or Corvallis recognize details about his last movements or who he might have been with in early April 1973?