Richard Allen Keith was a 20-year-old United States Marine when he was murdered in June 1978. Born August 3, 1957, in Hamilton, Ohio, he enlisted in 1975 after graduating from Chrysler High School in New Castle, Indiana, and completed service at Camp Pendleton and two years in Hawaii before returning to Camp Pendleton.

Lance Corporal Keith was last seen hitchhiking from his girlfriend’s home in Carson, California on June 18, 1978. His body was found the next day on an embankment below Moulton Parkway near La Paz Road in Laguna Hills, Orange County. The autopsy reported his wrists had been bound, he had been strangled with a ligature, and froth in his throat indicated he had ingested alcohol and the sedative flurazepam prior to death.

Investigators later linked Keith to the murders committed by Randy Steven Kraft, the so-called Scorecard Killer, who targeted young men—many of them Marines—drugging, binding and strangling them and leaving bodies near freeways. Does anyone have information about Keith’s last movements in Carson or who might have given him a ride that night?