Robert Wyatt Loggins Jr., a 19-year-old United States Marine stationed at Tustin Marine Corps Air Station, was last seen alive on August 22, 1980. His body was found on September 3, 1980, near Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, wrapped in a plastic garbage bag; he had been dead an estimated two to three days. Initial examinations classified his death as accidental because of high levels of alcohol and antihistamines in his blood.

In 1983, evidence seized from the home and vehicle of Randy Kraft prompted authorities to reconsider Loggins’s death. Kraft, later convicted on multiple counts of first-degree murder, was linked by investigators to Loggins and numerous other young men. Prosecutors said many of Kraft’s victims were kept drugged and were subjected to prolonged torture and mutilation before being killed. Kraft was convicted after a seven-month trial and sentenced to death; Loggins’s mother, Barb Loggins, was present when her son’s name was read at the verdict.

Are there any former service members or locals who remember Robert Loggins or saw him around El Toro or Tustin in August 1980?