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Keith Daven Crotwell was a 19-year-old white male from Long Beach, California, born September 22, 1955. His death is recorded as March 29, 1975, and his remains were found in Long Beach; he was later buried in Valhalla Cemetery in Birmingham, Alabama.

Keith was last seen getting into a car with Randy Kraft. Kraft later admitted taking Keith for a ride and claimed he left the teenager alive at an all-night café; investigators doubted that account. Los Angeles County prosecutors at the time declined to file murder charges because there was no body and no confirmed cause of death.

Keith’s death was later linked to Kraft’s series of murders. Kraft’s pattern involved drugging, sexually assaulting, and killing young men and leaving bodies along Southern California highways; Keith fits that victim profile and is widely accepted as part of Kraft’s killings. Does anyone have information about Keith’s movements in Long Beach in 1975 or knew him personally?