Keith Anthony Jackson was a 21-year-old English man who disappeared from the Los Angeles area on August 6, 1979 while on a six to seven week vacation from Manchester. His dismembered remains were found behind a Long Beach gas station on August 29, 1979 in a cardboard box; body parts had been placed in trash bags and several major parts were missing, including both arms and hands and the right leg and right foot. The medical examiner determined he had died several days before the discovery and recorded evidence of sexual assault, including sodomy with a sock.

Jackson was not identified until December 2021. Investigators have noted that the manner of killing and disposal bears the signature of Randy Kraft, a convicted serial killer who preyed on young men in California in that era, and Jackson is believed to be one of his victims; no other suspects have been publicly linked to the case. The circumstances of Jackson’s final days and how he came to be in Long Beach remain largely unknown.

Anyone with memories of a young man from Manchester in southern California in August 1979 or information about Jackson’s travels is asked to come forward.