Raymond Davis was 14 when he disappeared from Echo Park in Los Angeles on June 17, 1982 while searching for a missing dog. His family reported him missing and there were no leads for weeks. On July 29, 1982, his body was found on a hillside by the Hollywood Freeway near Rampart Boulevard. He had been strangled with his own shoelace and his wrists were bound behind his back.

Investigators found the remains of another teenage boy, 16-year-old Robert Avila Jr., nearby; he had been strangled with speaker wire. The condition and location of both bodies matched a pattern seen in a string of unsolved killings of young men in Southern California at the time. Detectives later linked these Echo Park deaths to a wider series of murders when California Highway Patrol officers arrested Randy Steven Kraft in May 1983 and discovered evidence in his car, including a list with a coded entry marked Dog that prosecutors connected to Raymond’s disappearance.

Law enforcement investigators have long attributed Raymond’s death to Kraft based on method, timeline, and the scorecard, though Kraft was not tried separately for this specific murder. Does anyone have information about Raymond’s movements in Echo Park in June 1982 or recall the missing dog he was searching for?