Eric Herbert Church, a 21-year-old white male from Coventry, Connecticut, was found dead on January 26, 1983, beside a ramp for the Garden Grove Freeway in Seal Beach, California. He had been hitchhiking from Orange County to Sacramento before his body was dumped alongside the freeway, a circumstance investigators linked to a pattern of other unsolved killings of young men in Southern California.

Investigators later connected Church to Randy Steven Kraft, who was arrested in 1983 and became the focus of a wider probe into multiple murders. A distinctive piece of evidence in Church’s case was an electric shaver given to him by his father, Clayton Church; Clayton had knotted the internal wires to fix a loose plug and was able to identify that same shaver among Kraft’s possessions during the trial. That identification featured in the prosecution’s case against Kraft.

Kraft was convicted of multiple counts of first-degree murder, including the killing of Eric Herbert Church, and received the death penalty. Does anyone have memories or information about Eric’s movements in Orange County or along the freeway on January 26, 1983?