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xxstefaniereadsxx's review against another edition
dark
emotional
informative
slow-paced
3.0
Randy Kraft was a serial killer and rapist who was active from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. The media and law enforcement often like to name killers, and Kraft had a couple. He was known as the Freeway Killer, as his victims were found along the freeway. The name that most people know him by is The Scorecard Killer, as police found a card with coded entries of his victims. He employed a method of rape, torture, and murder...which this book outlines in pretty grim detail. They are certain that he killed sixteen men and boys, but the number is believed to be much higher. (There were sixty plus entries on his scorecard.) He is currently still alive, incarcerated on Death Row at San Quentin prison, awaiting execution.
I got this book on Audible, and had just over three hours left on it. I finished this up this morning while I was doing some laundry and chores. I first learned of Randy Kraft through The Last Podcast On The Left, and this book was referenced on the reading list for sources. I thought the book was well written, and the research that went into it was expansive. The book detailed more than the podcast did, so I learned a great deal about the crimes and the killer. I am sure the physical book probably includes pictures, but I had to Google what this guy looked like.....and I was really shocked. He did not look anything like what I imagined. It's also wild to think about him being as old as my Grandfather now. If you are into that podcast or true crime in general, this was a pretty good book.
I got this book on Audible, and had just over three hours left on it. I finished this up this morning while I was doing some laundry and chores. I first learned of Randy Kraft through The Last Podcast On The Left, and this book was referenced on the reading list for sources. I thought the book was well written, and the research that went into it was expansive. The book detailed more than the podcast did, so I learned a great deal about the crimes and the killer. I am sure the physical book probably includes pictures, but I had to Google what this guy looked like.....and I was really shocked. He did not look anything like what I imagined. It's also wild to think about him being as old as my Grandfather now. If you are into that podcast or true crime in general, this was a pretty good book.
hillarynguyen's review against another edition
4.0
3.5/5
Angel of Darkness paints a frightening portrait of a part of American society rarely glimpsed. A very well written case about the infamous serial killer, Randy Kraft who left a gruesome trail of multilated bodies - 67 victims to be exact.
Still took me a little while to finish this book; I found the chronological order of the events were slightly hard to follow and some of the details were somewhat unnecessary so it sort of transferred your mind from one place to another at times.
What I appreciated from the book and Mr. Dougal’s writing style is the comprehensive depiction of Kraft’s victims - who they were, bits and pieces of their lives before the monster so called Randy Kraft took it all away. A lot of times in true crimes, the focus has always been on the perpetrators, and the victims, at the end are statistics. But Mr. Dougal actually spent pages to help readers connect with these people and in some cases, understood what really led them to fall into Kraft’s evil trap.
Angel of Darkness paints a frightening portrait of a part of American society rarely glimpsed. A very well written case about the infamous serial killer, Randy Kraft who left a gruesome trail of multilated bodies - 67 victims to be exact.
Still took me a little while to finish this book; I found the chronological order of the events were slightly hard to follow and some of the details were somewhat unnecessary so it sort of transferred your mind from one place to another at times.
What I appreciated from the book and Mr. Dougal’s writing style is the comprehensive depiction of Kraft’s victims - who they were, bits and pieces of their lives before the monster so called Randy Kraft took it all away. A lot of times in true crimes, the focus has always been on the perpetrators, and the victims, at the end are statistics. But Mr. Dougal actually spent pages to help readers connect with these people and in some cases, understood what really led them to fall into Kraft’s evil trap.