The little boy who grew up to be the Scorecard serial killer

It’s chilling to remember that even the world’s most notorious killers — dictators, mass murderers, serial predators — were once innocent children.
The boy we’re about to focus on would grow up to become one of California’s most feared killers, believed to have taken the lives of 51 young boys.

From 1971 to 1983, he struck fear into an entire state, and even decades later, the memories of his horrifying crimes remain deeply etched in the minds of those who lived through the terror and those forever connect

Born on March 19, 1945, in Long Beach, California, this boy was the only son in a modest, working-class family that had moved west from Wyoming in search of stability and sunshine.

From the outside, it all seemed appeared ordinary, a family chasing the American dream in the new suburbs of postwar Southern California.Continue reading…