Gregory Wallace Jolley, a 19-year-old white male, was tragically murdered on September 14, 1979, in San Bernardino County, California. Born on December 20, 1959, in Norfolk, Virginia, Jolley was laid to rest in Chapel Hills Memory Gardens in Jacksonville, Florida. His death was part of a series of brutal killings that later came to be associated with one of California's most notorious serial killers.
Jolley's body was discovered in a gruesome state—he had been decapitated, a hallmark
of the sadistic violence inflicted by Randy Kraft, a convicted serial killer responsible for the deaths of numerous young men across California. Kraft, who was later dubbed the “Scorecard Killer,” maintained a cryptic list of victims, and Gregory Wallace Jolley's name was among those believed to be referenced. The nature of Jolley's injuries and the circumstances of his death aligned with Kraft's known modus operandi, which included drugging, torturing, and mutilating his victims before killing them.
Randy Kraft was arrested in 1983 and eventually convicted of 16 murders, though investigators believe he may have been responsible for as many as 65. At the time of Jolley's death, Kraft had not yet been apprehended, and the case remained unsolved until his arrest and subsequent investigation linked him to multiple cold cases, including Jolley's. Kraft's conviction did not include every suspected victim due to limitations in evidence and prosecutorial strategy, but Gregory Wallace Jolley, a 19-year-old white male, is widely recognized as one of the young men whose life was taken by Kraft's calculated brutality.
The arrest of Randy Kraft brought some measure of closure to the families of his victims, though many cases, including Jolley's, were never formally tried in court. Kraft remains on death row in California, and while he has never confessed to all the murders attributed to him, the evidence connecting him to Jolley's death is considered compelling by law enforcement and criminal investigators.
