Overview

• Michael Ray Schlicht, a teenager from Iowa who was murdered in 1974, has been identified nearly 50 years later as a possible victim of notorious convicted serial killer Randy Kraft, also known as 'The Scorecard Killer'.
• Schlicht's body was found in Southern California in 1974, and his cause of death was originally ruled as accidental alcohol and diazepam intoxication.
• Kraft was convicted in 1989 of 16 murders in Southern California, though authorities believe he could have killed upwards of 60 men from 1972 to 1983.
• Using investigative genetic genealogy, authorities were able to identify the body as Schlicht's, nearly 50 years after his remains were found.
• Schlicht's death is still under investigation, and is being treated as a homicide.