The I-5 Killer, Revised Edition
by Ann Rule
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Author: Ann RulePseudonym: Andy Stack
Edition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1984-03-01
ISBN: 0451165594
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Signet
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Book Review: One of Ann Rule's most riveting true crime books
Summary: 5 Stars
I don't know where Ann Rule finds the fortitude and perseverance to write about serial murderers like the I-5 killer, Randy Woodfield. This particular degenerate actually filed a $12 million libel suit against the author, which was dismissed by Oregon's federal court. More power to her, I say, for educating her readers about these sociopaths. This one began his career by exposing himself to women and stealing from his college roommates. According to the author, he blamed his criminal tendencies on his bossy mother and older sisters.
If you look up Woodfield's case on the Internet, e.g. Wikipedia or the serialkillerdatabase, this criminal was even deadlier than Ann Rule could have known, when she published this book in 1984. By 1990 he was suspected in at least 13 homicides, not just the three murders she concentrates on in "The I-5 Killer." In 2001 and 2006, DNA testing linked Woodfield to yet another two murders in Oregon.
Woodfield was not only a serial murderer, but a serial rapist and burgler. He didn't care how young his victims were, as two of the girls he assaulted were only eight and ten years old, and one of his rape/murder victims was 14 years old.
A major frustration highlighted by this book is the fact that Woodfield was never tried for the majority of his offenses. For instance, he was never extradited to California for the rape and murder of Donna Eckard and her young daughter on February 3, 1981. The Oregon prosecutors and police convicted him in an assault and murder case where they had accumulated their strongest evidence, including the testimony of one of the victims who survived two gunshots to her head. Hopefully, this conviction will keep him in jail for the rest of his life.
Ann Rule (writing as Andy Stack) details the biography of Woodfield from birth through his college years where he was drafted by the Green Bay Packers and chosen by `Playgirl' as a centerfold candidate. One of her reiterated questions is: how could a guy with so many opportunities throw them all away to cruise the I-5 freeway in search of female victims? She also narrates the macabre story of his extended crime spree, his trial, and his first few years in prison. I think she gets as far into the mind of this psychopath as any normal person can.
Summary of The I-5 Killer, Revised Edition
Award-winning student Randall Woodfield was every college girl's dream - and nightmare. This "boy-next-door" type cruised an 800-mile-long northwestern highway, the I-5 in search of his prey - woman of all ages. He subjected them to horrifying abuse and notched up at least 44 victims before he was caught and convicted. This is his story.Murder & Mayhem Books
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