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Date apprehendedMarch 7, 1981Imprisoned atRandall Brent 'Randy' Woodfield (born December 26, 1950) is an, and who was dubbed The I-5 Killer or The I-5 Bandit by the media due to the crimes he committed along the running through,. Before his capture, the I-5 Killer was suspected of multiple. Though convicted in only one murder, he has been linked to a total of 18, and is suspected of having killed up to 44 people.A native of Oregon, Woodfield was the third child of a prominent family. He began to exhibit abnormal behaviors during his teenage years, and was arrested for while still in high school. An athlete for much of his life, Woodfield played as a for the, and was drafted by the in 1974 to play for the, but was cut from the team during training after a series of indecent exposure arrests.In 1975, Woodfield began a string of robberies and sexual assaults on women in, which he committed at knifepoint.
Between 1980 and 1981, he committed multiple murders in cities along the I-5 corridor in Washington, Oregon, and California; his earliest-documented murder was that of Cherie Ayers, a former classmate whom he had known since childhood, in December 1980. After committing numerous robberies, sexual assaults, and murders, Woodfield was arrested in March 1981, and convicted in June for the murder of Shari Hull and attempted murder of her co-worker, Beth Wilmot, and sentenced to plus 90 years. In a subsequent trial, he was convicted of and improper use of a weapon in a sexual assault case, receiving 35 additional years to his sentence.Woodfield has never confessed to any of the crimes of which he has been accused or convicted. Though he has only been convicted of one murder and one attempted murder, he has been linked via and other methods to numerous unsolved homicides in the ensuing decades. Authorities have estimated his total number of killings to be as many as 44, and named him one of the deadliest serial killers in American history.
He is currently incarcerated at the. Various composites of Woodfield during his robberies in late 1980 and early 1981After committing the murders of Fix and Altig, Woodfield began a series of robberies throughout the northwest: On December 9, 1980, Woodfield, wearing a fake beard, held up a Vancouver, Washington gas station at gunpoint. In four nights later, on December 13, he raided an ice cream parlor; on December 14, he robbed a drive-in restaurant in. During one of the robberies, Woodfield wore what appeared to be a or athletic tape across the bridge of his nose, similar to worn by football players. On December 21, Woodfield (again wearing a false beard) accosted a waitress in, trapping her in a restaurant bathroom and forcing her at gunpoint to him.By January 1981, law enforcement had dubbed the robber the 'I-5 Bandit', given his apparent preference for committing crimes along the Interstate 5 corridor. On January 8, he held up the same Vancouver gas station he had robbed in December, this time forcing a female attendant to expose her breasts after he emptied the cash register. Three days later, on January 11, he robbed a market in Eugene.
The next day, January 12, he shot and wounded a female grocery clerk at a store in.On January 14, a man matching the description of the I-5 bandit and wearing a false beard occupied by two sisters, aged eight and ten; he forced the girls to disrobe and sexually assaulted them. Four days later, in Salem, a man matching the same description entered an office building and sexually abused two women, Shari Hull and Beth Wilmot, after which he killed Hull and wounded Wilmot, leaving her for dead. On January 26 and 29, he traveled to southern Oregon and committed robberies in Eugene,.
In the latter location, two females, a clerk and customer, were assaulted by the robber.Later murders On February 3, 1981, the bodies of Donna Eckard, 37, and her 14-year-old daughter were found together in a bed in their home at Mountain Gate, California, north of. Each had been shot several times in the head. Forensic tests showed that the girl had also been sodomized. The same day in Redding, a female store clerk was kidnapped, raped and sodomized in a holdup. Transformers robot sound effects. An identical crime was reported in on February 4, with the same man robbing an motel that night. Five days later in, a man matching the I-5 Bandit's description held up a fabric store, molesting the clerk and her customer before he left. On February 12, 1981, robberies committed by a man matching the I-5 Bandit's description occurred in Vancouver, and; the Olympia and Bellevue incidents included three sexual assaults.Upon an impending visit to Portland, Woodfield planned a party at the city's downtown, inviting friends and acquaintances from college.
After no guests came, Woodfield drove to the home of 18-year-old Julie Reitz, whom Woodfield had met while working as a bouncer at The Faucet, a bar in Portland. He arrived at her home around 2 a.m.
On February 15; around 4 a.m., he raped and then shot Reitz in the head, killing her. Police investigating the scene determined that Reitz had had a glass of wine with her attacker, and had also begun to prepare coffee: A package of instant coffee was discovered on the kitchen counter, and water in a kettle had been left to completely boil down. Arrest and trials By February 28, the investigation was now focused on Woodfield, but by then the I-5 Bandit had struck three more times: in Eugene on February 18 and 21, and with another sexual assault in Corvallis on February 25. Detectives in assembled a call log showing Woodfield had placed calls via at near the murder sites around the times they were committed.On March 5, 1981, Woodfield was brought into the Salem Police Department for an interrogation after Lisa Garcia positively identified him in a photo lineup. His apartment in was subsequently searched two days later by; inside, law enforcement discovered a spent.32 shell casing inside a racquetball bag, as well as a roll of tape that matched the tape found on the victims. On March 7, Woodfield was taken into custody after being positively identified by several Oregon robbery victims. On March 16, indictments for murder, rape, sodomy, attempted kidnapping, armed robbery, and illegal possession of firearms were initiated from various jurisdictions in Washington and Oregon.In the summer of 1981, Woodfield was tried in Salem for the murder of Hull, as well as charges of sodomy and attempted murder (of Wilmot).
Wilmot testified against him in the trial, and was key in the prosecution's conviction. Chris Van Dyke, son of actor, was the Marion County, Oregon at the time and prosecuted the case.
Van Dyke would later characterize Woodfield as 'the coldest, most detached defendant I've ever seen.' On June 26, 1981, after three-and-a-half hours of deliberation, Woodfield was convicted on all counts and sentenced to plus 90 years.In October 1981, a second trial was held in Benton County, in which Woodfield received sodomy and weapons charges tied to one of the attacks in a restaurant bathroom.
Prior to this trial, his counsel attempted to move the trial from; he felt that, owing to the publicity the case received, Woodfield would not get a fair trial there. The judge in the case denied counsel's request, along with a request to a prosecution witness in an effort to determine if that witness had been influenced by the media coverage. Woodfield was convicted by the jury, and had an additional 35 years added to his already-instated sentence.Despite the apparent links with countless other crimes and homicides, Woodfield would not be prosecuted for the majority of the crimes he was believed to have committed. Unable to afford multiple trials, the State of Oregon was satisfied with Woodfield's existing life sentence. Post-conviction Woodfield is serving his sentences at the in Salem. In October 1983, he was injured by a fellow inmate during a prison disturbance.
In April 1987, Woodfield filed a $12 million suit against author, the author who had written The I-5 Killer. The account of Woodfield's life and crime spree became a best-selling book in 1984. The Federal Court in Oregon dismissed the lawsuit in January 1988, citing that the statute of limitations on such a lawsuit had been exhausted.By 1990, after the discovery of more victims, Woodfield was suspected in as many as 44 homicides. In 2001 and 2006, linked Woodfield to two additional murders in Oregon that occurred from 1980 and 1981.During his time in the penitentiary, Woodfield has married three times and twice. Some letters he wrote from prison were eventually sold online as a collection titled, The Serial Killer Letters and published by The Charles Press. In one of these letters, he wrote to journalist Jennifer Furio:You only care to know 'why murderers strike out in anger or rage'? How should I know?
What a question Jenny. Care to write more personally? Share a photo? Talk once by phone? Your choice.CiaoRandall Woodfield Modus operandi and victim profile. 'He killed and then five weeks later killed again. Then it was three weeks, then two weeks.
I believe that it would have soon been every few days. He was like the bogeyman.'
– Jim Lawrence, cold case detective The majority of Woodfield's victims were petite white women in their twenties, many of middle-class backgrounds. A great deal of his victims—particularly in instances of robbery and sexual assault—were young employees of restaurants and convenience stores located along Interstate 5, which Woodfield traversed in his 1974 Champagne Edition gold. In some instances, Woodfield's attacks were undertaken entirely at random, while in others, the murders were incited by rejected sexual advances.
His level of acquaintance with his victims varied; some he knew personally, while others were complete strangers.During his robberies, assaults, and killings, Woodfield typically concealed his identity by wearing a hoodie, a fake beard, and most curiously, a strip of athletic tape across his nose. Police believe Woodfield may have done so to obscure his features and prevent victims from identifying him in a police lineup. Woodfield's victims were typically killed via gunshot, and his crimes were sexually-motivated.Jim Lawrence, a detective for Portland's unit, noted Woodfield's lack of remorse or responsibility in his crimes, saying: 'If you’re talking about somebody moving toward some form of rehabilitation, they had to at some point acknowledge they are responsible for their own behaviors. That is not Randy Woodfield.' Lawrence also noted Woodfield's during his early interrogations: 'When he was interviewed, he'd tell detectives that he'd never rape a girl.
He said he didn't have to. They wanted him.' Ann Rule, who documented Woodfield's crimes in her book The I-5 Killer, suggested that rejection and feelings of inadequacy were factors that drove him to violence, particularly against women.
She also characterized Woodfield as a 'smooth ladies' man' whose good looks and disposition aided his ability to trap victims.Unlike many serial killers, whose killing patterns are characterized by intervals, or 'cooling off periods,' Woodfield's murders and other crimes escalated rapidly, increasing in successive frequency. Victims Woodfield never confessed to any of the murders of which he has been accused or linked to. Though convicted only in the murder of Shari Hull, Woodfield has been linked to numerous other murders via and other methods; and detectives have provided estimated total numbers of killings ranging from 25 to as many as 44 unsolved homicides. Woodfield is also estimated to have committed at least 60 unsolved rapes. Retrieved December 28, 2017. (PDF).
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My film, 'The Traveler,' was released alongside yours on the 'Crazed Killers' DVD and has also gotten mixed reviews. Mine is not a perfect film either. There are many things I wish I could change. I wish I'd had more money. I wish I could have shot on film and had better actors (I think some of them actually were pretty decent-Erica Highberg in particular). But the simple fact of the matter is that when you have nothing but the burning desire to make a movie, you do what you can with what you've got, despite the obstacles.
I think there are many people who can't appreciate that. They're only happy if it looks like a Hollywood movie. When viewing movies like this, you have to put yourself in the mindset that someone struggled to make this movie with no resources, probably funding it out of his/her own finances. I applaud you for even FINISHING your movie! How many underground movies fizzle out, let alone get distributed?! So kudos to you!
And by the way, my mom liked your movie and she's REALLY tough to please!!