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individual by the name of Randy Woodfield and he came to the attention of police because they were
investigating a homicide that took place his name was connected to to the victim
they were able to prove through witnesses that Randy Woodfield knew the victim and they strongly believed that
whoever killed Julie wries knew her right so he worked with her at a bar at some point and it also believed that he
possibly went on a date or at least pursued her was interested in dating her and police found several pieces of
evidence at the crime scene itself at the murder scene to suggest that whoever killed Julie wries she let the killer
into her home and spent some time speaking and spending time with this individual before the murder occurred
now he has put himself in the hot seat because when they go to interview Randy and talk to him at his apartment he says
he did not know her and they have proof of otherwise so now they're very interested in taking him down to the
department where they can further question him and maybe turn the heat up a little bit on this guy so let's find
out more about Randy Woodfield real quick he was born in December of 1950 in Salem Oregon he grew up in ottero Oregon
he is the third child of a upper middle class family so where on last week's episode we were talking about children
growing up with disadvantages this is not that situation this guy he had every Advantage out
there going for him he was in an upper middle class family he had a good family and then on top of that he was the he
was a gifted athlete well he yeah he was a white male yeah and he was a football
star at the Newport High School now he was also a basketball star he played baseball he was on the track team this
was the athletic darling of the high school now he did have some problems and and these were problems that he caused
himself Woodfield began to exhibit sexual dysfunctional behaviors during Junior High School this is because he
was exposing himself in public and this continued on Show and Tell yeah or show Noel yeah this continued when he went to
high school as well but there there are different variations of the following statement depending on who you talk to
but it's believe that that there may have been football coaches or maybe even his parents or people in the community
that tried to conceal these incidences after he got caught they didn't want him to be ousted or removed from the
football team yeah which is pathetic well it's absolutely pathetic but the reason why I wanted to point out that
there's different variations of that is I don't know one which is true and two a
lot of times especially back way back then this was not it was not uncommon for something like this to be committed
by a minor to be swept under the rug and not necessarily just for the sake of this kid to play football after
graduating high school woodfields criminal record was expunged so he did get brought to charges on some of this
his parents on the record state that they forced him to attend therapy over the incident that he was convicted of I
wonder if there was some kind of trauma in his childhood or or something like this U you know do we know his religious
background was he raised Catholic was just there's something where it's like him exposing himself in middle school
and high school where is that coming from it may not have to stem from anything that happened to him he could
just be sexually D functional right correct yeah after graduating high school whatever criminal record he had
at the time was expunged he went on to attend Portland State University in Portland in 1970 this is where he played
for the Portland State Vikings and he played wide receiver he was an offensive football player this would carry him to
the NFL he was that talented of a receiver do we know what team he played for once
he made it to the NFL he he was drafted by the Green Bay Packers MH so he was drafted in the 1974 NFL Draft by the
Green Bay Packers he chose to drop out of college this is just shortly before graduating he was attending school
seeking a degree in physical education but when offered the position in the National Football League he dropped out
of school is there any record of him uh pulling out his dingy why he's that in the NFL well his career did not last
very long so he was drafted in the 17th round with the 428th pick yeah well we got to keep in
mind I you know I'm a diard NFL guy the NFL back then in the 70s was not what it
is today right one you didn't have the number of teams that we currently have so they they that alone made them have a
lot more rounds M uh for Drafting and this too because believe it or not they didn't pay extremely well it wasn't like
you went to the NFL and you were a millionaire like you are today that was not a guarantee and people that were
were drafted later and just not as good they made about as much money as people that had regular jobs or regular you
know if you went to college and had a degree probably make more money you might make a little more so we already
said that 19 1980 the national average salary was roughly 13 to 14,000 so when he signed with the Green Bay Packers he
did sign a contract his contract was for $166,000 and this is 1974 now this did allow for some
incentives should he perform extremely well so he had the opportunity to make more money but on top of that too I
think that they were having so many rounds for drafting these players I believe that in
73 74 there may have been a strike as well so now they need to fill rosters because people players are saying we're
not going to play for any number of reasons his uh I have his Scouting Report here which I find interesting so
they Randy Woodfield wide receiver He's listed depending on where you look at 6'
or 6'1 170 lb played for Portland State born December 26th 1950 he was timed at 4.7 in the 40 yard
dash notes on player cuts on a dime has good hands and catches well In Crowd fluid and smooth hustles and is a good
jumper he pulls out his purple-headed yogurt Slinger faster than anybody well and that is it's generally believe that
that's why he was cut from the team that these these inciden is where he's exposing himself or allegations of such
continued even once he joined the Green Bay Packers he technically did not ever play a game for them he was signed to a
contract and eventually cut I believe that the Green Bay Packers official stance on this and statement on this is
that he just was not good enough to make the team right I don't know if this is another another situation and I'm not I
want to be very clear here I'm not accusing the Green Bay Packers of anything I don't know if this is another
situation where maybe there were others somebody somewhere covering up or not reporting these these you
know incidences because he was an NFL player well it's a great way not to get tackled
though this is true this is true so he was in the NFL and for any number of reasons that you choose to believe he
was cut from the team personally I believe it probably included some of these flashing
incidences one thing that I found interesting regarding his short time with the team is they offered him a flight a paid
flight to get to their training camp to which he turned down and chose to drive and make his own way there and I'm not
yeah don't want to suggest anything but go ahead and suggest it I just I just wonder if he chose that because he he
intended on exposing himself or committing any type of crimes along the way it just or he could have just been
afraid of flying I don't know but I found that I found that to be interesting now after he was let go from
the team he did stick around a little bit and played on their farm team but ultimately he's let go and he returns
home back to Port this is where Randy's going to get into more trouble in early 1965 there were
several Portland women who were basically attacked while they were in a park and the way that these attacks
would go down is it would start off as a robbery the offender would find an individual a female walking by
herself approach them with a knife threaten them take their pocketbook during the course of the attack there
was some type of sexual assault this went on long enough and there were enough of these attacks that police
decided hey we're going to have to figure out who this guy is and we're going to have
to come up with some good strategy to do something about him yeah so they come up
with a a sting operation and they take a female police officer put her in plain clothes she
signs up for this and God bless her because you have to be brave to do this first of all you know that the person
committing this crime is threatening and bringing a weapon to the attack oh yeah
on top of that you're out there by yourself and the other officers that are going to assist you in the sting
operation they have to be a good deal of a ways away right because they can't risk being seen by the potential
attacker so this is a very brave officer who puts herself In Harm's Way potentially goes out into these parks
and walks alone and it does doesn't take very long until she is robbed and attacked I don't know 100% of the
details of the attack or if it was if she was able to th the attack and just put it to to an end right but one
interesting thing that they did was when she would go out there remember robbery was a big part of
these attacks so they put numbered bills they issued numbered bills and put them
in her pocketbook each time that way even if the attacker got away yeah they could trace the bill and then maybe try
to figure out who this individual is this sting operation results in the arrest of Randy
Woodfield so he is charged with not only robberies but he's charged with uh sexual assaults as well no Creo he
ultimately plad guilty to reduce charges of second deegree robbery and Woodfield
was sentenced to 10 years in prison he did he served five of those years or four and a half somewhere in that ballp
party but he didn't do the full 10 years here was the problem that we have psychologists that were
making suggestions regarding the charges for Randy Woodfield at least the charges
he was facing not what he pled guilty to but the sexual aspect of those crimes the psychologists were pointing out that
that was the driving force they believe that was the driving force for the way that Randy Woodfield was acting out
right before the actual robbery so the driving force is sexual not the actual robbery correct that that just goes
along with the whole rest of the attack mind you especially in the in the mid 70s in our country one thing we were
really big on trying to do was rehabilitating offenders and treating criminals to try to make them not be
criminals and make them be good citizens and a lot of that reason is one the mindset at the time is that a lot of
people they just need to be rehabilitated they just need treatment they don't need prison bars they don't
need Prison Walls opportunities as well right but on top of that you have an extenuating circumstance of a lot of
these prisons were were full there's no more room left so you have to really push the angle of trying to treat and
rehabilitate these individuals to try to lessen the population less than the prison population and why he's in prison
I wonder how many times he's you know pulling it out I from all four and a half years
that's a lot of pulling it out well from all of the uh records that I could find
he was a he had a good record he was a good model inmate let's say he had some infractions the flapping in the wind the
one infraction that stands out is he had illegal shoes that somebody had sent him
basketball shoes now in the prison where he was housed at the time they were to be in prison uniform right from head to
toe he chose to not wear the issued shoes and he had shoes brought in this he says because he had bad ankles and he
he needed he required basketball type or tennis shoes to wear so that was his only infraction he was a bit of a jerk
about some of the the prison rules like he one thing that didn't make sense to him was why should he get penalized for
bringing in illegal shoes when you have other inmates that are that are getting away with bringing in drugs right to the
prison so he had a big problem with that I don't know that he would have had to expose himself to get any kind of
satisfaction or whatever the hell he was looking for when he started doing that in the first place one the population is
males and that doesn't seem to be his victim type right but two his other complaint about prison was that there
were female employees that worked at the prison and he said sometimes these employees were in a position where they
would see inmates showering or using the restroom and where on the outside he would tell us that he has a big problem
with that that doesn't seem to go along with flashing your junk off a bridge to some some girls in the park right it
just doesn't does not add up hey look at my potato so now we are questioning Randy Woodfield about this murder that
took place of Julie Wrights yeah so they want to know everything they know that he knows or everything that could
possibly link him to their their case he does seem somewhat Cooperative once he's
back at Police Headquarters answering their questions where he starts to Waffle on being cooperative is when they
say look this is very easy we just need a blood sample hair sample and take a polygraph test and we can just clear you
and we'll move on with our investigation to this he says you know what before we do of that jazzz let's I
think I need to call my attorney yeah these detectives are not idiots they're going to call ry's Bluff they say no
problem what's his name what's his number we will call him for you to which he says maybe I don't maybe we don't
need to involve my attorney and they continue on with their questioning they want to know how well he knew Julie
wries because eventually he does admit to knowing her so now we're going down the path a little further right yeah but
how does that work I mean maybe you don't know but it's like how does he Backtrack on that one oh Julie oh yeah I
know Julie I'm guessing that he would feel like he was backed in a corner at this point and he has to offer them up
something because now they're not he's on their Turf now and they're not going to they're not going to back off until
he offers up I mean like there's a there's a big difference between somebody coming to the Revelation
themselves or getting backed into the corner where now the law enforcement officers know that he's lying about
something right and he he does try to present this in some form that that could be perceived as believable he
doesn't admit to knowing her until he has shown a picture of Julie okay and he's going to add to that that yeah he
knew her but not very well and that I think he even said that he was unaware of her last name right which is very
possible if you work in in a bar or a social setting where you might not interact with your co-workers really
well he's also going to provide an alibi for the night that Julie rits was murdered he was somewhat in the area and
they were able to determine that because he stayed or at least booked a hotel room that was a few towns away let's say
so he wasn't terribly far but his Alibi is look I went out I went to this bar this bar this bar this bar went to bar
hopping and I met a girl along the way and she tagged along with me for the rest of the night he never really puts
himself much closer than need be with with this very flimsy Alibi he's unable to provide them with the full name of
the girl that was tagging along with him on his adventures yeah I think her name
was Sarah maybe it was Katie I don't know Olivia well when they're trying to figure out what kind of relationship
acquaintances or otherwise did Randy and Julie have one question they want to know is did the two of you ever have
intercourse did you ever have sex together to which he says no now we're going to circle back around to we want
your hair we want your blood and we want to do a polygraph and we want your fake
hair as well and he is going to play along with this for a while and pretend that he is going to do that mhm here is
where things take a turn they contact his parole officer because after they after he comes in they already knew he
had a record but this record states that it was for a robbery remember he pled guilty to second degree robbery right
when they contact his parole officer they learn a couple of things that are very interesting one the parole officer
informs them that yes he he did confess to second degree robbery but these crimes all had a sexual aspect to them
and then secondly they figure out that he's not living where he was where he told his parole officer that he was to
be living he had not informed the parole officer that he had moved right so now he's already in violation of said parole
and he's playing from behind the eightball at this point the parole officer also informs the officers that
Randy Woodfield was a suspect in in a couple of other homicides that took place just months before really these
were women that he knew at one time in his life and he was questioned in both of those incidences so one of the crimes
took place this was the murder of Sherry SS this took place and then you have a month later the murder of Darcy fix and
her boyfriend now the both of these attacks and murders occurred in the homes of the
victims this is why these crimes would not immediately be tied to who they are looking for as far as the I5 Killer goes
because the I5 Killer goes into a business and attacks and kills there yeah this is what's so interesting about this
case and about this good detective work we have two detectives that are looking to solve the murder of Julie WS they are
speaking to Randy Woodfield regarding the murder of Julie WS their whole intent at this point is
to either connect him to the murder of Julie Wes or to clear him and move on and try to find a better suspect right
the problem here though is they get this information from the parole officer now
they're so much more intrigued with this guy they don't believe him to be truthful they believe that his answers
are evasive and now he's not cooperating he doesn't want to submit blood hair or
to the polygraph then upon further questioning now we have a very nervous and a very scared Randy Woodfield he's
starting to show the officers that he's nervous he's starting to show them that he is afraid of their questions better
than shown as Peter now being back into a corner he points out to them look I'm not going to give you the polygraph I'm
not going to give you hair I'm not going to give you blood I didn't even know that Julie wries was murdered until you
guys came here and told me and to which he follows up with just because I had sex with her does not mean that I killed
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is what we've seen in other cases that we've discussed before when pushed into the corner when backed into the corner
we have individuals where their story starts to change and maybe you're getting a little more of the truth or
you're getting a bunch of more lies so in this situation Randy is now changing his story the investigators are
telling him your story is not adding up you said one thing here and another thing there and then on top of that you
are in a minor it is a minor violation of his parole but he is in violation of that parole to which they are going to
really push the issue of the test they want the blood test the hair test in the polygraph test mhm Randy Woodfield
informs the officers that he would prefer to go back to prison than to submit and subject himself to those test
that seems like an odd thing to say yeah if you're innocent and these three tests
can clear you of this murder why would you go yeah I'll just go back to prison yeah doesn't seem doesn't seem to make
any sense where if they convict you that's where you're going anyways it's very strange well all of
this weirdness and then him not being cooperative will ultimately lead to a search warrant and I believe that I said
earlier that he may have been living in Eugene Oregon he did move around a little bit but by the time of the
questioning he had an apartment in Springfield Oregon and this is where they are going to serve this search
warrant and find some items inside that apartment mhm what they discovered is a spent 32 Caliber shell casing they found
this inside of a racket ball bag remember this matches the caliber of some of our crimes that we've discussed
yeah the other thing here too is when we were discussing the offender or the profile that was put together of the
offender they had mentioned that he was wearing driving gloves that open up in the back they did confiscate some racket
ball gloves from his apartment that were similar in description right to what they had probably the most interesting
thing that they found in his apartment was a roll of tape this was actually a box there was a box that contained
several rolls of adhesive tape some of the rolls were used and a couple of the rolls were missing from the box what
kind of tape was this I now that we know that he was an athlete I kind of wondered if this was some kind of tape
that was used to like uh back in the 70s and ' 80s a lot of people that played football would like tape their fingers
up tape their hands up my guess I've never seen the tape and throughout some of the different attacks and murders
it's described differently you know sometimes a Band-Aid sometimes surgical tape sometimes adhesive tape yeah when
it's confiscated an Ru simply describes it in her book the I5 killer as adhesive
tape what I'm envisioning is what you just said that white tape that strong white tape that you see football players
wrapping around their ankles it's almost like electrical tape boxers wrapping it
around their their Knuckles mhm so yes that's what I'm picturing the the great thing here for the detectives it seems
they were they were ultimately searching for a gun they did find evidence that Randy Woodfield had guns or had access
to guns but they never found a gun in his apartment they found like a re seat for a gun purchase the caliber didn't
match any from the attacks they found a gun cleaning kit yeah but see here's what I wonder if you find a receipt for
a gun but you can't find that gun doesn't it prove to you on some level that this guy purchased his guns then
gets rid of them well that would be your suspicion but you're looking for the gun
that matches the description and the caliber and the ballistics for the crimes that you know were committed
again I want everybody to keep in mind when they serve this search warrant these two detectives are not looking for
the I5 killer they are looking for whoever killed Julie wries right it was not until they found the box of the
adhesive tape that the alarm Bell started going off because the detectives were well aware of the search for the I5
bandit in the I5 killer but they had never linked that individual to the murder of Julie wres it seems different
right it seems 100% different the cool thing here is Randy Woodfield seems very concerned why they want that tape why
would you bother out of all the things to take from my apartment why do you bother taking tape from my apartment mhm
this is going to lead to a domino effect that all of this is happening very quickly but they are able to they have
his mug shot Randy woodfields mug shot they already know all these jurisdictions that are looking for the
I5 Bandit or the I5 killer or both so now they're going to send out their information that they have on Randy
Woodfield with a picture of of his mug shot from the first time he served in prison as well as some general
information that they know about him mind you what was he driving at the time a VW Bug they send out this information
and what we have is Lisa Garcia she will positively identify Randy Woodfield in a photo
lineup Lisa Garcia is somebody that was robbed by the I5 Bandit mhm so shortly after the search of his apartment Randy
Woodfield is taken into custody this is depending on where you read and look into this case you're going to get some
variations of why they took him in I'll cut I'll cut out all the crap here they took him in simply because they knew he
violated his parole that's what we're going to bring you in on that's what we're going to hold you on all the stuff
that we collected from your apartment could just be a coincidence we have to prove that it is some type of evidence
then once he is in their custody this is when we get Lisa Garcia that comes forward and positively identifies him as
the robber as the person that robbed her MH this is also compounded with several
other Oregon robbery victims coming forward positively ident identifying Randy Woodfield as their attacker so
this is not just one witness now we have multiple victims coming forward the other thing that they're going to figure
out through the course of their investigation and evidence that was collected at Randy woodfields apartment
there was a roll of tape that they found that matched tape that was found on the
victims not only did it match by how it was made the materials used to make it m
it also lined up to the point where some of the tear marks met up with the tear marks on a piece that was found on one
of the victims so what we have here is yeah we have a got him situation got him he is taken into custody custody on
March 7th and it's just N9 days later on March 16th that indictments for murder rape sodomy attempted kidnapping armed
robbery and illegal possession of firearms are initiated this from multiple jurisdictions in both of the
states of Washington and Oregon so how does his uh trial pan out the trial takes place in the summer of
1981 and ultimately Randy Woodfield was tried for murder and attempted murder this is stemming from the Trans American
title building attack that we discussed in which Sher Hall was murdered and Beth
Wilmont survived the problem for r here is they do have some evidence linking him to
this crime but what's going to really seal the deal is Beth Wilmont survived the attack yeah and she was also able to
sit in front of the jury describe the attack to the jury and point to Randy Woodfield as being the As salent and
being the murderer of her friend yeah on June 26 1989 it took about three and a half hours of deliberation but Woodfield
was convicted on all counts and he was sentenced to life in prison Plus 90 years a few months later there was a
second trial that was being held this was in relation to the sexual assault charge from the drive-in restaurant
where he walked into the restroom and locked the door behind him yeah in this trial he you know there is some evidence
again but mainly it's the living witness that comes forward that helps the prosecution get Randy the conviction for
which he receives an additional 35 years that is added on to his already instated
sentence so he so he got life Plus 90 plus 35 Plus 35 and but the I see uh or what it's claiming on the interwebs is
life imprisonment plus 165 so I wonder if there was another another uh case brought against
him the thing here too that's a little weird is and you will find this in several parts of the country
especially during this time frame MH but they really have trouble narrowing down
how many potential victims murder victims Randy Woodfield could have MH the big problem with him is he he struck
so fast his his he was so rapid between attacks there was a very short cooling off period for this serial killer mhm
I've seen numbers anywhere from 12 possible victims all the way up to 44 yeah I've seen 8 18 to
44 and despite the apparent links with countless other crimes and which include homicides Woodfield would actually not
be prosecuted for the majority of the crimes that it is believed that he may have committed right and this is because
he's not getting out of prison you've already discussed his lengthy prison sentence and the state was unable to
afford these additional trials for what are crimes that are generally considered
by victim's families and law enforcement to be closed cases yeah and I think law enforcement
can close them on on on some level and and I think as long as that's you know because you don't
want to have all these trials and give this guy more attention uh than he deserves and then spend more money on
than on these trials than he deserves um and I think as long as the detectives could come to a consensus of here's the
evidence and we can prove it to the family and that gives the family closure on that
level uh hypothetical question for for you okay so you you're on trial doesn't matter if you're innocent or guilty
right but you're on trial and you get sentenced to life imprisonment plus 165 what's your
reaction what do you mean what's my reaction it is going to matter if I'm guilty or innocent my reaction okay if
I'm guilty you kind of right you're like okay yeah I did this [ __ ] okay if you're
innocent if I'm innocent I'm I'm outraged you're you're in Hell any statement given to the
courtroom no I no because you you're hoping and you're betting on some appeals during that you know to to write
the wrong if you are in fact innocent so I would refrain from acting like a jackass in the court which is going to
be brought up time and time again which would also then be law enforcement the prosecutors pointing out look at the
temper on this guy right how can you not look how he behaved how can you not believe that he would uh be a violent
individual or murder people so so now you're the judge right and I want you to sentence me
to life imprisonment plus 65 years seen go I hear by sentenced you to life imprisonment plus 165 years so you're
saying there's a chance that would be my reply whether I was innocent or guilty that would be my
reply well Randy Woodfield has never confessed to any crimes okay and he has he's even gone as far to Proclaim
his innocence yeah there's a book out there called the serial killer letters a penetrating look inside the minds of
murderers and this is where several serial killers or alleged Ser serial killers depending on how you want to
look at it share letters become penp Pals with the author and in some of Randy woodfields letters to the author
he states that not only is he not guilty but he's he's innocent and furthermore he has a suspect in mind for these
crimes and he says that Larry Moore likely committed one or many of these murders the letters themselves you can
actually find some of them on the Internet because I think for whatever reason after the author was done with
these letters somehow they ended up being sold on the internet I don't know how that came about but so these are not
super uncommon letters there is one that stands out more than others and that's the one where he outrightly names Larry
Moore as being the I5 killer or who he suspects of being the I5 killer I've read all these letters in this
correspondence and not all of them have to do with him proclaiming his innocence
but within some of those letters it seems weird because it seems at times like he's willing to say that
maybe his general theory mhm and it's tough to to to deduce this just from the letters because he doesn't
outrightly say this is what actually happened but you can pull bits and pieces from it and it appears to me like
he is willing to admit to being the I5 Bandit to which he is actually saying that the I5 Bandit and the I5 killer are
two separate criminals right and that he might be good for some of these I5 Bandit cases but he's not good for any
of these I5 killer cases to which he points out that Larry Moore would be a better suspect to be the I5 killer well
who is Larry Moore why would he suggest that Larry Moore could be the I5 killer Larry Moore was convicted of the Oregon
Museum tavern shooting which took place on May 7th 1981 so it's all about the same time
period right in this case we have Larry Moore who basically walks into a bar with a r by and a PRI pulls a gun on the
bartender shoots at the bartender and then turns the gun on several of the patrons at the
tavern he shoots multiple people this is a mass shooting really is what it is now
thankfully for a lot of the people there or at least some of the people there he
has a handgun that at some point he has to reload and the patrons that were being fired upon realized once he had to
reload that gun let let's get this guy and they charge him and they take him down he's arrested on the scene
Unfortunately The Killing Spree ended with three people dying at the scene it also injured 20 others one of these
people died in the hospital later that night and then there was a gentleman that he died nearly 32 years later from
injuries that he suffered on that day so you have Randy Woodfield who is going to
point to this other killer as being the actual killer there is some problems with that though because we do know that
in 2001 and in 2006 Randy Woodfield was linked by DNA we don't need your confession buddy he was linked by DNA
testing to two additional murders in organ that occurred in 1980 and 1981 I think that that it's fair to put
his number somewhere around that 12 marker seems appropriate but the scary thing here is it almost seems like that
might be a very conservative number we have a gentleman from the Portland Police Bureau this is Jim Lawrence he's
a Cold Case detective when asked to describe the I5 killer he says he killed and then 5 weeks later he killed again
then it was 3 weeks then 2 weeks I believe that it would have soon been every few days he was like the
Boogeyman in April of 1987 Randy Woodfield filed a $12 million Lial suit against author an rule the
true crime author who had written the I5 killer which is the account of Randy woodfields life in Crim spree which
became a best bestselling book in 1984 the federal court in Oregon dismissed the lawsuit in January of
1988 thankfully Randy Woodfield is serving his sentences at the Oregon State penitentiary in Salem and he is
never ever getting out of [Music] prison all right thank you guys so much for joining us another week in the
garage and thank you so much for telling a friend and sharing on social media I want to pay tribute to the late great
and Rule if anyone would like to look further into this case the source everyone goes to is the true crime book
the I5 Killer by Anne rule that will be our recommended reading for this week and you can find that title as well as
others listed on our recommended page at true Crim garage.com an rule is one of the best
True Crime authors of the last 50 years when she started out Captain writing true crime books way back in
1969 editors and Publishers told her that no one wants to read True Crime written by a female author so for years
she was published using the pen name Andy stack so they told her she couldn't be a successful female true crime author
and by God she did it as well as any and better than most so cheers to the late great Ann Rule and cheers to all of you
out there until next time be good be kind and don't [Music] [Applause] [Music] litter
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Brief Summary

Randy Woodfield, the I-5 Killer, is discussed, detailing his crimes, capture, and trial for multiple murders and assaults.

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Brave Sting Operation. A female officer goes undercover to catch a serial robber and sexual assaulter.
Randy Woodfield's Parole Violation. Detectives discover Randy Woodfield is in violation of his parole, raising suspicions.
Evidence Found in Woodfield's Apartment. Detectives find crucial evidence linking Woodfield to multiple crimes, including tape and shell casings.
Woodfield's Conviction. Randy Woodfield is convicted of murder and sentenced to life plus 90 years.

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