. Years later, a reporter from a San Francisco newspaper called me and asked, ‘Do you know a Randall Woodfield? So stay tuned! “I’m just really thankful for the opportunity.” Woodfield survived early cuts and reported to friends in Portland that he was acquitting himself well, that he felt as if he belonged. [15], On October 9, 1980, Cherie Lynn Ayers, an X-ray technician and former classmate of Woodfield, was raped and murdered in her apartment in the 9000 block of SW Ninth Place in downtown Portland. Check back often to find new pieces from SI’s award-winning journalists as well as classics from the SI Vault. It was in the 1970s that agents Robert Ressler and John Douglas of the FBI’s behavioral science unit coined and defined the term serial killer, distinguishing one from a mass murderer (who may kill many at once) or a spree killer (who lacks a so-called “cooling off” period between murders). "He killed and then five weeks later killed again. Fred Auclair, a teammate and roommate, recalls Woodfield bringing home a trinket he had acquired at a local Christian bookstore. . Suspected serial killer Martin Lee Sanders was later connected to their murders,[30] but as of 2018 the case remains unsolved. [5] Though his childhood was by all accounts stable, Woodfield began to exhibit sexually dysfunctional behaviors during junior high school, particularly exposing himself in public. Even as crime scenes go, this one was sensationally gruesome. They released Woodfield on Aug. 19, 1974, before their season began. In late ’79, Woodfield was photographed in a state of undress, his abundant muscles abundantly oiled. [9] His level of acquaintance with his victims varied; some he knew personally, while others were complete strangers. [9] In Eugene, Oregon four nights later, on December 13, he raided an ice cream parlor. The Olympia and Bellevue incidents included three sexual assaults. [9], After graduating high school, Woodfield's criminal record was expunged, and he attended Treasure Valley Community College in Ontario, Oregon, later transferring to Portland State University in Portland in 1970, where he played for the Portland State Vikings as a wide receiver. On Valentine’s Day 1981, Candee Wilson implored her 18-year-old daughter, Julie Reitz, to “be careful—there’s a dangerous person out there.” Later that night, Julie was shot and killed at their home in Beaverton, Ore., not far from where the Nike campus now sits. The terrifying true crime story of the I-5 serial killer from Ann Rule, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Stranger Beside Me. He looked, if anything, humbled—a predatory creature brought down and caged in mid-rampage.” Bizarrely, he admitted in court to having owned a .32 pistol but said that when he’d learned that as a parolee it was a violation to own a firearm, he threw the gun into a river. Woodfield has never confessed to any of the crimes of which he has been accused or convicted. He was especially fond of sending naked photos of himself to women. “He’d make out-of-the-blue, off-the-wall statements.” Stoudamire’s brother, Charles (both are uncles of 1995–96 NBA Rookie of the Year Damon Stoudamire), was a halfback on that team; he recalls Woodfield for his vanity. “I’m pretty excited,” the young wideout said. I believe that it would have soon been every few days. “Even to this day, he is still a stone-cold killer.”. The I-5 Killer by Ann Rule writing as Andy Stack, 1988, Signet edition, in English - Rev. In that era there were a number of factors working in the assailant’s favor, from lax gun laws to the popularity of psychedelic drugs to the sprawling interstate highway system to cheap gas. The Mercury News - IONE — Jason Budrow, the California prisoner accused of strangling to death the serial killer known as the “I-5 Strangler” in the prison cell they … Exclusive: California prisoner admits to murdering serial killer known as the I-5 Strangler, calls it ‘a mission for avenging’ his victims - Flipboard The Oregon Department of Corrections denied an interview request on the grounds that it “brings notoriety to the inmate—and this is already a high-profile individual—and doesn’t fall within the rehabilitation and correctional plan of the inmate.” Woodfield did not respond to letters or electronic correspondences from SI seeking comment. “Well,” said Woodfield, “it wasn’t really for sale, so I stole it.” Woodfield, adds Auclair, “was on the phone all the time, telling tall tales. He was an award-winning student and star athlete. The 5G killer is the future. She had known Woodfield previously. You just had a bad feeling about the guy. Hollandsworth even sees overlapping elements with football. During the spring of 1980, Marsha Weatter (19) and Kathy Allen (18) vanished while hitch-hiking from the Spokane, Washington area to their hometown of Fairbanks, Alaska. Corralling Hull with one hand and holding a gun in the other, he walked her down a hall. Bernstein, Maxine. As the list of the dead grew, the police mobilized to stop a twisted killer who had 44 known deaths to his name. Per the Packers’ request, he spent the next months staying in shape and working on his pass catching. The true story of the year-long manhunt for the killer who raped and murdered his way up and down the I-5 corridor through California, Washington, and Oregon for over a year in 1981, leaving 44 victims in his wake. There were murmurs, however, that the team had off-field concerns. A veteran detective who has interviewed the most hardened criminals, he is struck most by Woodfield’s utter lack of accountability or remorse—even decades later, even in the face of indisputable evidence. Woodfield was born December 26, 1950[2] in Salem, Oregon, the third child of an upper-middle-class family. 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Here he—and the vast majority have been male—has been hyperbolized and fetishized, even romanticized. Weatheroy, the detective, saw this firsthand. "[9] Lawrence also noted Woodfield's egotism during his early interrogations: "When he was interviewed, he'd tell detectives that he'd never rape a girl. Again Woodfield had a connection to the murdered woman: One of his closest friends—a teammate from PSU’s track team—had dated Fix. “In a perverse way, you sometimes end up rooting for these guys,” says Skip Hollandsworth, a true crime writer whose latest book, The Midnight Assassin, focuses on a series of unsolved murders in 1880s Austin. By then, Stratten had been replaced by Mouse Davis, who would later coach as an assistant in the NFL and become known as the godfather of the run-and-shoot offense. California has spawned many a notorious killer, from the Zodiac Killer and Manson family in the late 1960s to the next decade’s Co-Ed Killer to the Golden State Killer. These may not have been the dynastic Packers who won the first two Super Bowls, in the 1960s, but this was still a celebrated franchise. But in high school he was caught standing on a bridge and exposing himself to females. [5] His football coaches helped conceal the incident to prevent him from being ousted from the team,[8] though his parents forced him to attend therapy over the incident. Directed by Allan Kroeker. Around 4 a.m., he raped and then shot Reitz in the head, killing her. Police searching Woodfield’s residence realized that he’d kept every correspondence bearing that green-and-yellow logo, every envelope with the return address of 1265 Lombardi Avenue, in Green Bay. Police would contend that the team had other reasons. On September 14, 1987, 29-year-old Debra Guffie was “down on her luck,” as she puts it, and doing sex work. When Woodfield eventually took the stand, he spoke softly, with his arms crossed, looking nothing like a star athlete or a handsome lothario. “He really didn’t fit in,” says Anthony Stoudamire, who was a freshman quarterback at PSU in 1973. I was surprised when some of this stuff started coming down, but on reflection, I thought: “He was a pretty quiet guy—not very talkative; kept to himself. [6] 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. An inmate who shared a cell with Roger Kibbe — the serial killer known as the “I-5 Strangler” — confessed to murdering Kibbe in a letter written to The Mercury News. Even in California—where Woodfield was accused of killing a mother and her daughter, and where the death penalty would have been an option—the local prosecutor eventually decided against pursuing Woodfield. Una Studio Original basada en una Historia Real. An NFL scout had come to see Randall Woodfield, the Vikings’ leading receiver. Three days later, on January 11, he robbed a market in Eugene. . Though he has only been convicted of one murder and one attempted murder, he has been linked via DNA and other methods to numerous unsolved homicides in the ensuing decades. Five days later in Corvallis, a man matching the I-5 Bandit's description held up a fabric store, molesting the clerk and her customer before he left. Jason Budrow, 40, wrote in a five-page letter that he spent months “grooming” Kibbe for murder at California’s Mule Creek State Prison. Raised mostly in the picturesque Oregon mid-coast town of Otter Rock, Woodfield grew up in a fiercely middle-class home. (With little evidence, he was found not guilty in a jury trial.) [9] His apartment in Springfield, Oregon was subsequently searched two days later by warrant; 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. The I-5 Killer is story of Andy Woodfield. "[5] Other teammates and peers of Woodfield recalled him as "soft-spoken" and "kind of a loner" who "didn't have a lot of friends," but noted his athleticism. [15] In early 1975,[11] several Portland women were accosted by a knife-wielding man, forced to perform oral sex and then robbed of their handbags. By multiple accounts, Woodfield was devastated by being cut. Their bodies were found in May 1981. As one Wisconsin law enforcement officer recalls, years later, Woodfield “couldn’t keep the thing in his pants.”. [5] He has two older sisters,[3] one of whom went on to become a doctor, and the other an attorney. “If I had known,” he says, “I would have said something [to interested NFL teams] for sure.”. [9], 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. And roughly concurrent with the I-5 Killer, Gary Ridgway had begun committing ritualized murder in Seattle, mostly targeting young women. Lisa Garcia, meanwhile, was the key witness, recalling the horrific night at the office building five months earlier. Kibbe found all but one of his victims on the freeways around Sacramento, California. . From Ann Rule's book and starring John Corbett and Sara Canning, this Lifetime Original Movie is based on the haunting true story of the year-long manhunt for a killer suspected of murdering 14 victims and committing numerous sexual assaults up and down the I-5 highway corridor through California, Washington and Oregon. Editorial Director, SI Group: Chris Stone, Deputy Managing Editor, Sports Illustrated: Ryan Hunt, Assistant Managing Editor, Sports Illustrated: Adam Duerson, Special Projects Editor, SI.com: Ben Eagle, Front-End Web Developer, SI.com: Allen Kim, Engagement Editor, SI.com: Lindsay Applebaum, Director of Photography, Sports Illustrated: Marguerite Schropp. Woodfield would later contend—not unreasonably—that his prospects were hindered because Green Bay was stressing a run game that season. The Hunt for the I-5 Killer Quotes. [9], In October 1981, a second trial was held in Benton County, Oregon, in which Woodfield received sodomy and weapons charges tied to one of the attacks in a restaurant bathroom. Woodfield also got out just in time to attend his 10‑year high school reunion in Newport. He was an award-winning student and star athlete. The I-5 Killer’s downfall came swiftly and without much drama. A native of Oregon, Woodfield was the third child of a prominent Newport family. There was a book written about Roger, it’s called Trace Evidence. Some remember him as unassuming and quiet, if a bit odd. . He was freed on parole in July 1979, after having served four years. Just 10 diseases account for almost three-quarters of all deaths in the U.S. Heart disease is the biggest killer, followed by cancer, then chronic lower respiratory disease. Still, the list of his victims has grown. When he arrived, his bio in the Packers’ media guide listed him at six feet, 170 pounds and assessed him as follows: In July, Woodfield was among the rookies who competed against the Bears in a scrimmage at Lambeau Field. Woodfield was sentenced to ten years in prison. . He was on the verge of playing in the NFL. Seven weeks later, Darcey Fix, 22, and Doug Altig, 24, were shot to death, execution-style and with a .32 revolver, in Fix’s Portland home. Both Woodfield and Ted Bundy have been considered suspects in her murder.[29]. Detectives targeted Woodfield as their suspect, convinced that the receiver who turned squeamish running across the middle of the field had become an astonishingly brazen murderer. 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 Redding. Survey the time line and it’s easy to make the case that football, beyond being a driving motivation for him, was also a distraction from a primal instinct that had, perhaps always, churned within. The money enabled him to quit his job at a Portland-area Burger Chef. He was wearing jeans and a leather jacket. . From Ann Rule's book and starring John Corbett and Sara Canning, this Lifetime Original Movie is based on the haunting true story of the year-long manhunt for a killer suspected of murdering 14 victims and committing numerous sexual assaults up and down the I-5 highway corridor through California, Washington and Oregon. In early 1975, Portland police were vexed by a series of attacks on women, carried out by a man—invariably described as athletically built and handsome—armed with a knife. [6] Woodfield's victims were typically killed via gunshot, and his crimes were sexually-motivated. Out of prison, he cut a contradictory figure. 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. In the film, Woodfield is portrayed by Canadian actor Tygh Runyan.[31]. No reason was given publicly. He wanted to pump up the Portland State program he had just taken over, and placing a guy in the NFL would go a long way toward that. (While in prison, Woodfield sued Rule, unsuccessfully, for $12 million on grounds of libel.) He mailed the image to Playgirl for consideration. “There was a conventional wisdom back in the day that someone who was an exposer or a Peeping Tom wouldn’t elevate to more serious crimes,” says Lieut. When Woodfield’s trial for the incident with Hull and Garcia began in the summer of 1981, it marked the first murder trial for an earnest, fledgling Marion County prosecutor named Chris Van Dyke (whose famous father, Dick, had recently finished up a run on The Carol Burnett Show). A former teammate who spoke on the condition of anonymity recalls, “It seemed real important to him that he come across as someone who would do the right thing—almost like it was keeping him together.”, Armed with the resources—and facing the public relations pressures—of a modern-day NFL team, the Packers would have conducted a detailed background check on Woodfield. He was strikingly handsome, maybe six feet tall, blessed with a torrent of thick, curly brown hair and eyes to match. California serial killer Roger Reece Kibbe, known as the infamous “I-5 Strangler,” was found dead inside his prison cell Sunday in what authorities are calling a homicide. 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. . The peculiar rhythms of the sport—one intense day followed by six days of recovery and preparation—are out of whack with the rest of society. [7] While in high school, Woodfield exposed himself to a group of teenage girls on Yaquina Bay Bridge, and was arrested for indecent exposure. [9], 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). “He loved talking about sports,” says Weatheroy. [6] He arrived at her home around 2 a.m. on February 15. Lawrence, the Portland detective, offers a different theory: “There had to be something that happened to him sexually in his formative teenage years that caused him to look at sexual activity as power fulfillment as opposed to an area of procreation and of intimacy.”. En route, one officer noticed a thickly built man fitting the assailant’s description standing at an intersection—but this was more than a mile from the attack; it would have taken a hell of an athlete to make it that far so quickly on foot. On March 5, detectives set up a sting operation. Indeed, the ’70s marked the crimson-stained height of serial killing in the U.S. “He was always bopping by our offices before heading to class,” recalls Stratten. . he was drafted for pro football by the Green Bay Packers, and chosen by Playgirl as a centerfold candidate. She was clearly captivated by Woodfield’s conventional upbringing, jock pedigree and good looks. Upon an impending visit to Portland, Woodfield planned a Valentine's Day party at the city's downtown Marriott Hotel, inviting friends and acquaintances from college. Studio Original: The Hunt for the I-5 Killer Comienza una búsqueda, que podría ser demasiado larga. In 1974, after a dozen "flashing" incidents called unwelcome attention to Woodfield, the Packers formally cut him from the NFL. [15], On March 3, 1975, Woodfield was arrested after being caught with marked money from one of the undercover officers. [17], Woodfield is serving his sentences at the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem. Back in Portland, he drifted to the margins. “His high school career, playing in college, his time with Green Bay. [6], 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. . To trade in understatement, he did not struggle to find female companionship. “He was very charismatic, which makes sense because he would lure victims and get them to let their guard down.” Woodfield, though, confessed to nothing. He claimed he didn’t drink or smoke and that he was committed to the Christian faith. [9] During one of the robberies, Woodfield wore what appeared to be a Band-Aid or athletic tape across the bridge of his nose, similar to nasal strips worn by football players. "[6] 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. Woodfield was a killer of women...good looking on the outside, super creepy on the inside. Charged with robbery, Woodfield gave an extensive interview to police. All of the crimes occurred within two miles of an interstate exit. A sensationally violent sport breeds sensationally violent behavior. Serial killers may commit acts of unadulterated evil, but they are also figures that generate at least a teensy measure of titillation, sometimes even affection. This was a central theme for Ann Rule, a prominent true crime writer who in her best-selling book The Stranger Beside Me portrays Ted Bundy as a handsome, well-spoken, good-looking law student . Police say that when Woodfield turned 18, his juvenile record was expunged. Based on DNA evidence and advancing crime lab techniques, the I-5 Killer’s body count has climbed through the years. How should I know? Maybe more than any other player on the team, he seemed to seek out the staff for companionship and counsel. On Oct. 11, 1980, Cherie Ayers, an attractive 29-year-old, was found raped, stabbed and bludgeoned to death in her Portland apartment. Jim Lawrence, another detective in Portland’s cold case unit, is intimately familiar with the case of the I-5 Killer. “Randy runs decent routes,” Stratten said with enthusiasm, “and he’s good to the outside.” He spoke positively about the speed that enabled Woodfield to run high hurdles for the school’s track team. Killer xTend; Killer Prioritization Engine; Killer DoubleShot Pro; Killer Prioritization Engine for Routers; Products. He admitted to some impulse-control issues and some “sexual problems.” And he confessed to one vice: He’d taken steroids to augment his physique. On Feb. 3, 1981, Donna Eckard, 37, and her 14-year-old daughter, Jannell Jarvis, were found dead in their home in Mountain Gate, Calif., just off I-5. Ultimately, as in other jurisdictions, authorities in Portland’s Multnomah County decided not to prosecute the murders of Altig, Ayers and Fix. [17] Wilmot testified against him in the trial, and was key in the prosecution's conviction. Woodfield was a killer of women...good looking on the outside, super creepy on the inside. Randall Woodfield – The I-5 Killer Early Life. Evolutionary biologists have pointed out that as a species, we are hardwired to run away from predators in a way that we don’t reflexively run away from, say, sunbathing or eating bacon or other potential causes of death. probably the coldest, most detached defendant I’ve ever seen.” By his own reckoning, Van Dyke had “armloads of evidence, overwhelming evidence.” And Woodfield’s defense was flimsy, predicated on mistaken identity. After the season, though, Woodfield was dropped by the Chiefs. . That even carried over to the way he played. He certainly knew his way around the I-5 corridor. Paul Weatheroy, a longtime Portland cold case detective who retired from that job last year. IONE — Jason Budrow, the California prisoner accused of strangling to death the serial killer known as the “I-5 Strangler” in the prison cell they shared, confessed in a five-page letter to this news organization, writing that he spent months “grooming” his intended victim for murder. Jason Budrow, 40, wrote in a five-page letter that he spent months “grooming” Kibbe for murder at … The terrifying true crime story of the I-5 serial killer from Ann Rule, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Stranger Beside Me. According to law officials, Newport High’s coaches knew about the situation but, wanting to protect their star, chalked it up to an adolescent’s lapse in impulse control. So on that fall day in 1973, as Ron Stratten sat in the bleachers of Multnomah Stadium—now Providence Park, home to MLS’s Timbers—he chose his words carefully. “Woodfield doesn’t have that.”, To Stratten, this softness, this dislike of confrontation, was in keeping with Woodfield’s genial personality. The terrifying true crime story of the I-5 serial killer from Ann Rule, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Stranger Beside Me. Some letters he wrote from prison were eventually sold online as a collection titled, The Serial Killer Letters and published by The Charles Press. “He put a lot of pressure on himself to make it big.”. The Federal Court in Oregon dismissed the lawsuit in January 1988, citing that the statute of limitations on such a lawsuit had expired. The I-5 Killer is story of Andy Woodfield. The Mercury News - IONE — Jason Budrow, the California prisoner accused of strangling to death the serial killer known as the “I-5 Strangler” in the prison cell they … Exclusive: California prisoner admits to murdering serial killer known as the I-5 Strangler, calls it ‘a mission for avenging’ his victims - … As with all Ann Rule books, The I-5 Killer chronicles Woodfield's early life and his decline into cold blooded killer as well as the investigation and the investigators that led to his capture. The family was well-known and well-regarded in the community. . Did you know he’s the I-5 killer?’ I said, ‘That can’t be. On Dec. 9, 1980, a man wearing a fake beard held up a gas station in Vancouver, Wash., just across the Columbia River from Portland. 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