He was quiet and polite, hard-working and real coachable. Gary Hamblet, Woodfield's football coach, recalled: "When he was with me, he was the nicest, most gentlemanly kid I ever knew. At Portland State, he was active in Campus Crusade for Christ, a Christian student group, and lived in an apartment located on the South Park Blocks. College years and football career Īfter graduating from 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. His football coaches helped conceal the incident to prevent him from being ousted from the team, though his parents forced him to attend therapy over the incident. While in high school, Woodfield exposed himself to a group of teenage girls on Yaquina Bay Bridge, and was arrested for indecent exposure. Though his childhood was by all accounts stable, Woodfield began to exhibit sexually dysfunctional behaviors during junior high school, particularly exposing himself in public. Popular among his peers, Woodfield was a football star at Newport High School. Woodfield was raised in Otter Rock, Oregon, a small seaside town on the central Oregon coast, approximately 8 miles (13 km) north of Newport. The Woodfield family was "well-known and respected" in their community. He has two older sisters, one of whom went on to become a doctor, and the other an attorney. His mother was a homemaker, and his father was an executive at Pacific Northwest Bell. Woodfield was born December 26, 1950, in Salem, Oregon, the third child of an upper-middle-class family. He is currently incarcerated at the Oregon State Penitentiary. Authorities have estimated his total number of killings to be as many as 44, and CBS News named him one of the deadliest serial killers in American history. 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. Woodfield has never confessed to any of the crimes of which he has been accused or convicted. In a subsequent trial, he was convicted of sodomy and improper use of a weapon in a sexual assault case, receiving 35 additional years to his sentence.
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After committing numerous robberies, sexual assaults, and murders, Woodfield was arrested in March 1981, and convicted in June of the murder of Shari Hull and attempted murder of her co-worker, Beth Wilmot, and sentenced to life imprisonment plus 90 years. Between 19, 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 October 1980. In 1975, Woodfield began a string of robberies and sexual assaults on women in Portland, which he committed at knifepoint.
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An athlete for much of his life, Woodfield played as a wide receiver for the Portland State Vikings, and was drafted by the NFL in 1974 to play for the Green Bay Packers, but was cut from the team during training after a series of indecent exposure arrests. He began to exhibit abnormal behaviors during his teenage years, and was arrested for indecent exposure while still in high school. 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.Ī native of Oregon, Woodfield was the third child of a prominent Newport family.
Before his capture, the I-5 Killer was suspected of multiple sexual assaults and murders. Randall Brent Woodfield (born December 26, 1950) is an American serial killer, rapist, kidnapper, and robber who was dubbed the I-5 Killer or the I-5 Bandit by the media due to the crimes he committed along the Interstate 5 corridor running through Washington, Oregon, and California.
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