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[Music] when we left off yesterday captain we were introducing to everyone an individual by the name of Randy
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Woodfield and he came to the attention of police because they were investigating a homicide that took place
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his name was connected to the victim they were able to prove through witnesses that Randy Woodfield knew the
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victim and they strongly believed that whoever killed Julie Reitz knew her right so he worked with her at a bar at
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some point and it also believed that he possibly went on a date or at least pursued her was interested in dating her
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and police found several pieces of evidence at the crime scene itself at the murder scene to suggest that whoever
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killed Julie writes she let the killer into her home and spent some time speaking and spending time with this
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individual before the murder occurred now he is put himself in the hot seat because when they go to interview Randy
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and talk to him at his apartment he says he did not know her mm-hm and they have
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proof of otherwise so now they're very interested in taking him down to the department where they can further
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question him and maybe turn the heat up a little bit on this guy so let's find out more about Randy Woodfield real
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quick he was born in December of 1950 in Salem Oregon he grew up in Auto Rock Oregon he is the third child of a
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upper-middle class family so we're on last week's episode we were talking about children growing up with
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disadvantages this is not that situation this guy he had every advantage out there going for him he was an upper
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middle class family he had a good family and then on top of that he was the he was a gifted athlete oh yeah he was a
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white male yeah and he was a football star at the Newport high school now he was also a basketball star he played
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baseball he was on the track team this was the athletic darling of the high school now he did have some
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problems and these were problems that he caused himself Woodfield began to exhibit sexual dysfunctional behaviors
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during junior high school this is because he was exposing himself in public and this can go and tell ya or
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show no tell ya this continued when he went to high school as well but there there are different variations of the
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following statement depending on who you talk to but it's believed that that there may have been football coaches or
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maybe even his parents or people in the community that tried to conceal these incidences after he got caught they
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didn't want him to be ousted or removed from the football team yeah which is pathetic well it's absolutely pathetic
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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
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and two a lot of times especially back way back then this was not it was not uncommon for something like this to be
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committed by a minor to be swept under the rug and not necessarily just for the sake of this kid to play football after
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graduating high school Woodfields criminal record was expunged so he did get brought to charges on some of this
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his parents on the record state that they forced him to attend therapy over the incident that he was convicted of I
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wonder if there was some kind of trauma in his childhood or something like this you know do we know his religious
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background was he raised Catholic was just there's something where it's like him exposing himself and middle school
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in high school where is that coming from it may not have to stem from anything that happened to him he could just be
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sexually dysfunctional right correct yeah after graduating high school whatever criminal record he had at the time was
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expunged he went on to attend Portland State University in Portland in 1970 this is where he played for the Portland
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State Vikings and he played wide receiver he was an offensive football player this would carry him to the NFL
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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
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the Green Bay Packers so he was drafted in the 1974 NFL Draft by the Green Bay Packers he chose to drop out of college
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this is just shortly before graduating he was attending school seeking a degree in physical education but when offered
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the position in the National Football League he dropped out of school is there any record of him pulling out his dingy
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poison then I fell well his career did not last very long so he was drafted in the 17th round with
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the 428 sick yeah well we got to keep in mind you know I'm a die-hard NFL guy the
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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
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so they had they that alone made them have a lot more rounds for drafting and this too because believe it or not they
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didn't pay extremely well it wasn't like he went to the NFL and you were a millionaire like you are today
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that was not a guarantee and people that were were drafted later and just not as
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good they made about as much money as people that had regular jobs or regular you know if you went to college and had
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a degree probably make more money you might make a little more so we already said that 1980 the national average
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salary was roughly thirteen to fourteen thousand so when he signed with the Green Bay Packers he did sign a contract
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his contract was for sixteen thousand dollars and this is 1974 now this did allow for some incentives
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should he perform extremely well so he had the opportunity to make more money but on top of that - I think that they
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were having so many rounds for drafting these players I believed it in 73 74 there may have been a strike as well so
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now they need to fill rosters because people players are saying we're not going to play for any number of reasons
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his I have a scouting report here which I find interesting so they Randy Woodfield wide receiver he's listed
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depending on where you look at six foot or six foot one 170 pounds played for Portland State born December 26 1950 he
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was timed at four point seven in the 40-yard dash notes on player cuts on a dime has good hands and catches well in
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crowd fluid and smooth hustles and is a good jumper he pulls out his provided yogurt slinger faster than anybody well
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in that is it's generally believed that that's why he was cut from the team that
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these these incidences where he's exposing himself or allegations of such continued even once he joined the Green
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Bay Packers he technically did not ever play a game for them he was signed to a contract and eventually cut I believe
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that the Green Bay Packers official stance on this and statement on this is that he just was not good enough to make
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the team right I don't know if this is another situation and I'm not I want to be very very clear I'm not accusing the
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Green Bay Packers of anything I don't know if this is another situation where maybe there were others somebody
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somewhere covering up or not reporting these these you know incidences because he was an NFL player well it's a great
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way not to get tackled though this is true this is true so he was in the NFL and for any number of
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reasons that you choose to believe he was cut from the team personally I believe it probably included some of
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these flashing incidences one thing that I found interesting regarding his short
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time with the team is they offered him a flight a paid flight to get to their training camp to which he turned down
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and chose to drive and make his own way there and I'm not know don't want to suggest anything but go ahead and
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suggest it I just I just wonder if he chose that because he intended on exposing himself for committing any type
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of crimes along the way it just or he could just been afraid of flying I don't know but I found that I found that to be
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interesting now after he was let go from the team he did stick around a little bit and played on their farm team but
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ultimately he's let go and he returns home back to Portland this is where Randy's going to get into more trouble
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in early 1965 there were several Portland women who were basically attacked while they were in a park and
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the way that these attacks would go down is it would start off as a robbery the offender would find an individual a
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female walking by herself approached them with a knife threatened them take their pocketbook during the
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course of the attack there was some type of sexual assault this went on long enough and there were
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enough of these attacks that police decided hey we're gonna have to figure out who this guy is and we're gonna have
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to come up with some good strategy to do something about it you know so they come
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up with a sting operation and they take a female police officer put her in plainclothes
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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
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committing this crime is threatening and bringing a weapon to the attack oh yeah
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on top of that you're out there by yourself and the other officers that are going to assist you in the
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sting operation they have to be a good deal of a ways away right because they can't risk being seen by the potential
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attacker so this is a very brave officer who puts herself in harm's way potentially goes out into these parks
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and walks alone and it doesn't take very long until she is robbed and attacked I
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don't know 100 percent of the details of the attack or if it was if she was able
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to thwart the attack and just put it to an end right but one interesting thing that they did was when she would go out
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there remember robbery was a big part of these attacks so they put numbered bills
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they issued numbered bills and put him in her pocketbook each time that way even if the attacker got away yeah they
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could trace the bill and then maybe try to figure out who this individual is this sting operation results in the
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arrest of Randy Woodfield so he is charged with not only robberies but he's charged with sexual assaults as well no
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Creepo he ultimately pled guilty to reduce charges of second degree robbery and Woodfield was sentenced to ten years
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in prison he did he served five of those years or four and a half somewhere in that ballpark but he didn't do the full
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ten years here was the problem that we have psychologists that were making suggestions regarding the charges for
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Randy Woodfield at least the charges he was facing not what he pled guilty to but the sexual aspect of those crimes
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the psychologists were pointing out that that was the driving force they believed
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that was the driving force for the way that Randy Woodfield was acting out right before the actual robbery so the
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driving force is sexual not the actual robbery correct that that just goes along with the whole rest of the attack
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mind you especially in the in the mid 70s in our country one thing we were really big on trying to do was
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rehabilitating offenders and treating criminals to try to make them not be criminals and make them be good citizens
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and a lot of that reason is one the mindset at the time is that a lot of people they just need to be
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rehabilitated they just need treatment they don't need prison bars they don't know the prison
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walls opportunities as well right but on top of that you have an extenuating circumstance of a lot of these prisons
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where were full there's no more room left so you have to really push the angle of trying to treat and
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rehabilitate these individuals to try to lessen the population lessen the prison
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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
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half years that's a lot of pulling it out well from all of the records that I could find he was a he had a good record
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he was a good model inmate let's say he had some infractions the flapping in the
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wind the one infraction that stands out is he had illegal shoes then somebody had sent him basketball shoes now in the
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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
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the issued shoes and he had shoes brought in this he says because he had bad ankles and he he needed he required
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basketball type or tennis shoes to wear so that was his only infraction he was a
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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
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he get penalized for bringing in the illegal shoes when you have other inmates that are that are getting away
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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
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expose himself to get any kind of satisfaction or whatever the hell he was looking for when he started doing that
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in the first place one the population is May and that doesn't seem to be his victim
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type right but to his other complaint about prison was that there were female employees that worked at the prison and
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he said sometimes these employees were in a position where they would see inmates showering or using the restroom
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and we're on the outside he would tell us that he has a big problem with that that doesn't seem to go along with
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flashing your junk off a bridge to some some girls in the park right it just doesn't does not add up Hey look
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at my potato so now we are questioning Randy Woodfield about this murder that took place of Julie rights yeah so they
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want to know everything they know that he knows or everything that could possibly link him to their case he does
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seem somewhat cooperative once he's back at police headquarters answering their questions where he starts to waffle on
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being cooperative is when they say look this is very easy we just need a blood sample hair sample and take a polygraph
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test and we can just clear you and we'll move on with our investigation so this he says you know what before we do any
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of that jazz let's I think I need to call my attorney yeah these detectives are not idiots they're
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going to call Randy's bluff they save no problem what's his name what's his number we will call him for you
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to which he says maybe I don't maybe we don't need to involve my attorney and they continue on with their questioning
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they want to know how well he knew Julie rights because eventually he does admit
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to knowing her so now we're going down the path a little further right no but how does that work I mean maybe you
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don't know but it's say how does he backtrack on that one Oh wily oh yeah I know Julie I'm
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guessing that he would feel like he was backed in a corner at the and he has to offer them up something
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because now they're not he's on their turf now and they're not gonna they're not gonna back off until he like so you
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see what I mean like there's a there's a big difference between somebody coming to the revelation themselves or getting
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backed into the corner where now the law enforcement officers know that he was lying about something right and he cut
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he does try to present this in some form that could be perceived as believable he
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doesn't admit to knowing her until he is shown a picture of Julie okay and he's going to add to that that yeah he knew
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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
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if you work in a bar or a social setting where you might not interact with your coworkers really well he's also going to
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provide an alibi for the night that Julie Wright's was murdered he was somewhat in the area and they were able
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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
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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
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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
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closer the need be with with this very flimsy alibi he's unable to provide them with the full name of the girl that was
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tagging along with him on his adventure I think her name was Sarah maybe was Katie I don't know Olivia well
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when they're trying to figure out what kind of relationship acquaintances or otherwise did Randy and Julie have one
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question they want to know is did the two of you ever have intercourse did you ever have sex together to which he says
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no now we're going to circle back around to we want your hair we want your blood
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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
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while and pretend that he is going to do that mm-hmm here is where things take a
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turn they contact his parole officer because after they after he comes in they already knew he had a record but
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this record states that it was for a robbery remember he pled guilty to second-degree robbery right when they
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contact his parole officer they learned a couple of things that are very interesting one the parole officer
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informs them that yes he he did confess to second-degree robbery but these crimes all had a sexual aspect to him
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and then secondly they figure out that he's not living where he was where he told his parole officer that he was to
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be living he had not informed the parole officer that he had moved right so now he's already in violation of said parole
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and he's playing from behind the eight-ball at this point the parole officer also informs the officers that
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Randy Woodfield was a suspect in in a couple of other homicides that took place just months before really these
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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
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took place this was the murder of sherry Ayers this took place and then you have
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a month later the murder of Darci fix and her boyfriend now that both of these attacks and murders occurred in the
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homes of the victims this is why these crimes would not immediately be tied to who they are looking for as far as the
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i-5 killer goes because the i-5 killer goes into a business and attacks and kills their yeah this is what's so
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interesting about this case and about this good detective work we have two detectives that are looking to solve the
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murder of Julie rights they are speaking to Randy Woodfield regarding the murder
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of Julie rights their whole intent at this point is to I their connect him to the murder of Julie
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rights or to clear him and move on and try to find a better suspect right the problem here though is they get this
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information from the parole officer now there's so much more intrigued with this
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guy they don't believe him to be truthful they believe that his answers are evasive and now he's not cooperating
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he doesn't want to submit blood hair or to the polygraph then upon further questioning now we have a very nervous
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and a very scared Randy Woodfield he's starting to show the officers that he's nervous he's starting to show them that
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he is afraid of their questions rather than showing as Peter now being backed into a corner
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he points out to them look I'm not going to give you the polygraph I'm not going
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to give you hair I'm not going to give you blood I didn't even know that Julie Wright's was murdered and tool you guys
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came here and told me and into which he follows up with just because I had sex with her does not mean that I killed her
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[Music] all right we're back cheers mate cheers to you captain what we are seeing here is what we've
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seen in other cases that we've discussed before when pushed into the corner when
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backed into the corner we have individuals where their story starts to change and maybe you're getting a little
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more of the truth or you're getting a bunch of more lies so in this situation Randy is now
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changing his story the investigators are telling him your story is not adding up
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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
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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
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want the blood test the hair test in the polygraph test mm-hmm Randy Woodfield and forms the officers that he would
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prefer to go back to prison than to submit and subject himself to those tests that seems like an odd thing to
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say no if you're innocent and these three tests can clear you of this murder why would you go yeah I'll just go back
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to prison yeah doesn't seem doesn't seem to make any sense where if they convict you that's where
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you're going anyways it's very strange well all of this weirdness and then him not being cooperative will ultimately
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lead to a search warrant and I believe that I said earlier that he may have been living in Eugene Oregon he did move
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around a little bit but by the time of the questioning he had an apartment in Springfield Oregon and this is where
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they are going to serve this search warrant and find some items inside that apartment what they discovered is a
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spent 32 caliber shell casing they found this inside of a racquetball bag remember this matches the caliber of
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some of our crimes that we've discussed yeah the other thing here too is when we
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were discussing the offender or the profile that was put together of the offender
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they had mentioned that he was wearing driving gloves they open up in the back they did confiscate some racquetball
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gloves from his apartment that were similar in description right to what they had probably the most interesting
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thing that they found in his apartment was a roll of tape this was actually a box there was a box that contained
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several rolls of adhesive tape some of the rolls were used and a couple of the rolls were missing from the box what
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kind of tape was as I now that we know that he was an athlete I kind of wondered if this was some kind of tape
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that was used to like back in the 70s and 80s a lot of people that played football with like tape their fingers up
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taped their hands up my guess I've never seen the tape and throughout some of the
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different attacks and murders it's described differently you know sometimes a band-aid sometimes surgical tape
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sometimes adhesive tape yeah when it's confiscated and rule simply describes it in her book the i-5 killer as adhesive
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tape what I'm envisioning is what you just said that white tape that strong white tape that you see football players
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wrapping around their ankles it's almost like electrical tape boxers wrapping it
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around their their knuckles mm-hmm so yes that's what I'm picturing the the great thing here for the detectives it
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seems they were they were ultimately searching for a gun they did find evidence that Randy Woodfield had guns
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or had access to guns but they never found a gun in his apartment they found like a receipt for a gun purchase the
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caliber didn't match any from the attacks and they found a gun cleaning kit yeah but see here's what I wonder if
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you find a receipt for a gun but you can't find that gun does that prove to you on some level that this guy
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purchases guns then gets rid of them well that would be your suspicion but you're looking for the gun that matches
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the description in the caliber and the ballistics for the crimes that you know were committed again I want everybody to
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keep in mind when they serve this search warrant these two detectives are not looking for the i-5 killer
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they are looking for whoever killed Julie Wright's right it was not until they found the box of the adhesive tape
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that the alarm bell started going off because the detectives were well aware of the search for the i5 bandit in the
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i-5 killer but they had never linked that individual to the murder of Julie rights
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it seems different right it seems 100% different the cool thing here is Randy Woodfield seems very concerned why they
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want that tape why would you bother out of all the things to take from my apartment why do you bother taking tape
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from my apartment mm-hmm this is going to lead to a domino effect that all of this is happening very quickly but they
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are able to they have his mugshot Randy Woodfield smoke shot they already know all these jurisdictions that are looking
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for the i5 bandit or the i-5 killer or both so now they're going to send out their information that they have on
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Randy Woodfield with a picture of of his mug shot from the first time he served in prison as well as some general
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information that they know about him mind you what was he driving at the time a VW Bug they send out this information
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and what we have is lisa garcia she will positively identify Randy Woodfield in a
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photo lineup Lisa Garcia is somebody that was robbed by the i5 bandit mm-hmm so shortly after the search of his
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apartment Randy Woodfield is taken into custody this is depending on where you read and look into this case you're
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gonna 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
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because they knew he violated his parole that's what we're gonna bring you in on
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that's what we're gonna hold you on all this stuff that we collected from your apartment could just be a coincidence we
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have to prove that it is some type of evidence then once he is in their custody this is
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when we get lisa garcia that comes forward and positively identifies him as the robber as the person that robbed her
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this is also compounded with several other organ robbery victims coming forward positively identifying Randy
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Woodfield as their attacker so this is not just one witness now we have multiple victims coming forward the
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other thing that they're going to figure out through the course of their investigation and evidence that was
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collected at Randy Woodfields apartment there was a roll of tape that they found
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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
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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
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of the victims so what we out of here is yeah we have a guiding situation guiding
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he is taken into custody custody on March 7th and it's just nine days later on March 16th that indictments for
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murder rape sodomy attempted kidnapping armed robbery and illegal possession of firearms are initiated this from
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multiple jurisdictions in both of the states of Washington and Oregon so how does his trial pan out the trial takes
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place in the summer of 1981 and ultimately Randy Woodfield was tried for murder and attempted murder
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this is stemming from the TransAmerican tidal building attack that we discussed in which Sherri Hall was murdered and
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Beth Wilmont survived the problem for Randy here is they do have some evidence linking him
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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
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sit in front of the jury describe the attack to the jury and points a Randy Woodfield as being the assailant and
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being the murderer of her friend yeah on June 26 six 1989 it took about three and a half
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hours of deliberation but what field was convicted on all counts and he was sentenced to life in prison plus 90
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years a few months later there was a second trial that was being held this was in relation to the sexual assault
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charge from the drive-in restaurant where he walked into the restroom and locked the door behind him yell in this
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trial he you know there is some evidence again but mainly it's the living witness
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that comes forward that helps the prosecution get Randy the conviction for which he receives an additional 35 years
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that is added on to his already and stated sentence so he so he got life plus 90 plus 35 plus 35 and but that I
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see or what it's claiming on the interwebs is a life imprisonment plus 165 so I wonder if there was another
00:36:39
case brought against him the thing here to that's a little weird is and you will
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find this in several parts of the country especially during this time frame mmm but they really have trouble
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narrowing down how many potential victims murder victims Randy Woodfield could have mmm the big problem with him
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is he he struck so fast his his he was so rapid between attacks there was a very short cooling-off period for this
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serial killer mm-hmm I've seen numbers anywhere from 12 possible victims all the way up to 44 yeah I've seen the 8 18
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to 44 and despite the apparent links with countless other crimes and which include homicides what field would
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actually not be prosecuted for the majority of the crimes that it is believed that he may have committed
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right and this is because he's not getting out of prison you've already discussed
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lengthy prison sentence and the state was unable to afford these additional trials for what are crimes that are
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generally considered by victims families and law enforcement to be closed cases yeah and I think law enforcement can
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close them on some level and I think as long as that's you know because you don't want to have all these trials and
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give this guy more attention than he deserves and then spend more money on then on these trials than he deserves
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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
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family and that gives the family closure on that level a hypothetical question for you okay
00:38:40
so you you're on trial it doesn't matter if you're innocent or guilty right but you're on trial and you get sentenced to
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life imprisonment plus 165 what's your reaction what's my it is going to matter if I'm
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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
00:39:10
anis if I'm innocent I'm I'm outraged you're you're in hell any statement given to the courtroom no I know because
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you you're hoping and you're betting on some Appeals during that you know to to right the wrong if you are in fact
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innocent yeah so I would refrain from acting like a jackass in the court which is going to be brought up time and time
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again which would also that be law enforcement the prosecutors pointing out look at the temper
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how can you not but look how he behaved how can you not believe that he would be
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a violent individual or murder people so so now you're the judge right and I want
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you to sentence me to life imprisonment plus 65 years scene go I hereby sentence you to life
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imprisonment plus a hundred and sixty five years so you're saying there's a chance
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that's that would be my reply whether I was innocent or guilty that would be my reply
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well Randy Woodfield has never confessed to any crimes okay and he has he's even
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gone as far to proclaim his innocence yeah there's a book out there called the serial killer letters a penetrating look
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inside the minds of murderers and this is where several serial killers or alleged serial killers depending on how
00:40:46
you want to look at it share letters become pen pals with the author and in some of Randy Woodfields letters to the
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author he states that not only is he not guilty but he he's innocent and furthermore he has a suspect in mind for
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these crimes and he says that Larry more likely committed one or many of these murders the letters themselves you can
00:41:17
actually find some of them on the internet because I think for whatever reason after the author was done with
00:41:24
these letters somehow they ended up being sold on the internet I don't know how that came about but so these are not
00:41:30
super uncommon letters there is one that stands out more than others and that's the one where he outrightly names Larry
00:41:39
Moore as being the i-5 killer or who he suspects of being the i-5 killer I've read all these letters in this
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correspondence and not all of them have to do with him proclaiming his innocence
00:41:51
but within some of those letters it seems weird because it seems at times like he's willing to say that maybe his
00:41:59
general theory mm-hmm and it's tough to to to deduce this just from the letters because he doesn't out rightly say this
00:42:08
is what actually happened but you can pull bits and pieces from it and it appears to me
00:42:15
like he is willing to admit to being the i-5 bandit to which he is actually saying that the i-5 bandit in the i-5
00:42:23
killer are two separate criminals right and that he might be good for some of these i5 bandit cases but he's not good
00:42:32
for any of these i-5 killer cases so which he points out that Larry Moore would be a better suspect to be the i-5
00:42:41
killer well who is Larry Moore why would he suggest that Larry Moore could be the
00:42:48
i-5 killer Larry Moore was convicted of the Oregon Museum Tavern shooting which took place on may 7th 1981 so it's all
00:42:59
about the same time period right in this case we have Larry Moore who basically walks into a bar with a rabbi and a
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priest pulls a gun on the bartender shoots at the bartender and then turns the gun on several of the patrons at the
00:43:15
tavern he shoots multiple people this is a mass shooting really is what it is now
00:43:22
thankfully for a lot of the people there or at least some of the people there he
00:43:28
has a handgun that at some point he has to reload and the patrons that were being fired upon realized once he had to
00:43:36
reload that gun let's get this guy and they charged him and they take him down he's arrested on the scene unfortunately
00:43:44
the killing spree ended with three people dying at the scene it also injured 20 others one of these people
00:43:53
died in the hospital later that night and then there was a gentleman that he died nearly thirty two years later from
00:44:00
injuries that he suffered on that day so you have Randy Woodfield who is going to
00:44:08
point to this other killer as being the actual killer there is some problems with that though because we do know that
00:44:17
in 2001 and in 2006 Randy Woodfield was linked by DNA we don't need your confession buddy he was linked by DNA
00:44:27
test - two additional murders in Oregon that occurred in 1980 and 1981 I think that
00:44:37
it's fair to put his number somewhere around that 12 marker seems appropriate it but the scary thing here is it almost
00:44:47
seems like that might be a very conservative number we have a gentleman from the Portland Police Bureau this is
00:44:57
Jim Lawrence he's a cold-case detective when asked to describe the i-5 killer he says he
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killed and then five weeks later he killed again then it was three weeks then two weeks I believe that it would
00:45:12
have soon been every few days he was like the boogeyman in April of 1987 Randy Woodfield filed a 12
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million-dollar libel suit against author and rule the true crime author who had written the i-5 killer which is the
00:45:32
account of Randy Woodfields life and crime spree which became a best-selling book in 1984 the federal court and
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Oregon dismissed the lawsuit in January of 1988 thankfully Randy Woodfield is serving his sentences at the Oregon
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State Penitentiary Airy and Salem and he is never ever getting out of prison [Music]
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all right thank you guys so much for joining us another week in the garage and thank you so much for telling a
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friend and sharing on social media I want to pay tribute to the late great and role if anyone would like to look
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further into this case the source everyone goes to is the true crime book the i-5 killer by anne rule that will be
00:46:24
our recommended reading for this week and you can find that title as well as others listed on our recommended page at
00:46:30
true crime garage calm and rule is one of the best true crime authors of the last 50 years when she started out
00:46:38
captain writing true crime books way back in 1969 editors and publishers told her that no one wants to read true crime
00:46:46
written by a female author so for years she was published using the pen name andy stack so they told her she couldn't
00:46:55
be a successful female true crime author and by god she did it as well as any and
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better than most so cheers to the late great Andrew land cheers to all of you out there until next time be good be
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kind and don't live [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]