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individual by the name of Randy Woodfield and he came to the attention of police because they were
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investigating a homicide that took place his name was connected to to the victim
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they were able to prove through witnesses that Randy Woodfield knew the victim and they strongly believed that
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whoever killed Julie wries knew her right so he worked with her at a bar at some point and it also believed that he
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possibly went on a date or at least pursued her was interested in dating her and police found several pieces of
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evidence at the crime scene itself at the murder scene to suggest that whoever killed Julie wries she let the killer
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into her home and spent some time speaking and spending time with this individual before the murder occurred
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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
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he did not know her and they have proof of otherwise so now they're very interested in taking him down to the
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department where they can further question him and maybe turn the heat up a little bit on this guy so let's find
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out more about Randy Woodfield real quick he was born in December of 1950 in Salem Oregon he grew up in ottero Oregon
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he is the third child of a upper middle class family so where on last week's episode we were talking about children
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growing up with disadvantages this is not that situation this guy he had every Advantage out
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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
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was a gifted athlete well he yeah he was a white male yeah and he was a football
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star at the Newport High School now he was also a basketball star he played baseball he was on the track team this
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was the athletic darling of the high school now he did have some problems and and these were problems that he caused
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himself Woodfield began to exhibit sexual dysfunctional behaviors during Junior High School this is because he
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was exposing himself in public and this continued on Show and Tell yeah or show Noel yeah this continued when he went to
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high school as well but there there are different variations of the following statement depending on who you talk to
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but it's believe that that there may have been football coaches or maybe even his parents or people in the community
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that tried to conceal these incidences after he got caught they didn't want him to be ousted or removed from the
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football team yeah which is pathetic well it's absolutely pathetic but the reason why I wanted to point out that
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there's different variations of that is I don't know one which is true and two a
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lot of times especially back way back then this was not it was not uncommon for something like this to be committed
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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 or something like this U 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 in middle school
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and high school where is that coming from it may not have to stem from anything that happened to him he could
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just be sexually D functional right correct yeah after graduating high school whatever criminal record he had
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at the time was expunged he went on to attend Portland State University in Portland in 1970 this is where he played
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for the Portland State Vikings and he played wide receiver he was an offensive football player this would carry him to
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the NFL he was that talented of a receiver do we know what team he played for once
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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
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Green Bay Packers he chose to drop out of college this is just shortly before graduating he was attending school
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seeking a degree in physical education but when offered the position in the National Football League he dropped out
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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
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very long so he was drafted in the 17th round with the 428th pick yeah well we got to keep in
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mind I you know I'm a diard NFL guy the NFL back then in the 70s was not what it
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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
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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
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you went to the NFL and you were a millionaire like you are today that was not a guarantee and people that were
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were drafted later and just not as good they made about as much money as people that had regular jobs or regular you
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know if you went to college and had a degree probably make more money you might make a little more so we already
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said that 19 1980 the national average salary was roughly 13 to 14,000 so when he signed with the Green Bay Packers he
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did sign a contract his contract was for $166,000 and this is 1974 now this did allow for some
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incentives should he perform extremely well so he had the opportunity to make more money but on top of that too I
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think that they were having so many rounds for drafting these players I believe that in
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73 74 there may have been a strike as well so now they need to fill rosters because people players are saying we're
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not going to play for any number of reasons his uh I have his Scouting Report here which I find interesting so
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they Randy Woodfield wide receiver He's listed depending on where you look at 6'
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or 6'1 170 lb played for Portland State born December 26th 1950 he was timed at 4.7 in the 40 yard
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dash notes on player cuts on a dime has good hands and catches well In Crowd fluid and smooth hustles and is a good
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jumper he pulls out his purple-headed yogurt Slinger faster than anybody well and that is it's generally believe that
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that's why he was cut from the team that these these inciden is where he's exposing himself or allegations of such
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continued even once he joined the Green Bay Packers he technically did not ever play a game for them he was signed to a
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contract and eventually cut I believe that the Green Bay Packers official stance on this and statement on this is
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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
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want to be very clear here I'm not accusing the Green Bay Packers of anything I don't know if this is another
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situation where maybe there were others somebody somewhere covering up or not reporting these these you
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know incidences because he was an NFL player well it's a great way not to get tackled
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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
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was cut from the team personally I believe it probably included some of these flashing
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incidences one thing that I found interesting regarding his short time with the team is they offered him a flight a paid
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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
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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
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intended on exposing himself or committing any type of crimes along the way it just or he could have just been
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afraid of flying I don't know but I found that I found that to be interesting now after he was let go from
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the team he did stick around a little bit and played on their farm team but ultimately he's let go and he returns
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home back to Port this is where Randy's going to get into more trouble in early 1965 there were
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several Portland women who were basically attacked while they were in a park and the way that these attacks
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would go down is it would start off as a robbery the offender would find an individual a female walking by
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herself approach them with a knife threaten them take their pocketbook during the course of the attack there
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was some type of sexual assault this went on long enough and there were enough of these attacks that police
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decided hey we're going to have to figure out who this guy is and we're going to have
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to come up with some good strategy to do something about him yeah so they come up
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with a a sting operation and they take a female police officer put her in plain clothes she
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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 sting
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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 does doesn't take very long until she is robbed and attacked I don't know 100% of the
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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
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interesting thing that they did was when she would go out there remember robbery was a big part of
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these attacks so they put numbered bills they issued numbered bills and put them
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in her pocketbook each time that way even if the attacker got away yeah they could trace the bill and then maybe try
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to figure out who this individual is this sting operation results in the arrest of Randy
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Woodfield so he is charged with not only robberies but he's charged with uh sexual assaults as well no Creo he
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ultimately plad guilty to reduce charges of second deegree robbery and Woodfield
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was sentenced to 10 years in prison he did he served five of those years or four and a half somewhere in that ballp
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party but he didn't do the full 10 years here was the problem that we have psychologists that were
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making suggestions regarding the charges for Randy Woodfield at least the charges
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he was facing not what he pled guilty to but the sexual aspect of those crimes the psychologists were pointing out that
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that was the driving force they believe that was the driving force for the way that Randy Woodfield was acting out
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right before the actual robbery so the driving force is sexual not the actual robbery correct that that just goes
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along with the whole rest of the attack mind you especially in the in the mid 70s in our country one thing we were
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really big on trying to do was rehabilitating offenders and treating criminals to try to make them not be
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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
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people they just need to be rehabilitated they just need treatment they don't need prison bars they don't
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need Prison Walls opportunities as well right but on top of that you have an extenuating circumstance of a lot of
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these prisons were 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 less than the prison population and why he's in prison
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I wonder how many times he's you know pulling it out I from all four and a half years
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that's a lot of pulling it out well from all of the uh records that I could find
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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
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one infraction that stands out is he had illegal shoes that somebody had sent him
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basketball shoes now in the prison where he was housed at the time they were to be in prison uniform right from head to
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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
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he needed he required basketball type or tennis shoes to wear so that was his only infraction he was a bit of a jerk
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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
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bringing in illegal shoes when you have other inmates that are that are getting away with bringing in drugs right to the
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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
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satisfaction or whatever the hell he was looking for when he started doing that in the first place one the population is
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males and that doesn't seem to be his victim type right but two his other complaint about prison was that there
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were female employees that worked at the prison and he said sometimes these employees were in a position where they
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would see inmates showering or using the restroom and where on the outside he would tell us that he has a big problem
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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
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just doesn't does not add up hey look at my potato so now we are questioning Randy Woodfield about this murder that
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took place of Julie Wrights yeah so they want to know everything they know that he knows or everything that could
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possibly link him to their their case he does seem somewhat Cooperative once he's
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back at Police Headquarters answering their questions where he starts to Waffle on being cooperative is when they
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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
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and we'll move on with our investigation to this he says you know what before we do of that jazzz let's I
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think I need to call my attorney yeah these detectives are not idiots they're going to call ry's Bluff they say no
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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
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need to involve my attorney and they continue on with their questioning they want to know how well he knew Julie
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wries because eventually he does admit to knowing her so now we're going down the path a little further right yeah but
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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
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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
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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
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he offers up I mean like there's a there's a big difference between somebody coming to the Revelation
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themselves or getting backed into the corner where now the law enforcement officers know that he's lying about
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something right and he he does try to present this in some form that that could be perceived as believable he
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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
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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
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possible if you work in in a bar or a social setting where you might not interact with your co-workers really
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well he's also going to provide an alibi for the night that Julie rits was murdered he was somewhat in the area and
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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
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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
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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
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himself much closer than need be with with this very flimsy Alibi he's unable to provide them with the full name of
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the girl that was tagging along with him on his adventures yeah I think her name
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was Sarah maybe it was Katie I don't know Olivia well when they're trying to figure out what kind of relationship
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acquaintances or otherwise did Randy and Julie have one question they want to know is did the two of you ever have
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intercourse did you ever have sex together to which he says no now we're going to circle back around to we want
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your hair we want your blood and we want to do a polygraph and we want your fake
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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
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where things take a turn they contact his parole officer because after they after he comes in they already knew he
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had a record but this record states that it was for a robbery remember he pled guilty to second degree robbery right
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when they contact his parole officer they learn 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 them
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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 eightball 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 SS this took place and then you have a month later the murder of Darcy fix and
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her boyfriend now the both of these attacks and murders occurred in the homes of the
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victims this is why these crimes would not immediately be tied to who they are looking for as far as the I5 Killer goes
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because the I5 Killer goes into a business and attacks and kills there yeah this is what's so interesting about this
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case and about this good detective work we have two detectives that are looking to solve the murder of Julie WS they are
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speaking to Randy Woodfield regarding the murder of Julie WS their whole intent at this point is
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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
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the problem here though is they get this information from the parole officer now
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they're so much more intrigued with this guy they don't believe him to be truthful they believe that his answers
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are evasive and now he's not cooperating he doesn't want to submit blood hair or
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to the polygraph then upon further questioning now we have a very nervous and a very scared Randy Woodfield he's
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starting to show the officers that he's nervous he's starting to show them that he is afraid of their questions better
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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
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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
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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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when you Angie that all right we're back cheers mates cheers to you Captain what we are seeing here
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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
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we have individuals where their story starts to change and maybe you're getting a little more of the truth or
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you're getting a bunch of more lies so in this situation Randy is now changing his story the investigators are
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telling him your story is not adding up you said one thing here and another thing there and then on top of that you
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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
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really push the issue of the test they want the blood test the hair test in the polygraph test mhm Randy Woodfield
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informs the officers that he would prefer to go back to prison than to submit and subject himself to those test
00:30:03
that seems like an odd thing to say yeah if you're innocent and these three tests
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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
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any sense where if they convict you that's where you're going anyways it's very strange well all of
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this weirdness and then him not being cooperative will ultimately lead to a search warrant and I believe that I said
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earlier that he may have been living in Eugene Oregon he did move around a little bit but by the time of the
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questioning he had an apartment in Springfield Oregon and this is where they are going to serve this search
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warrant and find some items inside that apartment mhm what they discovered is a spent 32 Caliber shell casing they found
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this inside of a racket ball bag remember this matches the caliber of some of our crimes that we've discussed
00:31:02
yeah the other thing here too is when we were discussing the offender or the profile that was put together of the
00:31:10
offender they had mentioned that he was wearing driving gloves that open up in the back they did confiscate some racket
00:31:18
ball gloves from his apartment that were similar in description right to what they had probably the most interesting
00:31:27
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 this I now that we know that he was an athlete I kind of wondered if this was some kind of tape
00:31:50
that was used to like uh back in the 70s and ' 80s a lot of people that played football would like tape their fingers
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up tape their hands up my guess I've never seen the tape and throughout some of the different attacks and murders
00:32:06
it's described differently you know sometimes a Band-Aid sometimes surgical tape sometimes adhesive tape yeah when
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it's confiscated an Ru simply describes it in her book the I5 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 mhm so yes that's what I'm picturing the the great thing here for the detectives it seems
00:32:43
they were they were ultimately searching for a gun they did find evidence that Randy Woodfield had guns or had access
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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
00:32:59
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
00:33:07
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
00:33:13
gets rid of them well that would be your suspicion but you're looking for the gun
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that matches the description and the caliber and the ballistics for the crimes that you know were committed
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again I want everybody to keep in mind when they serve this search warrant these two detectives are not looking for
00:33:34
the I5 killer they are looking for whoever killed Julie wries right it was not until they found the box of the
00:33:41
adhesive tape that the alarm Bell started going off because the detectives were well aware of the search for the I5
00:33:51
bandit in the I5 killer but they had never linked that individual to the murder of Julie wres it seems different
00:33:59
right it seems 100% different the cool thing here is Randy Woodfield seems very concerned why they want that tape why
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would you bother out of all the things to take from my apartment why do you bother taking tape from my apartment mhm
00:34:15
this is going to lead to a domino effect that all of this is happening very quickly but they are able to they have
00:34:24
his mug shot Randy woodfields mug shot they already know all these jurisdictions that are looking for the
00:34:30
I5 Bandit or the I5 killer or both so now they're going to send out their information that they have on Randy
00:34:38
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 photo
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lineup Lisa Garcia is somebody that was robbed by the I5 Bandit mhm so shortly after the search of his apartment Randy
00:35:12
Woodfield is taken into custody this is depending on where you read and look into this case you're going to get some
00:35:19
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
00:35:26
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
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that we collected from your apartment could just be a coincidence we have to prove that it is some type of evidence
00:35:38
then once he is in their custody this is when we get Lisa Garcia that comes forward and positively identifies him as
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the robber as the person that robbed her MH this is also compounded with several
00:35:53
other Oregon robbery victims coming forward positively ident identifying Randy Woodfield as their attacker so
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this is not just one witness now we have multiple victims coming forward the other thing that they're going to figure
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out through the course of their investigation and evidence that was collected at Randy woodfields apartment
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there was a roll of tape that they found that matched tape that was found on the
00:36:19
victims not only did it match by how it was made the materials used to make it m
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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
00:36:32
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
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March 7th and it's just N9 days later on March 16th that indictments for murder rape sodomy attempted kidnapping armed
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robbery and illegal possession of firearms are initiated this from multiple jurisdictions in both of the
00:36:59
states of Washington and Oregon so how does his uh trial pan out the trial takes place in the summer of
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1981 and ultimately Randy Woodfield was tried for murder and attempted murder this is stemming from the Trans American
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title building attack that we discussed in which Sher Hall was murdered and Beth
00:37:23
Wilmont survived the problem for r here is they do have some evidence linking him to
00:37:30
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 point to Randy Woodfield as being the As salent and
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being the murderer of her friend yeah on June 26 1989 it took about three and a half hours of deliberation but Woodfield
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was convicted on all counts and he was sentenced to life in prison Plus 90 years a few months later there was a
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second trial that was being held this was in relation to the sexual assault charge from the drive-in restaurant
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where he walked into the restroom and locked the door behind him yeah in this trial he you know there is some evidence
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again but mainly it's the living witness that comes forward that helps the prosecution get Randy the conviction for
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which he receives an additional 35 years that is added on to his already instated
00:38:38
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
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life imprisonment plus 165 so I wonder if there was another another uh case brought against
00:39:00
him the thing here too that's a little weird is and you will find this in several parts of the country
00:39:09
especially during this time frame MH but they really have trouble narrowing down
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how many potential victims murder victims Randy Woodfield could have MH the big problem with him is he he struck
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so fast his his he was so rapid between attacks there was a very short cooling off period for this serial killer mhm
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I've seen numbers anywhere from 12 possible victims all the way up to 44 yeah I've seen 8 18 to
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44 and despite the apparent links with countless other crimes and which include homicides Woodfield would actually not
00:39:55
be prosecuted for the majority of the crimes that it is believed that he may have committed right and this is because
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he's not getting out of prison you've already discussed his lengthy prison sentence and the state was unable to
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afford these additional trials for what are crimes that are generally considered
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by victim's families and law enforcement to be closed cases yeah and I think law enforcement
00:40:23
can close them on on on some level and and I think as long as that's you know because you don't
00:40:31
want to have all these trials and give this guy more attention uh than he deserves and then spend more money on
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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
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evidence and we can prove it to the family and that gives the family closure on that
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level uh hypothetical question for for you okay so you you're on trial doesn't matter if you're innocent or guilty
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right but you're on trial and you get sentenced to life imprisonment plus 165 what's your
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reaction what do you mean what's my reaction it is going to matter if I'm guilty or innocent my reaction okay if
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I'm guilty you kind of right you're like okay yeah I did this [ __ ] okay if you're
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innocent if I'm innocent I'm I'm outraged you're you're in Hell any statement given to the
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courtroom no I no because you you're hoping and you're betting on some appeals during that you know to to write
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the wrong if you are in fact innocent so I would refrain from acting like a jackass in the court which is going to
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be brought up time and time again which would also then be law enforcement the prosecutors pointing out look at the
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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
00:42:12
individual or murder people so so now you're the judge right and I want you to sentence me
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to life imprisonment plus 65 years seen go I hear by sentenced you to life imprisonment plus 165 years so you're
00:42:31
saying there's a chance that would be my reply whether I was innocent or guilty that would be my
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reply well Randy Woodfield has never confessed to any crimes okay and he has he's even gone as far to Proclaim
00:42:49
his innocence yeah there's a book out there called the serial killer letters a penetrating look inside the minds of
00:42:57
murderers and this is where several serial killers or alleged Ser serial killers depending on how you want to
00:43:05
look at it share letters become penp Pals with the author and in some of Randy woodfields letters to the author
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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
00:43:24
crimes and he says that Larry Moore likely committed one or many of these murders the letters themselves you can
00:43:35
actually find some of them on the Internet because I think for whatever reason after the author was done with
00:43:42
these letters somehow they ended up being sold on the internet I don't know how that came about but so these are not
00:43:48
super uncommon letters there is one that stands out more than others and that's the one where he outrightly names Larry
00:43:57
Moore as being the I5 killer or who he suspects of being the I5 killer I've read all these letters in this
00:44:05
correspondence and not all of them have to do with him proclaiming his innocence
00:44:10
but within some of those letters it seems weird because it seems at times like he's willing to say that
00:44:16
maybe his general theory mhm and it's tough to to to deduce this just from the letters because he doesn't
00:44:25
outrightly say this is what actually happened but you can pull bits and pieces from it and it appears to me like
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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
00:44:42
two separate criminals right and that he might be good for some of these I5 Bandit cases but he's not good for any
00:44:51
of these I5 killer cases to which he points out that Larry Moore would be a better suspect to be the I5 killer well
00:45:01
who is Larry Moore why would he suggest that Larry Moore could be the I5 killer Larry Moore was convicted of the Oregon
00:45:10
Museum tavern shooting which took place on May 7th 1981 so it's all about the same time
00:45:18
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
00:45:27
bartender shoots at the bartender and then turns the gun on several of the patrons at the
00:45:34
tavern he shoots multiple people this is a mass shooting really is what it is now
00:45:40
thankfully for a lot of the people there or at least some of the people there he
00:45:46
has a handgun that at some point he has to reload and the patrons that were being fired upon realized once he had to
00:45:54
reload that gun let let's get this guy and they charge him and they take him down he's arrested on the scene
00:46:01
Unfortunately The Killing Spree ended with three people dying at the scene it also injured 20 others one of these
00:46:11
people died in the hospital later that night and then there was a gentleman that he died nearly 32 years later from
00:46:19
injuries that he suffered on that day so you have Randy Woodfield who is going to
00:46:26
point to this other killer as being the actual killer there is some problems with that though because we do know that
00:46:35
in 2001 and in 2006 Randy Woodfield was linked by DNA we don't need your confession buddy he was linked by DNA
00:46:46
testing to two additional murders in organ that occurred in 1980 and 1981 I think that that it's fair to put
00:46:57
his number somewhere around that 12 marker seems appropriate but the scary thing here is it almost seems like that
00:47:07
might be a very conservative number we have a gentleman from the Portland Police Bureau this is Jim Lawrence he's
00:47:17
a Cold Case detective when asked to describe the I5 killer he says he killed and then 5 weeks later he killed again
00:47:26
then it was 3 weeks then 2 weeks I believe that it would have soon been every few days he was like the
00:47:35
Boogeyman in April of 1987 Randy Woodfield filed a $12 million Lial suit against author an rule the
00:47:46
true crime author who had written the I5 killer which is the account of Randy woodfields life in Crim spree which
00:47:55
became a best bestselling book in 1984 the federal court in Oregon dismissed the lawsuit in January of
00:48:04
1988 thankfully Randy Woodfield is serving his sentences at the Oregon State penitentiary in Salem and he is
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never ever getting out of [Music] prison all right thank you guys so much for joining us another week in the
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garage and thank you so much for telling a friend and sharing on social media I want to pay tribute to the late great
00:48:32
and Rule if anyone would like to look further into this case the source everyone goes to is the true crime book
00:48:39
the I5 Killer by Anne rule that will be our recommended reading for this week and you can find that title as well as
00:48:45
others listed on our recommended page at true Crim garage.com an rule is one of the best
00:48:52
True Crime authors of the last 50 years when she started out Captain writing true crime books way back in
00:49:00
1969 editors and Publishers told her that no one wants to read True Crime written by a female author so for years
00:49:08
she was published using the pen name Andy stack so they told her she couldn't be a successful female true crime author
00:49:16
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
00:49:24
out there until next time be good be kind and don't [Music] [Applause] [Music] litter
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