It's weird growing up as a child in the 80s.I heard all of these stories about these serial killers that seem to have popped up overnight in the 1980s it seemed. You had Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and you even had the I-5 killer, Randall Woodfield.Reading this true crime book by Ann Rule about the I-5 killer was eye-opening.Unlike with her previous books I think that Rule was a lot stronger in this one because she really did focus on the perpetrator a lot more and the crimes that he committed. T...

While it's difficult to try to comprehend Randall Woodfield's deviant criminal tendencies, it is impossible for me to understand what could make some women straight-up lie for him and that is truly terrifying.

Rule may not be the most skilled writer but she surely knows how to pull you into her nonfiction murder accounts. I'd not ever heard of Randy Woodfield, probably b/c I was busy following the rampant stories about Ted Bundy's trails throughout the country around the same time. I picked up this book at a library's 'used' sale, and having read a few of her other books, figured it would be worthwhile. Part of me wishes I'd have passed it by! However, I was hooked immediately and couldn't put it down...

The book was good and very detailed, but probably could’ve still been told in half the time.

Randall Woodfield drove up and down I-5 murdering women to sate his murderous lust. His victim count was 44 if not more. What is fascinating about Randy was he was drafted by the Green Bay Packers and picked as a centerfold candidate for Playboy. He was more than the average guy, not the guy next door. He had a promising future and was handsome. He had no shortage of women that wanted to spend time with him. Randy is the reason serial killers fascinate me. I want to know what makes them tick. Ho...

The I-5 killer by Ann Rule is a great insight to the deranged killer Randall Woodfield, there are certain parts which you can skim because it's a little repetitive and it can get a little frustrating as my mind can not wrap around the fact that many women will lie and help him.Also your left open mouth at how easy he can lie and people of importance believe him, it was also kind of obvious that his crimes were going to escalate from exposing himself to women in public to murder how nobody though...

So bizarre to read a book about a crime from the ‘80s and have the author state that there is no definitive way to match blood, semen, hair to a perp but it’s hoped that one day t will be possible.Wow did not see that relationship coming! Writing steamy letters back and forth with one of the most notorious women children annihilaters

I use to love true crime books but books like this freaked me the hell out!

2.5 Stars My fourth Rule book and it’s just as well researched and written as the others, but there was so much focus on the explicit nature of the killer’s sex crimes. I understood he was a very sexually driven killer, but the page after page descriptions of assault and the terrible things he said to his victims made me very uncomfortable.

I finally got around to reading this one. WOW, what a psycho Randy Woodfield is. I've read a lot of true crime in my life, but I can say this book skeeved me out bigtime. This sick, twisted waste of space orally sodomized women as young as 10 year old girls. Yes. My stomach turned when I read the descriptions of his crimes.He's an interesting case study to read - very handsome, very insecure, yet acts macho and needy concurrently. It would be obvious to an adult woman that something was "off" wi...

This is another get in, get it done, get out account of a serial killer, this one Randall Woodfield, the I-5 Killer, who committed robbery, kidnapping, rape, sodomy (which by its legal definition seems to be an umbrella term for any kind of sex that isn't human-penis-in-human-vagina: Woodfield was fond of fellatio), and murder. He was convicted of the murder of Shari Hull and charged but never prosecuted for the murders of Donna Eckard and Jannell Jarvis (after Woodfield was sentenced to life pl...

I recommend this and every other book by Ann Rule for any true crime reader who hasn't read her. You will not be disappointed!

Like many other people, I have a fascination with true crime and serial killers. My favorite TV shows are those that involve mystery and murder. I moved to Eugene, OR a few years ago and was told by a coworker that there was a serial killer who was caught in Eugene in the early 80's. So of course I had to read more about this local serial killer! What a disgusting human being Randall Woodfield is. His crimes frightened me to the core. After I finished this the other night, I couldn't fall asleep...

One of my guilty pleasures is reading Ann Rule's true-crime books. So when this one went on sale for $2 recently, I bought it. And yesterday, as a change from some delightful historical cozy mysteries I've been bingeing on, I started it and found myself finishing it today. As usual with Ms Rule, it was well-written, well-edited, and I was a bit surprised to find that it wasn't nearly as um, squicky as several of her other books. The killer is still in prison after 36 years.

“He appeared to them as if he were only an observer, not the defendant. He was handsome, he dressed nicely, and he had pretty, well-dressed girlfriends. He didn’t look the way killers are supposed to look. But then, few killers do.”•Read for disturbing break down of one of the lesser known PNW based serial killers.•I’ve driven on the I-5 many a time, but I had never heard of The I-5 Killer until I saw that Ann Rule had written a book about him! And because it was Ann Rule, I didn’t hesitate on b...

Junk food for while I'm sick. Rule knows how to present a case thoroughly and suspensefully, though not without certain cliches of the genre that set my teeth on edge--talking about the intelligence of the killer (despite the rest of the narrative repeatedly disproving this) and lauding law enforcement (Rule was a former cop); suggesting that there is so much more crime and murder now (the 1980s) then ever before; being pro-death penalty. But it was interesting to learn about a case I somehow kn...

I have a morbid fascination with True Crime - I travel down the rabbit hole of internet research as I read or listen to these stories. I hadn’t known about the I-5 Killer’s crimes, fitting the popsugar reading challenge prompt. Having read Anne Rule before, specifically, The Stranger Beside Me, I knew this one would be interesting and told in a way that was both enlightening about the psychopath, Randall Woodfield, but also true and respectful to the victims. This guy is truly sick. Ultimately h...

WOW! I live in Oregon and with an ex-father in law, went to some of this sites. Yes it may sound creepy but I have and will always be a true crime buff. At the time of our road trip, we had read a different book on him, it was fucking awesome and amazing. Then I read this one and blown away. I am less than a mile from the gi Joe's was. River road is also close and many other sites. So of course I now want to have another true crime road trip. This book was an huge eye opener on how how this mons...