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10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories

The I-5 Killer: Randall Woodfield

10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories

Joe Kuner

Entertainment News, True Crime, Documentary, News, Society & Culture

4.8614 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Once a promising athlete, Randall Woodfield’s life took a dramatic turn for the worst when his dreams of playing for the Green Bay Packers were cut short in 1974. So, with no other outlet for his shame other than to get angry and violent with anyone he saw fit to go after, he started committing a wave of murders along the Interstate 5 corridor between 1980 and 1981 which eventually led to the media dubbing him the I-5 Killer.

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0:00.0

Discretion, Discretion advised.

0:15.0

This is 10-minute murder. outside of the obvious example of O.J. Simpson, allegedly, there aren't many cases of a

0:47.1

football player who was drafted to an NFL team and then took a dark path in life, which led them

0:52.4

to commit murder.

0:57.4

Aaron Hernandez and Sergio Brown being a couple of others.

1:02.8

But unfortunately, in the case of Randall Woodfield, this is exactly what happened.

1:08.2

And that was because, after spending a short time with the Green Bay Packers in 1974,

1:12.3

and ultimately getting cut from the team before he could play a snap,

1:18.5

he'd be driven by a self-imposed shame to commit a series of rapes and murders between Washington,

1:24.3

Oregon, and California. With the path of destruction he took across the Interstate 5 corridor,

1:27.9

leading to him being given the name the I-5 Killer.

1:36.2

Randall Woodfield was born on December 26, 1950, into an upper middle-class family in Salem,

1:36.7

Oregon.

1:43.2

But while his two older sisters later took the academic path in life, with one becoming a doctor and the other an attorney, Randall was

1:45.4

instead far more interested in the world of sports, specifically football. To him, it was a way to

1:51.6

express himself and scratch his competitive itch, something he developed while growing up in nearby

1:57.8

Otter Rock, a small seaside town around eight miles north of Newport.

2:02.8

That said, for as much as he enjoyed being on the gridiron, and for as popular as his talents

2:08.2

there made him amongst his peers, there was a far darker inclination Randall had, which he felt

2:14.5

unable to control by simply playing football. While still in junior high school,

2:20.0

he'd begun exhibiting what would later be described as sexually dysfunctional behaviors.

2:25.8

Basically, he had a habit of exposing himself to girls in public. Of course, given how good of a

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