29 Facts About Randall Woodfield

Randall Woodfield began to exhibit abnormal behaviors during his teenage years and was arrested for indecent exposure while still in high school.

An athlete for much of his life, Randall Woodfield played as a wide receiver for the Portland State Vikings and was drafted by the National Football League in 1974 to play for the Green Bay Packers, but was cut from the team during training after a series of indecent exposure arrests.

Randall Woodfield was sentenced to life imprisonment plus 90 years.

Randall Woodfield has never confessed to any of the crimes of which he has been accused or convicted.

Randall Woodfield is currently incarcerated at the Oregon State Penitentiary.

Randall Woodfield was born on December 26,1950, in Salem, Oregon, the third child of an upper-middle-class family.

Randall Woodfield's mother was a homemaker, and his father was an executive at Pacific Northwest Bell.

Randall Woodfield has two older sisters, one of whom went on to become a doctor and the other an attorney.

The Randall Woodfield family was "well-known and respected" in their community.

Randall Woodfield was raised in Otter Rock, Oregon, a small seaside town approximately 8 miles north of Newport.

Randall Woodfield was quiet and polite, hard-working and real coachable.

Randall Woodfield tried to establish himself with the Packers during Coach and General Manager Dan Devine's last season, but could not shake his problems with a trip across the country.

Randall Woodfield signed a contract in February 1974 but was cut during training camp, failing to make the team's final roster.

Randall Woodfield left Wisconsin in late 1974 and returned to Portland, feeling disgraced by his failure to maintain his football career.

On March 3,1975, Randall Woodfield was arrested after being caught with marked money from one of the undercover officers.

Randall Woodfield was sentenced to ten years in prison, but was freed on parole in July 1979 after having served four years.

Randall Woodfield had been bludgeoned and stabbed repeatedly in the neck.

Randall Woodfield was questioned but refused to sit for a polygraph test.

Randall Woodfield had known Fix during college as an ex-girlfriend of one his close friends.

Detectives in Marion County assembled a call log showing Randall Woodfield had placed calls via calling cards at payphones near the murder sites around the times they were committed.

On March5,1981, Randall Woodfield was brought into the Salem Police Department for an interrogation after Lisa Garcia positively identified him in a photo lineup.

In October 1981, a second trial was held in Benton County, Oregon, in which Randall Woodfield received sodomy and weapons charges tied to one of the attacks in a restaurant bathroom.

Randall Woodfield was convicted by the jury, and had an additional 35 years added to his already-instated sentence.

Unable to afford multiple trials, the State of Oregon was satisfied with Randall Woodfield's existing life sentence.

Randall Woodfield is serving his sentences at the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem.

The majority of Randall Woodfield's victims were thin white women in their twenties, many of middle-class backgrounds.

Randall Woodfield characterized Woodfield as a "smooth ladies' man" whose good looks and disposition aided his ability to trap victims.

Randall Woodfield never confessed to any of the murders of which he has been convicted, accused or to which he has been linked.

In 2011, Randall Woodfield was the subject of a Lifetime television film Hunt for the I-5 Killer, based on Ann Rule's book.