The I5 Killer, Ann Rule
The I5 Killer, Ann Rule
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The I-5 Killer

Author: Ann Rule, Andy Stack

Narrator: Laural Merlington

Unabridged: 10 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/04/2017


Synopsis

As a young man, Randall Woodfield had it all; he was a star athlete with good looks, and an award-winning student. Working in the swinging West Coast bar scene, he had more than his share of women. But he wanted more than just sex. An appetite for unspeakable violent acts led him to cruise the I-5 highway through California to Washington, leaving a trail of victims along the way. As the list of the dead grew, the police mobilized to stop a twisted killer who had forty-four known deaths to his name.

About Ann Rule

Ann Rae Stackhouse was born in Lowell, MI in 1931. Her mother taught school, specializing in developmentally disabled children, and her father was a coach. Ann was in law enforcement in her young adult years, as was many in her family. She received various degrees from different colleges and universities, including studying creative writing, criminology, and psychology at University of Washington.

Ann's marriage, and eventual divorce changed her last name to Rule, which she keeps as her author name. Her extensive education and experience as a police woman gave her the perfect credentials to become regarded by many as the foremost true crime writer in America, setting the standards for the genre. For example, while she was volunteering at a suicide hotline center in Seattle in 1971, she met a work study student by the name of Ted Bundy, not realizing until a few years later that it was the same Bundy responsible for a series of murders. To her, he was kind, solicitous, and empathetic. She wrote her first book about him, considered one of the definitive biographies of Bundy.......The Stranger Beside Me (written under her own name, rather than the previously used pen name).

Rule has been a full-time crime writer since 1969, and has published 33 books and 1400 articles, mostly on criminal cases.

Today, she teaches seminars to law enforcement groups, a certified instructor in many subjects such as: Serial Murder, Sadistic Sociopaths, Women Who Kill, and High Profile Offenders. She has consulted with the FBI at their headquarters in Quantico, VA tracking a system to help identify and trap serial killers. She testimonies twice before the Senate Judiciary Sub-committee on victim's rights and the danger of serial killers.

Simon and Schuster currently have Rule under contract. Eight of her books have been made into TV movies, and more are in the works. Ann is in active support groups for victims of violent crimes and their families, in programs to help battered and abused women, and support group.


Reviews

Goodreads review by jv on August 22, 2018

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.......more

Goodreads review by Marilyn on May 27, 2012

I had to get this book...the first one of Ann Rule's I read...because I knew Randall Woodfield - the infamous "I-5 Killer" which is what the news media dubbed him. Randall was handsome, nice, accommodating and a good dancer. He was the bouncer at a tavern near my home where I wasted a few brain cell......more

Goodreads review by Misty Marie on December 25, 2021

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 do......more

Goodreads review by Jess☺️ on June 28, 2020

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 mo......more

Goodreads review by Kaylin on May 31, 2020

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......more