

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
Categories: Nonfiction, True Crime, Murder
Author: Ann Rule, Andy Stack
Narrator: Laural Merlington
Unabridged: 10 hr 3 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 07/04/2017
Categories: Nonfiction, True Crime, Murder
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.
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
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
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
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
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