A Football Failure and a Serial Killer
Randy Woodfield killed people he knew personally while many of his other victims were complete strangers. His crimes were sexually-motivated, and most of the time, they escalated rapidly without premeditation. He was one of the most prolific serial killers in the history of the United States.
Jim Lawrence, a cold-case detective, said that he was like the bogeyman. Bestselling author Ann Rule wrote a whole book about Woodfield, which he didn’t like and sued her for twelve million dollars. The Federal Court in Oregon dismissed the lawsuit eventually. In her book, Rule concluded that “Woodfield killed women as a form of rebellion against his authoritarian mother and two older sisters.”
Other professionals say that football was only a temporary source of salvation for him, delaying his vicious and murderous amok. Woodfield is sixty-nine now, serving his sentence in the Oregon State Penitentiary. Prison guards recall that he only loves to talk about football, and remembers his “golden days” on the field like it was yesterday. It seems that football was everything to him and couldn’t accept his downfall as an athlete. One thing’s for sure: he didn’t fail to write his name into history books, just not the way he intended to do so.
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