Reviews for The I-5 Killer

The average rating for The I-5 Killer based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-08-22 00:00:00 Matthew Hopewell 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.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-05-27 00:00:00 Tom Frost 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 cells and diminished my quarter reservois on the pool table. Randall and I started to become friends...but not in a romantic way, necessarily. He didn't give me the impression of wanting to have a girlfriend. However, we shared some "interesting" moments on occasion, but all in I liked him and had no reason not to. Until one particular moment in time when I wasn't going to do what he wanted to do. What I had seen then, looking back, was a revealing window on Randall's soul. I moved away shortly after that window was closed and never saw him again in person. The next time I saw Randall was on the 11 o'clock news out of Portland...being lead down an institutional hallway in handcuffs and prison garb surrounded by police. Yeah. My mouth dropped open and I nearly had a stroke. This book scared the s*it out of me, quite frankly, not simply because I had known Randall but because Ann Rule digs into these all-too-real characters she writes about and brings their lives, their crimes, and motivations - as far as anyone could surmise - into their story so you know you're looking at the whole rounded individual. I like true crime stories because they are so totally out of my personal experience. I'm carried into a new dimension of time and space. Adrift in my little world, reading takes me places I dare not go, but those places are safe within the confines of my mind. They're gritty and real and show me that life is very frequently filled with terrible suffering and pain. Sounds awful, but it reminds me of how wonderfully blessed I am. That's the best thing I take away from this kind of book...the fact that I'm not there!