Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2014 22:19:14 GMT
I think a lot of people believe this, but I cannot say I am among them. A person whose entire life revolves around engaging in extremely anti-social behaviours cannot simply turn that dark side off like a light switch. I think the EAR would have been very troubled as a youth, and I doubt he did well in school. However, I do think he might have excelled in athletics, which may have allowed him to graduate.
I've written on this board several times that psychopaths almost always have conduct disorders as young people. Sometimes these conduct disorders are more low key and can go unnoticed to a degree, but anyone who is somewhat close to the person will know that they have issues - parents, teachers, classmates, etc. Most of the time, young people with conduct disorders go on to become functioning members of society. Some of them get kicked out of school before they have a chance to mature and many end up living a life of crime. A small % of them become psychopaths... He would have either been aloof from most of his classmates, or would have gravitated towards the delinquent kids - the kinds of kids who would have been able to teach him a thing or two about breaking into houses.
www.mysterycrimescene.com/i-5-killer.html :
Randall "Randy" Woodfield was born on December 26, 1950, in Salem, Oregon. Woodfield came from a middle class family with no evident signs of dysfunction. He made good grades, and high school coaches recognized his natural athletic talents, making him the star of Newport High School's football team. When Woodfield started to expose himself in public, everybody laughed it off at first, and members of the coaching staff suppressed his first arrest to keep him eligible for the squad.
In August 1970, while attending college in Ontario, Oregon, he was picked up again This time it was for vandalizing an ex-girlfriend's apartment. Two years later, in Vancouver, Washington, he was arrested as an adult on charges of indecent exposure and received a suspended sentence. In June of 1973 he was arrested again in Portland for indecent exposure and received more suspended time.
The arrests in the early 1970s for "petty crimes" did not prevent Woodfield from being drafted in the 1974 NFL Draft by the Green Bay Packers as a wide receiver, but he was dismissed from the team that same year after more than a dozen arrests for indecent exposure.
In early 1975, Woodfield robbed several Portland women at knife point and forced them to perform oral sex. On March 3, he was arrested by an undercover policewoman after stealing marked money from her. In April, he pled guilty to reduced charges of second-degree robbery and received a sentence of ten years in prison. Four years later, in July 1979, he was freed on parole.
In 1979, Woodfield started a two year robbery spree, holding up gas stations, ice cream parlors and homes along the Interstate 5 freeway. Several of his female victims were sexually assaulted, murdered, or both.