Randall Woodfield, or better known as the I-5 Killer, has officially been linked to seven killings, however, some people believe that he is responsible for upwards of 44 as well as 60 sexual assault incidents. Woodfield’s first major crimes started out with him holding women at knifepoint and forcing them to perform oral sex on him, and then he would rob their purses. This was quickly put to an end however and was sentenced to 10 years in jail, but got out early on parole. After being released, Woodfield escalated his crimes to murder and rape. His first incident of this was with a woman named Cherie Ayers, an x-ray technician who he had known since second grade.
In the non-fiction book Trace Evidence by Bruce Henderson, the author talks about many cases that include a rapist strangler freely walking the streets of California and killing women. A majority of the cases take place on I-5, one of the cases was about Stephanie Marcia Brown who was lost after giving someone a ride and may have stopped and asked for directions. She was raped, strangled, and thrown into an irrigation ditch just off South Sacramento. Another case was about Charmaine Sabrah who was driving on I-5 late at night, since her car broke down, she asked for a ride and was never seen again. She was also raped and strangled, the killer just threw her body down a shoreline southeast of Sacramento.
Joseph DeAngleo, also known as the Golden State Killers, was a serial killer, rapist, and stalker during the 1970s and 1980s. From 1976 to 1979, more than 40 rapes were committed in northern California by an assailant called East Area Rapist. From 1979 to 1986, a serial killer by the name of the Original Night Stalker killed 10 people. In 2001, DNA analysis determined that all these crimes were committed by the same perpetrator. The “Golden State Killer” was the labeled name, given by crime writer Michelle McNamara.
Crime in the 80s was said to be mostly caused by the recent flood of narcotics aka cocaine. One case that was thought to be caused by that was called the night stalker. Nobody would’ve thought to have check Richard Ramirez. Born in Texas in 1960, Richard Ramirez was an American serial killer who killed at least 14 people and raped and tortured at least 24 more, mostly during the spring and summer of 1985. After developing epilepsy as a child, he became a heavy drug user and cultivated an interest in Satanism, which became a calling card for investigators at his crime scenes.
California is known for their residential superstars, shopping, surfers, and the one and only Hollywood. It seems like a pretty easy lifestyle for the majority of their inhabitants, but what happens under the radar of fame and fortune makes California seem like a different world. Living in Los Angeles, California in 1985 would have meant not feeling safe in your own home, insomnia, and fear running amok throughout the city because of one single man that became the actual boogey man, The Night Stalker. The Night Stalker, Richard Ramirez, was born on February 29, 1960 in El Paso, Texas. He was a regular kid until something in his life changed.
By late 1979, the Golden State Killer, now known as Joseph DeAngelo, was targeting people in southern California. He continued to rape female victims, then brutally murdered them and their male partners (if present). Ten people (four heterosexual couples and two individual women) were killed by the Golden State Killer in Santa Barbaras, Ventura and Orange Counties between 1979 and 1986. Since the burglaries, rapes, and murders were spread out geographically, authorities attributed the varying crime sprees to different people.
Ed Kemper was a serial rapist who terrorized California from 1972-1973 with 8 murders spread out among the Santa Cruz region. He primarily picked up young female hitch-hikers and either shot or strangled them. He would cut off the head and hands, rape the corpses, and dispose of the body separately. He had a very troubled childhood with a lot of psychological abuse from an alcoholic mother which attributed to most of his psychosis. He ended up turning himself in after the murder of his mother and given life in prison.
VICTIM OF THE GOLDEN STATE KILLER Tasha Smith South University VICTIM OF THE GOLDEN STATE KILLER The Golden State Killer was a serial killer and rapist that terrorized the state of California in the 1970’s and 1980’s. “Former police officer Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, was arrested at his home Tuesday after DNA linked him to crimes attributed to the so-called Golden State Killer and he initially was charged with eight counts of murder and could face dozens more charges, authorities said” (Thompson and Melley, 2018). DeAngelo is suspected of being responsible for at least twelve (12) killings and fifty (50) rapes during this time period. He targeted women between the ages of 13-41 by sneaking into their homes as they slept.
Dubbed the Valley Intruder or Night Stalker, Ricardo Leyva Munoz Ramirez famously known as Richard Ramirez, struck fear through the bones of many during his serial killing spree in the mid-eighties. Ramirez killed at least fourteen people in his spree while raping and torturing many more. His criminal beginnings turned to violence in June of 1984 with his first known slaying of 79-year-old Jennie Vincow. Vincow was sexually assaulted, stabbed and ultimately killed in her home. Authorities had not yet caught Ramirez after this brutal homicide, therefore he was free to continue his spree on countless more helpless victims.
Ever heard of somebody who was claimed as a murder for three hundred people? If not, then you are going to hear about it now and be well aware of who he is . Pedro Alonso Lopez, also known as Monster of the Andes, was a colombian serial killer who was sentenced for killing eighty girls, but he claimed he murded and rapped about three hundred. Pedro Lopez was known for raping girls around his country then moved to Peru and Ecuador and all around. Pedros dad died when Benilda; his mother, was three months pregnant with her son at the time of his father's death.
Ted Bundy was a notorious serial murderer who’s reign of terror lasted from 1974 to 1978. Bundy was convicted of three homicides and was sentenced to death for all three charges. However, at the time of his execution, Bundy confessed to 30 murders however the exact number of victims is still unknown. Bundy’s crimes evolved over time but he was both a sexual sadist and a necrophiliac serial killer. At the beginning of his rampage, Bundy would sneak into the victims house in the middle of the night, violently attack them while they were sleeping with a blunt object and then Bundy would usually sexually assault them.
The late sixties and early seventies were mostly known as a time of overseas war and stateside flower power. Although for the Northern California communities, it was a time of fear and desperation. During this time a man, a psychopath really, was terrorizing the people with his deranged antics. This man was, and still is, one of the most well known and dangerous serial killers that the United States has ever produced.
(“Jack the Ripper”). His killing tactic started with choking the women, then using a knife to slash the throat. Also, they did not end with being stabbed, there was a possibility of his eating organs after cutting them out (“Jack the Ripper”). He was also known for sending
Effable and Ineffable Knowledge In Plato’s Republic, we are introduced to the Allegory of the Cave where we get a glimpse into the different levels of knowledge in terms of Plato’s principle to the ultimate achievement of The Form of the Good in life and the line between visible and intelligible knowledge. In order to determine a reality that is either too elusive to put into words or entirely ineffable, through the character of Socrates in Plato’s Republic, he effectively presents arguments in ways in which ineffable knowledge is obtained and proven through cognitive growth. In Plato’s Republic, Socrates elaborates on the story of The Allegory of the Cave where three prisoners are segregated from society and are placed into a cave side by
