
A true sexual sadist, Kraft was happiest when his victims were pleading for him to stop. He also enjoyed young men whom he raped, tortured, mutilated, and then killed. LaMay’s disappearance and link to Dave Hill initially made Hill the prime suspect, but after a little digging, the focus shifted to Kearney. When he arrived at the address Dave Hill wasn’t there, but his roommate, Patrick Kearney was. A young man named LaMay told a neighbor he was going to meet a man named Dave that he had met in the gym. He was caught when he made a serious mistake. On numerous occasions, he bathed the body parts to remove evidence. Once they were dead and he grew tired of them, he would dispose of their remains in ravines, canyons, the desert, and along the highway. He would pick them up in bars and clubs or while they were hitchhiking, take them back to his house or another predetermined destination, the kill shot would be delivered to the temple. He is suspected of killing 43 men between 19. He enjoyed mutilating and dismembering his victims. Imagine their shock when it turned out there were 3 different Freeway Killers.
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Oddly, the police did not believe there were any serial killers working I-5 when the Freeway Killer theory started to gain ground. Between the three of them, they are suspected of 110 murders. They trolled the same areas for victims and they dumped the bodies of the victims in similar locations. All three men liked young male homosexuals. Patrick Kearney, William Bonin, & Randy Kraft – While these are individual serial killers that did not work as a unit, understanding them requires all three to be in the picture. He is currently serving life in prison, but as technology improves, DNA has linked him to five more confirmed murders. However, he is suspected of more than 40 murders. Woodfield was convicted of one murder, but he was already linked to three others when he was convicted (as well as being convicted of rape, sodomy, and attempted murder). A string of brutal rapes, robberies, and a few more murders would occur over the next year. His first murder was a former classmate that he raped then beat and stabbed to death. He was released from prison in 1979 and things would escalate again after his release. He was arrested when Portland police put female officers undercover. He would pull a knife on a woman, sexually assault her, and then steal her stuff. A year later, Woodfield raised the stakes. He’d been in trouble with the law before and found it again when he flashed a couple of women in Portland. Of course, his failure to make the roster wasn’t just because he wasn’t good enough. Unfortunately, it didn’t work out and he failed to lock up a position on the final roster of the team. He was even offered a contract by the Green Bay Packers in 1974. Randall Woodfield – Woodfield was man whose star was on the rise. Even Zodiac is thought to have tried to abduct a woman from I-5. This overlap happened again in the 1980s. At one point in the 1970s, there were 3 serial killers either picking up victims or disposing of them along these desolate sections. If you just search for I-5 serial killers, you’ll be greeted with a list of them. Parts of it are isolated enough to become a favorite haunt for serial killers. Interstate 5 runs the west coast of the US.
