Cherie Ayers Female - Age 29 Death: October 1980	Shari Hull Female - Age 20 Death: January 1981	Donna Eckard Female - Age 37 Death: February 1981
Janell Jarvis Female - Age 14 Death: February 1981	Julie Reitz Female - Age 18 Death: February 1981

"I'm closer to my mother than I am to my father." - Explaining that his relationship with his mother was good.

"You get dope smuggled in all the time -- so why get all bent out of shape over a pair of basketball shoes?" - What he said after he got caught wearing smuggled Nike high-top shoes during his first stint in prison in the late 1970's for armed robbery and sexual assault.

"I'm not a violent person." - What he said to a prison psychologist in the late 1970's during his first stint in prison, insisting that he had never hurt anyone.

"I wanted to get back at a girl for something." - What he said to a prison psychologist in the late 1970's during his first stint in prison, speculating that his sexual assaults on females might have been because he was rejected by an ex-girlfriend.

"What's going to help me is not getting involved with a girl physically. I always felt kind of guilty about sex. There's more to life than sex." - What he said to a prison psychologist in the late 1970's during his first stint in prison, referring to how he could stay out of trouble once he was released back into society.

"I've come to the point where I am beginning to accept myself and stop being a phony. I know I have a problem, and I want to keep on top of it at all times. I've learned to accept rejection from others, especially females. I don't take it personally anymore. It's taken me twenty-seven years to grow up, but I'm making it now. I have excellent family support. I used to be too ashamed to admit that I had a problem. But I found out in Reverend Beach's group that other guys have problems, and if they can overcome them, I can do it too. I am not the same immature fellow that I used to be. I used to just want to play football and have fun, but now I know that work is important. I've got to stop running and face myself for what I am. I have now got the courage and confidence to meet my problems directly. I no longer feel a need to hide from them." - What he said to a prison psychologist in the late 1970's during his first stint in prison, which helped lead to his parole in July 1979, after serving only four years of a ten-year sentence his first time in prison.

"I was in there for being an exhibitionist, and here's this female guard watching me take a piss. It was ironic, and it made me angry." - What he said about his first stint in prison in the late 1970's.

"I screwed up. I was in too much of a hurry, and I got herpes from one of them." - Explaining that he was having a lot of sex with different girls to make up for all the sex he had missed during his first stint in prison in the late 1970's.

"I love her, and she loves me, and we don't sleep with anyone else, but we each have other friends. The only thing that bothers me is that I come home from work ready to go to bed, and Lucy comes home later, and then all her guy friends are out partying in the living room when I try to sleep." - What he said about a seventeen-year-old girl named Lucy, who he was living with in 1980.

"It's for real." - What he said to a female cashier at a gas station he robbed in December 1980 in Vancouver, Washington.

"Now, turn around and walk into the back room and stay there, and don't do anything stupid." - What he said to a female cashier at an ice cream parlor he robbed in December 1980 in Eugene, Oregon.

"Do what I say and you won't get hurt. Now, I want you to beat me off." / "That's good. Now, you stay in here for five minutes. Count to a hundred and nobody will get hurt." - What he said to a waitress when he cornered her into a restroom and sexually assaulted her, in December 1980 in Lake Forest Park, Washington.

"Sit down on the floor, and take off your shirt. Lift your bra." - What he said to a different female cashier after he robbed the same Vancouver, Washington gas station in January 1981, that he had robbed in December 1980.

"Give me the money from the till. This is a real gun." / "Now, get down on the floor and stay there. Just stay on the floor." - What he said to a female cashier/cook when he robbed a restaurant in January 1981 in Sutherlin, Oregon. He shot the woman in the shoulder but she survived.

"My car broke down. I need to use the phone. Where is it?" / "The line's busy. Where's your mother?" / "Can I watch TV with you? Can I just stay in the house to keep warm? I could watch TV with you until my friend gets here." - What he said to a 10-year-old girl and her 8-year-old sister when he came to their house in Corvallis, Oregon while their mother was gone, in January 1981.

"But I'm already in. I think I'll just watch some television with you." - What he said to the 10-year-old girl and her 8-year-old sister after they told him they weren't supposed to let strangers in the house.

"This is a real gun. You get into the bathroom where your sister is. You do what I say. Now, both of you, take off your clothes." - What he said to the 10-year-old girl and her 8-year-old sister before he sexually assaulted them.

"In the back room -- both of you. Both of you take off your clothes. Strip. All of them. Get down and stay down." / "Suck on me. Come on, make me cum. You suck on my balls. You make me cum. Both of you suck on me. Play with yourself." - What he said to victims Beth Wilmot (who survived) and Shari Hull, when he confronted and sexually assaulted them in an office building where they worked as janitors in January 1981.

"Shit, you've got a tight cunt." - What he said to victim Beth Wilmot (who survived) when he tried to rape her.

"Eat me. Which one of you wants to eat me?" - What he said to victims Beth Wilmot (who survived) and Shari Hull, while he was sexually assaulting them.

"I need some rope. Do you guys have any rope? Do you know where any is?" - What he said to victims Beth Wilmot (who survived) and Shari Hull, before he shot them.

"Do you let your boyfriend do this to you? I'm bigger than your boyfriend, aren't I?" / "Take your pants off, and your underwear, and your shoes. Now get in the backseat, but keep your head down and don't look at my face. I could either cum inside you or pull out and make you drink my cum. It's up to you." / "Don't go to the police. If you do, I'll just say that you picked me up hitchhiking and you asked for it. They'll believe me. That would be an embarrassment for you." - What he said to a female victim (who survived) when he was raping her inside her car, in February 1981.

"Because all women are alike. They only give you pussy when they want it. My girlfriend was a waitress and fooled around behind my back. She attracted a lot of men, and that made me jealous. I'm a very jealous guy." - What he said when one of his victims asked him why he had raped her.

"Because she was a bitch. She put out only when she wanted to. Like you -- you should give it to your boyfriend all the time." - What he said when one of his rape victims asked him why his girlfriend had cheated on him.

"No, I'm not that kind of guy. Do you think I'm that kind of guy?" - What he said when one of his rape victims asked him if he was going to kill her.

"It's just against my principles to do that." - What he said to detectives when he refused to give hair and blood samples and to take a polygraph test, concerning the murder of victim Julie Reitz.

"I'd rather go back to the penitentiary before I'd do that." - What he said to detectives when he continued to refuse to take a polygraph test, concerning the murder of victim Julie Reitz.

"I won't tell you that... Well, it's not important anyway. I went to her house once after hours." - What he said when detectives asked if he had ever dated victim Julie Reitz.

"Just because I had sex with her... I wouldn't have killed her." - What he said to a detective about victim Julie Reitz, after previously denying that he had been sexually intimate with her.

"Go ahead and search. I'm curious to see what you could possibly hope to find. I have nothing to hide." - What he said to detectives when he allowed them to search his car and the room he was renting in a house in Springfield, Oregon.

"I never had a gun. I used some of the swabs from the kit with alcohol to clean my face." - What he said when detectives asked why he had a gun-cleaning kit in his room.

"The police are following me around. I think it's the Beaverton guys. The neighborhood kid came over and said the police were watching me and they think I'm the I-5 Bandit." - What he said to a couple detectives who visited him to question him about the I-5 crimes.

"I'll never do that kind of stuff again. I don't have a problem anymore." - What he said to detectives when they asked about his prior record for indecent exposure and armed robbery.

"Yeah, I was into religion a lot then. But somewhere along the line I guess I just told God to take a backseat." - What he said when detectives asked him if he had been religious while in prison for previous crimes.

"They had women guards watching me when I had to take a piss. They had these nurses in group therapy wanting us to share our sexual fantasies. They wouldn't share theirs with us, so why should I tell them mine?" - What he said to detectives about the women who worked at the prison he had been in for previous crimes.

"Breasts aren't a big deal for me. I like a woman with an athletic build. Women with nice asses are usually athletic. I like a woman who dresses conservatively -- I don't like revealing clothing. That's not classy." - What he said when detectives asked him what attracts him in females.

"Yeah. Well, there was Julie. Then my best friend's ex-fiance -- Darci Fix. I knew her because my friend introduced us and we went out to dinner. But my friend broke off that relationship before she was shot. And then there was Cherie Ayers. I went to school with Cherie at Newport High School. She was killed in the Terwilliger Boulevard area in Portland. She was a good Christian girl. She helped us set up our class reunion." - What he said to detectives when they asked about the three women he knew personally, that had been murdered, which were victim Cherie Ayers, victim Julie Reitz and possible victim Darci Fix.

"I'm not pleading guilty to that one, and I'm not the I-5 Killer. I am not going to defend myself because I don't have to." - What he said when detectives told him that they thought he was the I-5 Bandit.

"My only regret is that I didn't have a chance to shave or put on clean clothes before I had to face the news cameras." - What he said to detectives when they booked him into the Marion County Jail in Salem, Oregon on charges of murder, attempted murder and sodomy.

"I stand before you in complete innocence." - His statement in court before being sentenced for the murder of victim Shari Hull and the attempted murder of victim Beth Wilmot (who survived).

Sick place prisons are!!! Sick people run them too. And sick people live their lives saying other people are sick or weird. Everyone is equal -- everyone has problems and will stand before God for Judging others...
- Part of a letter he wrote in prison to one of his correspondents.

The I-5 Killer Author: Ann Rule Pub. Year: 1988

truTV - Body of Evidence The I-5 Killer Genre: Documentary Release Year: 2008

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