Donna Eckard, 37, and her 14-year-old daughter Jannell Jarvis were found dead in their Mountain Gate home near Redding, California, on February 3, 1981. Both victims had multiple gunshot wounds to the head consistent with execution-style killings; Jannell had also been sexually assaulted.

Investigators connected the double murder to a string of violent crimes along Interstate 5 attributed to a suspect later known as the I-5 Killer. Ballistics tied the bullets recovered at the Eckard–Jarvis crime scene to those used in other I-5 crimes. The primary suspect named in the investigation was Randall Brent Woodfield, a former college football player with a prior robbery conviction who had been paroled in 1979.

Woodfield’s arrest in March 1981 prompted multi-jurisdictional prosecutions that accused him of numerous murders, sexual assaults, and robberies along the I-5 corridor. The convictions that followed included the deaths of Donna Eckard and Jannell Jarvis. Does anyone have memories of Mountain Gate in 1981 or information that could shed further light on this double murder?