Julie Ann Reitz was 18 when she was killed in her Beaverton, Oregon home on February 15, 1981. Investigators found signs that she had received a guest: a glass of wine, instant coffee on the counter, and a kettle that had boiled dry as if coffee had been prepared and abandoned.

The homicide investigation became part of the larger effort to catch the I-5 Bandit, Randall Brent Woodfield. By late February 1981 detectives were focusing on Woodfield after call logs placed him near several crime scenes and a witness, Lisa Garcia, identified him in a photo lineup on March 5, 1981. A warrant search of his Springfield apartment produced a spent .32 shell casing in a racquetball bag and a roll of tape matching tape used on victims; Woodfield was arrested March 7, 1981 and later indicted on multiple charges from Washington and Oregon.

Decades later, DNA testing in 2015 linked Woodfield to Reitz’s murder and to other victims, though authorities did not pursue new charges because he was already serving a life sentence. Does anyone have further details about Julie’s life or the hours before she was killed?