True Crime
If you’ve listened to The Unlovely Truth before, you know how much I love Ann Rule’s books. I’ve got another one of her true crime masterpieces today. It’s about a man who was convicted of one murder, linked to 18, and suspected in as many as 44.
Our book this week is The I-5 Killer by Ann Rule and our guest is Tonya Kubo. Tonya is a writer, speaker, social media consultant, and coach. She’s also a mom who is going to share a story with us today about what many people see as a minor, even petty crime. But first I’m going to tell you the story of Randy Woodfield, a man who started out with petty crimes and worked his way up the ladder to serial killer.
In the twenty-first chapter of Exodus, Moses is listing out laws so the people know how to deal with situations as they arise. You’ve probably heard Exodus 21: 23-25 before.
“But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.”
Sounds pretty bloodthirsty and retaliatory. But it might not be meant literally. As I was reading this I was struck by the parallelism which is a common literary device used to give the written word a sense of order and makes your message resonate with the reader. The repetition of the idea that any punishment given should match the crime, so to speak, cuts both ways. We shouldn’t be excessively harsh, but at the same time criminals should face consequences. Who is to say if Randy Woodfield would have developed into the serial killer he was had he gotten both punishment and therapy when he was exposing himself as a junior high student.
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