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Cherie Lynn Ayers

Case from Portland, OR dated Oct 09, 1980

Victim Details

Cherie Lynn Ayers

Female

White / Caucasian

Portland

OR

1980-10-09

29

Cherie

Lynn Ayers

07/07/2026

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In the autumn of 1980, the life of a 29-year-old White / Caucasian woman named Cherie Lynn Ayers was tragically cut short in her Portland, Oregon apartment. An X-ray technician and a graduate of the University of Oregon, Cherie was found by her fiancé on October 11, 1980, two days after she was brutally murdered. The scene was grim; she had been bludgeoned and stabbed multiple times in the neck.

Suspicion almost immediately fell upon a former classmate, Randall Woodfield, a man Cherie ha ...
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