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Cherie Lynn Ayers

Death by Force
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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 ...Read More
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    Victim Details

    Cherie Lynn Ayers

    Female

    White / Caucasian

    Portland

    OR

    1980-10-09

    29

    Cherie

    Lynn Ayers

    11/21/2025

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    07/27/2024
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