Julie Ann Reitz

Julie Ann Reitz was an 18-year-old young woman from Beaverton, Oregon. Public records and contemporary reporting identify her as someone known to local friends and family in the Portland–Beaverton area; she had spent time socializing locally and is recorded as having known people who worked in Portland nightlife. Though many private details about Julie’s life — schooling, work, and personal remembrances from family — do not appear in accessible public obituaries, the public record makes clear she was a real young person with a life and relationships beyond the brief mentions that appear in news accounts about the crime that ended her life.

Available sources place Julie in Beaverton in February 1981 and record her age as 18 at the time of her death on February 15, 1981. Contemporary news coverage from national wire services and later reporting about the man later identified as Randall Brent Woodfield note that Julie had acquaintances in Portland and the surrounding area. Those materials describe elements of the investigation and later forensic developments that linked that investigation to other cold-case work; they do not, however, provide a family-published obituary or a detailed memorial notice that would supply fuller biographical detail such as education, employment, hobbies, or surviving family members.

Because no matching published obituary or funeral-home notice with Julie’s full name and the exact date of death (February 15, 1981) was located in the sources consulted, this remembrance focuses on acknowledging her as a person rather than on the public investigation. Julie’s life — short as it was — mattered to the people who knew her. She is recorded in regional historical and investigative records, and later forensic work by law-enforcement cold-case units placed her among victims who were the subject of continuing efforts to identify and document what happened. This page honors Julie by centering the human fact that she was a young Beaverton resident whose life had meaning beyond the public record; it respectfully acknowledges the limits of available public details and leaves space for family and friends to add the personal memories, photos, and tributes that would best keep her memory alive.