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Robert Keith
WOODALL
Classification: Murderer
Characteristics:
Kidnapping - Rape
Number of victims: 1
Date of murder:
January 25,
1997
Date of birth:
March 19,
1974
Victim profile: Sarah Hansen,
16
Method of murder:
Drowning
Location: Greenville, Caldwell County, Kentucky, USA
WOODALL, ROBERT KEITH,
DOB 3-19-74, was sentenced to death on September 4, 1998 in Caldwell
County for Capital Murder, Capital Kidnapping and First Degree Rape.
On January 25, 1997 Robert Keith
Woodall abducted Sarah Hansen from the Minit Mart parking lot in
Greenville, Kentucky. He then drove to Luzerne Lake where he proceeded
to rape her. Woodall beat her and used a box-cutter knife to inflict
cuts in Sarah Hansen’s throat. Her body was dragged and discarded into
the water.
Results of an autopsy revealed that
water was found in Sarah Hansen’s lungs and reports that she died as a
result of drowning.
Robert Keith Woodall
This killer
abducted a popular 16-year-old from a local convenient store as she
returned a rented movie in Muhlenburg County in 1997.
Woodall
took the victim from the parking lot to a wooded area where he raped
her and slashed her throat. Woodall then put her body in the icy lake.