At the time we talked about the high number of unsolved highway killings along the I corridor, particularly Tennessee, Texas, and Oklahoma. Messages: Likes Received: 3 Trophy Points: 0. There is one from near my home town that always bugged me..
Lizbetbathory , Nov 28, Messages: 2, Likes Received: Trophy Points: Look at this guy The IHS began in and today includes across almost 47, miles of roadway. Messages: 37, Likes Received: 75, Trophy Points: Messages: 32, Likes Received: Trophy Points: 0. Messages: 18, Likes Received: 39 Trophy Points: 0. Messages: 2, Likes Received: 36 Trophy Points: 0. As Norita Taylor, a spokesman for a trucking trade group says, millions of truckers are on the roads each day.
Even if all of the highway serial killers happen to be truckers, that's still a tiny minority of the profession, says Taylor, spokesman for the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association. It depends on what you need. Obtaining a Chinese proficiency certificate certainly has its advantages. HSK test is open to all non-native Chinese speakers such as foreign students and employees, as well as overseas Chinese.
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Take Samuel Little. Since , police have linked him to at least 60 homicides , and he claims to have committed 33 more. One illustration of the last point can be found in the trucking industry, which has drawn scrutiny from law-enforcement officials. Of course, would-be homicidal maniacs lurk in all kinds of jobs. He called the FBI and learned that Hulbert's killing fit a pattern of recent slayings - and may have been the work of serial killer, which he'd already suspected.
With little to go on, he and another detective began reviewing videotape taken at the Truck Stops of America site in downtown Nashville where the victim had been found. It was mind-numbing stuff: big rigs pulling in and out of one of the busiest truck stops in the state, like planes taking off and landing at an airport. The only thing that caught Postiglione's eye was a yellow wheeler that seemed to come and go within about 30 minutes. The interval seemed short compared with that of other truckers, who spent at least an hour - sometimes several - as they fueled up, ate and maybe slept for a while.
As leads go, it was pretty thin. But then the detective got lucky. As Postiglione approached the truck stop the morning after watching the tape, he said he saw what he thought was the yellow rig heading toward a nearby area of East Nashville known for prostitution.
Postiglione said he followed as the driver slowly wheeled his truck down streets lined with warehouses, budget motels and liquor stores. After a few minutes, the driver returned to the truck stop and parked, he said. His curiosity piqued, Postiglione approached the driver's door and knocked. After a few seconds, a disheveled-looking man emerged from the cab, the detective said. His name was Bruce Mendenhall.
Other than having a sort of pinched face, he was of average height and build. His shirt was unbuttoned and he wore no shoes. As Postiglione sized him up, he said he noticed a speck of blood on the man's thumb and what he thought were several drops on the driver's door of the truck. Though there could have been many reasonable explanations for the blood, Postiglione said he was suspicious. According to Postiglione, Mendenhall calmly agreed to submit to a DNA swab and signed a consent form granting the detective permission to search the truck.
The officer said he stepped up into the cavernous cab, large enough to stand up in and walk around. He took a couple of steps into the sleeper compartment and sat down on the bed.
To his left, behind the driver's seat, was a plastic bag. In it was some women's clothing covered in blood, he said.
Also recovered from the cab were a cell phone and an ATM card belonging to a young woman who had gone missing in Indianapolis just 12 hours earlier, authorities said. She has not been heard from since and is presumed dead. By the time crime-scene technicians were finished with the cab, authorities have said, they found blood or DNA linking Mendenhall to at least seven victims.
He has since been charged with four slayings, according to officials. Postiglione said the timeline the FBI put together showed the intervals between killings were getting shorter and shorter. It's covered in red dots representing some of the plus cases in the Highway Serial Killings Initiative database. For all the crimes they represent, FBI supervisory agent John Molnar said he thinks the number of such offenses has been "grossly underreported.
Molnar said he hopes that will change following a decision last year to make the database available to law enforcement officials online, allowing police with a password to submit case information and make their own queries. Though many of the dots on the map now appear connected to one another by similarities - such as the killers' modes of operation - the majority are not connected to any known suspect.
One involves the discovery of a decomposing human leg by ATV riders roaring through the woods near Interstate 55 in central Illinois. Painted toenails suggested that the leg, and another discovered nearby, belonged to a woman. But with little else to go on, the case went cold. Three years later, an FBI analyst used a partial tattoo on one of the legs to help state police link the remains to Lindsay Harris, a year-old call girl who had vanished from the Las Vegas Strip - some 1, miles away - about two weeks before the limbs were found.
She was the third Las Vegas sex worker whose dismembered remains were found along a highway between and , prompting authorities to speculate that a trucker or someone else who frequents the highways is responsible for the slayings.
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