Long haul : hunting the highway serial killers
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : Mariner Books, [2024]
Physical Description
viii, 256 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Summary
In 2004, the FBI was tipped off to a gruesome pattern of murders along American roadways. Today at least 850 homicides have been linked to a solitary breed of predators: long-haul truck drivers. They have been given names like the Truck Stop Killer, who rigged a traveling torture chamber in the rear of his truck and is suspected to have killed fifty women, and The Interstate Strangler, who once answered a phone call from his mother while killing one of his dozen victims. The crisis was such that the FBI opened a special unit, the Highway Serial Killings Initiative. In each case, the victims, often at-risk women, are picked up at truck stops in one jurisdiction, sexually assaulted and murdered in another, and dumped along a highway in a third place. What's worse, the transient nature of the offenders and multiple jurisdictions involved make these cases difficult to solve. Based on his own on-the-ground research and drawing on his twenty-five-year career as an FBI special agent, Frank Figliuzzi investigates the most terrifying cases.
"From the FBI's former assistant director, a shocking journey to the dark side of America's highways, revealing the FBI Highway Serial Killings Initiative's hunt for the long-haul truckers behind an astonishing 850 murders--and counting"--
Contents
- Author's note
- Introduction
- Sunday with Mike
- The FBI crime analyst
- Girls next door
- The pioneer professor
- Old-timer
- Monday with Mike
- The Oklahoma crime analyst
- Crossing the Rubicon
- The pioneer professor
- Tuesday with Mike
- The Oklahoma crime analyst
- Programmed code
- A starfish in the desert
- Wednesday with Mike
- The Oklahoma crime analyst
- Thursday with Mike
- The FBI crime analyst
- Friday with Mike
- Saturday with Mike
- Survivor to thriver
- Epilogue.