[zaphod3000]

Red dots on the map above supplied by the FBI mark the locations of hundreds of bodies and human remains discovered along highways over the past three decades

[zaphod3000]

Sorry if this has been posted before . . . searched and didn’t see it.

[dr_who]

Ich.

[conservative cat]

I wonder how much brainpower that theory took.

They were looking at truckers as possible suspects in the Green River killings a long time ago. Turns out he only PAINTED the trucks.

[umgud]

From the looks of the map, the east has most of the dots.

[Riverine]

Haven’t countless movies and weekly crime shows been made on this subject?

[Parley Baer]

Saw a story on the FBI Files on this very subject. Trucker was picking up woman and killing them. Had a torture chamber in his sleeper. Took awhile to track him down. Very chilling story. This looks to be more common than I had thought.

[Candor7]

We hav an I 91 truck stop about 12 miles away.Its the first major Southbound Truck Stop out of Canada.

The girls have CB units and they hook up and ride with truckers by having their friends drop em off.

Dangerous business.

[Cicero]

Certainly very interesting. But as usual, I can’t see that the FBI deserves much credit.

Over 500 victims, but only a few people have been caught.

Of those, one was caught when his girlfriend confessed. Another was caught when the parents of a 15-year old found him in their house about to stab their daughter. It’s not clear in the third case mentioned whether credit goes to the FBI or a police detective.

I’m not saying that this database isn’t a useful tool, but it doesn’t look as if the success rate is very high so far.

[antiunion person]

It's freaking bad enough that truckers get blamed for most things but now....... California won't let truckers idle their trucks for over 5 minutes, no matter how hot or cold it is due to carbon dioxide pollution. We can't drive over 55 mph in California but cars can do 70 and let me see, oh yeah, that causes rear end collisions that truckers are blamed for. When truckers are involved in wrecks, over 80% of the time, it's caused by cars. (But you never hear that). People blame truckers for causing traffic jams because we don't have the get up and go a car has.
NOW, for God's sake, they claim to associate murders with truckers. People just don't realize that everything, I mean EVERTHING, everyone has, i.e.; cars, food, clothing, just the necessities of life, has been in or on a truck. Stop blaming truckers for everything bad in the world and just thank one someday. I thank soldiers, Marines, sailors, and airman all the time, but it would be nice to have someone thank a trucker for doing what we do under adverse conditions and separated from our families in the process.

[SpaceBar]

In the southwestern states there tends to be a strong North/South trend.

[Clint Williams]

We need more safety for our daughters. Register every long-haul trucker -- name, face, address, fingerprints and DNA. Update these every year.

Of, and mandate RFID chip implants too.

0.5 / sarc

[JasonC]

Um, over the last 30 years, 590,000 people have been murdered in the US. That's a long time, you see. At this moment, there are 1.86 million truck drivers (heavy tractor trailers only, not local light delivery trucks), or roughly 1.2% of all jobs, 0.6% of the total population (including kids etc). That means purely statistically, if there is no difference between a trucker and anybody else, you'd expect around 5000 to 6000 murders to have been committed by truckers over the last 30 years. The true figure is probably less than that, because (employed) truckers are probably more law abiding that your average yute in the cities. But there is no reason to suppose serial anything about it, nor for that matter to assume trucker anything about it, since oh about 80 times as many people drive.

In short, this is a crazy fantasy of nutjobs with too much time on their hands...

[bpjam]

long haul trucker - serial killer.

Having seen that in more than, hmmmm....at least three different hollywood movies. How ever did the FBI figure that out???

[lilylangtree]

Yeow! Looks like the theory works. All the red dots on major interstates would make the existence of trucker serial killer(s) a distinct possibility.

[truth_seeker]

“Federal authorities first made the connection about five years ago...”

Federal work pace. No wonder 9-11-2001 happened. No real sense of urgency?

[fso301]

Well, one thing women are always taught in self defense class is to not allow an attacker to get them into his vehicle.

In the case of truck stop prostitutes, the truckers leave their door open and the women climb in.

With engine idling, once the door is closed, nobody outside will hear a thing.

[GOP Poet]

Whoa. Fascinating but also very sad and scary stuff.

[mad_as_he$$]

A giant DUH moment for the FBI. The same organization that was dumbfounded that someone would fly airplanes into buildings. What a bunch of putzes. WHAT BETTER COVER FOR AN SK?

[Trod Upon]

Gee, I thought it was bad they were tossing out “trucker bombs.”

[aculeus]

Terrible story.

Excellent post.