FBI suspects link between truckers, serial killers

FBI suspects link between truckers, serial killers

Just truckers? Or routes?

Truckstops are not nearly limited to truckers. They are also frequented by Rvs and traveling businessmen.

My husband intends on getting a taser for when he has to sleep over at a truck stop. We don't own guns but when he sleeps at a truck stop, he has had people come and bang on the door. Prostitutes and other people. The first time a prostitute came a-calling, it scared the heck out of him. He's never been propositioned before. I laughed for a week on that one.

Maybe it is the CHP's that rove those routes or it could be the Greyhound Bus drivers, or maybe a group of Hitchhikers, or The State workers who are assigned to keep the freeways clean. or maybe is it Migrating Animals...

Either way 500 victims and 5 Years and no arrests and they want to immediately pin it on the Truck Drivers. No wonder we still cannot catch Bin Laden

They're only suspecting this now? I would have thought it to be glaringly obvious. Here in Canada we have a serial killer operating along the aptly nicknamed Highway of Tears. The cops are certain it's a trucker.

Uhmm, seem to remember hitch-hiking across the USA in the late 60's and a few rides & truckstops through the south and southwest we weren't too sure we'd make it out of alive... but I digress....

Oh Great.......Oklahoma is at the Nations center with two major Interstates, I-40 and I-35.

I remember hearing about the OBI getting the FBI involved in the case and am glad they caught the guy. Hopefully, this can lead to more arrest.

Yes they caught him. Here is the what they said.

Exerts:

This was exactly the kind of help Terri Turner was looking for when she turned to the FBI in early 2004. Turner, a senior criminal intelligence analyst with the Oklahoma Bureau of Investigation, was working on a string of seven slayings along I-40 in which the victims were truck-stop prostitutes who had been killed and left at roadside locations.

Then further down they say:

Later that year, Turner's suspected killer was identified as John Robert Williams, a 28-year-old trucker.

Williams and his girlfriend had kidnapped a woman from a casino in Mississippi, killed her and dumped her body along a rural county road, authorities said. Concerned that they'd been seen leaving the casino with the victim, Williams' girlfriend panicked and called police, telling them that she and Williams had found the body. Their story quickly unraveled, and the pair were arrested for murder.

Hope this helps.

I knew that BJ McKay was up to no good. We haven't heard from those seven female truckers for over 25 years.

And what was the deal with the monkey? That just adds to the creep factor.

I think the link here is between prostitutes and serial killers, not truckers and serial killers. Most victims of serial killers are prostitutes. Prostitutes frequent truck stops and service truckers. But serial killers cut across all vocations, and increasingly across races. No doubt, though, that some serial killers are truckers. With their easy access to prostitutes and given the transitory natue of their jobs, they would be harder to track and capture.

O.K., so I am a truckdriver and there are many of us out here that drive long haul. To say that a few couldn't end up being serial killers would be less than true. But now I am getting worried. Between the Ron Paul stickers on my truck, the American flag in the sleeper, and now just being a truckdriver. Seems to me I will be the target of many law enforcement now. It would be interesting to know how many of the girls were prostitutes though. There used to be a big problem with drugs and prostitutes as well as scam artist in the truck stops. We have done a good job of policing our own though and it is not near as bad now as it was in the late 80's and early 90's.