Long Haul : Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

"A true-crime masterpiece." -Don WinslowA Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award Finalist (Best Fact Crime)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. In 2004, the FBI was tipped off to a gruesome pattern of unsolved 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 many cases, the victims-often at-risk women-are picked up at truck stops