Serial Carjackers _ Highway Homicides

America's highways have become hunting grounds for a hidden predator: the long-haul trucker who kills with impunity, crossing state lines to evade capture. The FBI's Highway Serial Killings Initiative, which tracked this crisis, linked at least 850 homicides since 1980 to a solitary breed of offenders who pick up vulnerable victims at truck stops in one state, murder them in another, and dump them along a highway in a third. The mobility of these killers, the transient lifestyles of their victims, and the patchwork of local jurisdictions combine to make these cases almost impossible to solve. The initiative, now discontinued, was a crucial tool in connecting these crimes across state lines.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/red-tree-crime--6847553/support.