Illinois Serial Killer Arrested

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,289163,00.html

Illinois Truck Driver is suspected of 6 murders in four states. Investigation is continuing.


*I put this news on the Murders in the News but thought it may be appropriate to place it here also.

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Trucker Mendenhall forgoes hearing

Case moves forward for Illinois driver accused in women's murders

By SHEILA BURKE
Staff Writer
Friday, 08/03/07
tennessean.com

Wearing a blue oxford shirt and khaki pants, serial murder suspect Bruce Mendenhall offered a soft-spoken acknowledgment Thursday that he was waiving his right to a preliminary hearing.

In a barely audible voice, Mendenhall, 56, told Metro General Sessions Judge Mike Mondelli that he understood his rights, setting the stage for a likely indictment on first-degree murder charges and a trial sure to garner national media attention. ... continued at this link > Trucker Mendenhall forgoes hearing


Bruce Mendenhall appears in court.
(SHELLEY MAYS / THE TENNESSEAN)

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Bruce Mendenhall

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Suspect in deaths waives hearing

Case of man accused in killings of women at truck stops will go straight to grand jury

By Travis Loller
Associated Press
August 3, 2007

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- An Illinois truck driver suspected in the slayings of women at truck stops in several states, including Indiana, waived his right to a preliminary hearing in Nashville on Thursday, and his case will go straight to a grand jury.

That prevented the prosecution from presenting any evidence against Bruce Mendenhall. Few details about his alleged crimes have been revealed beyond the first affidavit, filed soon after he was arrested July 12 and charged in the slaying of a woman in Nashville.
The hearing was meant to determine whether there is enough evidence to keep Mendenhall in jail, where he is being held without bond. .... continued at this link -> Suspect in deaths waives hearing

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Friday, 08/03/07
Families' hopes rest on suspect in 6 killings
From far, wide, they seek closure for loved ones

Originally published July 28, 2007
By JENNIFER BROOKS
Staff Writer

For countless grieving families across the country, the arrest of alleged serial killer Bruce Mendenhall could offer answers after years of anguish.

The 56-year-old long-haul trucker allegedly has implicated himself in six killings over the past year. On Friday, police in Birmingham, Ala., filed murder charges against Mendenhall in the death of Lucille Carter. Carter, 44, was found on July 1, shot with a .22-caliber weapon and dumped nude next to a trash bin on a service road. There was a plastic bag over her head and duct tape around her neck. ... continued at this link -> From far, wide, they seek closure for loved ones

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Mendenhall has been driving a truck, crisscrossing the country for almost 20 years. It's anyone's guess how many unsolved homicides and disappearances could be linked to him.

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"Indianapolis Police Review Evidence Found In Serial Killer's Rig"

WKRN.com
August 9, 2007, 5:02 pm

Indianapolis Police came to Nashville Thursday to review evidence found in confessed serial killer Bruce Mendenhall's tractor trailer.

According to Metro Police, the evidence is likely related to a homicide that happened in Indianapolis.

A body has not been found, but the name of a potential victim was given to police.

Investigators believe Mendenhall has killed at least three women in Indiana, but suspect there could be more. ... continued at this link -> "Indianapolis Police Review Evidence Found In Serial Killer's Rig"


Bruce Mendenhall (center)

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FBI probes for link between possible serial killer, Zywicki
1992 MURDER | Woman killed on way to Iowa college

July 17, 2007
BY LISA DONOVAN Staff Reporter
Chicago Sun Times

Last week's arrest of an Illinois truck driver, charged in the death of a woman in Nashville and suspected in several other slayings, has authorities here questioning whether he might be responsible for the 1992 death of a woman passing through Illinois on her way to college.

A spokesman for the FBI office in Chicago confirmed that authorities contacted Nashville police about the suspect, identified as Bruce Mendenhall, 56, of Downstate Albion. Investigators here are examining what, if any, ties he might have to the death of Tammy Zywicki, who disappeared after dropping her brother off at Northwestern University and was eventually found dead in Missouri. continued at this link 1992 MURDER


Tammy Zywicki

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Group Suspected Accused Trucker Years Ago

Director Says Group Had Suspicion 5 Years Ago

Reported By Jeremy Finley

POSTED: 4:59 pm CDT July 31, 2007
UPDATED: 7:32 pm CDT July 31, 2007

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A missing persons organization said they may have been on the trail of Bruce Mendenhall five years ago.

Mendenhall is the trucker who police said could be a serial killer. He has been charged in the deaths of two women: one in Tennessee and one in Alabama.

Their suspicions are troubling given what a search warrant shows was found in Mendenhall's truck when he was arrested.

Police produced a list of items found in Mendenhall’s truck that ended in more than 300 items including a rifle, several weapons cartridges, knives, black tape, handcuffs, a nightstick, latex gloves, sex toys and condoms.

Several items were blacked out by investigators. .... continued at this link Group Suspected Accused Trucker Years Ago


Gallery: Images Of Key Players In Possible Serial Killer Case

PDF: Items Found In Truck

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Cold cases thawing
Task force looks at Mendenhall

By LEN WELLS
Courier & Press correspondent 464-7415 or beckj@courierpress.com
Tuesday, July 31, 2007

A federal task force has been formed to dig deeper into the background of serial killer suspect Bruce D. Mendenhall, 56, of Albion, Ill.

After his arrest more than two weeks ago for the murder of a Tennessee woman, Mendenhall allegedly implicated himself in the slayings of as many as six women in the South — a revelation that has triggered interest from as many as 75 cold case units that want to determine if Mendenhall could be implicated in open homicide cases. ... continued at this link Cold cases thawing

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Serial Murder Suspect Indicted in Wilson County

newschannel5.com
Aug 17, 2007 12:27 PM

LEBANON, Tenn. - A Wilson County grand jury has returned an indictment against suspected serial killer Bruce Mendenhall. ...

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Does anyone know if he was in any other states as well, such as ohhhhh perhaps N.H.?

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State Of Tennessee, County Of Davidson, Affidavit, Criminal Homicide ...

Affidavit pdf

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Originally Posted by docwho3

Does anyone know if he was in any other states as well, such as ohhhhh perhaps N.H.?

Many links related to Bruce Mendenhall at below link. wkrn.com/nashville/news/mendenhall-case

Click HERE for related links, stories, and videos

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A mother never forgets

By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published August 11, 2007

Fifteen years since her drive back to college took a violent and deadly turn in Illinois, Tammy Zywicki is seldom far from her mother's thoughts. Subtle items throughout the family's Ocala home make it so. ....

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"Tammy had just dropped off her younger brother at Northwestern University in suburban Chicago and had turned her 1985 Pontiac T1000 toward Grinnell on Aug. 23, 1992, when the car broke down along Interstate 80 near LaSalle, Ill.

A passerby caught the last glimpses of her alive there at mile marker 83, hunched over her car's raised hood with a trucker who had stopped, ostensibly to help. A semitrailer truck was seen parked behind her car.

Tammy's body turned up nine days later hundreds of miles away along an interstate in southwest Missouri, shrouded in a red blanket sealed with duct tape. The young woman, who once wrote in a high school journal she didn't want to suffer when she died, had been stabbed repeatedly in the chest. She bled to death.

The story's horror grabbed headlines: A college coed, in distress after her car fails her along a freeway, is snatched up, possibly by a predator trucker prowling the highways posing as a Good Samaritan."

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"Investigators wonder if it's Mendenhall, whose truck routes will be scrutinized to pinpoint whether he may have been anywhere near Tammy's car the day she vanished. At the same time, the FBI's Rice says, investigators will check whether any military or prison time excludes him from consideration. That could take weeks, perhaps months."

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Tammy J. Zywicki
Unsolved Crimes
Illinois State Police
Illinois State Police ~ Unsolved Crimes

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for the web Courtesy Metro Nashville Police
Department Bruce Mendenhall drove this
truck into the parking lot of Truck Stops of
America in Nashville, Tenn.



for the web JIMMY NESBITT / Courier & Press
Police personnel were gathering evidence at
the home of Bruce Mendenhall on Friday.

Courier Press

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Originally Posted by odette

Many links related to Bruce Mendenhall at below link. wkrn.com/nashville/news/mendenhall-case

Click HERE for related links, stories, and videos

Thank you for the info. I found one of the articles you posted very very interesting. (I have read some but have not yet read all the linked info but I intend to.)

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CNN ~ Video's

• Suspected killer arrested

• Trucker suspect in court

Suspected killer arrested

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Originally Posted by docwho3

Thank you for the info. I found one of the articles you posted very very interesting. (I have read some but have not yet read all the linked info but I intend to.)

You're very welcome

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Blood Found In Accused Serial Killer's Truck

newschannel5.com
July 14, 2007 04:04 PM

NASHVILLE, Tenn.- Blood was found throughout 56-year-old truck driver Bruce Mendenhall's truck when Metro police questioned him during a murder investigation of a Middle Tennessee woman.

Investigators found a garbage bag that had blood inside and a pair of shoes that had similar prints to shoes found at one of the murder scenes, according to a Metro police affidavit released Friday. ...

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"On Friday morning, Cindy Rogers called NewsChannel 5 to talk about her sister, Belinda Cartwright, who was killed in 2001 in Valdosta, Ga. The woman was dragged beneath a big rig.

Rogers sent the station a copy of a composite sketch of the suspect in Cartwright's case.

The comparison to Mendenhall is striking. Rogers contacted Metro police and she believes Mendenhall is the perpetrator.

"To me, it's it's him," Rogers said during a telephone interview Friday. "It's him. I mean, you got to remember this is a computer-generated sketch and it's six years ago so I mean almost everything about it, something just jumped out and said 'hey, you need to look into this.'"

Many photos, articles and video's at this link
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2001 Composite of Belinda's
killer

Both photos, center and right, are of Bruce Mendenhall Missing Pieces Show

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Belinda Cartwright's Final Journey

tbo.com/news/reports

Georgia authorities knew her name. They knew a trucker ran her over. They knew she was from Hillsborough County. Yet it took years for her family to find out what happened to their beloved wanderer.
Eight hours after Belinda Cartwright was pronounced dead Feb. 22, 2001, Lowndes County sheriff's detectives, with assistance from the FBI, identified her through fingerprints. ....

Included at below link

* The Tampa Tribune Story
* A Communication Breakdown
* Map: Plant City-Valdosta
* Share Your Comments

Related Documents

* Belinda's Death Certificate
* Coroner's Report
* Letter From FBI
* Lowndes Co. Incident Report
* Supplemental Report

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Suspected serial killer could be linked to old Nashville murders

By Jared Allen, jallen@nashvillecitypaper.com

Metro Police believe “several” of their unsolved murder cases — cases that date back to the 1980s and 1990s — could be linked to Bruce Mendenhall, the suspected serial killer already believed to be responsible for at least a half-dozen truck stop murders of women, including two that occurred in Middle Tennessee this year.

At a press conference Thursday, Metro Police Detective Sgt. Pat Postiglione said the department’s investigation is leading them back some 20 years, to when Mendenhall, 56, of Albion, Ill. first became a truck driver.

Postiglione also said they believe it possible that Mendenhall may have been behind dozens of unsolved murders all across the country, including “several” unsolved murder cases in Nashville. ...

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“Well, he’s been a trucker for approximately 20 years,” Postiglione said in response to questions about how far back the 50- 75 law enforcement inquires that Metro Police have received into how Mendenhall could be linked to additional unsolved murders.

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Boss ponders Mendenhall’s ‘lost hours’

landlinemag.com/todays_news
July 17, 2007

On a recent trip to Ohio, driver Bruce Mendenhall called his supervisor with bad news.

Mendenhall told Danny Davis, owner of furniture and trucking business Quality Oak Products, that he had mistakenly driven to Fayetteville, OH, rather than Fayette, OH, and would be a day late with the load.

The trucker’s story about getting lost seemed particularly odd, Davis told Land Line. Davis hired Mendenhall, 56, of Albion, IL, about a year ago after Mendenhall left Dart Transit.

Mendenhall took between 24 to 40 hours to make the five-hour trip, Davis said.

“Even with sleep and everything else, that’s just way, way behind,” Davis said. ...

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Davis said his mind has raced through scenarios about Mendenhall’s detour ever since his former driver’s arrest.

“It’s concerned me ever since I’ve thought about it,” Davis said. “I’m just wondering if he doesn’t have another victim lying along I-64 or (I-71) somewhere over there … that’s just a long timeline to get where he was going.”

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Indy Police Seek DNA From Serial-Slayings Suspect

Investigators Wonder Whether Man Connected To Other Cases

theindychannel.com/news
POSTED: 8:34 pm EDT August 8, 2007
UPDATED: 2:16 pm EDT August 9, 2007

INDIANAPOLIS -- Indianapolis police are going to Tennessee Thursday to interview a trucker accused of killing women in four states, hoping to learn whether he committed more central Indiana killings than those to which authorities said he confessed, 6News' Jack Rinehart reported.

Indianapolis police want to talk to and draw a DNA sample from Bruce Mendenhall, who police said confessed last month to killing six women -- including two in Indiana -- this year. ...

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Suspect spawns search for a sixth body

Police say trucker held in Nashville described leaving victim in Indiana

thetennessean.com
By JENNIFER BROOKS, CHRISTIAN BOTTOROFF
and EMILIE YAM
Staff Writers
Saturday, 07/14/07

Homicide detectives and cadaver dogs are searching truck stops south of Indianapolis for what could be the final victim of alleged serial killer Bruce D. Mendenhall.

Investigators said Mendenhall, who was arrested Thursday as he climbed out of the blood-spattered cab of his semi at a Nashville rest stop, told them he killed a woman Wednesday and left her body in a car at a Flying J truck stop, near a Hardee's restaurant, somewhere on the south end of Interstate 465. ...

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Bruce Mendenhall has worked as a long-haul trucker for 18 years, raising
concerns for investigators that he may be linked to other deaths.
(LARRY MCCORMACK / THE TENNESSEAN)

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Police identify blood of 5 women in truck of serial killer

wmcstations.com
July 29, 2007 03:59 PM

There are new developments in the investigation into a suspected serial killer. Bruce Mendenhall was arrested earlier this month in Nashville.

Now, police in Indiana who are looking into a murder there say they've identified the blood of five different women in the cab of Mendenhall's truck. ...

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Truck Driver Charged in Third Slaying

Associated Press 08.23.07, 6:48 PM ET

LEBANON, Tenn. - A truck driver who authorities say confessed to killing six women in several states has been charged with a third count of murder.

Bruce Mendenhall was taken to Wilson County on Tuesday to be arraigned on charges of first-degree murder and abuse of a corpse in the death of Symantha Winters, 48, of Nashville, police said. Her body was found June 6 stuffed in a trash can at a truck stop in Lebanon, 26 miles east of Nashville. She had been shot. .....

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Trucker Charged In Third Slaying

Police Check Man's Alleged Confessions In Other Cases

The Indy Channel
POSTED: 3:41 pm EDT August 23, 2007

LEBANON, Tenn. -- Authorities have filed a third set of murder charges against an Illinois truck driver who Nashville police say confessed to six killings in several states including Indiana. ...

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"Truck Driver Arraigned In Wilson Co. Slaying, Appears In Court"

Nashville WKRN
August 21, 2007, 2:21 pm

VIDEO of Mendenhall in Court

Suspected serial killer Bruce Mendenhall was in Wilson County courtroom Tuesday.

The 56-year-old truck driver from Albion, Illinois was arraigned and assigned a public defender.

A court date was also set for October 29 at 10 a.m.

Last week, Mendenhall was charged in the death of 48-year-old Symantha Winters whose body was found on June 6 in a trash can at the Pilot station on Murfreesboro Road in Lebanon, just off Interstate 40. ...

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It does seem like this guy could have done a lot more. I hope they can get descriptions/pictures of the different trucks he drove over the years. I seem to remember that witness saw a diagonal type line on the van of the semi that was stopped behind Tammy Zwicki's car in IL.

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Bruce Mendenhall Details

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• Biography
• Arrest
• Victims

Bruce Mendenhall: Wikipedia

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Mess in trucker's cab held clues in slayings

He is a suspect in six killings, 2 in Midstate

TENNESSEAN
By JENNIFER BROOKS,
TIM GHIANNI and
KATE HOWARD
Staff Writers

Published: Friday, 07/13/07

Bruce D. Mendenhall's mustard-yellow truck cab was a mess, his boss told him last week.

Mendenhall assured him he would clean it up.

Thursday afternoon, Nashville police peered into the same truck cab and found it spattered with what looked like blood. Mendenhall was arrested on the spot and within hours was the main suspect in an apparent string of serial killings in states along his truck route.

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Truck of serial killing suspect reveals evidence

By DAILY NEWS STAFF

8/6/2007 2:34:00 PM

Hundreds of pieces of evidence have been collected from the cab of a tractor-trailer truck driven by a former Crawford County man who may be a serial killer. ...

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"Mendenhall was charged with criminal homicide earlier this month after being questioned by police at the same north Nashville truck stop where Sara Nicole Hulbert, 25, was found dead with gunshot wounds in June. Police say he implicated himself in that case and at least five other similar slayings in Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and Indiana when they first interviewed him. He has refused to speak to police since then."

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[Jadedblueeyes]

Originally Posted by odette

Truck of serial killing suspect reveals evidence

By DAILY NEWS STAFF

8/6/2007 2:34:00 PM

Hundreds of pieces of evidence have been collected from the cab of a tractor-trailer truck driven by a former Crawford County man who may be a serial killer. ...

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"Mendenhall was charged with criminal homicide earlier this month after being questioned by police at the same north Nashville truck stop where Sara Nicole Hulbert, 25, was found dead with gunshot wounds in June. Police say he implicated himself in that case and at least five other similar slayings in Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and Indiana when they first interviewed him. He has refused to speak to police since then."

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No telling how many victims this man may have. He may not even remember them all. Some serial killers even those who confess cant remember all they have killed.

Thank you so much Odette.......for all the information you have so diligently provided.

imo

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Family hopes case of woman missing 15 years might be solved

ABC7 Chicago
By John Garcia

August 29, 2007

Fifteen years ago, 21-year-old Tammy Zywicki disappeared. Her body was found, but her killer has never been charged.

On August 23, 1992, Zywicki was headed back to college in Iowa when her car broke down on I-80 near LaSalle. Her body was found 9 days later near a Missouri highway. She had been stabbed to death.

Her killer has never been found, but her family has not given up. "I didn't think we were gonna be 15 years down the road still talking about this," said Joanne Zywicki, mother.

Joanne Zywicki thinks about her daughter every day. She and her husband, Hank, believed their daughter's killer would have been brought to justice years ago. But despite descriptions from witnesses, investigators have never developed a suspect. ...

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Accused killer’s boss says Mendenhall’s arrest has hurt business

LANDLINE
By Charlie Morasch, staff writer
September 7, 2007

Danny Davis started Quality Oak Products’ trucking division five years ago, betting that hard work and his experience as a driver would add a second revenue stream to his furniture business.

The strategy worked. Davis’ company quickly grew to five trucks, until a shocking morning in mid-July when Nashville police arrested Quality Oak Products driver Bruce Mendenhall in connection to a string of unsolved prostitute killings near truck stops throughout the South and Midwest that made national headlines.

Mendenhall, 56, of Albion IL, has been charged with three counts of murder in connection with the slayings of Sara Nicole Hulbert, 25, in June in Nashville, 44-year-old Lucille “Gretna” Carter in Birmingham in early July and the June death of Symantha Winters, 48, in Lebanon, TN. Authorities continue to attempt to link Mendenhall to other prostitute killings.

Since the arrest, Mendenhall’s company-owned 2000 International – its bright yellow paint shown around the world following his arrest – has sat with other evidence collected by Nashville Police. Davis continues to make payments on the truck and recently cancelled its insurance.

Davis wonders if his business will survive the arrest and the national headlines it made for much of the summer.

Davis and other Quality Oak Products drivers are reminded of their former associate almost every day by other drivers, brokers and state troopers that mention Mendenhall’s arrest.

“It’s been harder to get loads because of the situation,” Davis said. “There’s been a few that find out who we are, then suddenly the load disappears.”

A Nashville detective noticed blood on the truck’s door and on Mendenhall’s thumb, and later found several sex toys, a gun, used condoms and a trash bag with a large quantity of blood in the cab.

Only days before the arrest, Davis had climbed into Mendenhall’s “messy” cab and he remembers telling the driver to clean up the “funky” odor. .....

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Accused killer’s boss says Mendenhall’s arrest has hurt business

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Suspected serial killer could be linked to old Nashville murders

nashvillecitypaper.com - By Jared Allen - Monday, October 8, 2007

Metro Police believe “several” of their unsolved murder cases — cases that date back to the 1980s and 1990s — could be linked to Bruce Mendenhall, the suspected serial killer already believed to be responsible for at least a half-dozen truck stop murders of women, including two that occurred in Middle Tennessee this year.

At a press conference Thursday, Metro Police Detective Sgt. Pat Postiglione said the department’s investigation is leading them back some 20 years, to when Mendenhall, 56, of Albion, Ill. first became a truck driver.

Postiglione also said they believe it possible that Mendenhall may have been behind dozens of unsolved murders all across the country, including “several” unsolved murder cases in Nashville.

“[Metro Nashville police] have several. More than two or three,” Postiglione said. “We have unsolved cases that somehow fit the criteria.” .....

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Suspected serial killer could be linked to old Nashville murders

Metro Police Detective Sgt. Pat Postiglione says suspected serial killer
Bruce Mendenhall may be linked to other unsolved murders in Tennessee
as well as around the country. Josh Anderson/The City Paper

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Police identify truck stop murder victim

wthr.com - Oct 10, 2007 05:27 PM

Indianapolis - Police believe a missing Indianapolis woman is the final victim of a serial killer.

Our partners at the Indianapolis Star say police found an identification card belonging to 31-year-old Carma Purpura in a truck driven by Bruce Mendenhall. The mother of two has been missing since July. .....

http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp...&nav=menu188_2

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Blood may link woman, trucker

Indy resident last seen at truck stop in July

indystar.com - By Vic Ryckaert - October 10, 2007

An Indianapolis woman missing since July might be the victim of a man who has confessed to killing women in four states, police said.

Carma Purpura, a 31-year-old mother of two, was last seen July 11 at a Far-Southside truck stop. Police say she might be one of six women alleged serial killer Bruce Mendenhall claimed to have killed.

Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Detective Tom Tudor said he is waiting for tests to determine whether blood on clothing found in Mendenhall's truck came from Purpura. Tudor said police found her identification card in the truck. ....

Carma Purpura

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http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dl...9/1195/LOCAL18

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Family, police hope DNA evidence resolves truck-stop murder case

wthr.com - Steve Jefferson/Eyewitness News - Oct 12, 2007

Metro homicide detectives are looking for answers from DNA in a death investigation. A self-proclaimed serial killer already charged in two deaths says he's responsible for a truck stop murder in Indiana. The victim is a mother of two not seen since July 2006.

Metro homicide detectives are investigating if Carma Purpura is a murder victim. Trucker Bruce Mendenhall claims he killed Purpura. Detectives will use DNA to prove or discount his statement.

"DNA has been taken from the parents that is going to be compared to clothing found in the suspects Mendenhall's truck," said Sgt. Matthew Mount, IMPD.

Purpura's family owns and operates an organic farm in Clayton. .....

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Suspected Serial Killer Pleads Not Guilty

newschannel5.com - Oct 25, 2007

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - An accused serial killer arrested in Nashville said he didn't kill a local woman.

On Wednesday, Bruce Mendenhall appeared in a Nashville courtroom. — continued: »

http://www.newschannel5.com/Global/story.asp?S=7261142