The Highway Serial Killings
Inside the FBI's Hunt for America's Trucker Predators

About this book:

They hunt where the headlights fade. For decades, a shadow fraternity of long-haul truckers turned America's interstate system into a conveyor belt of abduction and murder—snatching women at truck stops, killing in the soundproofed sleeper berths of their rigs, and dumping bodies across state lines before dawn. By the time a road crew found the remains, the killer was a thousand miles away, hidden inside the legitimate flow of commerce. Local police saw isolated tragedies; the FBI saw a national slaughter. *The Highway Serial Killings* takes you inside the Bureau's Highway Serial Killings Initiative, the unprecedented federal effort that connected over eight hundred unsolved homicides and four hundred suspect profiles, shattering jurisdictional walls with digital forensics, behavioral profiling, and the revolutionary power of genetic genealogy.

From the "Graveyard Corridor" of I‑40 to the Ohio Strangler stalking I‑71, from falsified logbooks and tire‑tread forensics to the truckers-turned-informants of Truckers Against Trafficking, this is the definitive account of a covert war fought on the asphalt arteries of the nation. You'll ride shotgun with analysts who mapped the matrix of murder, detectives who untangled alibis written in diesel fumes, and scientists who gave names back to the Jane Does discarded in ditches and cloverleafs. It is a story of bureaucratic blindness overcome, of technology turning the hunter into the hunted, and of a mobile evil that believed the endless road could wash away its sins.

Meticulously researched and narrated with the pace of a thriller, *The Highway Serial Killings* exposes the terrifying geography of a predator class that weaponized the infrastructure of modern life—and the relentless coalition that refuses to let the victims vanish. If you think you know true crime, you haven't seen the map.