Posted on 04/06/2009 5:37:34 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Washington, DC (AHN) - An FBI program that investigates unsolved killings along highways has linked long-haul truck drivers with hundreds of murders across the country, the Los Angeles Times reported over the weekend.
The Highway Serial Killings Initiative (HSKI) has solved more than two dozen killings since it started five years ago, authorities said, according got the Times.
At the center of HSKI's operation is a database holding information on more than 500 female murder victims, whose bodies were discarded at or near truck stops, motels and other places along well-traveled truck routes nationwide.
The database also has information on truckers, who have been charged with violent crimes against women or are suspects in those crimes.
The FBI did not say whether truck driving was an occupation that serial killers typically go into, but it did say the free and mobile lifestyle many truckers lead could be ideal for someone apt to kill, according to the Times.
Michael Harrigan, the agent in charge of the HSKI, told the newspaper that women shouldn't panic every time they fill up for gas at a truck, since most of the victims in the database lead risky lifestyles.
"Many of these victims made poor choices, but that doesn't mean they deserved to die," Harrigan told the Times.
Buttered. High test. The stuff that makes the rest of the world hate Americans kinda salty, fat laden, gleefully decadent - popcorn.
Yum. Goes good with Dutch beer.
And bacon.
Ya know, I was kinda felling sorry for truckers for a while.
Say Pete, did you hear about the standoff at Norton yesterday that closed I-80 for a couple of hours. It was a family squabble that turned into a hostage situation and no I don’t remember where I read it...
now ask me how I know it was an 8 hour standoff...
go ahead ask
really ask me how I could possibly know if was 8 frickin hours and that it was snowin
I mean how could I possibly have a clue how long a moron who had blown his bond in Folsom and raced up Donnor with Sac county in hot pursuit and CHP and their chopper til they tire spiked him and the Kingvale exit where NOBODY could get by the scene til someone got a negotiator on the scene, even though someone HAS a negotiator in his/her sleeper and all they needed was to get within o say a hundred yards or so and could have gotten the freeway going in about a second and a half
how could I know?
what was the question again?
Hell Tork, I watched the stupid ordeal on KCRA, and I would’ve shot the sumobitch on the spot just for interrupting traffic. Good thing I was busy, eh?
And just how do you think I knew about it? Yep, FReepers on the ground, that’s how. Boom chucka lucka lucka boom!
No mercy.
excellent post btw.
1st gear, push!
Traffic will begin to move.
8 hours Donner time = 2 hours in Eureka.
But you already know that too...
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