Posted on 05/06/2016 10:49:38 AM PDT by PROCON
Since the Highway Serial Killings Initiative began in 2004, ViCAP analysts have compiled a list of more than 750 murder victims found along or near U.S. highways, as well as nearly 450 potential suspects.
If there is such a thing as an ideal profession for a serial killer, it may well be as a long-haul truck driver.
FBI Crime Analyst Christie Palazzolo is quick to point out that long-haul trucking is an honorable profession and that the overwhelming majority of drivers are not murderers—but it does happen, and the pattern is unmistakable.
More than a decade ago, analysts for the FBI’s Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (ViCAP)—the only national database of serial crimes—began to see a marked increase in the number of bodies recovered along the side of the road. A majority of the victims were truck-stop prostitutes, and it turned out that many of the suspects were long-haul truckers. “We had an inordinate number of victims and offenders from this rather specific population pool,” Palazzolo explained.
To make matters worse, these cases are extremely difficult to investigate. A long-haul driver can pick up a prostitute at a truck stop in Georgia, rape and murder her, and dump her body on the side of the road in Florida later that day. The victim has no connection to the area where she was found, and there may be no forensic evidence to collect because the crime was committed hundreds of miles away. The local police detectives investigating the case might have little experience dealing with a crime of this nature and may be faced with few, if any, leads.
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Truck Stops should mandate time clocks for hookers and truckers so the information can be easily correlated.
Truck stops should have video surveillance.
I would suspect that many of them do.
Yes it is. Scary thinking about all those drivers coming into the office my wife used to work. She was 35 years with a major truckload carrier, but I worked there as well for much less time, and I know most of those drivers were good people working hard to make a living for themselves, and their families. The one, or two I might have been suspicious of could also have been good guys as well.
From the article: “According to the Department of Transportation,” she said, “the number of truck drivers on the road in the next 20 years is going to grow exponentially. So if we’ve already identified a population from which we are getting a significant number of offenders, and if we are going to be seeing more and more trucks on the road, the potential for additional highway serial killings is definitely there.”
That bit about growing numbers is contrary to what I’ve heard, but now we are seeing more, and more Muslims driving truck. That will probably cause an increase in prostitute killings by just their attitude, and beliefs about women in general.
Yes, keep on busting the Bad Guys and locking ‘em up.
Until our ‘president’ pardons ‘em and lets ‘em go.
"CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" TV show first went on the air in 2000.
"Criminal Minds" TV show on the air in 2005.
And a higher percentage of victims will be underage boys.
Did the FBI just say that long-haul truckers are murderous criminals ?
In the first sentence, yes.
But....
"FBI Crime Analyst Christie Palazzolo is quick to point out that long-haul trucking is an honorable profession and that the overwhelming majority of drivers are not murderers."..
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