![]() ![]() The FBI is quick to point out that the public shouldn't infer that all truckers are dangerous. Some 275 suspects have been identified-almost all of them long-haul truckdrivers. The bureau credits the program with at least 10 arrests, and more than two dozen murder mysteries solved. The information, drawn from the FBI's national database of violent crimes, uses data from local law-enforcement agencies and provides it to sleuths looking for clues. The map above is a result of that effort, called the Highway Serial Killings Initiative-a national matrix of more than 500 murder victims found along or near highways. ![]() When the FBI got wind of Turner's work, its analysts began to examine their own database, to determine whether there were similar patterns of highway killings in other parts of the country. The case challenged conventional thinking about serial killers, which had long held that they preferred to operate in one specific geographic spot. The dead woman had company: within months Turner was investigating six other slayings, all truck-stop prostitutes whose corpses were dumped along I-40 in four different states. In 2003, Terri Turner, an analyst in the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, received word that a naked female body, bound with duct tape, had been found alongside an on-ramp to Interstate 40. ![]()
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