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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: bijou on October 05, 2010, 12:01:52 PM
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A passerby found the severed head on Feb. 10, wrapped in two plastic bags and stuffed inside a backpack in Barstow, Calif. Authorities still haven't identified the victim or her killer, but the circumstances point in a particular direction.
The teenage girl likely had been killed days earlier, Barstow police say. Her head lay a few hundred yards from a truck stop just off Interstate 15, not far from I-40. To authorities, the proximity to the truck stop and the interstates suggests that the slaying might have been the work of a distinctive type of criminal: a serial killer operating along the nation's highways.
During the past four decades, at least 459 people may have died at the hands of highway serial killers, FBI statistics show. Investigators do not know how many people may be responsible for the killings but at least one such case — of murder, attempted murder or unidentified human remains — has been reported in 48 states, along roads as far north as Alaska and as far south as Key West. They believe the killers find their victims and dispose of the bodies along highways, sometimes near quiet roadside rest areas or at bustling truck stops.
Often, the victims are prostitutes, abducted in one state and dumped in another. And the killers? Authorities say they have 200 suspects; almost all are long-haul truck drivers. To date, the FBI says it has helped local authorities arrest at least 10 suspects believed to be involved in more than 30 of the killings. ...
Interactive map of serial killer activity by state here (http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-10-05-1Ahighwaykiller05_CV_N.htm)
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I don't know know whether to be worried or just look at it as "fear mongering" on a slow news day.
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I don't know know whether to be worried or just look at it as "fear mongering" on a slow news day.
I suppose it depends which state you are in. If it's dark blue on the map you may want to stay away from truck stops.
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I don't know know whether to be worried or just look at it as "fear mongering" on a slow news day.
I'll take "fear mongering" for $200, Alex.
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Its been going on for a long time. Its damn sad to know that it's almost impossible to catch whoever is doing this. It reminds me of an old movie with Stacy Keatch and Jamie Leee Curtis about a trucker that goes around killing women in Austraila.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083000/
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I suppose it depends which state you are in. If it's dark blue on the map you may want to stay away from truck stops.
We're Number One! :tinfoil2:
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We're Number One! :tinfoil2:
Well, I suppose that even Texas has to be tops at SOMETHING... :bolt: :-)
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We're Number One! :tinfoil2:
Texas allows for one to carry a loaded weapon in their vehicle (glovebox preferred) without a permit or special license.
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Well, I suppose that even Texas has to be tops at SOMETHING... :bolt: :-)
:hammer: :hammer: :hammer: :hammer: :hammer: :hammer: :hammer:
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Well, I suppose that even Texas has to be tops at SOMETHING... :bolt: :-)
Oh no you di'int! :shame:
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I see some bitch slaps headed in Def 6's direction......
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I see some bitch slaps headed in Def 6's direction......
Rut Ro!
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I see some bitch slaps headed in Def 6's direction......
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