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Truck Driving Serial Killers: A Look At The Scariest Cases

Cases of serial killers who have caused havoc in different parts of the world are astronomical with some of these cases involving people who are truck drivers. The open road with truckers who do not stop at one place is a perfect recipe for crime as they can leave the scene of crime and go undetected for decades.

It is easy for serial killing truckers to get their victims as people often hitchhike to get to places when they do not have enough funds to get to their desired destination and thus become the perfect victims for truck drivers with urges to kill. Therefore, in this article, we are going to explore some of the scariest cases that are associated with serial killing truckers to give the reader insight into how people can be killed on the open road.

Robert Gene Rembert Jr.

Robert was an American serial killer who committed five murders while working as a truck driver. It is also believed that his victim count may be higher than the five known to law enforcement authorities. His first known murder was in 1997 when he killed Dadren Lewis after he got into an altercation with him. He was arrested and charged with manslaughter but released in 2004. He then came a got a job as a truck driver and in 2015 he committed a series of murders one of them being his cousin named Jerry.

Robert’s blood and saliva were collected for testing during the investigation that followed. Rembert was connected to two crimes: the murder of Rita May Payne, 47, who was murdered in Cleveland in May 1997, and the beating and rape of Kimberly Hall, 31, who was found dead on June 10 of that same year. Both crimes were connected to Rembert based on the findings of a comprehensive DNA profiling test. He was put on trial and found guilty of the murders and thus sentenced to life imprisonment with the possibility of parole after 30 years. His case highlighted how serial killers who are truck drivers can fly under the radar easily as they flee the scene of crime therefore making it hard for them to be identified.

The Redhead Killings

These series of murders that happened between 1972 and 1992 were dubbed the redhead killings and are one of the scariest serial killer cases because the perpetrator of these crimes was never identified. The killer targeted redhead women as his victims across different parts of the country which include Kentucky, Tennessee, Pennsylvania and Arkansas. Bodies of at least six women were found dumped along the highway during this period with most of them being sex workers and hitchhikers. The crimes were suspected to have been performed by a truck driver because of their varied locations.

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The vampire trucker

This was a Minnesota truck driver known as Timothy Jay Vageades who was popularly known as the Vampire trucker. The serial killer would kidnap his victims and keep them in a torture room which he called Twilight Express that was located in his truck. The deranged killer would wear fangs and also force his victims to wear fangs as well hence the nickname. He would later chip the victim’s teeth to the shape of fangs. He would keep his victims in the room in his truck for months, tormenting, and assaulting them both sexually and physically while he traversed the country with his truck. He was finally apprehended when he was stopped at a motor vehicle inspection when law enforcement authorities noticed that his passenger had bruises. He was sentenced to 20 years and is now serving his sentence in prison.

Wayne Adam Ford

A mugshot of ford. , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Ford’s case is one of the most bizarre cases that law enforcement authorities have ever encountered. Long-distance trucker Wayne Adam Ford quietly entered the Humboldt County Sheriff’s office in Eureka, California, in November 1998 and handed the officials a woman’s severed breast. He startled the authorities even more when he admitted to perhaps killing more than four women between 1997 and 1998.

Ford frequently picked up young hitchhikers and offered to give them a lift in his truck where he would proceed to kill them and keep their bodies. Then, after keeping the bodies for a few days before disposing of them, he would rape and kill them in his truck. He confessed to his transgressions claiming that God told him to do so. After his arrest, he was charged with murder and given the death sentence.

Edward Surrat

This serial killer was active on the highways of Ohio and Pennsylvania in 1977 and 1978. The killer would break into people’s homes, mostly people living as couples along the highway shoot the man and then proceed to sexually assault the woman and then later kill her. He was finally apprehended in 1978 after he sexually assaulted a woman and her daughter while the husband of the woman watched bound to a chair. Law enforcement authorities suspected that he was involved in 18 other murders and in 2007 he finally confessed to six unsolved killings that had happened in the Ohio area at the time that he was active.

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Bruce Mendenhall

The serial killer was apprehended in 2007 after he killed a woman known as Sara Hulbert in Tennessee. The serial killer also murdered three other women in other truck stops including Tennessee, Indiana and Alabama. He was arrested when a witness informed law enforcement authorities that he had seen his truck near where the body of his victim was found and when they checked his truck, they found traces of blood. He then confessed to five other murders that he had committed. Interestingly, the killer had once run for office to be the mayor of Illinois but he lost

Over the years, there have been many cases involving serial killers who are truck drivers and what is worrying about these cases is that most of the perpetrators of these crimes are rarely apprehended or they are arrested after a long time. The article is a good place for the reader to start exploring this topic and delve into the genre of true crime.

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