At a truck stop in Nashville, Tennessee, long-haul driver Bruce D. Mendenhall was seated in his cab when a homicide detective approached him.
Police were hunting a serial killer. Weeks earlier, the naked body of a 25-year-old woman, Samantha Winters, had been found in a dumpster.
Winters was wrapped in plastic and duct tape, then shot in the back of the head with a .22 pistol.
Now another victim, Sara Nicole Hulbert – also 25 – had been found dead. She, too, was shrouded in plastic and shot in the head.
These victims were two of nearly 1,000 women who cops believed had been murdered by long-haul truck drivers. And, finally, they had a break in the hunt.