Serial Killer Truckers

That's always confused me as well (and I'm an atheist!), but I think I've figured this one out:
Sometime around the time of the Nicaean Council (first? Second? I dunno..) that Constantine called (4th century A.D.), 2 noted theologians were smoking a hemp product, when one turns to the other:
"Hey, man, what if Yaway and Jeebuz together were THREE? Just think of it! People would be SO confused, they wouldn't even know how to question it!!"

 

It's more like Fate, that has 3 aspects - Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos.
With God it is Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

But where all three aspects of Fate are female, with God it is male, female and offspring.

 

Indy Star - 1/21/2025

Suspected serial killer finally facing trial for killing Indianapolis woman in 2007


Bruce D. Mendenhall, an over-the-road truck driver from Illinois, is a suspected serial killer who police have linked to as many as six murders in 2007. He has been convicted of killing two women in Tennessee and goes on trial this week for the murder of an Indianapolis woman.
Courier & Press


Over-the-road truck driver and suspected serial killer Bruce Mendenhall, 56, of Albion, Illinois was arrested July 12, 2007, at a truck stop near downtown Nashville, Tennessee.
Larry McCormack, The Tennessean


Detectives inspect the interior of Bruce Mendenhall's truck.
Metropolitan Nashville Police Department


Homicide detectives Pat Postiglione and Lee Freeman arrested an over-the-road truck driver and suspected serial killer Bruce Mendenhall, 56, of Albion, Illinois, in Nashville on July 12, 2007.
Larry McCormack, Larry McCormack


Carma Purpura
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Over-the-road truck driver and suspected serial killer Bruce Mendenhall, 56, of Albion, Illinois was arrested Thursday at the Truck Stops of America on First Ave in Nashville. Photo taken July 13, 2007 in Nashville, TN.
Larry McCormack, Larry McCormack


The home of Bruce Mendenhall is surrounded by crime scene tape on Friday, July 13, 2007. The house is located on Route 2 Albion, south of Albion, Ill., near Brown's Chapel Church. Mendenhall was arrested in Nashville, Tenn. on Thursday for allegedly killing a woman at a Nashville truck stop. According to police, Mendenhall, an over-the-road truck driver, implicated himself in several other deaths.
JIMMY NESBITT


The home of Bruce Mendenhall is surrounded by crime scene tape on Friday, July 13, 2007. The house is located on Route 2 Albion, south of Albion, Ill., near Brown's Chapel Church. Mendenhall was arrested in Nashville, Tenn. on Thursday for allegedly killing a woman at a Nashville truck stop. According to police, Mendenhall, an over-the-road truck driver, implicated himself in several other deaths.
JIMMY NESBITT


Two Illinois State Police detectives dig through a burn pile behind Bruce Mendenhall's home south of Albion during the execution of a search warrant last weekend. Mendenhall's ex-girlfriend, Lori Darling hadn't been seen for months, and police feared she may have been one of the suspected serial killer's victims. Police found no traces of the missing woman. To everyone's surprise, she showed up on a Nashville television station Tuesday night being interviewed about her relationship with Mendenhall.
LEN WELLS

Bruce Mendenhall, the trucker driver accused of being a serial killer appeared in Nashville courtroom and waived his right to a preliminary hearing this on Thursday, August 2, 2007. (Photo by Shelley Mays)
Shelley Mays, Shelley Mays

Roxanna Wayman talks about her younger sister Sarah Hulbert, who was killed in June of 2007, during the murder trial of accused killer Bruce Mendenhall at the A.A. Birch Building in Nashville Tuesday, May 11, 2010.
Sanford Myers


Bruce Mendenhall speaks with attorney Jason Gichner at his pre-trial hearing in Nashville, Tenn., Friday, October 30, 2009.
Mandy Lunn, Mandy Lunn


Homicide detectives Pat Postiglione and Lee Freeman arrested an over-the-road truck driver and suspected serial killer Bruce Mendenhall, 56, of Albion, Illinois in Nashville this afternoon. Photo taken July 12, 2007 in Nashville, TN.
Larry McCormack, Larry McCormack

Sara Nicole Hulbert's sister Roxanne Wayman, left, grandmother Sue Barr and aunt Kathy Allan comfort each other as Bruce Mendenhall, a trucker driver accused of of killing Sara, appeared in Nashville courtroom on Thursday, August 2, 2007. Police say Mendenhall implicated himself in six slayings, including two in Tennessee. He is charged with the death of Sara Nicole Hulbert, whose body was found June 26. The 25-year-old Ashland City woman was shot and dumped into a truck stop trash bin. Mendenhall waived his right to a preliminary hearing on Thursday, August 2, 2007. (Photo by Shelley Mays)
Shelley Mays, Shelley Mays

Carma Purpura and her daughter.
Provided By Jessica Ervin


Family photos of Carma Purpura sit Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024, on the coffee table of Jessica Ervin, Purpura’s younger sister.
Mykal McEldowney/IndyStar

 

That's a funny one.

God bless every American and their families! God bless the U.S.A.!

The absolute sheer driving force of our national economy - without truck drivers, our entire national economy would come to an absolute standstill - if not outright be dead.

Over the mountains, through the woods, into the valleys, coast to coast, from sea to shining sea - truck drivers can and do go anywhere and everywhere, every day, every night, all year round.

 

That's a good thing.

God bless every American and their families! God bless the U.S.A.!

The absolute sheer driving force of our national economy - without truck drivers, our entire national economy would come to an absolute standstill - if not outright be dead.

Over the mountains, through the woods, into the valleys, coast to coast, from sea to shining sea - truck drivers can and do go anywhere and everywhere, every day, every night, all year round.

 

That's a good one!

NOTE:
If all the truck drivers who "murdered" their trucks were put away, there wouldn't be enough cell space to accommodate them all.

God bless every American and their families! God bless the U.S.A.!

The absolute sheer driving force of our national economy - without truck drivers, our entire national economy would come to an absolute standstill - if not outright be dead.

Over the mountains, through the woods, into the valleys, coast to coast, from sea to shining sea - truck drivers can and do go anywhere and everywhere, every day, every night, all year round.

 

The Independent

Aileen Wuornos: America’s ‘first female serial killer’

Aileen Wuornos murdered at least six men along the Florida highways in late 1989 and 1990

Joe Sommerlad

Tuesday 28 November 2023 14:58 EST

Known as America’s first female serial killer, Aileen Wuornos carried out a string of notorious and brutal murders along the dark highways of Florida in late 1989 and 1990.

A victim of child abuse herself, in adult life Wuornos was a petty criminal who worked as a sex worker.

It was during this work that she shot and killed six – possibly seven – men, typically dumping their bodies in remote wooded areas and stealing their possessions.


Wuornos claimed she killed her victims in self-defence when the men became violent towards her.

She was arrested in 1991 and convicted of murder the following year, being handed six death sentences.

Wuorno was executed by lethal injection on 9 October 2002 after spending a decade on death row.

Who was Aileen Wuornos?
Wuornos, then known as Aileen Carol Pittman, was born on 29 February 1956 to teenage parents in Rochester, Michigan. Her mother Diane was just 16 when she gave birth to Wuornos – her second child.

After Wuornos’ father Leo was jailed for raping a minor (later taking his own life in his prison cell), her mother abandoned the children, leaving them in the care of her own alcoholic parents.


Aileen Wuornos is shown in this undated photograph from the Florida Department of Corrections (Getty)

Growing up, Wuornos was sexually abused by her grandfather, committed incest with her brother Keith and was raped and impregnated by a family friend.

After being forced to give up the child for adoption aged just 15, she was driven out of her grandparents’ home and forced to live in the woods, where she turned to sex work to earn money for food.

She then hitchhiked her way to the south, where she met and married Florida yacht club president Lewis Gratz Fell, 69, in 1976. The union appeared to be a search for security after a troubled upbringing but it didn’t last.

Just nine weeks after the wedding, it was annulled and Wuornos returned to an itinerant life of barroom brawls, petty crime and periodic suicide attempts, living for a time off the $10,000 she had received from Keith’s life insurance policy after he died of esophageal cancer.


Aileen Wuornos pictured in court in 1992 (Sipa/Shutterstock)

Throughout the 1980s, she was regularly in trouble with the law, engaging in armed robbery, car theft and disorderly conduct, leaving a trail of chaos in her wake. In 1986, she met Tyria Moore, a 24-year-old Daytona Beach motel maid, at a gay bar.

They fell in love and Wuornos tried to support Ms Moore with her earnings from sex work.

What did Aileen Wuornos do?
Operating along Florida’s highways in the late 1980s, Wuornos is believed to have murdered up to seven men between 1989 and 1990. All of the victims were motorists who had approached her as sex work clients.

The first victim was Richard Mallory, a 51-year-old electronics store owner, who was shot dead on 30 November 1989. His body was found in a wooded area two weeks later, riddled with bullets.


The Last Resort biker bar in Port Orange, Florida, where Aileen Wuornos was arrested in 1991 (Rusty Clark)

Wuornos claimed that Mallory had beaten and raped her after he picked her up.

It later emerged that Mallory had a prior conviction for attempted rape in Maryland, adding credibility to Wuornos’ account.

The bodies of five other missing men were discovered between 1 June and 19 November 1990, all traced back to Wuornos.

The victims were:construction worker David Andrew Spears, 47; rodeo rider Charles Edmund Carskaddon, 40; salesman Troy Eugene Burress, 50; retired US Air Force major and police chief Charles Richard Humphreys, 56; and trucker and security guard Walter Jeno Antonio, 62.

Wuornos is also believed to have killed and robbed a seventh man – retired merchant seaman Peter Abraham Siems, 67 – during the same period. He was reported missing but his body has never been found.

How did she get caught?
The law finally caught up with Wuornos when Siems’ car was found crashed along a roadside and her palm print was discovered on an interior door handle.

Wournos was arrested at The Last Resort biker bar in Port Orange, Volusia County, on 9 January 1991 and Ms Moore in Pittston, Pennsylvania, the following day.


Image of Aileen Wuornos in documentary ‘Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer’ (Lafayette/Kobal/Shutterstock)

Ms Moore was persuaded to turn on her lover and elicit a confession from her.

During a taped phone call on 16 January, Wuornos duly admitted to Ms Moore that she had carried out the murders.

On 27 January 1992, Wuornos was convicted of Mallory’s murder.

During her trial, psychiatrists for the defence argued that she was mentally unstable and suggested that she may be suffering from borderline personality disorder.

Despite this, Wuornos was sentenced to death for the murder.


Image of Wuornos in ‘Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer’ (Lafayette/Kobal/Shutterstock)

On 31 March 1992, she then pleaded no contest to the killings of Spears, Burress and Humphreys, receiving three more death sentences. She later pleaded guilty to the murders of Carskaddon and Antonio and was again sentenced to death.

Siems’ murder is the only one she was not compelled to answer to, due to the fact that there was no body.

How did Aileen Wuornos die?
Wuornos spent the next decade on death row at the Florida Department of Corrections’ Broward Correctional Institution.

In 2001, Wuornos wrote to the state Supreme Court renouncing all remaining appeals on her behalf and declaring: “I killed those men, robbed them as cold as ice. And I’d do it again, too.”

She was transferred to the Florida State Prison ahead of her execution in October 2002.

For her final meal, Wuornos chose to have only a cup of coffee.


The hearse carrying the body of convicted killer Aileen Wuornos leaves the Florida State Prison after her execution (Getty)

Her final words are recorded as: “Yes, I would just like to say I’m sailing with the rock, and I’ll be back, like Independence Day, with Jesus. June 6, like the movie. Big mothership and all, I’ll be back, I’ll be back.”

Wuornos’ story has been told several times on the big screen.

British filmmaker Nick Broomfield interviewed her during her time on death row, for his film Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (1993). He later made a second documentary, Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003) – which reflected on her hard life.

Wuornos’ story was also told in Patty Jenkins’ Oscar-winning movie Monster (2003) starring Charlize Theron.

 

Eileen Wornous didn't #### truckers or did they #### her. Remove her from this thread.