Body of Missing Mesa Woman Found

Baack · Jul 17, 2010

CHANDLER, Ariz. -- A partially decomposed body discovered in northern Arizona has been identified as that of a Mesa mother, missing since 2006.

Patricia "Patty" Peterson was 24-years-old when she disappeared. Her mother, Tina Preston, said that Peterson had struggled with drugs.

"She wouldn't stay at the halfway house & she was homeless."

In 2006, Preston convinced her daughter to go live with a friend in Indiana to dry out.

Preston said her daughter, however, was restless, and bummed a ride from a stranger to get home to Arizona. However, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Preston said the driver left Peterson high and dry at a truck stop.

Investigators with the Tulsa Police Department said surveillance video from the truck stop showed Peterson hitching a ride with a female trucker heading west. She was never heard from again.

In April 2009 a hiker found female skeletal remains at the bottom of a 1,000 foot cliff along I-40 near Lupton, Ariz. The autopsy concluded the woman was beaten to death. The woman was known as "Jane Doe" until DNA identified her last month as Peterson.

Federal investigators believe Peterson's case is not isolated.

The FBI's Highway Serial Killings Initiative investigates the staggering number of bodies dumped near interstate highways. A map on the FBI's website shows there are more than 500 victims over the past three decades, whose killer is a suspected long-haul trucker.
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Roadmedic · Jul 17, 2010

Here is the link to the FBI map

http://www.fbi.gov/page2/april09/highwayserialkillings_040609.html

This map shows the more than 500 cases in our Highway Serial Killings Initiative database; the red dots mark where bodies or remains have been found along highways over the past 30 years.

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