MENDENHALL Bruce D.

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"The Rest Stop Killer"Bruce Mendenhall
Status
Identification Status	Identified
Criminal Status	Incarcerated
Personal Information
Full Name	Bruce D. Mendenhall
Born	April 14, 1951 Crawford, Illinois, United States
Gender	Male
Race/Ethnicity	White
Occupation	Long-haul truck driver
Spouse	"Linda"
Children	2 daughters
Criminal Information
AKA	• The Rest Stop Killer • The Truck Stop Killer • The Prosti-Shooter
Offender Type	Serial Killer
Method of Killing	Shooting
Victim Type	Primarily young prostitutes
Criminal penalty	Life imprisonment
Victims	6 - 9+
Span of crimes	June - July 2007
Country	United States
State	Tennessee Georgia (suspected) Indiana (suspected) Illinois (suspected) Alabama (suspected) New Mexico (suspected) Oklahoma (suspected) Texas (suspected)
Date apprehended	July 12, 2007

Victims

Confirmed victims

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Name	Age	Disappeared	Body Found	Cause of Death
Sara Hulbert	25	June 26, 2007	June 26, 2007	Shooting
Carma Purpura	31	July 11, 2007	"Four years later"
Lucille "Greta" Carter			July 1, 2007	Shooting
Samantha Winters	25			Shooting

Suspected victims

Name	Age	Disappeared	Body Found	Cause of Death
Deborah Ann Glover			January 29, 2007	Shooting
Sherry Drinkard
Tammy Zywicki			September 2, 1992
Robin Bishop		July 1, 2007		Run over
Belinda Cartwright		2001		Run over

Disproven victims

Name	Age	Disappeared	Body Found	Cause of Death	Real Killer
Jennifer Smith			April 2005		John Wayne Boyer

Documentaries

Television

• Deadly Recall S2E2: Truck Stop (April 22, 2020) on IMDb

YouTube Documentaries

• The Depraved Crimes Of The Truck Stop Killer, Truly Criminal on YouTube

Links

• Bruce Mendenhall at Wikipedia