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In 2004, the FBI was tipped off to a gruesome

pattern of unsolved murders along American roadways. Today at least 850 homicides have been linked to a solitary breed of

predators. Long-haul truck drivers. They have been given names like the

truck stop killer who rigged a traveling

torture chamber in the rear of his truck and is suspected to have killed 50 women

and the interstate strangler who once answered a phone call from his mother

while killing one of his dozen victims. The crisis was such that the FBI

opened a special unit, the Highway Serial Killings Initiative.

In many cases, the victims, often at-risk women, are picked up at truck stops in one jurisdiction,

sexually assaulted and murdered in another,

and dumped along a highway in a third place.

The transient nature of the offenders and multiple

jurisdictions involved make these cases incredibly difficult to solve.

Based on his own on-the-ground research and drawing on his 25-year career as an FBI special

agent, Frank Fig-Lluzy investigates the most terrifying cases.

He also rides in a big rig with a long-haul trucker for thousands of miles, gaining an intimate understanding of the life and

habits of drivers and their roadside culture.

And he interviews the courageous trafficked victims of these crimes, and their inspiring efforts to now help others avoid similar fates.

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