The Long Haul Trucker Murders

Talk Is Jericho

Chris Jericho

Tv & Film, Sports, Wrestling

4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In 2004, the FBI was tipped off to a gruesome pattern of unsolved murders along American highways, and since then, at least 850 homicides have been linked to a new breed of serial killer: long-haul truck drivers! The FBI’s Former Assistant Director of Counterintelligence, Frank Figliuzzi, did his own interviews, research and investigation into some of the most terrifying cases which he chronicled in his new book, Long Haul: Hunting The Highway Serial Killers. He breaks down some of the cases including the “Truck Stop Killer,” who is suspected of killing some 50 women, and who rigged a traveling torture chamber in the read of his truck, and “The Interstate Strangler” who once answered a call from his mother while killing one of his dozen victims. He talks about the FBI’s special Highway Serial Killings Initiative, what makes these specific types of killings so hard to solve, and what he learned about the life, habits and culture of long-haul truck drivers. Purchase Long Haul: Hunting The Highway Serial Killers: https://frankfigliuzzi.com/fbiway/long-haul/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Talk is Jericho,
0:03.0	Jericho, baby.
0:05.0	Talk is Jericho.
0:07.0	My heart.
0:08.0	Talk is Jericho.
0:10.0	Mama. Talk is, Interesting, uh, book. There we go mama don't kiss me.
0:13.4	Interesting book that I came across, long haul,
0:18.2	hunting the highway serial killers by Frank Figleusi.
0:21.8	And Frank is with us here today. And is really interesting Frank because I always had this idea of being you know in the pro wrestling business and back in the day in the territory days they called it Guys would come into town for three to six months,
0:36.0	wrestle and then move on to the next town.
0:38.4	And I always thought it'd be really interesting
0:40.1	to write a story about a territory wrestler who was a serial killer because it's built in.
0:45.2	You're traveling, it's just what you do.
0:47.2	You've written a book about something very similar about long-haul truckers and this is a real story that are actual serial killers and it's very interesting to me because it makes
0:57.0	Perfect sense that this would be happening so please first of all tell us how you got this idea and your background to be able to write such a horrifying book.
1:06.0	First of all, thanks for having to me.
1:08.0	Second, you've got some creative idea there because you're right.
1:12.0	The nature of any traveling person just by virtue of
1:17.1	their transgents is going to be a good possible suspect in a case of interstate murders.
1:24.4	Here's the book in a nutshell.
1:26.0	This is the true crime account of the FBI's Highway
1:29.3	Serial Killings Initiative.
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