# DOM Ep356 - Mile Markers & Murder - The Story of the "Highway Serial Killings Initiative”

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Published: 2025-12-05T14:00:00+00:00
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Duration seconds: 3357

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Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we cover the origins of “The Highway Serial Killings Initiative”- an FBI program that identifies and links unsolved murder cases that have occurred along interstate highways to support law enforcement agencies. We also talk about one of the most notorious killers the program has helped capture- Bruce Delane Mendenhall, a long haul trucker/murderer also known as “The Truck Stop Killer”. Redbeard SoundRedBeard Sound specializes in live sound engineering, ...

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