2nd Floor Conference Room
\nThis mon th we will be reading Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers by Frank Figliuzzi
\nFrom the FBI&rsquo\;s former ass istant director\, a shocking journey to the dark side of America&rsquo\;s highways\, revealing the FBI Highway Serial Killings Initiative&rsquo\;s h unt for the long-haul truckers behind an astonishing 850 murders&ndash\;an d counting.
\nIn 2004\, the FBI was tipped off to a gruesom e pattern of unsolved murders along American roadways. Today at least 850 homicides have been linked to a solitary breed of predators: long-haul tru ck drivers. They have been given names like the &ldquo\;Truck Stop Killer\ ,&rdquo\; who rigged a traveling torture chamber in the rear of his truck and is suspected to have killed fifty women\, and &ldquo\;The Interstate S trangler\,&rdquo\; who once answered a phone call from his mother while ki lling 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&mdash\;often at-risk women&mdash\;are picked up at truck stops in one jurisdiction\, sexually assaulted and murdered in another\, and dumpe d along a highway in a third place. The transient nature of the offenders and multiple jurisdictions involved make these cases incredibly difficult to solve.
\nBased on his own on-the-ground research and drawing on h is twenty-five-year career as an FBI special agent\, Frank Figliuzzi inves tigates 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 intervi ews the courageous trafficked victims of these crimes\, and their inspirin g efforts to now help others avoid similar fates.
\nLong Haul \; is a gripping exploration of a violent\, disordered world hiding in plain sight\, and the heroes racing to end the horror. It will forever unsettle how you travel on the road.
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A special guest from the Pickens Coun ty Advocacy Center\, Katrina Heise\, will be present to contribute to the discussion. \;
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