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« Reply #20 on: January 15, 2010, 10:42:56 PM »

After reading about Bruce Mendenhall I wonder how many other murders he may have committed that we don't know?  I hope he is never, ever out of prison again.  Or even better    That way we don't have to worry about him being a repeat offender.  JMHO
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« Reply #21 on: May 09, 2010, 03:18:11 PM »

Associated Press - May 9, 2010 3:05 PM ET

Truck stop slayings set for trial in Nashville
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The suspect in the death of a woman found at a Nashville truck stop is set to go on trial after having his day in court delayed by flooding.

Attorneys are set to pick jurors on Monday in the case of Bruce Mendenhall, an Illinois truck driver charged with murder in the June 2007 shooting death of 25-year-old Sarah Hulbert whose body was found at a truck stop in Nashville.

The Tennessean reports that Mendenhall could face life in prison if he is convicted.

Mendenhall has also been charged with killing women in Lebanon, Indianapolis and Birmingham, Ala. Authorities believe he targeted prostitutes who frequented truck stops.

Nashville police arrested Mendenhall in July 2007 after a police detective saw his truck parked at a truck stop and recognized it from video footage of a truck leaving the scene of Hulbert's slaying.

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« Reply #22 on: May 12, 2010, 08:13:01 PM »

May 12, 2010 6:04 pm US/Central
Truck Driver Says He Disposed Woman's Body
TRAVIS LOLLER, Associated Press Writer

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ― An Illinois truck driver charged in the death of a Nashville woman told police he found the 25-year-old's body in his truck after getting a sandwich at a truck stop.

Jurors in the first-degree murder trial of Bruce Mendenhall, of Albion, Ill., saw a video on Wednesday of a statement he made to police shortly after they picked him up as a suspect in the slaying of Sarah Hulbert in June 2007.

Mendenhall said shortly before Hulbert's death, some acquaintances got into his truck at a Pilot gas station and asked him where he was going.

"I said none of your business, and they said, 'We'll make it our business,'" he said in the recorded statement.

He said he drove them to a different Nashville truck stop and got out to get a sandwich. When he got back to the truck, "This lady was sprawled out in the back," he said. Rolling Eyes

Mendenhall said Hulbert had a bag over her head, secured by tape. He said he cleaned up the blood and took the body out of the truck.

He said his acquaintances claimed they had sex with her, but he denied he did and said he had no idea how she got into the truck.

One of the men he identified, Terry Sanders, testified in court on Wednesday that he had been in New Mexico at the time of Hulbert's death. Mendenhall also said a man named Richard Keim was involved. Lorri Young, Keim's mother, testified that her son is autistic and schizophrenic. He can't drive and could not have come to Tennessee without her knowledge, she said.

Public defender Dawn Deaner has said Hulbert's body was in Mendenhall's truck, the gun found in the truck was used to shoot her and he disposed of her body. But she said all evidence against him is circumstantial and he did not kill Hulbert.

Jurors on Wednesday also saw autopsy photos showing bruises and cuts to her body as well as a gunshot wound that Feng Li, assistant state medical examiner, said was the cause of her death.

Mendenhall faces life in prison if convicted. He also has been charged with killing women in Lebanon, Tenn., Indianapolis and Birmingham, Ala.

http://cbs2chicago.com/wireapnewsil/Trucker.told.police.2.1690122.html
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« Reply #23 on: May 13, 2010, 12:14:23 AM »

Is the jury allowed to know about the other charges?
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« Reply #24 on: May 14, 2010, 04:47:17 PM »

UPDATE: Mendenhall convicted of first-degree murder in Tennessee 
By The Associated Press
Posted May 14, 2010 at 12:24 p.m. , updated May 14, 2010 at 3:09 p.m.

UPDATE:

An Albion, Ill., truck driver was found guilty of first degree murder in the June 2007 death of a woman at a Nashville truck stop.

A jury of six men and six women deliberated for about 3 1/2 hours before finding Bruce Mendenhall guilty on Friday.

The 59-year-old has also been charged with killing women in Lebanon, Tenn., Indianapolis and Birmingham, Ala. Authorities have claimed he preyed on prostitutes at truck stops.

He faces a mandatory 51 years in prison. Sentencing is scheduled for June 18.

Earlier this year, Mendenhall was sentenced to 30 years in prison for soliciting the murder of witnesses from jail.

http://www.courierpress.com/news/2010/may/14/jury-deliberating-murder-trial-albion-ill-trucker/
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« Reply #25 on: May 14, 2010, 04:50:08 PM »

I hope this means Bruce Mendenhall will never, ever be able to be released from prison.   
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« Reply #26 on: June 18, 2010, 02:22:27 PM »

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Trucker charged in Birmingham slaying will serve consecutive terms in Nashville convictions
Published: Friday, June 18, 2010, 12:15 PM     Updated: Friday, June 18, 2010, 12:18 PM
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A Nashville judge ruled that Illinois truck driver Bruce Mendenhall's life sentence for a murder at a Nashville truck stop will be served consecutively to a 30-year sentence he is serving in a murder-for-hire case.

A Nashville jury last month convicted Mendenhall of murder in the death of 25-year-old Sara Hulbert. In January, another jury found him guilty of trying to arrange the murders of three witnesses.
According to a news release from the district attorney's office, Criminal Court Judge Steve Dozier said Friday it would reduce the significance of both convictions if the sentences were not served consecutively.

The 59-year-old Mendenhall is also charged with killing women in Lebanon, Tenn., Indianapolis and Birmingham, Ala. Authorities believe he preyed on prostitutes at truck stops.
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« Reply #27 on: August 08, 2010, 07:37:13 AM »

Unsealed records shed light on Mendenhall home search
By Len Wells
Evansville Courier & Press
Posted August 8, 2010 at 1:39 a.m.

ALBION, Ill. — It has been more than three years since Illinois State Police detectives and crime scene investigators armed with a search warrant descended upon the rural Albion home of suspected serial killer Bruce D. Mendenhall.

Not long after his arrest July 12, 2007, at a downtown Nashville, Tenn., truck stop for the shooting death of 26-year-old Sara Nicole Hulbert, police searched Mendenhall's home for clues in the deaths of as many as six women that he implicated himself in during police questioning.

Mendenhall, a truck driver, has since been found guilty by a Nashville jury of shooting to death Hulbert at a truck stop near downtown Nashville. He was sentenced to life in prison.

In a separate trial, he also was convicted of trying to hire a fellow inmate at Davidson County Jail in Nashville to kill three witnesses in the Hulbert murder case. That conviction resulted in an additional 30-year sentence.

The search warrant — which recently was unsealed along with a list of findings — covered Mendenhall's home, outbuildings, a burn pile inside an old silo and his car parked at a gas station south of Grayville. Working around the clock, investigators brought in a mobile crime lab and portable lights to support the teams of detectives and crime scene specialists.

From inside Mendenhall's home, detectives retrieved guns, ammunition, possibly blood-stained knives, clothing and several rolls of black electrical tape, according to documents contained within a return of search warrant filed July 20, 2007. Investigators have said Mendenhall's victims had been shot and were found with a plastic bag secured around their neck with electrical tape.

Mendenhall's home was strewn with knives and shotgun shells, according to the documents.

Behind the door of the south bedroom of the home, police found a Winchester Model 370 20-gauge shotgun. In the kitchen, police found a black case containing a pistol and a .50-caliber black powder gun. Shotgun shells were found, in various sizes and numbers, in the living room and bedroom.

From the top of a dresser in the south bedroom, police recovered 13 miscellaneous knives, with some holding possible bloodstains.

A shirt with bloodstains was taken from the bedroom floor. A pair of tennis shoes with possible bloodstains was taken from Mendenhall's garage.

From Mendenhall's Buick parked at a service station at the intersection of Ill. 1 and I-64 south of Grayville, crime scene investigators recovered two pair of women's underwear with bloodstains that were stuffed beneath the trunk lid's metal supports.

Police initially thought they had found human remains in a burn pile behind Mendenhall's home, but later analysis revealed the bones were from animals.

"Disturbed soil" on the property was the result of dogs burying animal bones, the records stated.

The search warrant executed on Mendenhall's over-the-road semi by Nashville detectives yielded a wealth of evidence, police said. Prosecutors described the cab of Mendenhall's truck as a "killing chamber."

From the cab, police removed a rifle, two sets of handcuffs, several cartridges from a gun magazine, and two knives — one with a razor blade — black electrical tape, latex gloves, used condoms, a glass smoking pipe and a night stick.

Mendenhall is slated to go to trial on Feb. 8 in Wilson County, Tenn., on a murder charge for the shooting death of Symantha Winters. The 48-year-old victim's body was found June 6, 2007, in a trash bin at a truck stop near Lebanon, Tenn. Mendenhall also faces charges in connection with the death of a woman in Indianapolis.
http://www.courierpress.com/news/2010/aug/08/unsealed-records-shed-light-on-mendenhall-home/
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« Reply #28 on: August 27, 2010, 11:20:12 AM »

Judge denies Mendenhall request for new trial
By Len Wells
Evansville Courier & Press
Posted August 27, 2010
ALBION, Ill. — ALBION, Ill. — A Nashville, Tenn., judge on Thursday denied convicted killer Bruce D. Mendenhall a new trial in connection with the slaying of 25-year-old Sara Nicole Hulbert.

In June of this year, Judge Steve Dozier sentenced the Albion native to life in prison for the shooting death of Hulbert. Her body was found stuffed in a trash bin at a Lebanon, Tenn., truck stop in 2007.

The former over-the-road trucker and suspected serial killer’s next murder trial will be in Wilson County, Tenn., for the slaying of 48-year-old Symantha Winters of Lebanon, Tenn. Her body was found stuffed in a trash bin at a Pilot Travel Center in June of 2007.

Mendenhall has been formally charged with murders in Lebanon, Tenn., Birmingham, Alabama and Indianapolis. Mendenhall is expected to stand trial in Indianapolis for the slaying of Carma Purpura after the Symantha Winters trial.

In addition to serving a life sentence for the murder of Sara Hulbert, Mendenhall is also serving a concurrent 30 year sentence for trying to hire a fellow inmate to murder witnesses in his first murder trial.

Tennessee prison officials say Mendenhall must serve a minimum of 51 years of the life sentence before he is eligible for parole. He is now 59.

http://www.courierpress.com/news/2010/aug/27/judge-denies-mendenhall-request-new-trial/
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