From the FBI\'s former assistant director, a shocking journey to the dark side of America\'s highways, revealing the Bureau\'s Highway Serial Killings Initiative\'s hunt for the long-haul truckers behind an astonishing 850 murders-and rising.
It will forever unsettle how you travel on the road..
Long Haul is a gripping exploration of a violent, disordered world hiding in plain sight, and the heroes racing to end the horror.
And he interviews the courageous trafficked victims of these crimes, and their inspiring efforts to now help others avoid similar fates.
He also rides in a big-rig with a long-haul trucker for hundreds of miles, gaining an intimate understanding of the life and habits of drivers and their roadside culture.
Based on his own on-the-ground research and drawing on his twenty-five-year career as an FBI special agent, Frank Figliuzzi investigates the most terrifying cases.
The transient nature of the offenders and multiple jurisdictions involved make these cases incredibly difficult to solve.
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 crisis was such that the FBI opened a special unit, the Highway Serial Killings Initiative.
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 fifty women, and The Interstate Strangler, who once answered a phone call from his mother while killing one of his dozen victims.
Today at least 850 homicides have been linked to a solitary breed of predators: long-haul truck drivers.
In 2004, the FBI was tipped off to a gruesome pattern of unsolved murders aLong American roadways.
From the FBI\'s former assistant director, a shocking journey to the dark side of America\'s highways, revealing the Bureau\'s Highway Serial Killings Initiative\'s hunt for the long-haul truckers behind an astonishing 850 murders-and rising
