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HENDERSON, Ky. (WEHT) – Bruce Mendenhall, also known as the “Truck Stop Serial Killer” was sentenced to an additional 65 years in prison for the July 2007 murder of Carma Purpura of ...
INDIANAPOLIS–Bruce Mendenhall, the man known as “The Truck Stop Killer”, was sentenced to 65 years in prison for the 2007 murder of an Indianapolis woman. A Marion County judge imposed that sentence ...
Purpura was the third woman Mendenhall has been convicted of killing. In 2010, he was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of 25-year-old Sara Nicole Hulbert in Nashville.
Carma Purpura was abducted from the Flying J truck stop on the southside of Indianapolis and murdered. Her family's waited 17 years for justice.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- A DNA test may determine if a missing Indianapolis woman was the victim of a man who has confessed to killing six women in four states. Carma Purpura, 31, was last seen July ...