Long Haul

Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

De: Frank Figliuzzi

Narrado por: Frank Figliuzzi

"A true-crime masterpiece."—Don Winslow

From the FBI’s former assistant director, a shocking journey to the dark side of America’s highways, revealing the FBI Highway Serial Killings Initiative’s hunt for the long-haul truckers behind an astonishing 850 murders–and counting.

In 2004, the FBI was tipped off to a gruesome pattern of unsolved murders along American roadways. Today at least 850 homicides have been linked to a solitary breed of predators: long-haul truck drivers. 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. The crisis was such that the FBI opened a special unit, the Highway Serial Killings Initiative. 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 transient nature of the offenders and multiple jurisdictions involved make these cases incredibly difficult to solve.

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. 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 interviews the courageous trafficked victims of these crimes, and their inspiring efforts to now help others avoid similar fates.

Long 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.

©2024 Frank Figliuzzi (P)2024 HarperCollins Publishers

Not What I Expected Not what I expected

I am one of those people who is addicted to stories about the pursuit of serial killers. I expected this book to be about that with all the attendant forensics, etc. that is usual in that genre. This book is more about life on the road with an uplifting story about redemption for truckstop prostitutes who are more likely than not to have been victims of abuse and deserve help not punishment. Frank is a stalwart in the pursuit of truth and justice, and this book was a little disappointing. I did learn quite a bit about life on the road as a trucker, but that was not what I was looking for when I bought this book.

Misfire

I love a good true crime story and had high hopes for this book. While I learned a bit about trucking, it felt like a lomg-haul of old played out takes on sex workers (lot lizards) addiction and sad lives converging in tragedy. Felt over sensationalized and yucky (in my opinion.) Never finished.

Surprisingly Compelling

I am a ‘true crime’ aficionado. This book is great! Not at all dry, it benefits hugely from insider perspective. I could not recommend more highly.

That agencies need to work together. that LE needs to focus more on WHO is paying for sex, not so much on who is selling it!

I really enjoyed this book. I found it interesting learning about how truckers operate.

I learned alot!

The author reads the book and is great. I have a new respect for truckers, their job is physical, mental and they have a lot of responsibilities. Mike is a hero! The statistics about trafficked women and children is heartbreaking. There is help to get out of trafficking but of course the options are few and underfunded.

Good book

I wanted closure, but there’s no end. Very interesting and thought provoking book. I recommend.

True crime fanatics

I listen to a lot of true crime podcasts. Similar to Truth and justice.

It was very interesting. Quick book too. A lot more information about the trade than I expected. Fact driven with real cases strewn through it.

Didn’t pause it to take a piss

Love love love this book. Best audio book I’ve listened to. Frank is very entertaining, objective and informative. Thank you for doing this research and for sharing in such a compassionate way. Look forward to your next book.

Frank Figliuizzi Eye Opening subject

I was, at the very same moment startled, shocked and saddened by this under world playing out daily right before our eyes. push back by authorities too busy to care about missing women, or just not taking time to open their minds... horror taking place right under their noses. if anything, I too pray we can each speak out, and demand a "a do Better mentality" and accountability in a dubious underworld

Pretty decent

I wish it was more on the long haul murders. but I did learn alot about truck driving as a profession