A long haul trucker, Mendenhall's truck was found to contain the blood of numerous other murdered or missing women.

[4] A resident of Albion, Illinois, Mendenhall was arrested at the TA truck stop on Interstate 24 in Nashville, Tennessee, on July 12, 2007,[5] after Detective Sgt.

[6] Upon inspection of the vehicle, a large quantity of bloody clothing and identification and personal effects of an Indianapolis woman, who had gone missing the day before, was found in a plastic sack along with blood spots scattered around the inside of his cab, including even the steering wheel and his hands.

[3] Police catalogued 300 items from the truck, including a rifle, knives, handcuffs, latex gloves, several weapons cartridges, black tape, a nightstick, and sex toys.

[7] Mendenhall's victims were primarily young prostitutes, usually found shot, though detectives have determined that his method of killing may have changed over the years.

He has also implicated himself in the shooting death of Symantha Winters, whose body was found on June 6, 2007, in a trash can at a truck stop in Lebanon, Tennessee.

DNA tests link a large quantity of the blood from Mendenhall's truck cab to the woman's parents.