Bruce Mendenhall on Monday was ordered to serve 65 years in prison after being found guilty of murder last month in the killing of Carma Purpura, whose body was found on the side of a Kentucky highway more than four years after she was last seen at a south Indianapolis truck stop.

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. Mendenhall is already serving two life sentences in Tennessee for a pair of murders,

A man will learn his punishment for killing an Indiana woman nearly two decades ago. Forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden shared his theory on the "unusual" circumstances that may have led to the deaths of Gene Hackman, his wife Betsy Arakawa and their dog.

Bruce Mendenhall, dubbed the "Truck Stop Serial Killer," is set to be sentenced on Monday for the 2007 murder of Carma Purpura, a 31-year-old Indianapolis woman whose body was discovered near an interstate in Kentucky four years after her disappearance.

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.