He is going on trial for the suspected slaying of Carma Purpura, who is only one of the 10 women he allegedly murdered. Purpura disappeared in 2007 from a Flying J in Indianapolis in 2007.

Mendenhall was charged with the July 2007 murder of Carma Purpura, an Indianapolis mother of two, whom he met at the Flying J truck stop on the southwest side of Marion County.

On Monday, police in Kentucky identified a body found five years ago as the remains of Carma Purpura. She disappeared in 2007 from a south Indianapolis truck stop. Prosecutors charged Bruce Mendenhall ...

Following a two-day trial, a jury convicted 73-year-old Bruce Mendenhall of murder in the killing of Carma Purpura, whose body was found on the side of a highway in Barren County, Kentucky in 2011 ...

An Albion, Illinois, trucker linked to a string of killings in 2007 was handed a sentence topping six decades in prison for the death of one of his victims, an Indianapolis woman. Bruce Mendenhall on ...

Purpura's sister, Jessica Ervin of Clayton, will represent the family at the trial. Ervin, 47, said she stepped up to help shield her parents from Mendenhall and the trial.

That was the last time she talked to her adult daughter Carma Purpura. Just hours later, Purpura, 31, of Indianapolis, was murdered at the Flying J truck stop on the southside of Indianapolis.

An Illinois trucker linked to the deaths of at least half a dozen women received a 65-year prison sentence for the killing of one of his victims, an Indianapolis woman. Bruce Mendenhall, a former long ...

The Louisville Medical Examiner, through DNA evidence, identified the body as Carma J. Purpura. Purpura would have been 35 when her body was discovered in August 2011. She was reported missing from ...

The body of Carma Purpura was found off the shoulder of a highway in Kentucky in 2011. Now, the medical examiner’s office in Louisville has positively identified those remains as Purpura’s ...

Kentucky State Police say the victim is Carma Purpura of Indianapolis, Indiana. She was found off Louie B. Nunn Parkway in Barren County, Kentucky, on Aug. 15, 2011.

Their bodies were then dumped. In Purpura's case, the mother was last seen in the early morning hours of July 12, 2007 talking to Mendenhall at a Flying J Travel Center in south Indianapolis.