NC/SC/TN - JOHN WAYNE BOYER, Southeast Truck Stop Killer, c. 1990-2007

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kpdx said:
Saw this when I was reading about Wilmington NC murders http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20110919/WIRE/110919699

Here are some sound bites: "as he picked up prostitutes around the Southeast, killed them and dumped their bodies near interstate highways."

"Boyer has pleaded guilty to killing a woman in North Carolina. He faces murder charges in slayings in Tennessee and South Carolina and authorities said he confessed to both of those crimes."

"Boyer also seemed to target women who were especially small. "
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BBM

Now that is scary. I am 4'11" and back in the day only weighed 80 lbs.
 
Thursday marked the 10-year anniversary of when Rose Marie Mallette's body was found behind MCO Transport on Hwy. 421 North.


John Wayne Boyer, who is currently in prison for the murder of Scarlett Wood, is a suspect, according to Sgt. J.J. Brewer. Boyer has also reportedly been charged with a murder in Tennessee and South Carolina.
 

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Police put focus on suspected serial killer in 2000 disappearance
http://www.starnewsonline.com/artic...ed-serial-killer-in-2000-disappearance-&tc=ar

Suspected Victims
Virginia Beach went missing in the year 2000

Michelle Haggadone went missing and remains were located in 2000. Remains identified 2011

Rose Marie Mallette remains found in 2002

Jennifer Smith

States he is suspected to have killed in Tnn, SC, NC
 
Still sitting in Central Prison in NC
 

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Snoopster said:
Well that certainly is disturbing, isn't it?? :scared:

Something isn't right here. Hopefully LE will go after him with another charge to keep him in.
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Surely he will just be transferred to another jail and tried on another murder.
 
http://www.wbtw.com/story/25166182/...-mistake-in-murder-investigation-sheriff-says

A Darlington County Deputy has resigned after the sheriff says the deputy failed to take critical steps that would have sent a murder suspect to trial.
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Boyer is scheduled to be released from a North Carolina prison sometime around July 2015. Tennessee is next in line to try him for a murder there. After he serves his time in Tennessee, he will be returned to Darlington County, where he will stand trial and be held accountable for the crime he committed in Darlington County.
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I think this article is saying that Darlington County could have been next but because of the mistake, they have to wait for Tennessee now.
 
Salute to BRYAN QUEEN and the Professional Staff at WIS TV NEWS for their investigative work and reporting seeking Justice for Michelle Haggadone and the many other victims of Trucker serial killer Boyer...

A 14 year-old murder case goes cold with the suspect never charged. Now a WIS TV investigation uncovers the truth. The lead investigator resigns and the prosecutor promises justice. Lead investigative reporter Jody Barr kicks off our SC Missing series with the Darlington County case of I-20 Girl - Wednesday at 7PM. PREVIEW: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eppe..._source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer&hd=1

Will Rogers; Prosecutor?
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You will be able to watch the special report Online.. 'Livestreamed at 7pm EST'

> @ wistv.com
 
Bumping this to watch. He is due to be released next month and should be moved to another state or NC prison for the next trial.
 
NC extradites Hickman County murder suspect
The Daily Herald
August 2, 2015 - 11:52pm

CENTERVILLE — An arrest in a 10-year-old murder case has led to new fears that the man accused may have many more victims.
For years, Jennifer Smith’s murder was a mystery. Now, John Wayne Boyer, the truck driver who admitted to her killing, is in the Hickman County Jail.

John Herbison and a state employee came across the body of Smith, 25, in an empty parking lot off exit 152 of Interstate 40 in Hickman County. He remembers it like it was yesterday.

“It was like right in here behind the concrete barrier,” Herbison said. “She was like laid behind the edge of the grass there.”
Police said the young woman was not clothed and didn’t have ID.

[...]
In 2009, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation matched Boyer’s DNA to Smith’s murder and indicted him. Boyer confessed.
 
To recap:

SCARLETT WOOD, NC - JWB sentenced to 12 years in 2007

The 31-year-old prostitute was last seen at the Travelodge on Market Street in Wilmington. Boyer told investigators he pushed Wood and her head hit some furniture in the motel room. Unable to revive her, he dumped her body in an overgrown area behind a house in the 1600 block of North Kerr Avenue. Her body was found more than three months later, but her remains were not positively identified until 2006.

A forensic anthropologist at the University of North Carolina Wilmington found evidence that Wood suffered broken ribs, facial fractures and stab wounds in the pelvic area, disputing Boyer's claim that he shoved Wood into furniture. A judge sentenced Boyer to 12 years.
http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20120816/ARTICLES/120819789/1177?p=2&tc=pg

http://webapps6.doc.state.nc.us/opi...turl=pagelistoffendersearchresults&listpage=1

JENNIFER SMITH, TN - JWB charged and extradited to Hickman County, TN in August 2015

Authorities also connected Boyer to the 2005 slaying of Jennifer Smith in Hickman County, Tenn. A detective with the sheriff's office there told The Associated Press that Boyer picked up the 25-year-old prostitute and drove her to an abandoned parking lot off I-40. There, the two argued over money, allegedly leading Boyer to strangle her with the seat belt, push her body out of the cab and drive off.
http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20120816/ARTICLES/120819789/1177?p=3&tc=pg

MICHELLE HAGGADONE, SC - not charged as of 2014

Michelle Haggadone went missing from Bolivia in 2000. In August of that year, a motorist who walked into the woods at an Interstate 20 rest area in Darlington County, S.C., happened upon the 34-year-old's body. An autopsy determined she had been strangled with some sort of wire object and laid in the woods three weeks before she was found.

It was not until late 2011, when investigators paid a visit to Boyer and, they say, coaxed a confession out of him that the 55-year-old with a long gray beard was given another murder charge.
http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20120816/ARTICLES/120819789/1177?p=1&tc=pg

Sunday marked 14 years since the body of 32-year-old Michelle Haggadone was found and still no one has been charged with killing her, even though in 2011 investigators named a man who they say did it.

Haggadone's family says the mother of two led a risky lifestyle before she was killed since she worked at truck stops as a drug-addicted prostitute. That's one reason the family says from the start investigators never took this case seriously, and more than a decade later, no one has been brought to justice for her death.
http://www.wistv.com/story/26193121...speak-out-14-years-after-their-mothers-murder

ROSE MARIE MALLETTE, NC - not yet charged

Boyer is a prime suspect in the death of 26-year-old Rose Marie Mallette, who was reported missing in 2001, said New Hanover County Sheriff's Det. Ken Murphy, a cold case investigator in Wilmington. The reported prostitute's remains were found wrapped in a blanket in an industrial area of the city a year later, the back of her skull crushed.
http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20110919/WIRE/110919699?p=3&tc=pg

Some time after Haggadone died, detectives suspect Boyer chose another victim, 26-year-old Rose Marie Mallette, whose body was found in 2002 wrapped in a blanket by railroad tracks behind the MCO Transport trucking company in New Hanover County. Boyer used to work there, said Detective Ken Murphy, who is leading the investigation for the New Hanover County Sheriff's Office.

While Boyer has not been charged in Mallette's case, detectives have focused on him as the prime suspect. When authorities arrested Boyer for Wood's murder, he told a detective that he knew Mallette.
http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20120816/ARTICLES/120819789/1177?p=1&tc=pg

"BEACH", NC - unnamed missing person

More recently, he became a suspect in the investigation into Beach's whereabouts. She was 37 years old when she disappeared from Wilmington in 2000.

Most of the victims worked as prostitutes, for example. Their bodies were dumped in areas frequented by truckers. And they all were petite women, especially compared to Boyer's thick, 290-pound frame.
http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20120816/ARTICLES/120819789/1177?p=1&tc=pg



I think this must be the missing woman referred to as "Beach".
Virginia Lynne Beach, 37, missing since Oct 17, 2000, from Wilmington, NC.
https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/12432/0/

Also mentioned on this page
http://www.starnewsonline.com/assets/pdf/WM28208128.PDF

I've opened a thread in Missing but Not Forgotten - 2000's
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...ngton-17-October-2000&p=12031208#post12031208
 
UPDATE - via Bryan Queen;
WIS TV
News Director
CUE Center for Missing Persons
https://www.facebook.com/groups/84244739178/10154630901584179/?notif_t=group_activity

UPDATE -- John Boyer enters plea deal in TN for murder of 25 year old Jennifer Smith in 2005
He was sentenced to 30 year -- sentence ends 12/6/2045
Smith's body was found in an empty parking lot off Interstate 40 near Exit 152. Police said Smith was strangled with a seat belt.
In 2009, the TBI matched Boyer's DNA to Smith's murder and indicted him. He has been extradited from North Carolina, where he was serving a murder sentence for the death of another woman.

Boyer is prime suspect in at least 2 other cases including that of Michelle Haggadone in Darlington Co. SC.
Police said Boyer picked up prostitutes along truck routes, killed them and dumped their bodies
The Long Haul Territory Killer project is still looking at numerous unsolved cases across the country please submit TIPS if you have information related to these cases or others..
 
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