NASHVILLE, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- Accused U.S. serial killer Bruce Mendenhall says two other men are responsible for the slaying of a Tennessee woman.
Mendenhall, a truck driver who faces trial Monday for allegedly trying to hire hit men to kill police detectives and three witnesses in his murder trial, made the allegations against former southern Illinois residents David Powell and Richie Kiem in a videotaped police interrogation, the Evansville (Ind.) Courier-Press reported.
Mendenhall, 58, is suspected in the slayings of at least seven women across the mid-South. Powell, a former Albion, Ill., man, and Kiem, the son of a woman who traveled with Mendenhall, face no charges in connection with the killings, the Courier-Press said.
In the tape, Mendenhall reportedly says the 2007 slaying of Sarah Nicole Hulbert, discovered in Nashville, was the work the two men.
"They rode with me (from a Pilot Travel Center to the TA truck stop in Nashville)," the Courier-Journal reported Mendenhall as saying. "I went into the TA, got me something to eat, come back out and this lady was sprawled out in the back. I said, 'You guys, what the hell?' They said, 'It's your problem, not ours. They got out and left."
