Nashville Escorts: Alibi plea, Mendenhall jail letters at issue
11 01 2010Since the arrest of Bruce D. Mendenhall of Albion, Ill., in July 2007 for the shooting death of a Nashville, Tenn., prostitute, officials have been monitoring closely the suspected serial killer’s mail and jailhouse phone calls.
Mendenhall’s letters to and from his children and other relatives are now part of his growing case file.
Prosecutors in Nashville are trying to use evidence from those calls and letters to show that after Mendenhall was unsuccessful in establishing an alibi, he tried to hire two fellow inmates to kill people scheduled to testify against him in his upcoming murder trial.
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Since his arrest, Mendenhall has maintained that two former Albion men — Ritchie Keim and David Powell — have been following him around the country, killing several prostitutes at various truck stops.
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Unable to establish an alibi for the July 2007 slaying death of Nashville prostitute Sarah Nicole Hulbert, prosecutors allege that Mendenhall turned to two cellmates in a plot to kill Metro Nashville homicide detectives Pat Postiglione and Lee Freeman.