Adam Leroy Lane

Adam Leroy Lane (born August 7, 1964) is a convicted murderer and suspected serial killer who was dubbed the Highway Killer because his crimes took place near highways, which he frequently traveled due to his job as a truck driver.

Murders Lane was born on August 7, 1964, in Jonesville, North Carolina. He dropped out of high school and later acquired a job as a truck driver and occasional chicken-plant worker. He lived in a trailer with his wife and three daughters.

Lane committed the murders while he made his way through the Northeastern United States during the summer of 2007. He had a DVD in his truck of the 2002 horror film Hunting Humans, about a serial killer who stalks his victims before killing them with a knife. She was stabbed and killed at around 2 a.m. on July 13, 2007. At the time, she was on her patio talking on the telephone.

Also, it was featured in Reader's Digest July 2011 in an article entitled "Caught in the Act." Also in season 1 of The Coroner: I Speak for the Dead, episode 2 titled "Call the Coroner" (original air date July 25, 2016).