Clark Perry Baldwin: Long-Haul Trucker and Interstate Serial Killer
Early Life and Background
Clark Perry Baldwin was born on August 22, 1961, in Charles City, Iowa, and grew up in the nearby town of Nashua. He finished high school in 1979 and eventually became a long-haul truck driver, a job that sent him crisscrossing the United States along major interstate highways. From the outside he could appear quiet and unremarkable, but he spent much of his time on the road frequenting truck stops and seeking out vulnerable women, including sex workers and hitchhikers.
Escalation of Violence
By the early 1990s, Baldwin’s behavior toward women had become openly violent. In February 1991 he picked up a 21-year-old hitchhiker, Mary Ann Newton, in Wheeler County, Texas. Once she was in his truck, he threatened her with a gun, bound and assaulted her, and tried to strangle her. Newton fought back, and the encounter ended with Baldwin letting her go at a gas station, where she managed to contact police. Baldwin was questioned and arrested, but the charges were later dismissed, allowing him to continue driving trucks up and down America’s highways.
The Known Murders Along the Interstates
Baldwin is now linked to a series of murders committed in 1991 and 1992 in Tennessee and Wyoming. His victims were women traveling or living on the margins, some of them pregnant, all of them found near busy interstates. In each case, investigators found signs of sexual assault and strangulation, and the bodies were dumped in isolated roadside locations along I-65 in Tennessee and I-80 and I-90 in Wyoming.
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