Mendenhall is already serving two life sentences in Tennessee for a pair of murders, and he is still facing a trial for an Alabama murder. He is also under investigation for murders in Georgia, Illinois, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.
Mendenhall met Purpura, a mother of two, at the Flying J truck stop on the southwest side of Marion County in 2007. Purpura’s body was discovered four years later down a 75-foot ravine off the side of a Kentucky highway with indications of a fatal bullet wound to the head.
Investigators say the morning after Purpura met Mendenhall, authorities searched his truck’s cab and discovered a .22 rifle, a bag of bloody clothes and identifications belonging to Purpura.
Mendenhall was found guilty in January, after less than 90 minutes of delibiration from a Marion Superior Court jury.
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