The BoxCar Serial Killer (1 Viewer)

[Sidetrack]

Anybody heard of the 'BoxCar Serial Killer' - Robert Silveria? A notorious member of the FTRA - Freight Train Riders of America with a large amount of confirmed murders in many states across the US spanning 2 decades. A good book on his case is called 'Murder on the Rails' by William Palmini and Tanya Chalupa. Silveria was brutal in bludgeoning his victims to death with the handle of an axe - know as a 'goon stick'. A truly fascinating, and different killer to many of the others we've come to know and read about.
Confessed to many of his murders and made history as one of the first rail-riding serial killers apparently.

 

[Airbornemama]

Anybody heard of the 'BoxCar Serial Killer' - Robert Silveria? A notorious member of the FTRA - Freight Train Riders of America with a large amount of confirmed murders in many states across the US spanning 2 decades. A good book on his case is called 'Murder on the Rails' by William Palmini and Tanya Chalupa. Silveria was brutal in bludgeoning his victims to death with the handle of an axe - know as a 'goon stick'. A truly fascinating, and different killer to many of the others we've come to know and read about.
Confessed to many of his murders and made history as one of the first rail-riding serial killers apparently.

Thanks for the info. on the book!! I will try to find it so I can read it! Never heard of this guy, but sound's interesting!!

 

[Sidetrack]

Description of 'Murder on the Rails' by William Palmini Jr & Tanya Chalpua:

"In July, 1995, drifter Robert Joseph Silveria crossed paths with homeless Vietnam veteran James McClean, who had a campsite near a railroad crossing in Albany, California. He invited Silveria to stay, but grew belligerent when Silveria refused to share his stash of heroin. Only one man would walk away from the camp that night. James McClean's bludgeoned and stabbed body was discovered the next morning.

Detective Sergeant William Palmini was in to investigate McClean's brutal murder, but evidence was sparse. On March 2, 1996, however, the case broke wide open. Robert Silveria had been apprehended in Roseville, California on suspicion of committing a series of brutal killings during his tenure with the FTRA-Freight Train Riders of America.

Over hours of intense, chilling interviews, a strange bond formed between killer and cop as Silveria opened up to Palmini about the FTRA's twisted code of thievery, fraud and violence, his personal history of drug addiction and petty crime, and the rage that drove him to kill and kill again. His shocking confessions put lie to folksy myths of boxcar-hopping hobos - and wrote Silveria his own bloody page in railway history ..."

 

[Zayad]

I'll have to find the book, sounds interesting.

 

[sp00nss]

great legacy 2 leave