The Highway Murders
About this ebook
As the investigation started, the police detected a pattern in more than a dozen unsolved rape-and-murder cases with mutilated bodies of women turning up in graveyards, drains and empty fields along the highways.
It didn’t take the police too long to find out that the perpetrator was a trucker named M Jaishankar.
What followed was a cat-and-mouse game across states, many more gruesome killings, one of the most sensational jailbreaks in the history of the country, and a controversial suicide in a high security cell.
The Highway Murders is the breathtaking true story of 'Psycho Shankar', one of India's most notorious serial killers, and one policeman's relentless decade-long battle against the 'terror of the highways'.
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About the author
Sourabh Mukherjee is the author of the true-crime anthology Death Served Cold and psychological thriller novels – The Trail of Blood, The Sinners, In the Shadows of Death and The Colours of Passion, long-listed in WordToScreen, Mumbai International Film Festival, 2018.
India Today has honoured him as one of the “ten celebrated role models of 2022” and Outlook calls him one of the “top ten personalities to look upon if you are looking for an inspiration”.
An Electronics and Telecommunications Engineer from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, in his day-job, Sourabh works in a senior leadership role in a global technology firm. He has spoken in global technology summits in London and Las Vegas, as well as at events organized by Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry, IIFT, Symbiosis, IIT Guwahati, IIM Lucknow, Kolkata University, among others.
Sourabh has won several literary awards and recognitions, including Golden Pen Award in the Sulekha Monsoon Romance Contest (2014), Juggernaut Selects (2019), Hall of Fame in Literoma International Symposium for Literature and Festival (2020), Speaker in Oxford Bookstores Online Festival (2020). He was awarded the Man of Excellence Award, 2021 by Indian Achievers’ Forum for his professional achievements and contributions to nation-building.
