NASHVILLE – Closing arguments are being made in the murder-for-hire trial of a truck driver who is also charged in four murders of women in three states.
The defense called into question Friday the credibility of some prosecution witnesses, who were fellow inmates held in a Nashville jail with Bruce Mendenhall.
Mendenhall is accused of trying to solicit the killings of five people, including two city police detectives and three witnesses, from his cell.
Mendenhall was arrested in June 2007 in the murder of a woman whose body was found at a Nashville truck stop. He later was charged with killing three other women in Lebanon, Tenn.; Indianapolis; and Birmingham, Ala.
Mendenhall, held without bond since his arrest, will be tried later on the murder charges.