Samantha Winters, a 48-year-old white woman, was found dead on June 6, 2007, at a truck stop in Lebanon, Tennessee. Her body was discovered naked and discarded in a trash can, and she had suffered fatal gunshot wounds. The location and the condition of her body matched aspects of other unsolved killings across multiple states, which led investigators to consider a possible serial offender.

The investigation eventually focused on long-haul truck driver Bruce Mendenhall of Albion, Illinois. Mendenhall was arrested in July 2007 at a Nashville truck stop in connection with the killing of Sara Hulbert; a subsequent search of his truck produced blood from multiple victims and items including a rifle, tape, gloves, and handcuffs. DNA linked Mendenhall to Winters, and in 2018 he was convicted in Wilson County, Tennessee, of first-degree murder for Winters and given life plus a two-year term for abuse of a corpse. He is incarcerated at the Turney Center Industrial Complex and remains linked by investigators to other unsolved deaths in several states.

Did anyone who knew Samantha or saw her around Lebanon in early June 2007 notice anything unusual or anyone who might have been with her?