Real Stories of the Highway Patrol
The Trunk/Families/Odd Van Out
S2 • E20 Nov 22, 1994
Gloria Paul wants to get back home to Georgia, after visiting a friend in Greenville County, South Carolina, she figures the easiest and cheapest way is to hitchhike a ride. Adam Waters has been watching her by the roadside at a truck stop all day, seeing that she hasn't had any luck finding a ride. Now that he's off work he wants to help her. offers her a ride, she hesitantly accepts. Trooper H.B. May of the South Carolina State Highway Patrol clocks Adam Waters car speeding, pulling him over, and the trooper hears a women screaming in the trunk of the car. Trooper May is physically assaulted by Waters. Passing motorist, and former policeman Thomas Carlton stops to help the trooper. Once partially subdued, trooper May shoots Waters in the thigh. When backup arrives, troopers rescue Gloria from the trunk. She has been beaten and raped as they take her to the hospital.
