Truck Driver is Suspected Killer of “Bitter Creek Betty” and Other Women

Truck driver Clark Perry Baldwin was arrested for the murders of three women in 1992 — two remain unidentified 30 years later. Photo courtesy of YouTube.

It was approximately 4:35 p.m. on March 1, 1992. A female truck driver pulled over to check her fuel tanks on the Interstate 80 turnoff at the Bitter Creek rest area, in the southern state of Wyoming.

While standing by the truck, in the distance, she could see what she thought was a pile of trash at the bottom of a ridge. The trucker decided to descend the embankment and take a closer look. She was shocked to see it was the lifeless, nude body of a young woman lying face down in the snow. To the trucker, it appeared the body had been thrown out of a truck down the embankment.

Horrified, the trucker used her CB to radio for help. Another trucker responded. She relayed the details of her grisly discovery and the other trucker called the police.

I-80 runs east to west throughout the United States and one of the busiest trucking freeways in the country. Photo courtesy of Google Maps.

Located in Sweetwater County, Bitter Creek is named after an 80-mile long stream in Wyoming that flows through the city of Green River about 3 hours east of Laramie on I-80.

Interstate 80 is an east-west transcontinental freeway that runs from downtown San Francisco to Teaneck, New Jersey in metropolitan New York City, and considered one of…