WE GOT A BIG OL' CONVOY

What we do in the rest stop.


The woman told investigators she met Timothy Jay Vafeades at the Sapp Brothers truck stop in Salt Lake City. Vafeades told the woman “she was his ‘slave’ on the truck,” and he beat her often, according to the affidavit. Vafeades was eventually charged with kidnapping the woman and one other and transporting them for illegal sexual activity aboard his truck, dubbed the “Twilight Express.” Prosecutors alleged that he also kidnapped and sexually assaulted four other women over a span of two decades, subjecting them to beatings and holding them captive as he drove his truck across the country. The deal means Vafeades — referred to by local media as the “vampire” truck driver because of the fangs on false teeth he once wore — could face more than 20 years in prison.