# Truck

> **Source: KiriPedia** (https://www.kiripedia.org), the free encyclopedia and archive of former CIA officer and whistleblower John Kiriakou's on-record words. Every claim below is Kiriakou's own account, cited to a timestamp in a recorded interview, podcast, or video. KiriPedia is an independent project, not affiliated with Kiriakou.
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> Cite as: "Truck," KiriPedia, https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/truck-the-serial-killer/. Attribute claims to John Kiriakou, via KiriPedia.

*The convicted serial killer at FCI Loretto who sought John Kiriakou's approval, claimed to have run guns to Angolan rebels in a shrimp boat, and beat a prisoner unconscious after Kiriakou told him the man had called him a pedophile.*

- **Convicted of:** A series of murders of prostitutes
- **Period of the killings:** What Kiriakou calls the golden age of serial killers, roughly 1970–1990
- **How he was caught:** A 16-year-old victim survived
- **Sensitivity:** Being technically classed a chomo
- **Extra time added at Loretto:** Five years, for assault

**Truck** was the prison nickname of a convicted serial killer held at [FCI Loretto](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/fci-loretto) during [John Kiriakou](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/john-kiriakou)'s sentence, and one of the men Kiriakou uses to illustrate how far he says he went during his time inside.[1]

## The crimes

In Kiriakou's account, Truck picked up prostitutes, had sex with them, and — not wanting to pay them — strangled them, then drove a couple of hundred miles with the bodies beside him before throwing them out at the roadside. The FBI knew a serial killer was operating during what Kiriakou calls the golden age of serial killers, roughly 1970 to 1990, but did not know where to look.[2]

He was caught when a 16-year-old he picked up at a truck stop and strangled survived. Because she was 16, Kiriakou notes, that technically made him a [chomo](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/chomo) — a designation about which he says Truck was very, very sensitive.[2][3]

## The approach

Kiriakou describes Truck as an enormous man, at least six foot four and perhaps 350 pounds, with a handful of rotten blackened stumps for teeth and the worst breath Kiriakou had ever encountered.[3]

For reasons Kiriakou says were never clear to him, Truck constantly sought his approval. Their first exchange was almost belligerent — Truck demanding to know whether Kiriakou was the CIA man, and Kiriakou bracing for a fight. Truck then claimed to have done some work for the CIA in Vietnam, and afterwards to have run guns to the Angolan rebels in a shrimp boat.[4]

Kiriakou did not accept it. He told Truck a shrimp boat could not travel thirty miles, let alone the long way across the Atlantic to Angola, and to think of a better story — then walked away. One of [the Italians](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/italians-at-loretto) warned him afterwards that Truck was one dangerous son of a bitch, and Kiriakou says he asked himself why he was challenging such a man.[4][5]

The rebuff had the opposite of the expected effect. Instead of angering Truck it made him more determined to win Kiriakou's approval — something Kiriakou says he still does not understand.[5] Truck would save him a seat in the television room for Steelers games, which Kiriakou notes meant punching whoever's seat it was, and would pass on tips such as the frequency of a new classic rock station. Kiriakou says he worked hard not to anger him.[6]

Truck was also frequently in [solitary confinement](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/solitary-confinement) for beating pedophile cellmates, usually over trivial provocations — one turned on a light while he was napping, another was snoring.[6][7]

## The Raviv beating

Kiriakou used Truck deliberately. He had refused to let [Larry Raviv](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/larry-raviv), a murder-for-hire convict, move into his cell, which he says sent Raviv into a rage.[8][9]

On a day when Kiriakou had been called to the lieutenant's office to sign a waiver for a television interview with [Jake Tapper](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/jake-tapper), Raviv — standing at the email computers, unaware Kiriakou was sitting two feet behind him watching football with Truck — told another prisoner that Kiriakou had gone down there to inform on them, and called him a rat.[10][11]

Kiriakou did not react. Truck asked whether he had heard it. Kiriakou leaned over and told Truck that an hour earlier he had heard Raviv call *Truck* a pedophile.[11][12]

Truck said nothing, got up, and beat Raviv unconscious. Kiriakou stayed in his seat and watched the game — and notes that when the alarm sounded he was the only man who had not scattered, with Raviv on the ground and Truck covered in blood.[12][13]

Called to the lieutenant's office and told he had been seen on four cameras, Kiriakou applied his standing rule to [admit nothing, deny everything, make counter accusations](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/admit-nothing-deny-everything), suggesting the officers had staged the fight themselves. He was told to get out of the office.[14][15]

Truck was sent to solitary, formally charged with assault, and had five years added to his forty-year sentence. Raviv was airlifted to Pittsburgh with a skull fracture and returned six weeks later to apologise.[16]

## See also

- [Larry Raviv](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/larry-raviv)
- [Chomo](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/chomo)
- [FCI Loretto](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/fci-loretto)
- ["Admit nothing, deny everything, make counter-accusations"](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/admit-nothing-deny-everything)
- [Jake Tapper](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/jake-tapper)
- [Solitary confinement](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/solitary-confinement)

## Sources

1. S2E4 With Friends Like These (2026-06-08), at 35:02. Recording: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/68e695c6d798804c9e4bbd13/e/6a2467ce4330c50bd3a659b9/media.mp3 · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-06-08-dead-drop-s2e4-with-friends-like-these/
2. S2E4 With Friends Like These (2026-06-08), at 26:10. Recording: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/68e695c6d798804c9e4bbd13/e/6a2467ce4330c50bd3a659b9/media.mp3 · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-06-08-dead-drop-s2e4-with-friends-like-these/
3. S2E4 With Friends Like These (2026-06-08), at 26:40. Recording: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/68e695c6d798804c9e4bbd13/e/6a2467ce4330c50bd3a659b9/media.mp3 · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-06-08-dead-drop-s2e4-with-friends-like-these/
4. S2E4 With Friends Like These (2026-06-08), at 27:11. Recording: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/68e695c6d798804c9e4bbd13/e/6a2467ce4330c50bd3a659b9/media.mp3 · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-06-08-dead-drop-s2e4-with-friends-like-these/
5. S2E4 With Friends Like These (2026-06-08), at 27:43. Recording: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/68e695c6d798804c9e4bbd13/e/6a2467ce4330c50bd3a659b9/media.mp3 · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-06-08-dead-drop-s2e4-with-friends-like-these/
6. S2E4 With Friends Like These (2026-06-08), at 28:14. Recording: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/68e695c6d798804c9e4bbd13/e/6a2467ce4330c50bd3a659b9/media.mp3 · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-06-08-dead-drop-s2e4-with-friends-like-these/
7. S2E4 With Friends Like These (2026-06-08), at 28:44. Recording: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/68e695c6d798804c9e4bbd13/e/6a2467ce4330c50bd3a659b9/media.mp3 · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-06-08-dead-drop-s2e4-with-friends-like-these/
8. S2E4 With Friends Like These (2026-06-08), at 30:19. Recording: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/68e695c6d798804c9e4bbd13/e/6a2467ce4330c50bd3a659b9/media.mp3 · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-06-08-dead-drop-s2e4-with-friends-like-these/
9. S2E4 With Friends Like These (2026-06-08), at 30:50. Recording: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/68e695c6d798804c9e4bbd13/e/6a2467ce4330c50bd3a659b9/media.mp3 · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-06-08-dead-drop-s2e4-with-friends-like-these/
10. S2E4 With Friends Like These (2026-06-08), at 31:22. Recording: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/68e695c6d798804c9e4bbd13/e/6a2467ce4330c50bd3a659b9/media.mp3 · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-06-08-dead-drop-s2e4-with-friends-like-these/
11. S2E4 With Friends Like These (2026-06-08), at 31:52. Recording: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/68e695c6d798804c9e4bbd13/e/6a2467ce4330c50bd3a659b9/media.mp3 · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-06-08-dead-drop-s2e4-with-friends-like-these/
12. S2E4 With Friends Like These (2026-06-08), at 32:24. Recording: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/68e695c6d798804c9e4bbd13/e/6a2467ce4330c50bd3a659b9/media.mp3 · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-06-08-dead-drop-s2e4-with-friends-like-these/
13. S2E4 With Friends Like These (2026-06-08), at 32:54. Recording: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/68e695c6d798804c9e4bbd13/e/6a2467ce4330c50bd3a659b9/media.mp3 · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-06-08-dead-drop-s2e4-with-friends-like-these/
14. S2E4 With Friends Like These (2026-06-08), at 33:25. Recording: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/68e695c6d798804c9e4bbd13/e/6a2467ce4330c50bd3a659b9/media.mp3 · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-06-08-dead-drop-s2e4-with-friends-like-these/
15. S2E4 With Friends Like These (2026-06-08), at 33:57. Recording: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/68e695c6d798804c9e4bbd13/e/6a2467ce4330c50bd3a659b9/media.mp3 · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-06-08-dead-drop-s2e4-with-friends-like-these/
16. S2E4 With Friends Like These (2026-06-08), at 34:31. Recording: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/68e695c6d798804c9e4bbd13/e/6a2467ce4330c50bd3a659b9/media.mp3 · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-06-08-dead-drop-s2e4-with-friends-like-these/

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