Bruce Mendenhall at his murder trial 2007

Bruce, thanks for taking the time out to talk with us. If you could, please give our readers a little info about you as a person. Can you tell us a little about growing up and where you came from.
Well, I’m the middle child out of 11, Grew up a farm kid from Robinson, Illinois. I started out south of Robinson and ended up north of Robinson (Trimble, Illinois)

What are some of your favorite hobbies/activities?
My favorite hobby I guess would be bowling, activity would be gardening or wood working.

You’ve done a lot of driving, where are some of your favorite places to go?
I guess I don’t have a personal spot, but I always liked driving from St Paul, Minnesota to Dallas, Texas and back

What is your daily routine?
My daily routine is crawling up in my bed and sleeping since that’s all I have to do.  I get woke up at 4:30am for a shot of insulin 70/30. I go back to sleep, seems like 15 mins but it’s an hour and a half. The guard bangs on the door wanting to know if you want your one hour rec time (which is walking around outside in a dog pen). …and then from 6am to whatever breakfast is served on a plastic tray and then we go to rec.  After rec, I am back in my cell the rest of the day. The only other time I get out of this cell is to see a doctor, get my teeth pulled or to see my lawyer which is seldom if ever. I have one more visit (well maybe two more visits) to the dentists trying to fix my teeth Sgt. Postiglione either broke off or cracked to where infection set in. So I now gum things until I get fitted with false teeth.

What are some of your favorite Movies? Books? TV Shows? Music?
Favorite movie - Oh God! TV show would have to be Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Little House on the Prairie, Grand Ole Opry.

Movies, Home Alone (1 and 2), John Wayne(anything), Jerry Lewis movies with Dean Martin.

Books by James Patterson, Nora Roberts, John Grisham, Patricia Cornwell, Faye Kellerman, Elmore Leonard,  John Sanford Roberts, Jr.

Music -  No one, except Josh Turner from today’s list of stars, but back in the 50’s and 60’s I could name a bunch of Rock and Roll and Country.

What is your favorite flavor of ice cream? What is your favorite food? Are you a good cook?
Favorite ice cream is butter pecan. Favorite food is stuffed green peppers. Good cook? Shit I burn hot water. If it doesn’t come out of a can or box I’ll starve.

If you were given the chance to fight anyone, alive or dead, who would you fight and why?
Would have to be Muhammad Ali, he was the greatest fighter to ever grace us. Why? Hmm…I guess I could take a dive in the first round and still make money!

What were you arrested for? And what sentence were you given? Was the arrest just or has there been much said about you that simply isn’t true?
I was arrested for the murder of Sara Nicole Hulbert on July 12, 2007. They had nothing on me, so they hired a snitch to say I hired him to kill three other people (which I didn’t). Well, I got 30 yrs at 30 percent so then I got to the murder trial and I got 50 with no parole. There was a lot of falsification from start to finish, and it is still being done in the newspaper.

Before your arrest did you have faith in the system? What about now? And if not, can you explain a little why?
Not 100 percent, but I always thought our constitution was best but not anymore, a lot of other countries' laws are a lot better than ours.

In many high profile cases there always seems to be a rush to judgment. In my thinking, authorities want to close a case as fast as they can because it makes them look good in the public eye, all the while not caring whose lives they destroy in the process.  What can the people in this country do to try to change this? Do you think it will ever be changed?
The only way I can see that can be done to correct things like my arrest is to have the FBI watching the police station more closely. You have to have some kind of watch dog on police computers. No, I do not because it will involve too many people having to admit there was wrong doing being done, and it just won’t happen.

Is there anyone specific involved in your case that deserves to be named to the public regarding their actions?
Sgt. Pat Postiglione and Charles Freeman, they arrested me on July 7, 2007, no arrest warrant, no search warrant, they automatically told TV news that I admitted being involved before I was ever booked, I was never mirandized then they get officer moyer to use the computer to falsify everything but it still won’t get me found guilty so they plant a weapon on my possession (my truck), gun never was connected to me serial number-wise.

Sgt. Postiglione and C. Freeman thought they were going to lose the solicitation for murder trial so they had me on America’s Most Wanted two weeks prior to jury selection. Now I have another trial coming up in Wilson County and here Postiglione is telling the news I killed someone out west and just changed my M.O.

Upon release, where is the first place you will go and who is the first person you will visit?
First place is my home. My children and my grandchildren. Sisters and brothers, uncle, aunts.

Bruce, thanks again for the time, Is there anything you would like to say to the people who are reading this? Are you looking for pen pals or people who may be able to give a helping hand in regards to your situation? Any parting words you’d like to say?
Not a problem, I just don’t think no one can or will help because Postiglione owns Nashville and surrounding areas and he rules it with an iron fist. If he tells you to leave my case alone and you don’t, you’ll be sitting right here with me.

Sgt Postiglione came from Boston, Mass where he was fired for violating peoples constitutional rights and being too rough. 30 years later here in Nashville he has found a home where good cops look the other way while he defiles the badge of honor. On the day I was arrested he knocked me around and asked to searched my truck, so I was already angry with him - so I told him “ no, you get a search warrant”, he slaps me across the face saying he didn’t need my permission because he had probable cause. Blood on my thumb (which never was). My lawyers proved it in court. My constitutional rights – now if I had killed someone why didn’t Postiglione or Freeman do a gun powder residue test on my hands (never done). #2 girl killed was 5’7 116lbs 26 yrs old. I’m 56, 208lbs 5’ 10” or 11”, the so-called bullet pattern went into the back of this girls head from right to left in an upward movement lodging somewhere in her left temple …ok…I’m also a left handed shooter, if I had shot this girl the bullet would have went from left to right and a downward position. FBI said someone 5’7” or a little smaller shot this girl but HELLO….here I am.

My wife died 9 months after my arrest. I want people to help, but also pen pals who actually believe I am not guilty. The judge threw out the good stuff that would have helped me so it was me against the lying detectives, crooked DA because they knew the detectives were lying, a bad (very bad) judge who wouldn’t let the jury hear the truth. FBI agents ballistics reports, things on that order, just so many things went wrong nothing will ever be made right for me. I just hope and pray that no one else gets put where I was put three and a half years ago ever! May God bless you and people like you!

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