For four years, the highway connecting Tamil Nadu and Karnataka weren’t just roads—they were hunting grounds. While the cities slept, a faceless predator operated in the truck stops, bypasses, and service roads. This is the entry for M. Jaishankar, a man whose life as a trucker provided the perfect camouflage for a psychopathic spree.
The Highway Dawn
Between 2008 and 2012, M. Jaishankar utilized the anonymity of the interstate highway system to target over 20 women across two states, vanishing into the night after every strike. (AI Generated Image)
The First Alarm
While he initially targeted sex workers, the 2009 murder of a female police constable in Tamil Nadu brought “Psycho Shankar” into the national spotlight, launching a massive multi-state manhunt. (AI Generated Image)
The Vanishing Act
In 2011, Shankar executed a daring escape at the Salem bus stand while being escorted to court. The humiliation of the slip-up was so great that one of his escorting officers tragically took his own life. (AI Generated Image)
The 30-Foot Fall
His most notorious escape came in 2013, when he scaled the walls of Bengaluru’s high-security prison. But “freedom” lasted only five days—a fall during the descent shattered his spine, ending his ability to run forever. (AI Generated Image)
The Captured Spine
Paralyzed and bedridden, the once-feared predator became a ghost within the prison system. The man who lived for the high-speed freedom of the highway was now trapped in the ultimate cage: his own immobile body. (AI Generated Image)
The Hospital Ward
Slipping into a deep depression due to his condition, Shankar spent his final days under constant watch. The wide area he once terrorised was reduced to the four grey walls of a medical cell. (AI Generated Image)
Case Closed
Finally in 2018, the casebook on M. Jaishankar finally closed. Found in his cell after a final, desperate act by sliting his throat using a broken shaving blade, the highway psycho’s reign of terror ended not on the open road, but in the silence of a prison.
