An Alabama truck driver has been indicted on murder and DUI charges for allegedly causing eight crashes along an interstate earlier this year, dubbed the "27 miles of terror" by prosecutors, in the middle of rush hour. A college football player was killed during the highway mayhem.

John McAdams, 31, allegedly admitted to drinking an "unknown amount of tequila" from a water bottle and taking kratom — an herbal supplement that is sold as an "energy booster, mood lifter, [and] pain reliever," per the Mayo Clinic — before causing the wrecks on Interstate 65 with his Peterbilt 18-wheeler on May 6.

McAdams was indicted this week by a grand jury and charged with one count of murder for the death of 22-year-old Adamsville native William Hardrick, six counts of leaving the scene of an accident, o

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