While not all fifty cases have been tied to Rhoades yet and Rhoades himself has admitted to only three murders, the FBI has strong reason to believe that at his peak he was killing one to three women a month. Even so, it still wasn't safe to sleep. After she was rescued from Robert Ben Rhoades's vehicle, the woman told law enforcement that she had met the middle-aged husband and father at a truck stop, and he had agreed to give her a ride to her destination. That's exactly like him!" This kit included numerous sex toys, chains, whips, fishhooks, pins, and other items used to inflict on his captives. Ex-Wife Of Serial Killer Robert Ben Rhoades Speaks Out | Evil Lives Here: After the Evil. Clearly the answer is: Make a throw pillow. I didn't tell him about my recent inquiries at first; I just asked where he'd dropped me off. Thinking that it would be her word against his, his victim recanted her statement, and Rhoades was free to go. Walters and Walsh had been held captive by Rhoades while he traveled the interstate highways in his truck. Another is called "Beat Me Daddy," another "Frigid Woman." Robert Ben Rhoades (defendant), pursuant to negotiations with the State, on September 11, 1992, pled guilty to first-degree murder and was sentenced to imprisonment for natural life. This meant that several of the photos she was the subject of were taken during her last moments alive. An FBI agent who reviewed the contents of the briefcase dubbed it a "rape kit," and he claimed it was one of the most "refined" kits he'd ever seen, leading him to conclude Rhoades had been torturing and abusing victims for a very long time. The FBI believes that Rhoades was more than just a criminal who was caught keeping a woman in bondage they maintain that he was a ruthless serial killer who had been preying on victims since 1975. In the summer of 1985, the author was such a girl. He pulled the truck into a wooded area, took out a hunting knife, and told the girl to get into the bed of his truck. I imagined for a moment flying to Illinois. Sadly, while the remains of both Zyskowski and Walsh were discovered shortly after they were murdered, it took years for both of them to be identified and returned to their families. I had a guitar and a knapsack full of souvenirs of my girlhood: notes from friends, earrings, and song lyrics. When authorities in Texas were notified, they recognized her as being the same girl in some eerie photographs they seized from Rhoades' home after his April 1990 arrest. Plaintiff Robert Ben Rhoades, an inmate of the Illinois Department of Corrections ("IDOC") who is currently incarcerated at Menard Correctional Center, brings this action for deprivations of his constitutional rights pursuant to 42 U.S.C. Rhoades is additionally suspected of torturing, raping, and killing more than 50 . "Do you remember what his cab looked like? VI, 11, subd. Condamn la prison vie pour une srie de meurtres, il en a confess un nouveau . Investigation Discovery's ' Evil Lives Here: Deadly Fetish' has serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades' ex-wife, Debra Davis, talk about when she met Robert and how their relationship ended eventually. While we were asleep, he pulled into a small truck stop, and I woke to his hand down my shirt. But I hadn't seen any shackles. The girl, he said, "wasn't one of our own. His trucking logs place him in the area of fifty unsolved murders in the three years prior to his arrest alone. After that, she spoke of feeling inadequate and questioning if something was wrong with her. TV-14. Magazine porn often dominated the aislesglossies like Hustler and Barely Legal but also newsprint rags with cheap color covers. As many he would have picked up were transients themselves, they would most likely not be reported missing for some time after he abducted them. She had existed enough for me to call my dad all those years ago and warn him about what he would read. Rhoades is thought to have killed Zyskowski while the young man slept. Maybe they would remember something the others hadn't. All rights reserved. Had she ever heard about it? I had just hitched a ride and was sitting in a nearby truck waiting for the driver to pay for gas so we could leave. If we went missing, months could pass before a report was filed, and by then there was little to connect the missing person in one state with the decomposed remains in another. There was a Martinsburg truck stop somewhere in my story, and there was a dead 17-year-old hitchhiker. In one, he relaxed on the grass in a park. Looks too much like a target.". There was a gap before that line, and most truckers wouldn't take it that far. The arrest set off a chain of events that led to Robert being convicted for three murders and suspected of many more. He was not wearing flannel. I go through the paperwork, get fingerprinted and led through a channel of air-locked doors into a room with him. Friend, 43, says she wants "California voters to know what kind of offenders are on death row," men like Robert Boyd Rhoades, who sodomized, tortured and killed 8-year-old Michael Lyons two . It is glossy black and long. Watching the driver of my truck walk back across the wet asphalt, a second thought arose: It could be him. He was involved in the BDSM and swinger scene in his hometown of Houston. I watched the truck idle on the side of the road until it finally pulled off. Robert Ben Rhoades at one of his swingers clubs in Houston TX 1985. In Robert Ben Rhoades's truck, authorities recovered a briefcase filled with sex toys and torture devices which the hitchhiker said the trucker had used to abuse her over the course of several hours. robert ben rhoades, serial killer, torture, trucker Caught by Accident Robert Ben Rhoades. They are more like habits, he said, and can adapt to circumstances or mood. The ruling went on to question the admissibility of eyewitness testimony. Ad Choices, He was methodical, he rode the highways, and he preyed on teenage girls. Thank you very much in advance. Robert Benjamin Rhoades (born November 22, 1945), also known as The Truck Stop Killer, is an American serial killer and rapist. This former trucker is believed to have killed over 20 people spanning from 1975 to 1990. How could she lack evidence? Tall and square-jawed, Lee looked like he could probably still tackle a bank robber. I crouched on netted twigs and breathed into my shirt to muffle the sound. Last Photo Taken of Regina before she was killed by Robert Ben I remember being in the woods off I-95. Being 16 and in college is an easier thing to talk about. The morning I left, I asked him to take me to the closest truck stop so I could get a ride going toward California. Through these stories, I jumped from truck to truck. Sometimes, as with Shana Holts, the girl who had escaped in the brewery, the sense of not being credible was internalized. When you get in a truck at a truck stop, everyone notices. And they're right. However, shortly after they accepted a ride from Rhoades, the middle-aged trucker shot Zyskowski and dumped the 28-year-old's corpse near a Texas highway. Robert Ben Rhoades (born November 22, 1945), also known as The Truck Stop Killer, is a serial killer and rapist and a native of Council Bluffs. There were other points where she saw similarities and would say, "That sounds like Bob," but these were less emphatic, and it was hard to tell what she really thought. He lived with his mother, Fay Rhoades, and several siblings in a two bedroom home at 2400 Avenue D. Robert's father, Ben Rhoades,. I could easily imagine my own teenage voice whispering those same words. Lists about who they murdered, how they did it, and other horrifying facts that will keep you wide awake tonight, shaking your head at humanity. Now the whole Martinsburg truck stop had been swallowed by a Walmart Supercenter. All That's Interesting tells us that this trucker was Rhoades. He then tried to join the police force but was ultimately denied due to his robbery conviction. By her own account, she had been raped at least twenty times and had already had a baby. When I got home from West Virginia, a letter from Rhoades was waiting. They had to make up stories for me: "I got a beaver needs a ride to Flagstaff for her grandma's funeral don't want no trouble, c'mon back." When the Illinois state trooper who was trying to identify the body of Regina Walters, the girl Rhoades left in that barn, put her forensic description out on the national teletype, he was totally unprepared for the response. A few days later, Robert kidnapped another couple. "Bob was obsessed with how they used an imaginary secret society to keep her from running away," Davis said. She'd escaped when Rhoades pulled into a Houston brewery. One night on I-95, she hitched a ride from a stranger and endured the most terrifying moments of her life. The more I learned about Rhoades, the more I saw parallels between us. He sent me a text just as I was leaving Texas saying that "Debbie" was ready to talk. However, she fell asleep shortly after climbing into the vehicle, and when she awoke, she found Rhoades had placed restraints around her wrists and ankles. Eventually, law enforcement discovered Robert Ben Rhoades was a serial killer, in addition to being a sexual sadist who enjoyed torturing women and girls. They get more nuanced and elaborate, but the basic topography remains the same. Robert Ben Rhoades Father Killed himself after being charged with Fondoleding a fourteen year old girl. A week before the girl was found in the Dumpster, though, I'd gone to see my dad in Virginia. At night I listened to the voices of prostitutes on the CB, barely intelligible between streams of name-calling: "Hello, honey. He was grave and methodical as if preparing to dress a deer. I kept my eyes closed, stayed still, then rolled away from him, pretending I was still asleep. Similarly, Rhoades' hometown newspaper also noted that he was suspected of the torture, rape, and . Years later, Veselka read a news story about a serial killer who had been a long haul trucker named Robert Ben Rhoades. It was a woman, probably in her midfifties. Another prostitute had been grabbed there as well, in 2006, but was found farther down the road with her throat slit. Rhoades liked to think of himself as an "expert," and now Rhoades suggested he be paid as one. By then, though, I had been kicked out of two schools for absences and was cutting myself regularly. "Wait a minute. It was just a matter of looking harder. She later stated she did not report the incident because no one would have believed her, since there was no evidence. A trucker picked us up at daybreak, and I rode in a semi for the first time. The paper records had been destroyed for file space, and so nothing from the 1980s remained. Inside the cab of the truck was a woman, chained to the wall and screaming, with only a pair of slippers on her feet. So I told him the truth, which I had not told othersthat I didn't say anything because I didn't think anyone would believe me. Rhoades has spent the past few years in a Texas prison, but will soon be sent back to Illinois to serve the life sentences. Rhoades allegedly dumped the body of Walsh's husband, Douglas Scott Zyskowski, 28, in Texas. Sagittarius. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. It wasn't lost on me that while I was hitchhiking and he was driving, we would both have struggled with some of the same challengessleep deprivation and the hypnotic dullness of going through identical locations over and over, a world constructed of boredom and violence. I knew from talking to the Martinsburg police that the truck stop had been under the jurisdiction of the Berkeley County sheriff. He also wanted $500. Law enforcement eventually learned that in addition to BDSM, Rhoades was a swinger who regularly had sexual liaisons with other married people in his hometown of Houston, Texas. Her facial expression could be described as a combination of desperation and abject fear. She came over and gave me an open smile. By now papers and photographs were spread out all over the table, and Young was waiting for me to tell my story. ", Pennal was the woman chained into Rhoades's truck when they arrested him in Arizona. 1983. The picture was given to Young by Regina's mom. Robert Andrew "Bob" Berdella was an American serial killer from Kansas City, Missouri. He attempted college but he soon decided it wasnt for him and dropped out, becoming a long-haul truck driver instead. Robert Boyd Rhoades was sentenced to death Friday for the 1996 brutal attack on 8-year-old Michael Lyons. Walsh's remains were found in October 1990 in central Utah, but not identified until 2003, with the help of dental records. While the first few months were great, Debra noticed that Roberts appetite for sex increased. Fondoleding a fourteen year old girl. Eventually, they reconciled and got married as well. Rhoades. He was wrong. The trial began in 1994 and Robert was ultimately convicted of the first-degree murder of Regina Kay Walters. In 2009 the feds went public with a program called the Highway Serial Killings Initiative in response to a rising number of dead bodies found along the interstates. Had I confused the state? She never reported the incident, as she had promised Robert. "Her body was found months later so she was probably kept alive for a while," Smith said. We drove up to Ohio drinking Diet Coke and listening to Bruce Springsteen. Between the seats in the rear of the cab was a woman bound by chains. Rhoades had told her to "sit there and be a good girl." When he was caught, he said that he had been "doing this" for fifteen years, which would put the onset of his murders back into the 1970s. She was wearing those slippersbut she was telling the truth. But beyond that, it was the man's demeanor that was so chilling. I have no fascination with serial killers, so I didn't realize that Rhoades was famous. Lee still uses the tape when he trains police detectives in interrogation. She was on a trip with her husband, Bob, the last she ever took in his truck. I remember coming down through the Blue Ridge Mountains in a truck with its brakes on fire and dropping over Chester Gap in the middle of the night when it was still hot and the air was loud with the chirping of bugs. The phrase "play, pass, run" is used twice in the letter. Before serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades killed his victims, he like to snap a photo of them. Bruce Willis. After receiving my friend's e-mail, I left messages with the FBI but was relieved when they were not returned. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. When she saw Miller, she began screaming for help (via GQ). Rhoades is currently being held in an Illinois prison where he will spend the rest of his days behind bars. Further compounding this problem is that Rhoades did not presumably kill his victims where he met them. The stores were dimly lit and filled with smoke, radically different from the family travel plazas of today. The body was found in 1990, but not identified until 1992. Rhoades looked like the guy who picked me up. The sentence of death had been a possibility because on May 6, 1992, the State had filed a notice that it intended to seek the death penalty. His favorite book was Games People Play, wherein each social encounter is treated as a transaction or "game." As the details unfolded, it was discovered that Walters and Ricky Lee Jones had been picked up while hitchhiking by a truck driver outside of Houston. This tells me that he liked manipulating through terror. Rhoades was born to his middle name sake, Ben and his mother, Betty Rhoades, on November 22, 1945 in Council Bluffs Iowa, and was reportedly raised by his mother for most of his childhood. She had a stocking down her throat, I think. In the second installment of Death on the Open Road: Highway Homicides, we cover the case of evil serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades aka The Truck Stop Killer. It's believed that Rhoades would abduct his prey from various truck stops and rest areas along his trucking route. She also claimed that Rhoades was bringing men into their home to act as her sex slaves. Robert Ben Rhoades, un serial killer amricain, vient de trouver un accord avec le bureau du procureur. Davis mentioned the case of Colleen Stan, a 21-year-old hitchhiker who had been kidnapped in 1977 by a couple who tortured her and kept her as a sex slave for seven years while she slept in a box under their bed. If Rhoades hadn't been stopped by a patrolman on I-10 in Casa Grande, Ariz., in 1990, his crimes might never have been discovered. plans and enthusiasm She didn't do what he expected. It allowed me to pretend not to hear scary red-flag comments so I could act dumb and get away later, and this is what I was doing that day, going through a tape case, chatting like an idiot and watching the driverwhich is why I saw him change. I asked. The couple were traveling from Georgia to Seattle when they allegedly crossed paths with Rhoades, a long-haul trucker suspected of a decade of rape . The prisms of Regina Walters, Shana Holts, and Lisa Pennal refracted into a set of iconsone in the backseat of a car laughing as she leans on the headrest, one with the shorn red-gold hair and an expression of resilience, one slightly crazy and ready to fighteach casting her own light, each a hologram of girlhood. It's me, Sugar Bear, in party row. In 1984, he started dating Jerry Howell, a good-looking 19-year-old male prostitute. Appeal-Democrat. He would offer them a ride, charm them and seduce them. Then he said one word: Run. Walters, however, did not have such a quick and painless death. Debra wanted to give her money or do something. Rhoades antas ha torterat, vldtagit och mrdat fler n 50 kvinnor, [ 2] men endast 3 har bekrftats. Everything I expected from Bob Lee changed in that moment. Records on her would provide a date and a place that could then be checked against Rhoades's trucking logs. Performance & security by Cloudflare. Though her remains were discovered within months of her death, it wasn't until 2003 that she was able to be positively identified (via The Daily Nonpareil). Over time, I learned safer ways of getting rides by having truckers navigate the CB radio for me. I found her in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette later that night. In the 1990s, the Berkeley County sheriff's department's computer crashed and burned. Walsh was murdered, and her body was dumped in Utah. He talked about it frequently and applied its ideas. The Daily Nonpareil reports thatRobert Ben Rhoades was set to be free on work release when Illinois police identified the body of 14-year-old Regina Walters. He got over 900 matches. This Picture was the key evidence photo. ", I was in the one place where I knew for certain women had been found, one less than a hundred yards away from where she was standing. The victim began saying anything she could think of to try and save her own life. Wearing down from lack of sleep and trying to get a handle on my risk level, I began to work off a 1-to-5 scale of sexually aggressive behavior: You (the driver) kept your urges to yourself. There's a picture of him in leather and chains that floats around the Internet. The trucker went to pay for gas, and my boyfriend and I went to use the bathroom. "Did you ever hear of anything like that at all, in other times, any other bodies of women found along this stretch of I-70? She would be easy to dismiss. People Also Viewed . The case of Robert Ben Rhoades serves as an excellent example of the type and nature of case to which VICAP s services would provide critical assistance and support. It was off the side of the freeway and probably very much like the one Regina Walters was found in. Rhoades whipped her repeatedly, causing red welts to appear all over her chest and back, and he had a briefcase in his truck, filled with toys and tools her used to sadistically torture and abuse the hitchhiker. At the time, she was out with friends when she came across Robert in a pilots uniform. I needed to understand what my responsibility was and to find my own answers, if nobody else's, so I began to look. The only thing they neglected to take down is a website with the words Martinsburg TravelCenter of America flashing like a beacon online. Murderpedia has thousands of hours of work behind it. Murder Victim. But Rhoades was cunning and highly charismatic. He would then keep them alive, torturing and sexually assaulting them for weeks at a time before murdering them and disposing of their bodies. Every trucker I ever met had a gun, so the knife seemed significant. While she slept, he handcuffed her hands and feet. It was a ghost story. She had been missing from the Houston area since early 1990 after running off with her boyfriend. But in the picture, with her inch-long hair and dog collar, she looked like a gutter punk, like any girl you might see in any university district. Wherever I went, I was told nothing "like that" ever happened, which was remarkable given the numbers of bodies the FBI had tracked over the past thirty years. Behind him was a shoulder-high pink plastic castle. they uncovered a number of disturbing photographs, taken right before he murdered one of his teenage victims, Inside the cab of the truck was a woman, chained to the wall and screaming, Rhoades had converted the cab of his truck into a mobile torture chamber, he told her his nickname was "Whips and Chains. Movie Actor. Why didn't I go to anyone? Inside the briefcase, officers found dildos, alligator clips, handcuffs, leashes, and whips, as well as pins which Rhoades had used to pierce the young woman's nipples and genitals. The driver reached the cab, swung up behind the wheel, and said we should get going. But an expert in what, I thought, killing? Look at Lisa Pennal. Rhoades is considered one of the most dangerous and notorious serial sex offenders and killers in the United States. Robert took Regina to an abandoned farmhouse. When he grew tired of her, he choked her to death with a garrote made of baling wire (via The Daily Nonpareil). Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Robert Boyd Rhoades was sentenced Friday to die by lethal injection for the rape, torture and murder of an 8-year-old Yuba City boy kidnapped three years ago while walking. I stuck to trucks because they were safer than cars. "He's 67. Rhoades was a long-haul trucker, in jail since 1990, who had recently been convicted of a couple of new "cold cases." That first night, my boyfriend and I stayed in an abandoned barn in Maryland. Her statement was videotaped the night she was freed from Rhoades's truck. There was going to be no more talking. 6min. she said. In a letter to his wife on the subject of psychological games, he wrote: "I always told you there were three things you could do: play, pass, or run." Narrowing the field to those last seen around truck stops and rest areas, the bureau counted over 500 bodies, almost all women. The woods were blue in the gray light, which was either dusk or a coming storm. In 1994, Rhoades was convicted of the first degree murder of Regina Kay Walters and was slated to be tried for two more before charges were dropped due to the wishes of victims' families. 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