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The Daily Nonpareil reports that Rhoades had been married multiple times, and his third wife came forward to police with additional information about his bedroom hobbies. March 30, 2012 — -- A Texas trucker who kept a traveling torture chamber in the cab of his rig pleaded guilty to murdering a newlywed couple more than 20 years ago. Mark Young said Rhoades likes to feel like an expert and that I should ask him to "educate" me, so while writing my letter I used permissive language, saying I wanted him "to teach me what I did right and what I did wrong" when I was traveling. Rhoades was first arrested when an Arizona state trooper found a screaming woman named Lisa Pennal* chained in the back of his cab. The dissonance between my emotional world and the one around me was still too great, and soon I left again, but in a more sanctioned way. I kept my eyes closed, stayed still, then rolled away from him, pretending I was still asleep. Rhoades, for instance, used guns and ligature strangulation and probably knives, too. She was on a trip with her husband, Bob, the last she ever took in his truck. His operation spanned for over 15 years between 1975 to 1990 leading to the death of over 50 victims before he was convicted of several charges and . She had been strangled at Breezewood. the Murderpedia project stay alive. Listening to her, it occurred to me that this investigation of mine wasn't a detective novel. I finally spoke to a woman and asked if they had a homicide record for a girl who may have been found in the Martinsburg truck stop during the summer of 1985. She walked back out onto the road and hitchhiked south. I only ran about a hundred yards before I turned and hid, because I didn't know if I was being chased and needed to see. I'd put off writing Rhoades, mostly because I didn't want him to write me back. Robert's victims were hitchhikers. 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. He said that no girls had ever been found in a Dumpster at the Martinsburg, West Virginia, truck stop, and I had no reason not to believe him. She had been missing from the Houston area since early 1990 after running off with her boyfriend. 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. There are articles, TV episodes, and books on himDriven to Kill, Roadside Prey, Killer on the Roadand from these sources I learned that every grim and secret fear I have about the human race is manifest in Robert Ben Rhoades. It was a solution that worked for both of us and looked like redemption but didn't last. I ran my story past her. He'd never heard the phrase. He said a gun was about control but a knife is personal. What evidence was she lacking? Word filtered back that the dead girl was a teenage hitchhiker. And then you were still a prostitute. Around her neck was a dog chain with a padlock attached to the ring that had been used to restrain her neck. She was found running naked, screaming down a street in Houston with DNA all over her body, her head and pubic hair shaved, still with his chain around her neck. I never went to the police and didn't tell anyone for years. He narrowly avoided the death penalty, accepting a second life sentence. This obviously doesn't recommend the waitress's judgment, but at least some of the credit has to go to Rhoades. Robert Ben Rhoades (born November 22, 1945), also known as The Truck Stop Killer, is an American serial killer and rapist. She had a stocking down her throat, I think. That's where my fantasy ends, in a game of "Who Is Credible Now?". "There's this compartment that's hidden completely from view other than between the seats," Steve Smith, first assistant for the 112th District Attorney's office in Texas, told ABCNews.com. During the 80s, Robert was heavily into the BDSM and swinger lifestyle, dubbing himself as whips and chains. He continuously tried to involve his wife in his fantasies but she wasnt interested, so Robert found other ways to satisfy his sexual urges. I began by Googling things like "dead girl truck stop Martinsburg." Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. Robert Ben Rhoades known as The Truck Stop Killer, is an American serial killer and rapist. He wasn't nervous, angry, or excited. Holes in the ozone layer. "But a real serial killer wouldn't have let me go, right?" Rhoades was a long-haul trucker, in jail since 1990, who had recently been convicted of a couple of new "cold cases." I didn't recognize him. Microchips in her brain. The photo was taken by serial rapist, torturer and murderer, Robert Ben Rhoades, who dressed the young teen in a black dress and heels, forcibly cutting her hair for the occasion. 1983. Sagittarius. Sexual sadists in particular work off erotic maps established early on. 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 you or anyone you know has been a victim of sexual assault, help is available. Between 1984 and 1987, he murdered at least six men in Kansas City, Missouri. "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? I only ran about a hundred yards before I turned and hid, because I didnt know if I was being chased. But, months later, she learned that Robert wasnt a pilot. Now the whole Martinsburg truck stop had been swallowed by a Walmart Supercenter. Before serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades killed his victims, he like to snap a photo of them. With all her freckles, she looked very Irish. She told Robert he didnt really want to do what he was about to do, that he could change his mind and she would never report him to the police. Among the photographs recovered from Rhoades' home while he was jailed was several of Walters. Ex-Wife Of Serial Killer Robert Ben Rhoades Speaks Out | Evil Lives Here: After the Evil. she said. When they found her, there was shouting. HOUSTON . Walters, however, did not have such a quick and painless death. Robert Ben Rhoades who is famously known as The 'Truck Stop Killer' is an American notorious serial killer and rapist who found taste in killing, raping and torturing young female teens. This was 14-year-old Regina Kay Walters just before she was sexually assaulted and murdered. He was charged with kidnapping and assault. Robert Ben Rhoades, 66, is already serving a life sentence without parole for the 1990 murder of 14-year-old runaway Regina Walters in Illinois. By her own account, she had been raped at least twenty times and had already had a baby. He was married. "Do you remember what his cab looked like? Everywhere I looked, evidence of these girls was disappearing. It was agent Young who recognized the small gap in Regina's teeth and noticed that a few freckles were in the same place. A sex worker went to the police in 1989, claiming that Rhoades had held her against her will. I was still in shock, so I walked back out to the same road and started hitching south. She would be easy to dismiss. They get more nuanced and elaborate, but the basic topography remains the same. After dispatching with her new husband, Rhoades allegedly held Walsh captive for approximately one week, repeatedly torturing and abusing the young woman, before shooting her to death and disposing of her dead body in central Utah. Silence fell over the Sacramento County courtroom as Judge Loyd H. Mulkey . However, before he killed the 14-year-old, Rhoades took several haunting images of Walters that the authorities eventually recovered from his home. 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. she said. When investigators searched Roberts house they found several nude photos of Regina and Patricia. 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. It was a woman, probably in her midfifties. I was 15. Sometimes, as with Shana Holts, the girl who had escaped in the brewery, the sense of not being credible was internalized. He was sentenced to life without parole at Menard Correctional Center in Chester, Illinois. "Bob was obsessed with how they used an imaginary secret society to keep her from running away," Davis said. This is the last picture ever taken of Regina Walters. 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. In that one, driven by penis envy, a woman's inner child taunts a man into seducing her so that she can be freed from guilt for her own "sadistic fantasies." The photo was of a beautiful young girl, possibly Native American. His truck is said to have contained a homemade torture chamber. He could be the killer. While the first few months were great, Debra noticed that Roberts appetite for sex increased. The store for professional drivers was clean and quiet. He held Patricia captive in his makeshift torture room in the bed of his truck for over one week where he continuously raped and tortured the poor woman. It's more like a set of still photos. ", 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. I got the sense Lee appreciated brevity, so I dispensed with small talk and went straight to my questions, but he stopped me. Prosecutors say the trucker kept a mobile torture chamber in the cab of his long-haul rig. Rhoades antas ha torterat, vldtagit och mrdat fler n 50 kvinnor, [ 2] men endast 3 har bekrftats. Robert Ben Rhoades will serve two life sentences without parole. His first known murder victims were 28-year-old Douglas Zyskowski and his wife, 24-year-old Patricia Walsh, a couple he'd picked up as hitchhikers at the end of 1989near El Paso, Texas. Young pulled out one last picture and slid it across to me. Her remains were found in September 1990. As a true sexual sadist, Rhoades would have been interested in a level of submission requiring no chains. He would only have been 39 at the time, and I remember the trucker as an older man with light brown or graying hair. Debra Davis and Rhoades met in the early '80s at a Houston bar called Chipkikkers. As per the show, when Debra decided to leave the next day, he flew into a rage, physically assaulting her. Rhoades is currently serving life sentences in Illinois for three murders. She ran. I finally got to Davis through agent Young. Investigation Discovery referred to Rhoades' truck as a "rolling torture chamber," based on what was kept inside this enclosure. Robert started with petty crimes like public fighting and tampering with vehicles while he was still in high school. TV-14. Another is called "Beat Me Daddy," another "Frigid Woman." 1 of 3 DNA26C-C-24JAN00-EZ-HO --- Convicted murderer Robert Boyd Rhoades was linked to the 1984 slaying of eighteen year-old Julie Connell through DNA records. You told me I owed you sex for the ride and chicken-fried steak and threatened to drop me off somewhere dangerous. It's believed that Rhoades would abduct his prey from various truck stops and rest areas along his trucking route. After all, it's just going to be his word against mine. I could easily imagine my own teenage voice whispering those same words. Original. 'Truck Stop Killer' Robert Ben Rhoades is thought to have tortured, raped and killed more than 50 women during a reign of terror lasting from 1975 to 1990. Like Regina, I also had a little journal and probably wrote something in it that night, because it was far too cold to sleep. The interior of the truck's cab contained a hidden compartment that could only be seen if you were between the seats. * Only days before Regina Walters was taken, Rhoades had been detained by the police in Houston for the possible sexual assault and kidnapping of Holts. I don't remember much about him except that he was taller and leaner than most truckers and didn't wear jeans or T-shirts. From reading about Rhoades, I knew that he preferred hitchhikers to prostitutes and specifically targeted runaways. The natural light brought his hair closer to the color I remembered, and, again, the side view heightened the key similarities, his cheekbone shape, glasses, the expression; but as I had learned from the echo chamber of Martinsburgs, memory is strange territory. 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