To revisit this article, visit My Profile, thenView saved stories. She occasionally speaks on domestic violence at conferences and in classrooms at AM. '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. Stowing his paperwork, he released the brake. The true number of victims of Robert Ben Rhoades may never be fully known, for a variety of reasons. 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. But beyond that, it was the man's demeanor that was so chilling. Police photo. 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. Around the same time that Robert joined the military, his father was arrested for molesting a twelve-year-old girl and ultimately committed suicide while awaiting trial. Initially, agents had disagreed over whether the young girl on Rhoades's film was Regina. You were not under his control. . "She's one of the invisible people. So, if youre curious about where Debra might be today, heres what we know. Sometimes they're threatening, sometimes cajoling, but always manipulative. Even at the time, I'd wondered if my running was part of the game. By then, though, I had been kicked out of two schools for absences and was cutting myself regularly. She had been missing from the Houston area since early 1990 after running off with her boyfriend. I have no fascination with serial killers, so I didn't realize that Rhoades was famous. But then, Rhoades looks like a lot of guys. On the couch beside me was a large pillow with the FBI seal. He requested information on missing Caucasian females aged 13 to 15 years old who had disappeared six to nine months earlier. Robert Ben Rhoades, who already is serving a life sentence for killing a 14-year-old girl in Illinois, pleaded guilty to two counts of capital murder when he appeared before a West Texas judge . It is glossy black and long. Performance & security by Cloudflare. Robert Ben Rhoades is a 71 year old white male, 6' 1" 175 pounds, and currently resides in the Menard Correctional Facility in Chester Illinois. Narrowing the field to those last seen around truck stops and rest areas, the bureau counted over 500 bodies, almost all women. It was a woman, probably in her midfifties. I kept my eyes closed, stayed still, then rolled away from him, pretending I was still asleep. 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. I began talking, saying the same things over and over. Among the photographs recovered from Rhoades' home while he was jailed was several of Walters. However, before he killed the 14-year-old, Rhoades took several haunting images of Walters that the authorities eventually recovered from his home. One snowy night several months later, I was hitchhiking through Amherst, Massachusetts, and a carful of students from Hampshire College picked me up and let me stay with them. I told Young about the Laughing Death Society. His clothes were gray or blue, but that may have been the light. They were both deeply religious, and they had intended to preach about Christianity when they reached the east coast. In January 1990, Douglas Zyskowski and his wife Patricia Candace Walsh were hitchhiking to Georgia from Seattle on their honeymoon when they accepted a ride from Robert. According to The Daily Nonpareil, Rhoades' truck logs placed him in the area where at least 50 unsolved murders were believed to have taken place. The victim began saying anything she could think of to try and save her own life. We both had our own systems, our own rituals, and our own beliefs about what people were really like and how they acted under pressure. 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. Suspected of killing and raping 100+ women while on the road in the 1980s and early 1990s. 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. Just a few months after she left Robert, he was taken into custody for a kidnapping. "No," she said, "I never heard of anything like that anywhere.". Patricia was newly married to Douglas Zyzkowski. Could Debra help solve an active investigation? 202202. Robert Ben Rhoades used his job as a long haul truck to satisfy his sexually sadistic needs. Prosecutors say the trucker kept a mobile torture chamber in the cab of his long-haul rig. The woods were blue in the gray light, which was either dusk or a coming storm. The next morning, I drove to the Gateway Travel Plaza in Breezewood, Pennsylvania. 24/7 coverage of breaking news and live events. He was convicted for three murders, and slated to be tried for two more before charges were dropped due to the wishes of victims' families. (Robert Ben Rhoades) It was agent Young who recognized the small gap in Regina's teeth and noticed that a few freckles were in the same place. Knowing the capacity of his sadism made this unbearable. 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. Despite the initial deception, Debra wanted to give the relationship a shot and continued to date him. He then tried to join the police force but was ultimately denied due to his robbery conviction. When a state trooper founda nude woman chained up and terrified in the cab of Robert Ben Rhoades's vehicle, he inadvertently stumbled upon a sadistic serial killer who had been using his job as a long-haul truck driver to find vulnerable victims for years. Rhoades had told her to "sit there and be a good girl." There was going to be no more talking. "We laugh at death," he told me. I flew to Austin to meet with two retired FBI men, special agents Mark Young and Robert F. Lee, who'd both worked on the case. It was a solution that worked for both of us and looked like redemption but didn't last. Robert shot and killed Douglas right away and dumped his body in Sutton County, Texas. The photos stayed in my head, though, and with them came questions: What if the man who pulled the knife on me really did murder the hitchhiker? The trucker bought me lunch and didn't even try to have sex with me, which made him a prince in my world. Another is called "Beat Me Daddy," another "Frigid Woman." Girls no one would miss. 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. 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 1989 near El Paso, Texas. A trucker picked us up at daybreak, and I rode in a semi for the first time. Had I confused the state? Rhoades is considered one of the most dangerous and notorious serial sex offenders and killers in the United States. Robert Ben Rhoades was born in Council Bluffs in 1945. 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. The interior of the truck's cab contained a hidden compartment that could only be seen if you were between the seats. Rhoades in Bond County IL Barn. 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. According to the FBI, quite a few. The newspapers were equally silent. Today, Davis lives in College Station, Texas, and her kids, the product of a previous marriage, are grown. The rig was equipped with handcuffs on the ceiling, which enabled Rhoades to chain his female victims so that he could torture them before killing them. The serial killer's name was Robert Ben Rhoades. My memory may have been bent by sleep deprivation, but I was not crazy. The trial began in 1994 and Robert was ultimately convicted of the first-degree murder of Regina Kay Walters. It's supposed that Rhoades quickly killed Jones and disposed of his body (via The Telegraph). A few minutes later, he pulled the truck onto the shoulder of the road by some woods, took out a hunting knife, and told me to get into the back of the cab. Debra had a difficult time coping with the news that Robert had tortured women and killed multiple people. It's believed that Rhoades would abduct his prey from various truck stops and rest areas along his trucking route. His eyes were greeted with a shocking scene. It was in this compartment that Robert Ben Rhoadesconstructed a tiny room of horrors to hold his undetermined number of victims. 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. He was wrong. One story Debra Davis told still haunts me. I hadn't been able to get a copy of Shana Holts's police report because I was told there was no official suspect. Defendant Robert Boyd Rhoades was convicted of the first degree murder of Michael Lyons, with special circumstances of murder in the commission of forcible sodomy, murder in the commission of a lewd act on a child, and murder by torture. He wore a cotton button-down with the sleeves rolled neatly up over his biceps and had the cleanest cab I ever saw. You didn't do it.". 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. 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. Holes in the ozone layer. Between 1984 and 1987, he murdered at least six men in Kansas City, Missouri. He was grave and methodical as if preparing to dress a deer. Over lunch at a local sushi place, he taught me the difference between a mode of operation and a signature. When you get in a truck at a truck stop, everyone notices. 76 Year Olds. 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. She's tried to put the years with Rhoades behind her but still gets letters from him sporadically. I asked. In Martinsburg, West Virginia, where the truck stop should be is a massive Walmart stretching flat and endless along a parking lot the size of a lake. Robert Ben Rhoades. : r/pics r/pics 10 yr. ago Posted by punkindrublicrpp Before serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades killed his victims, he like to snap a photo of them. At first, I would ask about the girl in the Dumpster, but no one had heard of her, so I asked if there had ever been any women found in truck stops. He stopped responding to my questions. Debra stated that he seemed like a nice guy, and they eventually started dating. for the slayings of Patricia Walsh, 24, and her husband Douglas Scott Zyskowski, 28. He narrowly avoided the death penalty, accepting a second life sentence. Debra also mentioned that she remarried and worked with domestic abuse and rape survivors. Rhoades was from Texas. Candace Walsh and her husband Douglas Zyskowski were hitchhiking when Rhoades' picked them up in a truck stop. I only saw the man with the knife. I stayed there until I saw the truck pull onto the interstate. In her mouth was a bit similar to ones used for horses. But his insistence that everything on board was consensual wasn't going to go without investigation by Miller, especially when a search of Rhoades revealed a loaded handgun. Drew Peterson, former police sergeant, was sentenced to 38 years for the murder of his 3rd wife, Kathleen Savio. The sun is coming down on her long hair, and she's laughing. His favorite book was Games People Play, wherein each social encounter is treated as a transaction or "game." I don't think either of us knew what to do about it. 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." But to ex-wife Debra Davis, when they. "That's from my old SWAT jacket." Born in Council Bluffs, IA #7. Young was right. When they found her, there was shouting. Regina Walters and Ricky Jones were from Texas. Clearly the answer is: Make a throw pillow. He said a gun was about control but a knife is personal. As a 15-year-old, the author left home and became a hitchhiker, hopping from semi to semi on the interstate. He turned her slowly toward the girl and pointed. He immediately killed Doug and dumped his body in Texas. Who was the girl in the Dumpster? It said there had been a string of prostitute murders in truck stops in the area beginning in June of 1985, which was right on the edge of my time frame. Her hair, long at the time of her abduction, had been clumsily cut short. Rhoades, for instance, used guns and ligature strangulation and probably knives, too. Before serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades killed his victims, he like to snap a photo of them. I'm a 30-something true crime writer living in North America with my hubby & two fur babies https://thewickedtruthblog.com/membership Follow More from Medium Fatim Hemraj 8-Year-Old Boy Solves His Own Mom's Murder Fatim Hemraj Teen Murders Her Best Friend for $9 Million Dollars Jonathan Harker I thought that maybe in a truck stop where known murders had occurred, people would be more forthcoming. "He was on the interstate everywhere.". Walsh was murdered, and her body was dumped in Utah. Last Photo Taken of Regina before she was killed by Robert Ben Please enable javascript before you are allowed to see this page. Rickys remains were never located. She came over and gave me an open smile. It was just a matter of looking harder. 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. That first ride was a preview of how it would often go for me with truckersdodging sex and getting strandedbut I had learned one crucial lesson: When a truck slows down, you get up. "Wait a minute. That's where my fantasy ends, in a game of "Who Is Credible Now?". They chatter about it on the CB, and you are driving off in what amounts to a huge billboard advertising the name of the company. Walsh and Zyskowski, the newlywed victims, left Seattle in November 1989 to hitchhike to Georgia where they were going to preach the Christian gospel when Rhoades picked them up in Texas. She hid there until she was sure she heard his truck leave. Another prostitute had been grabbed there as well, in 2006, but was found farther down the road with her throat slit. He would only have been 39 at the time, and I remember the trucker as an older man with light brown or graying hair. This modus operandi makes it difficult for authorities to determine how many victims Robert Ben Rhoades had. He was involved in the BDSM and swinger scene in his hometown of Houston. After that, she spoke of feeling inadequate and questioning if something was wrong with her. Her own sister had been on the street, and she was overwhelmed by the woman at the door and didn't want to just walk away. *Some of the victims names have been changed. ", Inside the briefcase, officers found dildos, alligator clips, handcuffs, leashes, and whips. Young was a profiler for the bureau as well as a field agent. How could she lack evidence? It is also worth mentioning that Debra has spoken at domestic violence conferences over the years and shared her story. Shana was a pretty girl with freckles and blank blue eyes. Robert took Regina to an abandoned farmhouse. She would be easy to dismiss. She also claimed that Rhoades was bringing men into their home to act as her sex slaves. There was no safe way for me to get it. It's just going to be my word against his. The two had a few drinks together and danced that night. "He's 67. It said he would see me if I promised never to say that I had seen him or what had passed between us. Her body was left in the very barn she was last photographed in in rural Illinois. I knew from talking to the Martinsburg police that the truck stop had been under the jurisdiction of the Berkeley County sheriff. * 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 imagined for a moment flying to Illinois. This was 14-year-old Regina Kay Walters just before she was sexually assaulted and murdered. Serial Killer and Rapist Robert Ben Rhoades Case Review Profiling Evil The Interview Room Profiling Evil 129K subscribers 28K views Streamed 2 years ago Robert Benjamin Rhoades, also known as. Most truckers occupied the middle of the scale, but the trucker who resembled Rhoades didn't have a place on it. Robert's victims were hitchhikers. "There was that hitchhiker. They get more nuanced and elaborate, but the basic topography remains the same. But an expert in what, I thought, killing? 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. Like Regina, I also had a little journal and probably wrote something in it that night, because it was far too cold to sleep. 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." One night on I-95, she hitched a ride from a stranger and endured the most terrifying moments of her life. It was clear Rhoades had been using the relative anonymity of the nation's highways to spread terror throughout the nation. Being 16 and in college is an easier thing to talk about. When investigators searched Roberts house they found several nude photos of Regina and Patricia. Bottles of isobutyl nitrite and rotgut aphrodisiacs like Locker Room and Spanish Fly crowded the counters by the register, along with the iconic bumper sticker ASS, GAS, OR GRASSNO ONE RIDES FOR FREE. He shaved her head and pubic hair, pierced her with fishing hooks, dressed her up in a black dress and heels, and photographed her in moments of terror, then killed her with a garrote made of baling wire, leaving her one-hundred-pound body to decompose in a barn in Illinois off Interstate 70. Six weeks later, though, we parted ways. In the summer of 1985, the author was such a girl. He'd told Shana Holts to "sit there and be a good girl." People don't leave home because things are going well; they leave because they feel they have to, and right or wrong, that's how I felt. She also had children from another marriage. The pair were on their way to attend a religious conference but sadly never made it. When it turned, when it downshifted, when it drifted toward the shoulderI woke. Silence fell over the Sacramento County courtroom as Judge Loyd H. Mulkey . He grinned. November 22, 2021. From 1975 to 1990 he is believed to have tortured . I also knew the first thing he did was to get them into the back of his sleeper cab, which had anchor points for shackles. I'd heard of at least one who got hung up on a meat hook in the back of a refrigerated trailer because a trucker thought she'd given him VD. Modes of operation change. "Of course," Lee says, "Lisa was talking all sorts of crazy stuff. By now papers and photographs were spread out all over the table, and Young was waiting for me to tell my story. 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. And if it happened, she could be found. Further compounding this problem is that Rhoades did not presumably kill his victims where he met them. Rhoades later was extradited to Texas for the murder of Jones and another victim. 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. In one, he relaxed on the grass in a park. What evidence was she lacking? He kidnapped women, tortured and raped them for weeks before killing them. Rhoades immediately exited the cab of his truck and attempted to give a hasty explanation of what the patrolman was seeing. Last Photo Taken of Regina before she was killed by Robert Ben Smith said prosecutors believe Rhoades killed Zyskowski relatively soon after picking him up and dumped his body along Interstate 10 in Ozona, Texas. Patricias remains were found in October of 1990, it would take thirteen years for her to be identified. Ricky Lee Jones body has never been found. He would offer them a ride, charm them and seduce them. I go through the paperwork, get fingerprinted and led through a channel of air-locked doors into a room with him. Debra told me that "Bob" always wore matching Dickies, usually dark blue. The dungeon-like compartment was described in "Roadside Prey" by Alva Busch, a book written about Rhoades. I was still in shock, so I walked back out to the same road and started hitching south. "They don't use that emblem now. Follow us on Twitter: @AShudders. Rhoades was first arrested when an Arizona state trooper found a screaming woman named Lisa Pennal* chained in the back of his cab. "I just want you to know," he said, looking me squarely in the eye, "that what Rhoades did to women, he did to women. He was not wearing jeans. 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