Rhoades didn't live a double life as much as a shadowed one. 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. "I've been a prosecutor since 1979 and it was one of the rare occasions when I was in the court where the defendant walked in and you felt the evil," Smith said. He stopped responding to my questions. Patricias remains were found in October of 1990, it would take thirteen years for her to be identified. That was way back in the early '70s, though.". Also like me, Regina became dependent upon the grace of truck drivers. When you get in a truck at a truck stop, everyone notices. Although I'd told it more in the preceding week than in the past two decades, I still wasn't used to doing it, and the nausea still came. 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. She had been missing from the Houston area since early 1990 after running off with her boyfriend. Last Name Rhoades #7. Just a few months after she left Robert, he was taken into custody for a kidnapping. 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. I found her in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette later that night. After Debra Davis interviewed about life with her ex-husband, serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades, Kentucky state troopers reached out, telling her that they suspected Rhoades in a 1985 cold case. Rhoades was first arrested when an Arizona state trooper found a screaming woman named Lisa Pennal* chained in the back of his cab. I only ran about a hundred yards before I turned and hid, because I didnt know if I was being chased. If you didn't, I had no memory of them at all. I knew from talking to the Martinsburg police that the truck stop had been under the jurisdiction of the Berkeley County sheriff. She attested that she was pressured to perform acts to satisfy his masochistic fantasies. But an expert in what, I thought, killing? Robert remained a free man and continued to attack and kill more victims. "No," she said, "I never heard of anything like that anywhere.". Ted Bundy. Sagittarius. 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. Suspected of killing and raping 100+ women while on the road in the 1980s and early 1990s. Javascript is required. I crouched on netted twigs and breathed into my shirt to muffle the sound. While passing through various states, he thought he could pick up a hitchhiker here or a sex worker there and no one would notice if they disappeared. I had not told him or anyone else how I felt about failing to go to the cops. Rhoades antas ha torterat, vldtagit och mrdat fler n 50 kvinnor, [ 2] men endast 3 har bekrftats. There's a picture of him in leather and chains that floats around the Internet. I needed visibility to stay alive. He requested information on missing Caucasian females aged 13 to 15 years old who had disappeared six to nine months earlier. creator of The Wicked Truth - a true crime blog https://ko-fi.com/fatim. Rhoades in Bond County IL Barn. Maybe they would remember something the others hadn't. Every trucker I ever met had a gun, so the knife seemed significant. Officers later discovered this was the name Rhoades, who had been involved in BDSM for years, went by when he used his CB radio to communicate with his fellow truckers. Everything I expected from Bob Lee changed in that moment. The only thing they neglected to take down is a website with the words Martinsburg TravelCenter of America flashing like a beacon online. Some of these were women left in Dumpsters. He picked up two of his other victims in Texas. When investigators searched Roberts house they found several nude photos of Regina and Patricia. Rhoades swiftly killed Jones so he could abduct Walters and keep her to abuse at his will. Like Regina, I also had a little journal and probably wrote something in it that night, because it was far too cold to sleep. 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. He was charged with kidnapping and assault. Despite the initial deception, Debra wanted to give the relationship a shot and continued to date him. It is also worth mentioning that Debra has spoken at domestic violence conferences over the years and shared her story. allowing the middle-aged husband and father to torment and abuse women as he crisscrossed the United States. The interior of the truck's cab contained a hidden compartment that could only be seen if you were between the seats. Ricky Lee Jones body has never been found. Condamn la prison vie pour une srie de meurtres, il en a confess un nouveau . 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. On the table in front of Young was a snapshot of Regina Walters that I hadn't seen, taken not very long before she was abducted. While the first few months were great, Debra noticed that Roberts appetite for sex increased. * 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. Records on her would provide a date and a place that could then be checked against Rhoades's trucking logs. Regina Kay Walters 14 years old died by the hands of Robert Ben I'd put off writing Rhoades, mostly because I didn't want him to write me back. I lived in that gap. : 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. They get more nuanced and elaborate, but the basic topography remains the same. Follows the disturbing story of truck driver Robert Ben Rhoades, whose obsession with violent sex prompted him to pick up prostitutes, runaways, and lonely women and torture them to death, a practice that went undetected for fifteen years. 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. 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. The trial began in 1994 and Robert was ultimately convicted of the first-degree murder of Regina Kay Walters. for the slayings of Patricia Walsh, 24, and her husband Douglas Scott Zyskowski, 28. As we pulled away, I looked once more in the side mirror. They were stringing crime tape around the Dumpster just as another state trooper rolled into the lot. Most Popular #231965. The Daily Nonpareil reports that these logs put Rhoades in the immediate vicinity of as many as 50 unsolved murders. In his early life, Rhoades got into trouble from a young age, he was arrested for . Const., art. This former trucker is believed to have killed over 20 people spanning from 1975 to 1990. Around her neck was a dog chain with a padlock attached to the ring that had been used to restrain her neck. Viswa Vanapalli. A few minutes later, I got up like nothing had happened. You didn't do it.". 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 occasionally speaks on domestic violence at conferences and in classrooms at AM. But, months later, she learned that Robert wasnt a pilot. 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. He said he didn't want to get caught up in anything time-consuming. On my way out, I destroyed every single picture of me over the age of 12 so that there would be nothing to give to the police. He'd never heard the phrase. 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. Tall and square-jawed, Lee looked like he could probably still tackle a bank robber. When questioned by police, The Daily Nonpareil reports that Rhoades calmly told officers that the woman was "clearly crazy," and the officers believed him. While he was in the Marine Corps, he committed a robbery and was dishonorably discharged in 1968. Rhoades' attorneys did not respond to requests for comment from ABCNews.com. Rhoades is currently serving life sentences in Illinois for three murders. Could Debra help solve an active investigation? Serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades kidnapped and tortured his victims inside a chamber set up inside his big rig truck. With all her freckles, she looked very Irish. A week before the girl was found in the Dumpster, though, I'd gone to see my dad in Virginia. 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. Rhoades is thought to have killed Zyskowski while the young man slept. 76 Year Old Criminal #4. 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. Lee told me that the final lines of Holts's police statement read, "I don't see any good in filing charges. I go through the paperwork, get fingerprinted and led through a channel of air-locked doors into a room with him. By now papers and photographs were spread out all over the table, and Young was waiting for me to tell my story. 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. I parked in front of the family travel plaza, then walked back past a sign that read TRUCKS ONLY. I arrived at his door melting in the hundred-degree heat. 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. Debra wanted to give her money or do something. Rhoades was identified as a suspect . Among the photographs recovered from Rhoades' home while he was jailed was several of Walters. She shook her head; then her eyes clouded some. But then, Rhoades looks like a lot of guys. Her murder happened twenty-seven years ago and was essentially pre-Internet. "Bob was fascinated by secret societies.". This tells me that he liked manipulating through terror. Robert Ben Rhoades. Walsh's remains were found in October 1990 in central Utah, but not identified until 2003, with the help of dental records. Sometimes, as with Shana Holts, the girl who had escaped in the brewery, the sense of not being credible was internalized. Instead, police suspect he held the teenager captive for at least two weeks, subjecting her to sickening acts of torture and rape, before he strangled her to death with a garrote and dumped her corpse in an abandoned barn in Illinois. Police photo. Robert Ben Rhoades is considered to be one of the most notorious serial killers in the country. "There was that hitchhiker. ", Pennal was the woman chained into Rhoades's truck when they arrested him in Arizona. Of the 200 people on a suspect list, almost all of them were long-haul truckers. The Daily Nonpareil reports that Robert Ben Rhoades was set to be free on work release when Illinois police identified the body of 14-year-old Regina Walters. In 1984, he started dating Jerry Howell, a good-looking 19-year-old male prostitute. As per the show, when Debra decided to leave the next day, he flew into a rage, physically assaulting her. Though his first confirmed murders didn't occur until 1990, one woman may have barely escaped with her life the year before. In one photo, the teen is standing in a barn, clad in a black dress and wearing high-heeled shoes. Robert Ben Rhoades, born November 22, 1945, in Council Bluffs, Iowa turned out to be one of the most sadistic sexual predators that the US had ever encountered. Your IP: Neither of these women were the one I was looking for, but a sentence in the article caught my attention. Along with cutting off her hair, he also shaved her pubic hair and pierced her genitals with fishhooks. Regina Walters had been seen in Chicago standing freely outside his truck in a public place. To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories. He would only have been 39 at the time, and I remember the trucker as an older man with light brown or graying hair. I didn't tell him about my recent inquiries at first; I just asked where he'd dropped me off. 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. The woods were blue in the gray light, which was either dusk or a coming storm. 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. Debra also talked about Robert having sex with her against her will one time, which finally pushed her to end things with him. She also had children from another marriage. And while I was getting more adept at survival, he was very likely getting more adept at killing. Most say she's a prostitute and that it's a "transaction gone bad." I would file charges and sue him.". Eventually she was left unbound. Her body was left in the very barn she was last photographed in in rural Illinois. 202202. It was a ghost story. It's just going to be my word against his. He came around behind her and grabbed her shoulders. Rhoades later was extradited to Texas for the murder of Jones and another victim. He then killed her and dumped her body in Millard County, Utah. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. Debra said she looked about 18 or 19 and desperate. Not even the FBI knew that he had already tortured, raped, and killed at least two people along his routes. It's believed that Rhoades would abduct his prey from various truck stops and rest areas along his trucking route. Games People Play was a bible for Rhoades. HOUSTON . This gave me a screen behind which to observe drivers when they thought I was distracted. 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. new content, we kindly appreciate any donation you can give to help On the phone, agent Robert F. Lee was civil and to the point but not overtly warm. Robert Ben Rhoades: From 1989 to 1990, Robert Ben Rhoades is believed to have tortured, raped and killed more than fifty women, although he has only three confirmed victims. In 1994, Robert Ben Rhoades was convicted of the first degree murder of Regina Walters. I remember being in the woods off I-95. We were back on the road before dawn, walking down a highway covered in black ice, shivering in our hoodies. Original. And then you were still a prostitute. Today, Robert, the Truckstop Killer, is 74 and is paying for his crimes, serving two life sentences in the Menard Correctional Center in Chester, Illinois. He grinned. 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. On April 1, 1990, Roberts murder spree finally came to an end. Walters, however, did not have such a quick and painless death. This modus operandi makes it difficult for authorities to determine how many victims Robert Ben Rhoades had. She told me there was only one and he had gone fishing. she said. to keep expanding and making Murderpedia a better site, but we really Ricky Lee Jones body has never been found. 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. Debra also mentioned that she remarried and worked with domestic abuse and rape survivors. The young girl ran out of Roberts truck and into the woods. Inside the cab of the truck was a woman, chained to the wall and screaming, with only a pair of slippers on her feet. Rhoades kept Regina for at least two weeks. "Wait a minute. Just a few months after she left Robert, he was taken into custody for a kidnapping. She had been strangled at Breezewood. 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. Robert Ben Rhoades known as The Truck Stop Killer, is an American serial killer and rapist. The glasses were the same, the curve of the cheekbone, and something about the expression, particularly the set of the mouth. He lived with his mother, Fay Rhoades, and several siblings in a two bedroom home at 2400 Avenue D. Robert's father, Ben Rhoades,. The same week that I got the letter from Rhoades, the senior officer from the Berkeley County sheriff's department who had been fishing returned. I was accepted, and that provided a thin strip of pride on which to stand while I made contact with my family. He kept Walsh alive for an undisclosed amount of time, subjecting her to the same cruel treatment that he would later dole out to Walters. Walters and Walsh had been held captive by Rhoades while he traveled the interstate highways in his truck. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. The idea that I might have been responsible for what happened to girls like Regina was devastating, and Lee's directness startled me. One night on I-95, she hitched a ride from a stranger and endured the most terrifying moments of her life. Described by authorities as a sadistic killer, Rhoades was charged with their 1990 abductions and slayings, and pled guilty to their murders. 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. She hid there until she was sure she heard his truck leave. Debra Davis and Rhoades met in the early '80s at a Houston bar called Chipkikkers. Last Photo Taken of Regina before she was killed by Robert Ben You called and left a message a day or so after I dropped you off, saying I was going to read about a dead 17-year-old hitchhiker they found in a truck stop and that it wasn't you.". 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. The body was found in 1990, but not identified until 1992. 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. His trucking logs place him in the area of fifty unsolved murders in the three years prior to his arrest alone. Out of desperation I made one last attempt and swung by a smaller truck stop in Hancock, Maryland. His favorite book was Games People Play, wherein each social encounter is treated as a transaction or "game." Young was right. There was going to be no more talking. I imagined for a moment flying to Illinois. Robert Benjamin Rhoades (born November 22, 1945), also known as The Truck Stop Killer, is an American serial killer and rapist. Robert "Bob" Berdella (also known as known as The Kansas City Butcher and The Collector) was a serial killer and torturer who documented his sinister slayings in photographs. 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. Patricia was newly married to Douglas Zyzkowski. Investigation Discovery referred to Rhoades' truck as a "rolling torture chamber," based on what was kept inside this enclosure. 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? I looked at the letter. "What I find interesting is that he told you about the body of the girl and talked about the Laughing Death Society while he was still driving. I ran my story past her. What evidence was she lacking? Please enable javascript before you are allowed to see this page. The couple had just recently wed and were hitchhiking to Georgia from Texas. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Rhoades immediately exited the cab of his truck and attempted to give a hasty explanation of what the patrolman was seeing. 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. 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. These are narratives we know. Could Debra help solve an active investigation? My emotions were a planet around which I spun like a moon. I spoke to a woman who had worked there a long time and told her about the dead hitchhiker while she fingered the gold cross on her neck and listened. 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." A month after Robert brutally murdered Douglas and Patricia, he picked up his next victim, an eighteen-year-old transient who lived in Houston. 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. Robert Ben Rhoades, dubbed the Truck Stop Killer is one of America's most prolific serial killers. I said I wouldn't go to the cops if nothing happened to me, but it was his choiceuntil he looked at me and I went still. Looks too much like a target.". The general rule was that you were a prostitute until proven otherwise. Robert Benjamin Rhoades (born November 22, 1945), also known as The Truck Stop Killer, is an American serial killer and rapist. Robert Ben Rhoades Popularity . In the summer of 1985, somewhere near Martinsburg, Pennsylvania, the body of a young woman was pulled from a truck-stop Dumpster. There was always a sick mom or dead grandparent involved, and I was almost always abandoned by my jerk of a boyfriend, who'd made off with all my money and my car. Eventually the locus shifted to the Houston FBI, because at some point every thread ran through Texas. ", Vanessa Veselka is the author of Zazen (Red Lemonade), which won the 2012 PEN/ Bingham Prize for fiction, Apply Bed Bath and Beyond Coupon and save 25% Off your entire purchase, Target Circle: up to 50% Off with Target promo code, With Asos Promo Code you take 70% OFF Select styles, Michael Kors Promo Code: sign up for KORSVIP + Get 10% Off on First Order, 2023 Cond Nast. I could easily imagine my own teenage voice whispering those same words. Laying asleep next to her was the driver of the truck, Robert Ben Rhoades. In the end, Debra was able to escape Roberts fury and worked on moving on. In one, he relaxed on the grass in a park. Last Photo Taken of Regina before she was killed by Robert Ben Rhoades in Bond County IL Barn. I was on my own. The victim began saying anything she could think of to try and save her own life. Her facial expression could be described as a combination of desperation and abject fear. There were seven within rangeIndiana, Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Missouri, West Virginia, and New Yorkall less than a day's drive apart. Debra told me that "Bob" always wore matching Dickies, usually dark blue. Robert Benjamin Rhoades ( 22 de novembro de 1945) um assassino em srie americano e estuprador. Between the seats in the rear of the cab was a woman bound by chains. She was a prostitute. I wrote him back and told him that journalistic standards wouldn't allow me to pay for interviews. Rhoades liked to think of himself as an "expert," and now Rhoades suggested he be paid as one. Her remains were found in September 1990. He got over 900 matches. Between 1975 and 1990, Robert Ben Rhoads, now 73, savagely murdered at least three victims and possibly, investigators believe, as many as 50 during his treks across North America as a professional truck driver. Debra stated that he seemed like a nice guy, and they eventually started dating. She didn't do what he expected. Smith said that should Rhoades ever be released from the Illinois prison for any unforeseen reason, he would be returned to a Texas prison. Had I confused the state? 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. All rights reserved. October 20, 2022. Once out on the road, though, he changed. Initially, agents had disagreed over whether the young girl on Rhoades's film was Regina. 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