In the summer of 1985, somewhere near Martinsburg, Pennsylvania, the body of a young woman was pulled from a truck-stop Dumpster. I asked to speak to any senior officer who might have been there at the time. Robert kept her for over a week, torturing and raping her repeatedly. Born in Council Bluffs, IA #7. "But a real serial killer wouldn't have let me go, right?" Rhoades must have just picked her up, because he hasn't cut her hair yet. One story Debra Davis told still haunts me. Girls no one would miss. Patricias remains were found in October of 1990, it would take thirteen years for her to be identified. Several months before Walters and Jones climbed aboard Rhoades' big rig,Patricia Walsh and Douglas Zyskowski had the misfortune of crossing paths with the killer. Rhoades is currently being held in an Illinois prison where he will spend the rest of his days behind bars. Young pulled out one last picture and slid it across to me. 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. From reading about Rhoades, I knew that he preferred hitchhikers to prostitutes and specifically targeted runaways. Drew Peterson, former police sergeant, was sentenced to 38 years for the murder of his 3rd wife, Kathleen Savio. There's a picture of him in leather and chains that floats around the Internet. Behind the tragic elements of Regina's story, like some kind of pentimento, I saw my own. Debra stated that he seemed like a nice guy, and they eventually started dating. The remarkable thing is that when she did, she didn't dump him. At the bottom of the yellow legal paper, scrawled in all caps, he wrote, "IT WASN'T ME!!!" 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. Berdella was conscious of his homosexuality. 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 . "The hairs on my arm stand up right now talking about it.". When we came back, the truck was gone and every reminder of home with itmy guitar, my knapsack, everything except the Smith Wesson, which we sold later in New Orleans. People Also Viewed . 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. My whole body relaxed. She told me there was only one and he had gone fishing. Even at the time, I'd wondered if my running was part of the game. 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. To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. Debra wanted to give her money or do something. 16. Could Debra help solve an active investigation? Between the seats in the rear of the cab was a woman bound by chains. He was married. Det. Over lunch at a local sushi place, he taught me the difference between a mode of operation and a signature. 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. I finally got to Davis through agent Young. 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. to keep expanding and making Murderpedia a better site, but we really He was wrong. 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. 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 story was that she was too scared, but I wondered if there was more. I don't think either of us knew what to do about it. What evidence was she lacking? Watch with discovery+. Ex-Wife Of Serial Killer Robert Ben Rhoades Speaks Out | Evil Lives Here: After the Evil. Sometimes they're threatening, sometimes cajoling, but always manipulative. Adhering to my rule (that the only safe truck was a moving truck) meant I woke when a truck took an exit. She's tried to put the years with Rhoades behind her but still gets letters from him sporadically. Recently, the New Jersey State Supreme Court handed down a statement on memory, describing it as complex and often unreliable. Rhoades was from Texas. She'd been picked up in a truck stop, shackled into the back of the cab, tortured and raped for weeks. November 22, 2021. Through these stories, I jumped from truck to truck. I expected that to be the end of it, but I got another letter. 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 . Word filtered back that the dead girl was a teenage hitchhiker. Rhoades in Bond County IL Barn. I only ran about a hundred yards before I turned and hid, because I didnt know if I was being chased. Rhoades is thought to have killed Zyskowski while the young man slept. He was charged with kidnapping and assault. When questioned by police, The Daily Nonpareil reports that Rhoades calmly told officers that the woman was "clearly crazy," and the officers believed him. Young was right. she said. "That's him! Without fake ID, I couldn't stay in a shelter. Robert Benjamin Rhoades, fdd 22 november 1945, r en amerikansk seriemrdare och vldtktsman, aktiv mellan 1989 och 1990. An unidentified girl, shown here in a photograph taken by Rhoades. I had to jump when you slowed down because you were going to rape me. ", Inside the briefcase, officers found dildos, alligator clips, handcuffs, leashes, and whips. 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. When officials searched the trucker's apartment a few days later, they discovered evidence that caused officials to believe Rhoades was even more dangerous than they had assumed. She was on a trip with her husband, Bob, the last she ever took in his truck. As per the show, when Debra decided to leave the next day, he flew into a rage, physically assaulting her. Over time, I learned safer ways of getting rides by having truckers navigate the CB radio for me. 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. His eyes were greeted with a shocking scene. "Don't you think that fact starts to rule him out? creator of The Wicked Truth - a true crime blog https://ko-fi.com/fatim. Regina Walters and Ricky Jones were from Texas. "We laugh at death," he told me. Investigators from various law enforcement agencies along his route poured over his driving logs. 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. 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. It's just going to be my word against his. Robert Ben Rhoades "Whips and Chains" Sarah Stallard, Kelsey Lawson, Erin Laird, and Jackie Wood Department of Psychology Radford University Radford, VA 24142-6946 Date Age Life Event 11/22/1945 0 Born in Counsel Bluffs, Iowa Raised initially by his mother and then by his mother and father after the father returned from overseas. 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. Thinking that it would be her word against his, his victim recanted her statement, and Rhoades was free to go. He would then take them to his torture chamber (yes, he had a torture chamber . But nobody had to tell me that people like Rhoades killed people like me and got away with it. Robert took Regina to an abandoned farmhouse. Who was the girl in the Dumpster? The Daily Nonpareil reports that these logs put Rhoades in the immediate vicinity of as many as 50 unsolved murders. De 1975 a 1990 acredita-se que tenha torturado, violado e matado mais de 50 mulheres, contudo foi condenado por apenas trs homicdios devido a ausncia de provas. Young was a profiler for the bureau as well as a field agent. October 20, 2022. Around her neck was a dog chain with a padlock attached to the ring that had been used to restrain her neck. How could she lack evidence? Girls who'd run away. These were my private feelings. 6min. I said it was his choice. Her murder happened twenty-seven years ago and was essentially pre-Internet. Walsh and Zyskowski had recently gotten married, and they had decided to travel from their hometown of Seattle, Washington, to Georgia. Rhoades antas ha torterat, vldtagit och mrdat fler n 50 kvinnor, [ 2] men endast 3 har bekrftats. This meant that several of the photos she was the subject of were taken during her last moments alive. Mass Market Paperback - January 1, 1996. This obviously doesn't recommend the waitress's judgment, but at least some of the credit has to go to Rhoades. I lived with my mom in New York, and the fights between us were growing in intensity and emotional violence. Eventually, law enforcement discovered Robert Ben Rhoades was a serial killer, in addition to being a sexual sadist who enjoyed torturing women and girls. * 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. Police photo. I only saw the man with the knife. After receiving my friend's e-mail, I left messages with the FBI but was relieved when they were not returned. But I hadn't seen any shackles. Robert is believed to have tortured, raped, and murdered over fifty women between 1975 and 1990 during truck stops, but because most of his victims were sex workers and hitchhikers it is difficult to confirm exactly who and how many people he has killed. That forced me into asking for rides in the hallway by the showers. As with Patricia Walsh, the trucker didn't murder Walters right away. He was given two life sentences inTexas without the possibility of parole. The memory was twenty-seven years old, and nothing in it was actionable. Knowing the capacity of his sadism made this unbearable. Investigation Discoverys 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. 97.107.136.113 The young girl ran out of Roberts truck and into the woods. She had been missing from the Houston area since early 1990 after running off with her boyfriend. 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