But Rhoades didn’t get life in prison for that crime, he went away for the death of 14-year-old runaway Regina Kay Walters. Rhoades’ was finally caught on Ap(after a self-admitted 15-year murder spree) when Arizona State Trooper Mike Miller found Kathleen Vine nude, handcuffed, and screaming in the cab of his truck.

As he traveled throughout the United States using interstate highways, it’s believed that Rhoades’ picked up and killed more than 50 people beginning in 1975, although he was only convicted of three murders.

Eventually, Rhoades became a sadist who took his sexual fetish on the road. Eventually, he’d kill them in the most brutal manner imaginable-a vicious cycle of “kidnap, torture, kill.”Īccording to the numerous biographies and documentaries about him, Rhoades was also involved in the swinger and BDSM scene in Houston during the ’80s with his wife. Rhoades, a long-haul trucker, converted the sleeper cab of his 18-wheel semi truck into a small, makeshift sex chamber where he would torture his victims and rape them for weeks on end.

Serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades stalked the highways of Texas in his mobile torture and death chamber.

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