Serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades stalked the highways of Texas in his mobile torture and death chamber
Serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades stalked the highways of Texas in his mobile torture and death chamber. 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. Eventually, he’d kill them in the most brutal manner imaginable—a vicious cycle of “kidnap, torture, kill.” According 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. Eventually, Rhoades became a sadist who took his sexual fetish on the road. 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. Rhoades’ was finally caught on April 1, 1990 (after a self-admitted 15-year murder spree) when Arizona State Trooper Mike Miller found Kathleen Vine nude...