November 22, 1945 - Robert Ben Rhoades
The long-haul trucking industry gave Rhoades both a mechanism and cover — thousands of miles of highway, a succession of isolated encounters, and the kind of transience that made disappearances difficult to connect. Confirmed killings represent only a fraction of what investigators believe he was responsible for, with the suspected scope of his crimes spanning fifteen years and dozens of victims whose cases may never be fully resolved.
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Robert Ben Rhoades (born November 22, 1945), also known as the Truck Stop Killer, is an American serial killer and rapist. He is confirmed to have tortured and killed at least two couples in Illinois and Texas in 1989 and 1990, and is additionally suspected of torturing, raping, and killing more than fifty women between 1975 and 1990, based on data about his truck routes and women who went missing during those years and who met the profile of his preferred victims. At the time he was caught, Rhoades claimed to have engaged in these activities for fifteen years.
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