Long Haul Trucker and Serial Killer Robert Rhoades Pleads Guilty To Murder of 2 More Young Females, Rhoades had a Torture Chamber In Cab of His Truck.

Monday, April 02, 2012

Long Haul Trucker and Serial Killer Robert B. Rhoades picked up young females then raped and tortured them and left their bodies in Texas, Utah and Illinois..”A state trooper near Casa Grande, Ariz., stopped on I-10 to check on a tractor-trailer with blinking lights in April 1990. He discovered Rhoades inside the cab with a hysterical naked woman who had been chained and shackled to a wall. She later told investigators that she’d been tortured and whipped, that Rhoades told her he was known as “Whips and Chains” and had been involved in such activity for years”

FBI REPORT: Along Interstate Highways Signs Of Serial Killings By Long Haul Truckers in Quad State Area of TN, IND, OH and KY Where 68 Bodies Have Been Found.  Highway violence; In the past four decades, 459 deaths and 41 attempted homicides are believed to be linked to serial killers who are using the nation’s highways to find and dispose of their victims.

HOUSTON Posted on Mar 29, 2012; A Texas trucker who kept a torture dungeon in the cab of his long-haul rig has avoided the death penalty by accepting life prison sentences for murdering a hitchhiking couple two decades ago. Robert Ben Rhoades, who already is serving a life sentence for killing a 14-year-old girl in Illinois, pleaded guilty to two counts of capital murder when he appeared before a West Texas judge this week. He has no chance of parole.

Described by authorities as a sadistic killer, Rhoades was charged with the 1990 abductions and slayings of newlyweds Douglas Scott Zyskowski, 28, and Patricia Walsh, 24. Authorities said the couple left Seattle in November 1989, and were hitchhiking to Georgia to preach the Christian gospel when they accepted a ride from Rhoades near El Paso.

Zyskowski’s body was found in January 1990 along Interstate 10 east of Ozona, about 320 miles east of El Paso. He’d been shot, and his body wasn’t identified until 1992. The remains of his wife were found in October 1990 by deer hunters in central Utah, but they weren’t identified until 13 years later by dental records.

Police believed Rhoades held the woman captive for about a week, systematically torturing and assaulting her before shooting her several times.  Rhoades was initially charged in Utah with her death, but he was later extradited to Texas where authorities said the kidnappings took place. Prosecutors in Ozona said they would seek the death penalty, but his trial was repeatedly delayed since 2009.

FBI spokeswoman Shauna Dunlap in Houston said agents couldn’t comment on the case because investigations involving Rhoades are continuing. District Attorney Laurie English was not available Thursday, and messages left with Rhoades’ lawyers were not immediately returned.

Rhoades’ Illinois conviction stems from the abduction and slaying of Regina Walters, a 14-year-old runaway from Pasadena, Texas. She disappeared in February 1990 with an 18-year-old boyfriend who told friends they planned to hitchhike to Mexico.

Her body was found months later at an abandoned farm near Greenville, Ill. Her companion has never been located. By the time Walters’ remains were found, Rhoades was in custody – after authorities discovered what was inside his truck.

Houston police found another woman who’d managed to escape from Rhoades and told a similar story of torture. FBI agents called into the case searched his Houston apartment and found torture devices and photos of a teenage girl handcuffed and shackled and in various poses at a barn. The girl subsequently was identified as Walters, who had been strangled with bailing wire attached to a piece of lumber.

With Sexual Deviants Like Serial Killer Robert B. Rhoades Out There on The Road,  What Really Happened to Petite Females Karen Swift, Katelyn Markham, Lauren Spierer, Holly Bobo, Paige Johnson, Crystal Hall and Misty Gwinner?

What Really Happened to Petite Females Karen Swift, Katelyn Markham, Lauren Spierer, Holly Bobo, Paige Johnson, Crystal Hall and Misty Gwinner, cops say none of the cases are related but cops won’t release information on the cause of death in the Karen Swift case, why not?

Since April 2005 three women have been abducted from Kentucky where one was murdered, two women abducted from Tennessee where one was murdered, one woman abducted from Indiana and one woman abducted from Ohio near the KY state line, they all have shoulder length blond or red hair and are very petite sized white females.

Only the bodies of Karen Swift and Misty Gwinner have been recovered, there has been no trace of any of the other five women, Katelyn Markham, Lauren Spierer, Holly Bobo, Paige Johnson and Crystal Hall.  Whoever kidnapped Misty Gwinner from a truck stop in Florence KY drove her on I-71 to the Lexington KY area and dumped her body on North Cleveland Road, this is a major truck route, I would call this a clue.

Bill Warner Private Investigator Sarasota Fl at www.wbipi.com

Posted by BILL WARNER at 8:06 AM