The Truck Stop Killer. Robert Ben Rhoades. This episode was co-written by Tyler Bell of The Westside Fairytales Podcast. Visit www.westsidefairytales.com for some horror fiction in podcast form. Research Credit: Doctor Barak Music Credit: Tyler Jakes - Woodchips & Pouty Lips. www.tylerjakes.com For DT Merch and more, visit www.darktopicpodcast.com Sources: ARTICLES:  https://www.gq.com/story/truck-stop-killer-gq-november-2012 The author of this article was a teenage runaway hitchhiking at truck stops during the time when Rhoades was active. She had a scary encounter with a man who she later came to suspect was Rhoades, and she goes to attempt to verify her suspicion. It’s a good read with lots on insights into hitchhiking in the ‘80s https://www.truckdrivingjobs.com/faq/the-haunting-case-of-robert-ben-rhoades-truck-stop-muderer.html honestly, I cannot attest to the journalistic credentials of truck driver jobs, but they do have a refreshing angle, in that they don’t assume that truck drivers are, in general, a bunch of creepy psychos. https://www.monstersandcritics.com/smallscreen/truck-stop-killer-robert-ben-rhoades-ex-wife-recounts-time-with-serial-killer-and-rapist/ basically, a link to the ID interview https://abcnews.go.com/US/texas-trucker-traveling-torture-chamber-admits-murders/story?id=16037743 on the 2012 trial http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2223778/The-night-I-murdered-truck-stop-serial-killer-One-woman-tells-story-survival.html Vanessa Veselka, who wrote the GQ article, got covered in the DM! so you know it’s true https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9175140/Torture-chamber-trucker-sentence-to-life-in-prison.html summary of the case on after the 2012 trial https://healthpsychologyconsultancy.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/making-of-a-monster-robert-ben-rhoades/ An interview with a psychologist who specialized in childhood abuse (who did not interview Rhoades but did review the material) on the events that may have contributed to create this serial killer. http://maamodt.asp.radford.edu/Psyc%20405/serial%20killers/Rhodes,%20Robert%20Ben%20spring%202007.pdf  Behold a timeline of his life events (that are related to his murders) recorded by students at the psychology department at Radford: (I will be checking this against the other sources to ascertain its reliability, since, just to start with, they misspelled ‘Council Bluffs, Iowa’) VIDEOS: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x21lu4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj1H3_aQhTg Stay Paranoid   Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/dark-topic/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Our Sponsors: * Check out Mood and use my code DARKTOPIC for a great deal: https://mood.com * Check out Quince and use my code quince.com/darktopic for a great deal: https://www.quince.com Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/dark-topic2753/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy