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🗓️ 6 July 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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0:00.0 | Discretion is advised. This is 10-minute murder. |
0:12.0 | Closureize and imagine it's the 1980s. A time of big hair, lots of hairspray, neon lights, and the lure of the open road. |
0:26.6 | The American highways stretch out before you like a ribbon of freedom, beckoning you to embark on an adventure. |
0:34.0 | But not all journeys lead to happily ever-afters. Some take you straight into the clutches of evil, |
0:41.7 | and that's where our story begins, with a seemingly ordinary trucker named Robert Ben Rhodes. |
0:49.3 | On April 1st, 1990, an Arizona State Trooper stumbled upon a scene straight out of a horror movie. |
0:57.0 | A tractor trailer parked on the highway's shoulder revealed a chained and terrified young woman inside. |
1:04.0 | The driver of that tractor trailer was Robert Ben Rhodes. |
1:08.0 | He tried to downplay the situation, but the trooper's instincts prevailed. |
1:14.1 | Rhodes was swiftly arrested, and a subsequent search uncovered a disturbing possession, |
1:20.3 | a 25-caliber pistol. The routine traffic stop would soon expose Rhodes as one of America's |
1:26.7 | most notorious serial killers and sex offenders. |
1:31.3 | Inside his rig, Rhodes transformed the very essence of freedom into a rolling chamber of horrors, |
1:39.6 | hooks, chains, restraints, and a soundproof box hidden away in the sleeper cap. |
1:47.0 | This monster had turned his truck into a mobile torture chamber, |
1:50.8 | a hellish place where his victims would suffer unimaginable torment. |
1:55.7 | Rhodes possessed this sickening ability to blend in, |
1:59.6 | adapting his appearance, changing his name, and even |
2:03.3 | altering his accent. This diabolical charade allowed him to remain hidden, praying on innocent |
2:10.1 | souls without arousing suspicion. His crimes went unnoticed, and a web of terror spun across |
2:17.1 | the vast expanse of the American |
2:18.9 | highways. Robert Ben Rhodes, born in Council Bluffs, Iowa in 1945, had a relatively normal |
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