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Hot On The Case

‘Truck Stop Killer’ Kept Girls SHACKLED in Truck for 15 Years - Robert Ben Rhoades

Hot On The Case

Breanna Heim

True Crime

5.01.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s investigation, Hot on the Case takes to the roads of the 70s, 80s, and early 90s to uncover the chilling crimes of truck stop killer Robert Ben Rhoades. Behind the wheel of his semi, Rhoades used America’s highways to hunt, leaving a trail of victims across multiple states while evading capture for years. What investigators eventually uncovered inside his truck would reveal a level of cruelty that still haunts one of the darkest cases tied to the open road.

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On any given day, there is about 3.5 million truckers driving across the United States. We see them every single day. We drive past

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them on our way home from work, never thinking anything else of it. But for 15 years, a man

0:46.3

drove a truck across the country with unimaginable horrors inside, a torture chamber on wheels.

0:55.0

Where he committed

0:57.0

and invite me back.

1:00.0

I think that's why I never really know.

1:05.0

Where he committed some of the most horrific, brutal, and sadistic crimes that I've ever heard of.

1:11.6

And that made him a special kind of evil.

1:15.6

I could still hear the woman screaming on the inside of the truck.

1:19.6

We found some photographs in his apartment, some of his own pictures

1:23.6

with somebody else with short hair who, it seems like she was at a barn.

1:31.5

This is Robert Ben Rhodes, who is potentially the most deadly and prolific serial killer

1:39.7

that you have likely never heard of.

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And I'm Brianna, and I'm hot on the case.

1:53.0

Robert Ben Rhodes was born on November 22nd, 1945 in Council Bluffs, Iowa. He was conceived in the

2:00.3

middle of World War II. His father was a soldier

2:03.3

stationed in West Germany at the time of his birth and was away for the first few years of his life.

2:09.6

So Robert was raised by his mother and with his siblings and overall had a very happy, normal

2:16.1

childhood during those first few years.

2:18.8

There was absolutely no indication of what was to come.

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