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Members Only! Murder Monday!- TRUCK STOP TAINT SLASHER! · Cosmic Peach

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  Speaker 1: Oh, it's my penis. Hello and welcome to American Top 40.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Casey Kasem.
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  Speaker 2: Monday, Monday, so good to me Monday morning, it was
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  Speaker 2: all I hoped it would be Oh, Monday morning, Monday morning,
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  Speaker 2: couldn't guarantee And you would still be here with.
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  Speaker 1: Me Hello and welcome to another Murder Monday! It's another
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  Speaker 1: beautiful day in the murderhood, and I have a serial
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  Speaker 1: killer you've never heard of today. It's pretty interesting, to
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  Speaker 1: say the least. And do they check all the Program
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  Speaker 1: to Kill boxes? I don't know. I'm going to let
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  Speaker 1: you decide after the end of the presentation. And you
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  Speaker 1: can let me know. You can let me know if
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  Speaker 1: you've ever heard of this asshole before. You can let
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  Speaker 1: me know if you think they're programmed to kill. And
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  Speaker 1: I'll give you my thoughts, feelings, and opinions. But thanks
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  Speaker 1: for being here. Thanks for being born. Thanks for joining
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  Speaker 1: me for yet another Murder Monday. What's interesting about this
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  Speaker 1: guy in particular is just how long he was able
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  Speaker 1: to get away with his killing spree. And I think
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  Speaker 1: that may have been by design. Kind of like Herb
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  Speaker 1: Baumeister and Jeff Dahmer and Ted Behold, John Wayne Gacy.
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  Speaker 1: They were able to get away with their crimes for
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  Speaker 1: a significantly longer Long duration of time. Many years. Many,
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  Speaker 1: many years. And you may be thinking to yourself, well,
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  Speaker 1: that's because the forensics wasn't very good back then. Well,
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  Speaker 1: what about this asshole that they just discovered in Philadelphia
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  Speaker 1: who had this house with a bunch of boiled bitches
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  Speaker 1: and barrels in his basement and shit and doing snuff films?
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  Speaker 1: You think he just started that up? You think this
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  Speaker 1: is just a year or two worth of evidence they're
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  Speaker 1: digging out of that place? No. This is tens and
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  Speaker 1: twenties of years of evidence that they're digging up out
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  Speaker 1: of this house. Snuff films... bones, you name it. So
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  Speaker 1: it's not shit to do with modern forensics solving all
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  Speaker 1: this shit. Because if that was true, we wouldn't have
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  Speaker 1: stuff popping off like what's going on in Philadelphia right
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  Speaker 1: now with this Eugene Warsh or whatever his name is.
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  Speaker 1: The fucker. Burning hell. But we got another serial killer
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  Speaker 1: on our hands today and I'd never heard of him.
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  Speaker 1: He's one of the most brutal and sadistic I've probably
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  Speaker 1: ever covered. Take a look, it's in a book, Murder Monday. So,
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  Speaker 1: before we begin, if you love what I do, leave
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  Speaker 1: a five-star review. And if you're new, welcome, and if
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  Speaker 1: you are a long-time listener and member of Room 237,
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  Speaker 1: welcome back. From 1975 to 1990, the American Southlands were
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  Speaker 1: stalked by one of the most abhorrent and vicious killers
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  Speaker 1: the country has ever known. He is thought to have tortured, violated,
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  Speaker 1: and brutalated, murdered more than 50 different women and girls
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  Speaker 1: during his grotesque, 15-year murder spree. And while many other
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  Speaker 1: killers would have been apprehended long before they reached such
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  Speaker 1: a body count, not exactly always true, but in this case,
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  Speaker 1: the secret to this killer's success was his mobility. You see,
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  Speaker 1: not only was he constantly on the move using his
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  Speaker 1: 16-wheeler truck, But he also converted his soundproof sleeper cab
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  Speaker 1: into a veritable torture chamber. Today we are covering the
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  Speaker 1: story of Robert Ben Rhodes, perhaps better known as the
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  Speaker 1: truck stop killer. So if you're ready, I'm ready. Again,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for being here, folks. We're going to dive taint
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  Speaker 1: and tit deep. into the truck stop killer. So how
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  Speaker 1: about a little background on the old truck stop killer? Well,
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  Speaker 1: he was born on November 22nd, 1945, which makes him
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  Speaker 1: a Sagittarius and also a mutable sign. Just like I
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  Speaker 1: covered in a previous Murder Monday, apparently mutable signs are
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  Speaker 1: homicidal fucking maniacs. And No, I'm not proud to claim
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  Speaker 1: this one. Ted B. Hull and Barry Gordy and the
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  Speaker 1: truck stop killer. All Sagittarius and fuck them all. But
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  Speaker 1: he's a Sagittarius who was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
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  Speaker 1: And the truck stop killer's formative years kind of set
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  Speaker 1: him apart from your run-of-the-mill serial killer because... They say
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  Speaker 1: it was relatively normal, but I've found some evidence to
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  Speaker 1: suggest otherwise. But the mainstream will tell you that Robert
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  Speaker 1: Rhodes' childhood, for the most part, was run-of-the-mill, nothing to
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  Speaker 1: see here. But, like I said, I found some information
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  Speaker 1: otherwise because his father... was a serving soldier in West
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  Speaker 1: Germany until Robert Rhodes' elementary school years. So Rhodes' childhood
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  Speaker 1: seemed to be objectively stable and wholesome. They say he
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  Speaker 1: was never abused and didn't cut puppies up and try
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  Speaker 1: to put them in the crock pot or anything like that.
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  Speaker 1: That he never acted out and he was just the
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  Speaker 1: normalest kid you could ever hope for. And by his
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  Speaker 1: teenage years, whatever trouble he got into is generally characteristic
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  Speaker 1: of regular angsty teen misbehavior. Uh, so again, nothing to
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  Speaker 1: cray cray, but he was active and outgoing while he
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  Speaker 1: was in high school, had a lot of friends. He
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  Speaker 1: played football. He was on the wrestling team. and he
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  Speaker 1: even regularly attended the Thomas Jefferson High School Fringe Club,
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  Speaker 1: and apparently he was like the captain of the Fringe
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  Speaker 1: Club or some shit like that, some nerd shit, but
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  Speaker 1: you know, the little bit of trouble he ever got
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  Speaker 1: into was some juvenile shit about like vehicle tampering, like
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  Speaker 1: yanking on people's doors, and Seeing if the car was
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  Speaker 1: open and if it was, he stole a couple junior
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  Speaker 1: mints and some juicy fruit out of the console. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it just wasn't very exciting. You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: He got in a couple scuffles, whatever. Punched a kid
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  Speaker 1: in the face. I've punched a kid in the face,
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  Speaker 1: but I haven't turned into a truck stop killer. You
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean? So, on mainstream level, they're going
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  Speaker 1: to tell you that this guy... was normal, although he
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  Speaker 1: had a military father who was in West Germany. And
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  Speaker 1: he grew up, like, with that type of parenting going on,
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  Speaker 1: if you know what I'm saying. And with his role
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  Speaker 1: model being a soldier, it should come as no surprise
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  Speaker 1: that during the Laurel Canyon days and the Program to Kill,
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  Speaker 1: Phoenix Project Come Home, Glory Days, 1964. He enlisted in
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  Speaker 1: the U.S. Marines, and it was around this time that
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  Speaker 1: his father, out of the fucking woodwork, out of the blue,
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  Speaker 1: suddenly was arrested. by the Council Bluff Iowa Police. And
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  Speaker 1: what was he arrested for? Well, the local community was
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  Speaker 1: absolutely stunned to find out this well-to-do soldier that could
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  Speaker 1: do no wrong was on charges of inappropriately touching 12-year-old girls.
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  Speaker 1: And just when it seemed like the situation couldn't get
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  Speaker 1: any worse, Rhodes' father unexpectedly died of a self-inflicted injury
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  Speaker 1: before he could be tried for the pedophilia charges. Self-inflicted injury.
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  Speaker 1: That's a nice way of saying he probably got suicided
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  Speaker 1: before the bitch could start talking. But he was a
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  Speaker 1: soldier in Germany, was raping 12-year-olds, and was either suicided
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  Speaker 1: or suicided himself before he could be And upon this
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  Speaker 1: discovery about his pedophile father and the suicide and all
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  Speaker 1: that shit, Rhodes, he kind of went into this downward spiral.
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  Speaker 1: And they say this is why he got dishonorably discharged
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  Speaker 1: from the military. And they say he, after his dad
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  Speaker 1: killed himself, he was just all fucked up in the head.
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  Speaker 1: And he was acting out. And he got involved with
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  Speaker 1: these other yahoos and doing some kind of a violent robbery.
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  Speaker 1: And he got dishonorably discharged from the military. But what
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  Speaker 1: I've learned, especially with Jeffrey Dahmer and some of the
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  Speaker 1: likes of these other assholes, is once they're done with
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  Speaker 1: their training with this program to kill shit, they'll usually...
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  Speaker 1: dishonorably or honorably discharge these motherfuckers and then they turn
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  Speaker 1: out to be serial killers. Go back and study the
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  Speaker 1: case of the government cheese killer Randy Kraft. Same story.
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  Speaker 1: He was doing great. He was becoming an officer or
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  Speaker 1: something like that. Then all of a sudden he was
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  Speaker 1: dishonorably discharged and shortly thereafter he became one of the
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  Speaker 1: most prolific serial killers of all time. Ripping and running
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  Speaker 1: through dudes' b-holes, cutting their cock and ball set off,
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  Speaker 1: tossing their bodies on the side of the road, So,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm seeing some similarities here. Whether his dad
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  Speaker 1: killed himself or not, his dad was a pedophile and
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  Speaker 1: in the military. He joined the military and got dishonorably discharged.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And during all of this time, he got dishonorably discharged
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  Speaker 1: and he really couldn't settle into like a routine lifestyle.
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  Speaker 1: He briefly attended college, but quickly dropped out and he
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  Speaker 1: actually applied to become part of the council bluffs police department,
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  Speaker 1: but his application was rejected because he was dishonorably discharged
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  Speaker 1: from the military. He worked at supermarkets and shit, warehouses, restaurants,
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  Speaker 1: just odd jobs here and there. He got married and
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  Speaker 1: divorced three times during this whole process. One of the women,
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  Speaker 1: her name was Deborah, after all this shit came out
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  Speaker 1: about him being a horrendous serial killer, she was like, well,
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  Speaker 1: that actually makes sense to me because when we were married,
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  Speaker 1: he was horribly abusive. And, you know, it was all
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  Speaker 1: smooth talking in the beginning. He was, you know, laying
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  Speaker 1: it down strong. He was, you know, laying the pipe
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  Speaker 1: every night, giving her flowers, giving her roses, telling her
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  Speaker 1: that her titties were nice and juicy, all this stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But then, out of nowhere, one day he just became cold, distant, abusive,
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  Speaker 1: smacking her around, telling her, just kidding, your titties are
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  Speaker 1: actually flabby and melted and your ass is... All but
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  Speaker 1: a pancake. So that marriage quickly dissolved. And she claimed
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  Speaker 1: that he had sadistic and masochistic tendencies in the bedroom.
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  Speaker 1: And was trying to incorporate some real nasty shit. Whips
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  Speaker 1: and chains and torture devices. Titties melted or not. He
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  Speaker 1: was trying to clamp them. And she wasn't into it.
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  Speaker 1: And he was. So... He moved on to bigger and
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  Speaker 1: better things and eventually found a form of employment that
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  Speaker 1: he could really sink his teeth into that would take
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  Speaker 1: him away from Iowa. All of the rejection and the
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  Speaker 1: pain and torment of the local townspeople making fun of
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  Speaker 1: him for his pedo dad and dishonorable discharge. And he
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  Speaker 1: could be a lone wolf out on his own. So
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  Speaker 1: he started trucking. And Rhodes later stated that he had
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  Speaker 1: been preying on hitchhikers and truck stop escorts since the mid-1970s.
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  Speaker 1: But due to his mobility, he didn't come into the
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  Speaker 1: attention of authorities until fucking 1990. So, it was in
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  Speaker 1: January of 1990 that Rhodes actually happened across a husband
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  Speaker 1: and wife hitchhiker There were a couple out on the
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  Speaker 1: road just thumbing people down. Patricia and Douglas Skowoski or
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  Speaker 1: something like that. And Patricia and Douglas had been hitchhiking
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  Speaker 1: across the state of Texas and by all accounts had
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  Speaker 1: experienced a pleasant journey thus far. They had no reason
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  Speaker 1: to be suspicious of roads who seemed peaceful. Perfectly affable
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  Speaker 1: when he first stopped to pick them up. Yet shortly after,
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  Speaker 1: this little journey would turn into the couple's worst nightmare.
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  Speaker 1: Because guess what? They just got picked up by the
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  Speaker 1: truck stop killer. It's not clear how the husband, Douglas,
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  Speaker 1: was murdered. He didn't really like to murder men. He
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  Speaker 1: probably just did something quick and dirty and got him
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  Speaker 1: out of the way. His body was found in Sutton County, Texas,
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  Speaker 1: and it was so mutilated, actually, it wouldn't be positively
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  Speaker 1: identified until two years later. And in the weeks that
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  Speaker 1: followed her husband's murder, Patricia was kept alive. for seven
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  Speaker 1: long days in that bed of that truck before she
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  Speaker 1: was finally filleted like a fish and tossed off onto
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  Speaker 1: the side of the road. But police suspect that in
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  Speaker 1: that time, she was essentially used as a pleasure slave,
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  Speaker 1: kept bound and gagged in Rhodes' soundproof sleeper cab, and
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  Speaker 1: repeatedly raped, tortured, bound, gagged, mutilated, brutalated, until he grew
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  Speaker 1: bored of her. And again, like I said, her body
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  Speaker 1: was then dumped in Millard County, Utah. And by the
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  Speaker 1: time her body found its way onto a coroner's table,
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  Speaker 1: she was barely recognizable. A month later, Rhodes snatched 18-year-old
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  Speaker 1: Shana Holtz, from the side of the highway, bundling her
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  Speaker 1: into his makeshift torture chamber where she was tortured and
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  Speaker 1: kept prisoner for around two fucking weeks. I cannot even imagine.
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  Speaker 1: And was he feeding and watering her to keep her
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  Speaker 1: alive all the time? He must have. See, in this
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  Speaker 1: type of situation, I would just refuse the food and
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  Speaker 1: water and let myself thirst and starve to death rather
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  Speaker 1: than be tortured for two weeks straight, bound, gagged, raped repeatedly. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're talking about some medieval stuff he was doing,
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  Speaker 1: but anyways, so miraculously Shania or Shana or however you
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  Speaker 1: say her name, she managed to escape and immediately rushed
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  Speaker 1: to inform the police of her harrowing ordeal. She gave
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  Speaker 1: the police a detailed description of both roads and the
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  Speaker 1: truck he was driving. And this led the police straight
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  Speaker 1: to her attacker. But the problem is, however, when faced
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  Speaker 1: with actually pressing charges against Rhodes out of the woodwork, Shania,
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  Speaker 1: even though she had just been brutally raped, tortured, gagged, bound, molested,
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  Speaker 1: practically mutilated for two weeks straight, she suddenly begins to
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  Speaker 1: have second thoughts out of nowhere. Took the police completely
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  Speaker 1: by surprise. She told investigating police officers that she didn't
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  Speaker 1: think a jury would believe her story. And even when
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  Speaker 1: assured that the mountain of physical evidence would ensure a conviction,
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  Speaker 1: she refused to appear in court. See, this is what
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about, people. What the fuck? What a cliffhanger.
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