Roadside Prey by Alva Busch

Roadside Prey by Alva Busch

THE OPEN HIGHWAY WAS HIS HUNTING GROUND...

Robert Ben Rhoades got more than a hot meal and a break form the open road at the all-night truck stops he called home. The charming, smooth-talking rig driver got victims. Hookers, teenage runaways, lonely women on the run - he used them all to feed his addiction to violent sex.

YOUNG WOMEN WERE HIS VICTIMS... 

Inside Rhoades's truck cab was a hideous torture dungeon. Handcuffs hung from the roof, shackles were anchored to the floor - all part of a mobile chamber of horrors that satisfied his most depraved compulsions. But the most shocking thing of all was that his heinous crimes went undetected for 15 years...until an April night in 1990 when Rhoades's parked rig sparked the curiosity of a highway patrolman outside Casa Grande, Arizona. Inside the truck, a terrified, half starved young girl was found shackled to the wall of the sleeper compartment, a horse bit in her mouth.

...AND MURDER WASN'T THE ONLY THING ON HIS MIND!

After following a trail of similar torture kidnappings and unsolved murders across America, the FBI finally had the evidence to bring Rhoades to trial. The victim was 14-year-old Texas runaway Regina Walters, whos mummified body was found in an Illinois barn. Today, Robert Ben Rhoades is serving a life sentence for this crime. But how many other corpses bear his grisly signature? Investigator Alva Busch searches for the chilling answer in a penetrating, in-depth look at the killer who turned lost, vulnerable souls into his own..

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