Overview
- Rhoades targeted hitchhikers, sex workers, and lone young women along interstate routes from the mid‑1970s to 1990.
- He was arrested on April 1, 1990 in Arizona after a trooper discovered a woman chained inside his truck’s sleeper cab.
- Rhoades was later convicted of murdering 14‑year‑old Regina Kay Walters and is serving life in prison without parole.
- A former FBI official recounted evidence of extreme torture, including a photo of Walters and taunting calls to her father.
- Known victims include newlyweds Patricia Candace Walsh and Douglas Scott Zyskowski, and the case helped spur the FBI’s Highway Serial Killings Initiative.