Vanessa Veselka, then a teenager, was hitchhiking when she came across notorious serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades who turned his vehicles into a torture chamber, killing as many as 50 women between 1975 and 1990

A hitchhiker who managed to escape a serial killer has recalled the harrowing final words he spoke to her before she fled.

Robert Ben Rhoades, now aged 79, was nicknamed the Truck Stop Killer after he was convicted of torturing and killing at least two couples in Illinois and Texas in 1989 and 1990. He is also suspected of torturing, raping, and killing more than fifty women between 1975 and 1990, based on data about his truck routes and women who went missing during those years and who met the profile of his preferred victims.

Of those who came into contact with Rhoades, on

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