How a Missing Girl Led to a Trailer of Horrors | Robert Ben Rhoades
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Robert Benjamin Rhoades was a truck driver with a dark passion: He would take to the highways across the USA, and take women and hold them in his truck for weeks, subjecting them to all manner of... well, you can imagine.
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Those photos of that poor girl are probably the most terrifying thing I've ever seen.
@ferox965 - Are the pictures disturbing? Sure, I can understand and respect that opinion and to be frank, I agree that the fact that you know it's not a staged photo. Plus, I actually agree with you. You can see the pure terror and fear in her face while also seeing her scared body language along with the eyes. Her last hours were likely terrifying. May be rest in peace.
I’m not sure if I find them terrifying, but they are so haunting. Makes me want to cry
There are so many layers: she was just a child; the life she was trying to escape from; her (illegal) partner had been murdered; she was fully aware what the pos had been doing for years and what her fate would be; knowing that she'd endured a month of extreme mental and physical torture by that point; the physical appearance of her and the poses he made her do; the location; her expression - that she's looking at pure evil; what happened shortly after the photos were taken... I've probably left many things out.
It's both heartbreaking and very chilling.
Gave me actual chills 😢
@evelynvslife I do. It's all there in her eyes. I may not have children, but my friends and family do-around that age too.
My daughter is 14. I randomly think about Regina Kay Walters and the depth of cruelty and depravity are breathtakingly horrific. I wish I could have helped her. My daughter is still a kid who watches cartoon movies and likes drawing. To think of the pure torture a CHILD was put through for weeks is infuriating to say the least, he better be glad I can’t decide his punishment because he’d get a taste of the medieval era.
I think that a lot about crime victims on these shows. It's a horrible feeling but gives me resolve that I will act if I ever see something I know is not right. A few weeks ago, a child on her way home from school was approached by a strange man in a van. Older kids intervened, and she was fine. When the police came around, I totally had that license plate. I'm a smoker, and a van circling our block 12 times at 3PM when school gets out is very strange in my neighborhood. So I made up an acronym, like Peter Eats Pizza, 3 Times Daily (not the plate). The police were like, how? I watch a lot of True Crime on UA-cam?
Hot take you got there 😂
I ran away with a stranger at 14, in January 1990. I thank God everyday that I made it back to South Carolina after going to California with him… these stories are chilling. 😢
@@GenXfrom75i remember being 14, and now I have an almost 15yo daughter. Scares me to death! When my step daughter was 15 she started shooting dope. It took 13yrs to get her to finally get clean. Idk what to do to protect my daughters without smothering them, scaring them. They know about everything their older sister went thru. We are all very honest about it to them. I’m also very open with everything I’ve ever done. I have a medical marijuana card, they know I smoke for pain and anxiety. I just don’t know what else to do but be honest with them. Including sharing stories like this with them.
@maryjane4432 I hear that soul sista. I had a dope problem from 17-30. Been clean for 10yrs now. My kids are under 10 but being what the world is like I share the same worries as you. I wish there was a guaranteed way to keep the kids safe 😢
Great video! Disturbing... I'm 59 and when I think of the things we got away with, like hitch-hiking all over the place, skipping school and hanging out in the pool hall, the sheer amount of danger we were in and thought nothing of it, it's sobering, to be sure.
It's a wonder we survived, I'm 66 next week
That’s what I was thinking. I am terrified for my younger self. And horrified, that my children would do what I did. ( hitchhiking home because a boy didn’t like me. ) So naïve!
@@katiekane5247 damn
@@RICHGIRLASMRthat's you in your profile picture
I teach Freshmen now and can't imagine a 14yo like Regina having to deal with this horror. I also (in passing) share with my kiddos that I taught a Crime Scene elective course for middle schoolers over 20 years ago and the rules since the late 80's have always been: DON'T HITCH HIKE EVER and don't let anyone take you away to another "site" no matter what. Many of my students tell me that their parents never discuss this with them. We are good about telling our children "not to talk" to strangers when they are little, but we need to help protect them (without scaring them to death) from the weirdos as well.
I know, actually I have told daughter many times to remember the DTA, DON'T TRUST ANYONE!!!! Thanks Stone Cold Steve Austin!!!!
I taught high school for a couple of years, and had kids talk about wanting to hitchhike all the time. I think I scared them pretty good with stories from my retired cop dad, but yikes. The fact that anyone would hitchhike now days is terrifying.
I once worked with two pretty surfer type sisters, who told me they once hitched to get to the beach, and got picked up by a guy in a panelvan…
This guy did the whole lock them in, and drove off into a deserted track thing…
He gets out the car all macho, telling them all sorts of things to scare them…
Then he says: “I hope you are scared! Now get back in the car and never hitch again!”
He told them his sister was hurt by hitching, so he wanted to teach them a lesson.
Good on him. I hope it worked.
Kind of a fucked up way to "teach someone a lesson" tho
The amount of evil in this world is absolutely terrifying 😔
@@roxanneb8844 I expect one of Mike's videos to star you one day as you sound like absolute nutcase
Tbf we've tried to move away from slavery and burning people at the stake for witchcraft. Plus the amount of murderous psychopaths and sociopaths is a fraction of the many people who inhabit this world.
@@roxanneb8844 why TF are you here then, Ms. Syke-0?
Bit of projection?
I sometimes feel like this. But then I remind myself here are far more good people in the world than this crazy mofo.
@@roxanneb8844 why are you here then?
Dean Corll and Robert Rhoades are the stuff of nightmares, and I’ve been watching true crime since the OG Forensic Files days in the 90s
Love Forensic Files! I forgot about it. Thanks for the reminder.
Yep. I started with Bundy but Corll was aquainted with my cousin (she hitched rides with him 😮) and that was Houston too where I lived
Dean Corll is only a small part of a much bigger horror. Look into the book Eye of The Chickenhawk.
@@drearyerie8504 lord idk if I even want to know 🥹
@@this.is.pointless all episodes are on yt
I hate when these monsters are given deals.
I do, too! I commented about my thoughts on this B.S.!
I know. They just need an industrial wood chipper.
I'm not sure, sometimes the "deal" clinches a case where the perp might have gone totally free instead of getting something at least... esp when due to a lack of hard 100% evidence because thats your duty as a juror is are they without a doubt guilty and sometimes you have to say no even if in your heart of hearts you can feel it
Sometimes it's just a lose lose situation but oftentimes these deals help get a solid case.
True,he should be on death row.but after his deal he was convicted of other murders he will never get out,theres a documentary about killer truckers.
That last photograph of Regina is so haunting!
I think she looks nearly identical to Winona Ryder
It absolutely is- she looks terrified and confused about what’s about to happen to her, so sad😢
He’s a monster!!!
@@Chalamaha imagine if she had just a single brain cell - she would've known getting into a stranger's truck would've been a bad idea - she'd still be alive. Crazy.
@@badabing8152 No need to victim blame. This was, I think the 80s and hitchhiking was a lot more common.
@@ErikaTBusit's not victim blaming - it's the sad truth. She did make a poor choice, and if we can learn from it and teach others from it, then that's important.
We must teach our children that their choices have consequences. They absolutely play a crucial role in many things that befall them. This is not hateful to say - it's love.
I can’t even imagine what that poor girls family is going through. It’s one thing to find out your baby was murdered… but to have her last photos broadcasted out there, everywhere is utterly unthinkable. May all his victims rest in peace. May he rot in the hottest part of hell, forever.
The *bad* hell. Because we're going to the awesome hell. (TheClick reference)
@ aftermidnight.
Agreed
Amen to that
What kind of socially maladapted halfwit not only tries to make some totally unrelated niche reference in response to over two dozen murders, but also explaining the joke in the same sentence. Are you okay?@Saavik256
I hope God sends a worker bee to stand in front of him drinking water and surrounded with cool air and all he can do is watch
Thanks for holding back on the gruesome details. I've run across too many awful details along the way and really don't need more. I don't think there is any line that can't be crossed.
Yea
I can imagine that the poor woman who was held for 2 weeks was terrified to id him. I however cannot imagine (nor do I want to) what she endured at his hands. I hope she received mental health services 😢
People are dead because of her cowardice to identify that guy
@@antoniodriskell2346
I agree. I cannot imagine being so horrendously selfish, even at her age.
I feel bad for what she went through, but it was incredibly selfish to not ID him. She could’ve saved so many lives and yet she decided to let him walk free without even trying to get him put away.
It isn't selfishness, it is complex and acute trauma. She probably couldn't. When a human being has been repeatedly raped, tortured, dehumanized and driven insane - they are not living in the same universe as normal people. She could even have had temporary facial amnesia due to protective mechanisms, but a subconscious part could have been sceaming YES THAT IS HIM... but the trauma froze her.
Please have some humility and compassion.
Have you heard of shellshock? Well this is it. If she regained her sanity after, a big if, she probably feels guilty. She shouldn't.
Trauma, intense and profound is not like movie PTSD. I hope none of us ever go through even 1% what this woman went through. She's gone through what very few humans will ever.
Second - I don't see the thread including the police in these statements, none of you. They could have kept him for 48 hours, questioned people around him, his ex, read into his DD, got a good judge to issue a warrant on his rig on the basis of her response, due diligence, or if not gotten other agencies to follow him etc etc. They could call the right folks in transport to have his rig tested for road worthiness.The list is long.
Blaming a severely traumatized victim is not the way. Asking WHY she didn't with compassion and equanimity, researching, or even questioning yourself "is what I'm about to say harmful or helpful?"
It is harmful to survivors who had little or no control over their mind at the time: they already feel guilty nd can't change the past.
Helpful? Do you think your words will change the mind of a future victim of such a heinous insanely cruel and dehumanizing crime?
Of course not. Temporary insanity doesn't work that way.. you'd be lucky to remember your own name after such a thing.
Be safe out there, and kind.
@@antoniodriskell2346 I understand your anger and sentiment but my statement was never to insinuate that this victim was at all to blame. Absolutely not. How do you know how you would react in these extraordinary circumstances? Be kind
My first time here. Someone on another channel, coffeehouse, crime, mention your channel. So here I am. Your enthusiasm is telling these stories is refreshing. Subscribed! I see there are a lot of videos to catch up with.
@@roxanneb8844 This is a good point. Something about the mix of the stand-up comedy delivery and real life murders always sits very uneasily with me.
Have you ever covered Ramon Salcido, who in 1989 went on a murder spree in Sonoma County in Northern California? He killed six family members, including four children, as well as a coworker. I live where it happened and remember it very clearly. This was just a few years before Polly Klaas, which happened here, too.
Oh shoot!
Another Sonoma County local 😊
707 😉
Was he the schitzo guy who thought he had to shoot people to prevent earthquakes and said Jesus and Mary talked to him?
@@4everhumbl36 Greetings, neighbor 🖖
Never heard that one 😮
My best friend knew his wife, Angela. They had visited my friend’s family once, so when he went on the run after the murders they left town because they didn’t know if he’d come after them. Angela’s family were devout Catholics. She used to sneak out of the house at night and that’s how she met Ramon. I think she got pregnant and he was more or less forced to marry Angela. He killed Angela, then went to her parents’ house, raped and killed her sister and mother and took his very young children to a garbage dump where he sl*t their throats and left them to die. His young daughter survived and was adopted by a strict Catholic family (friends of Angela’s family). I think the whole spree started with Ramon killing his work supervisor and a co-worker, but I’m not sure. He was on death row until Gavin Newsom put a moratorium on executions in California. I hope he’s suffering, but Gavin is doing his best to take good care of prisoners. 🤬
I lived in Pasadena as a kid and almost got abducted by a scumbag in a truck while riding my bike. That place is a sh*t hole.
@@roxanneb8844you wish the corruption going on doesn’t allow the funds for improvement. Place still looks run down god awful roads it’s like little Mexico
Born and raised in Pasadena in the 80's amd 90's and still live just across the bridge now. The older areas like where i grew up are absolutely shitty. But there are a lot of newer areas that are nice.
That's "Stinka-dena" for you.
We eventually left. Couldn't stand the smell of that place.
If some areas improved since then, good. But I'm not coming back.
That whole part of Texas is kinda a wasteland. Don't even like driving through there. Hill Countrys were its at.
@@eddysgaming9868 lol, thankfully they closed the paper mill years back so that funk is gone. Still not worth coming back to
I watch a lot of crime stories but this foul man definitely stands out as one of the most sick and depraved humans I have come across. The pain, fear and suffering those poor girls went through for weeks on end is just too aweful to think about.
This was the story I heard about not getting to a semi with people you don’t know. Had a friend whose sister hitchhiked with a trucker as a teen. She was found a couple days later beat up half naked on the side on the road.
I used to wonder why medieval punishments were so horrenduos & brutal, but upon hearing about monsters like Dean Corrll or Rhoades I understand better...just sad these monsters never get those terrible punishments, instead innocent people do..😢😒
" He didn't have an arse in his trousers "
😂😂😂
Love and respect your community. Stay vigilant. Stay strong. We DESERVE to celebrate and thrive in the world we have built for one another. Expose the truth. Shine your light in the darkness. Be real and do Good. I believe in you ❤️💯
Those photos of regina are horrifying especially alongside the one of her looking young and happy. god bless all his victims x
There have been a couple of tv shows about this story. It’s heartbreaking, and that photo really shows Regina’s terror.
At first I thought you were doing a story about David Ray Parker, he had a trailer set up with a gynecological chair, where he tortured and killed women. A woman escaped, and he was caught - it’s a story I’d love to see you do!
Also, here in Nashville, police arrested a serial-killing truck driver, his name was Bruce Mendenhall. This is another story I’d love to see you present.
The David Ray Parker was one of the most horrific cases I’ve heard in my life.
@@trcsunny2187
It really was horrible! I read a book about him, and it had photos of the inside of his “Toy Box”. To think of being held in a place like that for weeks, to be tortured by him, his wife & friends, knowing he won’t keep you alive forever, is shattering.
If you consider he said 15 years. Keeping them a week to a month for that long. Yeah he probably racked up a huge death count. The idea that Serial Killers do like to exploit jobs like the Truck driver is scary. All the more reason to be very cautious no matter what you are doing.
I have always wondered if some of the victims in the infamous Texas Killing Fields and Highway of Tears might have been at his hands .It really makes you question this possibility .RIP to this creep's victims and all the rest who suffer and die at the hands of monsters like this .Such a tragic loss of life and prayers for all the missing people , unsolved murder victims , Jane and John Does , runaways ,their friends and families .May they receive justice and closure .Nothing done in the dark won't be brought into the light eventually .Great video as always .
Had an old friend who knew everything about everybody in our town, & between the two of us we concluded that it was a ring of at least 5 guys who were responsible for most of those who were placed in that field. A peon took the fall for the leader who was a suspect for years & who had a lot of power in the town he resided in. Sadly, my friend passed away last year, while the ringleader still thrives; marrying someone just as wealthy & purchasing even more land. When I told the main investigator on the case, of his unwanted advances on me & a friend, he said that once he was named as suspect, they received over 120 calls from women who were assaulted by him, never bothering to take any of our statements.
My hometown of "Pasa-get-down-dena" makes it on "That Chapter." I was in 4th grade when O'Brian killed his son. When I got home to devour my Halloween haul after school on November 1st, to my horror I found my mother threw out all my candy. O'Brian didn't just murder his son, he killed Halloween for thousands of kids. To this day a still remember poor Timothy and have never eaten Pixy Stix since.
What a painful death that poor boy would’ve went through. His own dad the perpetrator on top of it.
Oh my gosh I was lol when you described the daddio. Father Rhoades. Nobody can describe a monster and do it so the audience is giggling.
Your a talent!!! New subscriber and binge watching/listening. ✌️
Thanks Mike! Love how you haven't changed and are still genuine. Great research and storytelling
U are a great story teller & I'm glad I found this channel.
I'm grateful every day that I survived the period in my late teens/early 20s where I was hitchhiking around a lot. I'm lucky to be alive. The craziest thing is that it hardly ever crossed my mind as dangerous.
Wow. You want to know what's absolutely scary af? My baby sister tried to commit sew-icide when she was 7 (we had a hellish childhood). I stopped her just in time. By the time she was 14, (1983), she ran away from home with her friend. They hitchhiked across the country, taking rides with truckers. I asked her about her experiences. She said she never had any of the truckers ever once cause any problems. I've always thought omg, she was sooo lucky that nobody tried anything criminal with them. Both girls were only 14. It literally just occurred to me that she was the same age as Regina was when Regina went missing, running from the same horrible childhood, taking the same method of hitching rides with truckers. I guess it just hit me how SHE could have ended up like Regina. 😢
Horrible horrible thoughts now…
@@hunnid17 I know... it was bad. I told my sister one time that my therapists have had to take breaks because of what I told them. She said omg, yours, too? She's had the same experience, where therapists can't even handle what we've told them. We've both had therapists refer us out because they can't handle what we tell them happened. Truth be told, we both read the book, "A Boy Called It," and both of us said ours was way worse. For the record, I spent many years apologizing to my sister for stopping her from sew-icide. I understood why she was doing it, I just (selfishly) loved her too much to let her go. She has forgiven me for that day, though, so the guilt is a little less than it used to be. Sigh.
@@hunnid17 oh stfu. You have no idea. You're starting to sound like an abuser, ya know. Always denial, always gaslighting, pretending any horrible thing you do just "isn't that bad."
I grew up in Pasadena and its a terrible place. Regina was a few years older than me and I remember hearing about this. My life unfortunately mirrors hers in a lot of ways. Knowing it couldve happened to me still haunts me all these years later.
This was especially horrible and creepy. You did a great job of telling this horrific story. Stay safe. Best from Denmark.
I have ALWAYS wondered where the urban legend of poisoning Halloween candy came from! And that wasn't even the topic of this video, but just Mike giving awesome background. Thanks!
I remember when these killings happened. I lived in a small Midwestern town close to an interstate ramp. They were telling people to watch for new semi drivers and certain types of truck models. Scary shit man
The insurance dance never gets old
I remember my mom telling me this story we lived in Pasadena n we couldn't have pixie stix candies after this
That life Insurance video never gets old 🎉😂
It is horrifying to think of how many active serial killers are just trucking along American highways even to this day.
I really can't understand how there are people this cruel.
@@roxanneb8844 I think the vast majority of people are upset at hearing these stories and Mike's not using the victims. That's an unfair characterization.
@@roxanneb8844 I think that you are a highly unintelligent drama queen who has no clue what she’s talking about and whose trolling for an argument.
I was born the same night that poor baby was murdered by his father. Ronald is the reason our parents checked our candy every year!! He’s a monster!! He literally watched his son die. Just an empty monster!
No words. You do a most excellent job, Mike, both with information, sense and sensitivity. Thanks.
Mike, thanks for covering this case!! This monster of the highways was in my sights, thanks to some older TV-produced docs, but it's refreshing to get a new angle on this POS. I started watching you in 2021, when my BF was dying and I had 5hr drives to the ICU (docs gave him until Christmas, but he survived! Better health now than ever!) Your coverage of Russel Tillis sucked me in!! ❤ You should cover Robert Maudsley, Dennis Nilsen, Russell Gene Simmons. You are unknowingly part of so many ppl's lives, it must feel creepy at times, but hopefully more of a sweet gratification.
Mike made me get into True Crime and his channel is still my favorite!
I met a woman in jail years ago who was being detained to testify against a serial killer she survived. I guess she kept hiding from the law because she didn't want to have to see him again in court. So they ended up putting her in jail just to keep her still.
She completely melted down during that trial. But she broke down one night and told me how she had been picked up by this trucker who ended up cutting her throat literally from ear to ear - visable scar. Then cut her from the base of her skull all the way down her spine - OMG, that scar was brutal. Then he threw her out of the truck down an embankment in the middle of the night. She said it took her til dawn to crawl back up to the road, and three cars passed her naked bloody body as she tried to wave for help.
In the time I was down, I heard some crazy stories from women about things that have happened to them. But that has to be the worst. I was only 18 then, I'm 56 now, and it still lives in my head
To tell me a story about a serial killer truck driver and then end with "sleep well" is truly wicked 😂😂😂
@@roxanneb8844 you're right because I love watching him😊
"That chapter" is numero uno ☝️
Let's gooooo, Mike 💙
Thank you for covering this story. More people need to know about this psycho a-hole. I grew up in the next town over from where Regina's body was found (Greenville, IL), and remember when she was found. The barn she was found in was visible from I-70. Once you see the awful pics of Regina it's hard to forget them, and I think of her fairly often. Such a sad end, but thanks to her the monster was stopped. Rip to his victims and I pray for peace for their families.
37:40- I legit freaked out when all the ghosts appeared on your screen.
“Another world is possible” - thank you so much for this video.
I love your channel. Very entertaining. Thank you and im going to keep watching.
I work the 2nd shift and I commute to work Monday through Friday. It really makes me side-eye the semi trucks even more now.
Look forward to your new vids. Dont no why but i just love this channel youve created. You deserve every compensation possible. I enjoy your channel most.
Glad you mentioned the famous pic of him is from a Halloween party. Most overlook that fact, which changes the whole tone of his expression.
38:00 "probly not trying to touch anything" 🤣
I remember the days in the 80’s-90’s as a trucker.
Most of the truckers were just hard working family men. Although there were some bad apples. They always stood out like a sore thumb.
2:40 the simple fact that there are grown men doing this is disturbing, like a demonic version of Albert Fish, the man that loved causing harm to little children before torturing them to death.
@@roxanneb8844 morbid curiosity is human nature, but we also tend to watch these kind of stories simply because we cannot grasp them. At least that’s why I watch the morbid stuff, but I have no wish to actually see what they did or do anything like it myself. I just can’t understand that there are people molded like this. Perhaps demonic possession of the human mind?
Love your videos 🎉 wish you posted more often 😅
"SO uhhhhm, sleep well!" 😂😂
Th3 background noise starting around 12:53 had me looking around my home terrified. 👀
"Knee high to Adam's balls"...😂😂. Oh, Mike....you make me lol
The life insurance clip sent me 🤣🤣🤣 I didn't realize both "Candymen" were from the same area, absolutely vile human beings. Thanks for covering this case, like you said, this sicko has kept me up late thinking about how many others there are like him out there on the road. As always, you're the best! Love ya Mike ❤️
Lovin these deeper dives, Mikus! 🤘
Hey Mike! Saw a picture of you and Adrian on his channel, Coffee House
I LOVE YOUR VIDEO'S YOU CANNOT MAKE THEM FAST ENOUGH.
Take care of your mental health Mike, cause all that stuff should have a counter act to make you believe in a bright life worth living❤
This story always gave me goosebumps 🥴 Great episode! I most certainly will not be sleeping, thank you very much 😂
There is no other species in this planet that will purposely hurt and torture others.
Wow those 70s Halloween costumes are terrifying! 😂
That part of Texas is such a bleak, dreary place with all the refineries and industry. Real weird vibes in that area.
I live here,it's incredibly creepy. Foggy, sweltering heat,palm trees swaying,parrots screeching! San Leon area is surreal. Lots of scofflaw's,biker gangs, pedophiles, Galveston! Homes are stunning, architectural gems, however! Murky water,etc
I hope he’s getting treated just as sweetly in prison as he treated those poor girls.
@@roxanneb8844 don’t worry… you’ll grow up someday and not have so much acne and hopefully lose the baby fat. Time for a nappy little tiny troll. Night night
@@roxanneb8844 wondering why you’re obsessed with me. Because I didn’t reply to your other comment you couldn’t let it go. Trying to invoke some sort of response to trigger me. It’s cute. And I’m flattered. Who do I relate with? Let’s just say I would be holding a sickle.
“I don’t want to identify him so that he won’t get me so I’ll be letting him free where he has a better chance of getting me and others”…. make that make sense
I know, that was really disgusting. She should be ashamed
easy. I would NEVER tell a survivor that she will put him in jail if she has him charged or taken to court because the VAST majority of the time, the guy never sees one day of jail. I use to volunteer as a rape crisis counselor and victim advocate and I KNOW and people who blame the survivor piss me off. I watched as a jury let off a man that had sa'ed several women. They poll the jury after to find out why. A woman on the jury said that he was "too good looking so he didn't have to rape, and if he did, she was ugly and could never get a man as good-looking as he was so she had to have enjoyed it" YES that has been said and sadly way more than once. Most times the rapist gets off with classes and probation if there is a conviction. It is a HUGE misconception that the majority go to jail. THEY DO NOT. And yes some have come after the victim since they are ALMOST always let out on bail. Even the ones that sa kids.
I had one where the woman left her husband and moved out on her own with her two toddlers. She caught the neighbor peeking in her windows and reported it. Then one night when she came in late, he attacked her on the porch, shoved her inside and made the kids watch as he assaulted her. Told her that if she didn't tell the kids to watch and tell them she was enjoying it, he would sa her toddler daughter. She filed charges against him on the insistence of her sister who said she can't let him get away with it because he might do it to someone else. She went thru the SAVE exam. He insisted he never touched her and so he was arrested. He lawyered up. The lawyer told him what to do because the SAVE exam would show his dna (they do this...they get big bucks for sa cases and drunk drivers. Horrible charges but easy to get off). He called over the officers, and with the lawyer sitting there, admitted to the wife that the survivor lured him and he couldn't help himself and he was sorry for cheating on his wife. The lawyer said she was lying about the sa to get sympathy because of the ugly divorce she was going thru (he of course researched what was going on with her leaving the ex). The guy's wife spray pained "WHORE" on the side of the house and she lost custody of her kids because of all of the things going on with the rape case and judge ruled it was best that the kids be with the dad since she let herself get sa'ed in front of them. After all of that.....THEY NEVER FILED CHARGES AGAINS THE GUY. Told her she needed to move on and that revenge wouldn't help her. She ended herself when she lost custody of her kids because the charges were dropped for the SA.
I don't know if that or this was my last straw but during that time, I had one mother that refused to press charges against the rapist of her 12 year old daughter because the daughter snuck out. She said to her "That is what you get for sneaking out. I bet you won't do it again". She even refused the STD testing and 12 counselling sessions for the child. The guy had been grooming her for weeks. Convinced her that she was so much more mature than all of the other girls her age. Then convinced her to sneak out and meet him.
TL,DR: former victim's advocate and RCC that would NEVER tell a survivor to report someone that sa'ed her to try and keep him from SAing other women. 99% of the time, they are lawyered up, out on bail, and looking for revenge before you are done with the SAVE exam.
@@merimasviland8006you should be ashamed blaming the survivor and not the court system that has him lawyered up and bailed out before she finishes the SAVE exam. You should know that the VAST majority of predators get classes and probation. THEY DO NOT GO TO JAIL. Her reporting it and going thru it will destroy her life and not do a damn thing to his AND WILL NOT stop him from SAing someone else.
A scary story! I have never tried to hitchhike or take rides from strangers and after seeing this I'm glad I never did
He really likes his trees and forts
as a poor, i can’t even fathom having so much money and so many subscriptions that you just forget about and continue to allow taking money
Mike, your life insurance dance ALWAYS makes me smile!!! Thank you for your videos!! Sending lots of love to your family and you!! 🥰❤️🥰❤️
Please do Alaska next. Or at least look into it. We have Hitch hikers and backpackers up here every year. I was lucky nothing happened to me from 18 to 23 as a homeless woman here. I had to travel like that from Homer to Talketna and throughout Anchorage and Fairbanks.
I wonder if this guy was partial inspiration for Suspect Zero. Super underrated film imo
2 Million!!! Wooowooooo! Well deserved.
Congrats on the 2 mil mark Mike
I’m from Houston, and ANOTHER “fun fact”…. us Houstonians had a nickname for Pasadena:
“Stinkadena” smh, I wish I could say I don’t know why we call it that. To be honest though, it’s because of all the plants there you can literally smell in your car driving as soon as you get into town. It smells so awful like rotten eggs
People that hurt children can't have a soul. 😢
Thank you Mike, well done. please keep it up🏆
Love the "life insurance" dance, always.
Dean Corll was an absolute monster, perhaps one of the least known because he escaped the notoriety of a lengthy legal process due to his immediate death.
how horrifically sad 😔 rip to the victims
Have enjoyed "That Chapter" and am saddened that it has as many commercials as CNN. Not for me.
Fantastic episode
This case has always stuck with me because of those haunting photos of poor Regina.
Thank you Michael ❤
If anything ever happened to me, I would like Mike to cover my story.
Could you cover John O’Keefe’s death once Karen Read’s trial is over. The horrible things some policemen are accused of in Massachusetts over the years is unfathomable. Another examples of murderers hiding in plain sight with positions of public trust.
23:44 It worked for Stan and Jack in 'On the Buses' 👍👍👍👍
Love your show! May I ask what is up w the weird overlay? It makes my head feel weird 😅
Mike, can you do a full length one on the first guy? That sounds like a frightening but interesting piece of "history".
Edit: Grammar
I live off of Mcartney road in Casa Grande, AZ which is the i10 interstate exit he was arrested on.
I always hope that we get a life insurance dance. We may not always get it, but it sure is nice when we do.
This is very close to the famous Texas Killing Fields, a 25-acre patch of land between Houston and Galveston. What they don't tell you is that the land is owned by all the oil companies that operate plants in the area.
Why wouldn't the police have him under instant 24 hour surveillance if they so convinced he was their man. Pathetic
YAYYYY!!! You FINALLY HIT 2M🫶WELL DESERVED❤
You are by far my favorite UA-camr!
A 14 year old runs away from a home where her sister committed suicide at age 12-makes me wonder what kind of home life these kids endured. How very tragic and sad. May they rest in peace.
That's a great question, really makes you wonder.
My family has been torn apart by suicide, and that was the death of an adult. A death of a 12 yr old child, that's another level of grief.
Suicide itself screams, "I hate you!" Loud and clear.
No wondering about it. Without a doubt, those poor kids endured hell. It’s awful being forced into the world by emotionally distant adults. The very least a parent can do is love and care for their children. No one asks to be born and no child deserves to be treated so badly that they only see death as an answer. My heart breaks for all children who have lived and currently live in such conditions
@@rosekeyes3189Sometimes.
Sometimes, you're shouting that at yourself.