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  • čas přidán 13. 03. 2020
  • In 1990, a 14-year-old girl ran away from her Texas home and disappeared; six months later, her body was found hundreds of miles away in an Illinois barn. Agents tracked down a trucker who they believed was responsible for over 50 murders. Investigators knew they had to stop this menace of the highways.
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  • @sookie4195
    @sookie4195 Před rokem +1734

    My car broke down on a remote stretch of I-35 in Missouri. I was about 29. I had just started to hitch hike and a trucker pulled over. He got on my case saying, it wasn’t safe out there. He took me to the nearest truck stop and waited until help arrived. I’m so thankful that he was kind. Thank God and that trucker.

    • @bayoulafourche
      @bayoulafourche Před rokem +147

      I had a similar experience. We were lucky. I was trying to run away from home and go back to New Orleans and my grandmother. My basketball team had played at a school near the highway. I played my game, girls go first usually, and I left while the boys played. This trucker picked me up in the dark, on the side of I-20, took the next exit to a well lighted gas station and waited for the Ouachita Parish sheriff's dept to get there. Lol, the gig was up and they took me home. Could've been so bad. I was 15.

    • @lennarthagen3638
      @lennarthagen3638 Před rokem +26

      Wow wow

    • @rayban5737
      @rayban5737 Před rokem +26

      I was drinking on the side of the road on I-35

    • @lennarthagen3638
      @lennarthagen3638 Před rokem +6

      @@Ryanthegolfer A model prisoner.

    • @luckyndebele1391
      @luckyndebele1391 Před rokem +24

      Never trust a smiling cat 🐈

  • @debra6513
    @debra6513 Před 10 měsíci +218

    When I was about 10 we lived 20 miles out of town in Idaho, the wheel to our car rolled off it was nighttime and a trucker picked the 4 of us up and took us home, I remember how super nice he was and grateful to him for getting us home safely.

  • @mattbotelho7631
    @mattbotelho7631 Před rokem +469

    I’m a truck driver myself and this story really makes me sick, dirt bags like Rhoads gives our industry a bad rep. Outstanding job on everyone’s end to put this sicko behind bars

    • @SugarSugarCreek
      @SugarSugarCreek Před 11 měsíci +25

      I'm sorry too that people like this give truck drivers a bad reputation. 😢 Back in the day, my parents and grandparents taught us to respect truck drivers. They called truck drivers "the White Knights" of the road. On a road trip, We would always look for a restaurant that had a lot of trucks because my grandparents would always say the truckers know where the good food is.😂 I suppose these days, parking and fueling up has a lot to do with where truckers choose to stop. At any rate, I still respect the drivers, I give them their space and try to be considerate of the fact that 1) trucks don't exactly stop on a dime. 2) a car is no match for a big truck and it's just easier on everyone if you yield to an 18 wheeler! 😂

    • @counterculture10
      @counterculture10 Před 10 měsíci +17

      Serial killers are in all professions, not just truck driving. It is true, however, that his job made it ideal for preying on unsuspecting women.

    • @stailtoast8659
      @stailtoast8659 Před 10 měsíci

      Yeah everyone think truck drivers are rapist serial killers and it'll never end now because of American lorry drivers

    • @OtimeyinDaniel-xo4jr
      @OtimeyinDaniel-xo4jr Před 10 měsíci +1

      I'm a trailer driver please I like to ask you few questions

    • @marshapieroni6677
      @marshapieroni6677 Před 10 měsíci +3

      Yoy are correct. I just wrote about the good experiences I've had with truckers

  • @LisaBritintheUS
    @LisaBritintheUS Před 6 měsíci +10

    I was hauling 2 horses to a vet in Auburn AL from FL I was boxed in by 3 18 wheelers and and stressed by it, not to mention the two horses. I ended getting out of the situation and one of the drivers spotted me right up to when I exited the highway. He would let me pass slower drivers. It was such an awesome experience. I couldn't thank that driver enough. Most truck drivers are very considerate and kind.

    • @Will-jb7dd
      @Will-jb7dd Před 2 měsíci

      Women like you should NEVER be driving.

  • @decarlosmith1862
    @decarlosmith1862 Před 3 lety +457

    I picked up a hitchhiker recently. He was probably about mid twenties in age. After he told me where he was headed we rode in total silence for about 5 mins. Finally he said to me, “ I can’t believe you picked me up, I could be a serial killer or something.”....... I looked him square in the eyes and with a straight face I replied, “ the chances of two serial killers being in the same car have got to be astronomical.”.......... he asked that I let him out at the next off ramp!!

  • @jeannineterese1037
    @jeannineterese1037 Před 3 lety +1152

    Back in the 80’s we regularly got into cars with guys who had beer & went to party with them. I can’t believe I did such stupid things, I’m lucky I didn’t run into a guy like this.

    • @xxboonisbadfortnitexx1549
      @xxboonisbadfortnitexx1549 Před 3 lety +21

      Yea 10-4

    • @samanthaob87
      @samanthaob87 Před 3 lety +81

      We did it in the 90s too. One night scared me straight forever. There was a few girls killed and found along the back highway. One night we were hanging out with these 2 guys. He then got upset, thinking I was staring at his glass eye. I had no idea it was a glass eye. He then said he was the one responsible for the recent killings. I ran so fast home and never got into another car with someone. I wish I would have called the police, but for some reason I didn’t think to do that. They never did find the killer.

    • @xxboonisbadfortnitexx1549
      @xxboonisbadfortnitexx1549 Před 3 lety +7

      @@samanthaob87 rip

    • @ritsutainaka8156
      @ritsutainaka8156 Před 3 lety +22

      @@samanthaob87 yoooo what tell me more! Please you’re so lucky, I’m so glad you’re safe, I almost got abducted by an unlicensed ice cream trucker dude 🥴 he grabbed me by the wrist and attempted to pull me in

    • @ritsutainaka8156
      @ritsutainaka8156 Před 3 lety +8

      @@xxboonisbadfortnitexx1549 he’s not dead dummy he’s commenting

  • @jamesmaguire9518
    @jamesmaguire9518 Před 11 měsíci +129

    You hear all the time of close calls where serial killers should have been caught, but they somehow got away because the cops did something stupid… I’m glad this police officer was able to save that woman.

  • @robinworkman3621
    @robinworkman3621 Před 2 lety +191

    How can you cut a deal for 6 yrs out in one for getting caught with someone bound in your truck and all the evidence in his apartment? People have been jailed longer for weed

    • @pinkpugginz
      @pinkpugginz Před 2 lety

      he was a white male

    • @robinworkman3621
      @robinworkman3621 Před 2 lety

      @@pinkpugginz I think the only ones keeping racism alive are the media,politicians and those who believe their lies. They need it to keep us divided so we don't all turn on them.
      Just for kicks and giggles, look up how often black men are shot by cops compared to how many white men are shot by cops then ask yourself how many news stories of a white man being shot by a cop have you seen. None, why because that doesn't sell racism. And why don't you hear on the news about all the blacks killing blacks? Because that doesn't sell racism.

    • @philstrohm4181
      @philstrohm4181 Před 2 lety +12

      Weed bad. Kidnapping not as bad. Makes sense…..

    • @robinworkman3621
      @robinworkman3621 Před 2 lety +15

      @@philstrohm4181 I guess, I was talking to a fellow that was in law enforcement. He said he was on a case where this gang banger put his kid in a pillow case and beat him up against the wall because he was crying He said he stopped when the noise stopped. The cop said you couldn't even really tell what it was when he looked in the bag that guy did about 6 years. The f***** up world we live in man. Said the only reason he got 6 years is cuz they made him a deal that if he would plead guilty he'd do less time

    • @robinworkman3621
      @robinworkman3621 Před 2 lety +1

      @@joshuathepersecuted1569 what did you do

  • @rebeccahopkins9522
    @rebeccahopkins9522 Před 2 lety +657

    The unidentified female at the end of this video has since been identified. She is a tribal native woman from Canada. And she is alive and well as of 2019. Her name is Pamela Millikan. Look her up and read her chilling account of what happened in her brush with Rhoads, and how she stared into the face of a sadistic murderous monster, and lived to tell the tale.

  • @LizC-hq6tt
    @LizC-hq6tt Před 3 lety +231

    Whats concerning is all of these skeletons of young girls they keep finding...

    • @AAr3624
      @AAr3624 Před 3 lety +17

      My concern also, I wonder if any were investigated, just baffles me how many other bodies they came across, very disturbing.

    • @Romulan2469
      @Romulan2469 Před 3 lety +9

      @@AAr3624 Indeed. It's shocking to see. You can only imagine the heartache other families must have gone through when someone goes missing and never comes back and the case is unsolved. This despicable guy should have gotten the death penalty.

    • @David-ud9ju
      @David-ud9ju Před 3 lety +16

      @@AAr3624 Lol, of course they were investigated. They didn't just go "ah, that's not our girl, put it back where you found it."

    • @YedolfWesler
      @YedolfWesler Před 3 lety

      Most end up in the landfill.

    • @We_Are_All_Vultures
      @We_Are_All_Vultures Před 2 lety +3

      @@David-ud9ju no.. if they don't have someone to compare the dna too.. if they're not reported missing plus it's very expensive. There's sooo many doe's

  • @Wilko11
    @Wilko11 Před 5 měsíci +15

    How could they search his house, find all the pictures and evidence of so many people, then allow him to do a plea deal, being eligible for parole after a year ? Astounding. But there's also nothing in this story to say there was as many as 50 murders, as claimed in the title.

  • @angeesteiner8493
    @angeesteiner8493 Před 2 lety +203

    The saddest part of this is that a 14 y/o should not be leaving when she feels like it and "letting her mom know, after a few days, when she felt like coming home." A 14 y/o is a child and does not have the maturity to be on her own.

    • @nickthompson2023
      @nickthompson2023 Před rokem +30

      Only so much single mother working late at night can do to control their child.

    • @eddiecongdon8017
      @eddiecongdon8017 Před rokem

      Especially little sloots like Regina Kay walters

    • @MiguelReyes-cz9il
      @MiguelReyes-cz9il Před rokem +12

      Back then 14 yrs old it was almost like an adult

    • @angeesteiner8493
      @angeesteiner8493 Před rokem +8

      @@nickthompson2023 I get the single mom thing, but I also know you can control your kids, even when you are not there. It is how you raise them, and yes, I have experience in raising good kids. Not perfect kids, but mine did not run away all of the time and tell me when they felt like coming back. If they had, they could have stayed away, no child of mine will be telling me how it works.

    • @VG-rj8pn
      @VG-rj8pn Před rokem

      The demon crats want to coach kids into changing their sex before puberty!!! And no one is screaming about this. Your mass media is hiding it. Check out the Michigan attorney General who wants a drag queen in every school

  • @wildplumbeauty
    @wildplumbeauty Před 3 lety +926

    As a parent , seeing Regina’s little notebook with childish writing listing phone numbers really broke my heart. I can’t imagine how her parents felt seeing that in court. I would have lost my mind.

    • @scorpio5165
      @scorpio5165 Před 3 lety +86

      What broke my heart is the picture he took for her in the barn wearing the black dress and short hair you can see how terrified she was and knowing what's coming to her, that picture haunted me for a while.

    • @b.a.brackus6371
      @b.a.brackus6371 Před 3 lety +28

      Yes it is heartwrenching.. I have spent many a night at the Greenville Illinois highway 127 exit and interstate 70 ..very near to where that barn once stood...

    • @abigailpatriciadole3167
      @abigailpatriciadole3167 Před 3 lety +18

      That photo is haunting!

    • @journeytrials
      @journeytrials Před 3 lety +23

      @@b.a.brackus6371 glad they tore it down! Places like that end up being haunted

    • @b.a.brackus6371
      @b.a.brackus6371 Před 3 lety +31

      @@journeytrials l personally don't worry about hauntings...... It's evil individuals like this (truck driving murderer) that scare me.....

  • @jrm1987murphy
    @jrm1987murphy Před 3 lety +494

    It's horrifying to imagine being in Regina's position and how badly you would have been wishing you hadn't left home, horrible. Poor kids.

    • @arthurmunoz3597
      @arthurmunoz3597 Před 3 lety +14

      Innocents lost what a shame.

    • @blacmanonrise1
      @blacmanonrise1 Před 3 lety +39

      Thats what happens when you dont lisent to Mommy

    • @chaseroberts3111
      @chaseroberts3111 Před 3 lety +8

      her choice, many women get no choice

    • @mallikaxavier8846
      @mallikaxavier8846 Před 3 lety +11

      To be honest I didn't feel sorry for Regina...boyfriend at the age of 14?? Hitchhiking to Mexico at the age of 14? Disobeying your parents and living with boyfriend? She wanted only sex and obviously got more than she wanted

    • @chaseroberts3111
      @chaseroberts3111 Před 3 lety +4

      @@mallikaxavier8846 it all comes down to bad parenting

  • @TheTruthSeeker756
    @TheTruthSeeker756 Před 2 lety +260

    It burns me up that we have to pay for this guy to live for so many years in jail. Give him some bed sheets and no one check on him for awhile. Maybe we'll get lucky.

    • @DeeDee-hx1km
      @DeeDee-hx1km Před 2 lety +1

      Or give him a shot and put him to sleep..permanently. Those who are against the death penalty can pay the tab for serial killers who get life instead of death

    • @mycrazylife408
      @mycrazylife408 Před 2 lety +16

      @@DeeDee-hx1km I rather be shot than live in prison forever that’s more torture

    • @DeeDee-hx1km
      @DeeDee-hx1km Před 2 lety +5

      @@mycrazylife408 whose gonna pay the tab for the next 30?

    • @Dobviews
      @Dobviews Před 2 lety +12

      @@DeeDee-hx1km It is monetarily cheaper to keep them in prison than to spend the money from state taxes to kill them. Why should they be given a quick out? Instead, let them sit in their misery for decades only to leave in a pine box toes up.

    • @greatdividingrange1785
      @greatdividingrange1785 Před 2 lety

      @@Dobviews I agree with you.Give whips n chains the same bland meal and water 3x everyday.A thin mattress and a blanket,only fluro light on 24hrs,no windows, books,radio,tele and no conversation,not even with the screws.The list goes on,he will wish he was dead. That is real punishment not the easy out with death.

  • @jamesstreet228
    @jamesstreet228 Před rokem +152

    They were looking for this girl and they found 2 bodies and neither one was Regina. It makes you wonder just how many bodies are out in the woods

    • @Simp_Zone
      @Simp_Zone Před rokem +18

      We only hear about the ones that are caught... 😮‍💨

    • @IwasBlueb4
      @IwasBlueb4 Před rokem +1

      by the same guy, probably

    • @dudemorris7769
      @dudemorris7769 Před rokem +3

      Millions are missing and never found since beginning this world.

    • @FigaroHey
      @FigaroHey Před rokem +12

      Yeah, there was a moment when they said that they wanted to look at all the missing youth from a certain period of months when Regina went missing and it was over 900 people! Nine HUNDRED children missing? Nine hundred?!?! And the boyfriend's family just wrote him off - we thought he was just a bad one and ended up in jail. No attempt to find him... Imagine their son went through all kinds of hell on the streets, used and abused... and nobody looking for him, no mother and father at home anxious to do anything to find their son and make sure he was safe. How can parents be so heartless?

    • @barkydarky-op4jx
      @barkydarky-op4jx Před rokem

      Yeah police are too busy arresting people for weed and enforcing arbitrary bs gun laws on law abiding citizens to actually save or help anyone

  • @ManicMangz
    @ManicMangz Před 3 lety +344

    1960s - Hitchhike
    1980s - Don't hitchhike
    1990s - Don't get in cars with strangers
    2010s - Uber, use an app to get in cars with strangers 😅

    • @mariamacebekhulu2629
      @mariamacebekhulu2629 Před 3 lety +11

      Well said

    • @YahyeMohamed
      @YahyeMohamed Před 3 lety +26

      Uber is traceable

    • @FearEeatsTheSoul
      @FearEeatsTheSoul Před 3 lety +16

      Uber Drivers are Traceable Dum Dum!! I don’t think an Uber driver is gonna pick someone up under his account and kill them.

    • @ManicMangz
      @ManicMangz Před 3 lety +28

      Maybe Google it first "dum dum" 🙄
      9 murders and 3045 sexual assaults in the US in just over a year 🤦‍♀️

    • @charlie557
      @charlie557 Před 3 lety +2

      And we use the interent to do it.

  • @dennispetrovic8466
    @dennispetrovic8466 Před 3 lety +738

    Many thanks to the Arizona Highway Patrolman Officer Michael Miller for investigating why the truck was parked in a dangerous spot and found a girl handcuffed. As it turned out, the driver of that truck was the bloke they were after. Good stop, patrolman. Not only was this later determined but you also saved that girls life.

    • @JIJN
      @JIJN Před 3 lety +39

      WE KNOW, WE'VE SEEN THE DOCUMENTARY OURSELVES

    • @dennispetrovic8466
      @dennispetrovic8466 Před 3 lety +32

      @@JIJN piss off grub

    • @JIJN
      @JIJN Před 3 lety +7

      @@dennispetrovic8466 🤣 #rekt

    • @roam1646
      @roam1646 Před 3 lety +22

      I live near where he was apprehended on the i10 freeway by the city of casa grande. It was crazy finding out about the situation

    • @dennispetrovic8466
      @dennispetrovic8466 Před 3 lety +8

      @Lee Mend I agree. Thanks

  • @jwsuicides8095
    @jwsuicides8095 Před 2 lety +90

    I saw the picture of that poor girl in the barn a few years back. It's one of the most heartbreakingly eloquent photos ever. I hope there have been some comforts and joys for her loved ones since this. The crimes and the pain caused are unimaginable.

    • @Psy0595
      @Psy0595 Před 2 lety +1

      Link?

    • @greenbudzzz
      @greenbudzzz Před 2 lety +9

      Weirdos

    • @fernfreeman1729
      @fernfreeman1729 Před rokem +2

      I agree

    • @conformistbastard9842
      @conformistbastard9842 Před rokem +7

      Heartbreakingly eloquent 🤣 people are so dumb nowadays wtf does that even mean

    • @hjs1378
      @hjs1378 Před rokem +4

      You lost me at "ELOQUENT" !!! Stopped me right in my tracks, brick-wall style! Did you just learn that word? Well, now learn to use it in the proper context, because you're actually commending - giving props- to the killer on his photography skills!

  • @CrustyUgg
    @CrustyUgg Před 2 lety +405

    The scariest encounter I've ever had was when I was living from hotel to hotel escorting to support my horrible habits. A guy called the phone in my room and said he had been watching me 2 weeks before when he was staying there and would watch me go from room to room to buy drugs and to the desk to pay for my room each morning and to the vending machine, gas station across the way, etc. i thought it was weird ... he then told me he had his room switched to the one next to mine so he could see me better and I of course found this creepy but he said he was coming back to the hotel to get a room
    And wanted a date with me and I said ok. He called me when he got there and settled and I walked to his room. I was smoking a cigarette on the way to his room and another escort at the hotel saw me and asked for a cigarette so I gave her one and continued on to his room. I got there and he was already naked except for his socks.. so I'm like ok well let's do this then and get it over with (in my head) I start .. fooling around with him.. and stood up for a second to grab a sip of my drink and he pulls a knife from under his pillow. He started speaking in another language. I backed up to the door and was wearing nothing but my bra. I said throw me my clothes and money. He said if you want them.. come and get them. My legs were like jelly. I opened the door and threw up all over the walkway. That's how scared I was. Then I took off running .. again, in nothing but my bra. I saw the escort who asked me for a cigarette hotel room coming up so I started banging on her door. Her bf answered, looked me up and down and pulled me in the room. They wrapped me in a blanket and I just fell to my knees and bawled my eyes out. Sadly, that wasn't enough to get my clean. That happened in the winter of 2015. I will have 2.5 years sober as of 1/6/22 but I only got clean bc I went to jail in 2019 And found out I was pregnant. There are days, for some reason, I still miss my old lifestyle but I love my son more than anything and i could never disappoint him! He's only 2 but still... I can't let him down. I cannot imagine how these Poor young women felt .. or maybe I can... I knew I was going to be able to run out the door and I still puked from being so scared. I can't imagine being any more frightened than I was but I imagine knowing there is no way out or away from an evil monster has to be unimaginably terrifying.

    • @joseole1117
      @joseole1117 Před 2 lety +25

      Fake story.

    • @CrustyUgg
      @CrustyUgg Před 2 lety +23

      @@joseole1117 nope. Happened at the travel inn in Hartford Ct. just because YOU aren't an addict and don't know how escorts live and the things that happen to them.. doesn't mean awful things don't happen to them.. they're the number 1 target die predators because of the lifestyle they live ... it's amazing how ignorant ppl like you are 😂

    • @joseole1117
      @joseole1117 Před 2 lety +18

      Idk i mean it just seems strange that a person would willingly meet their stalker alone especially given the career choice. Perhaps you were just extremely high and over-confident? Or perhaps you were just desperate for that next hit?

    • @TeenWolfLore
      @TeenWolfLore Před 2 lety +22

      Way too long to read

    • @markus942
      @markus942 Před 2 lety +31

      Stay strong. Must be the most dangerous job in the world, feel so bad for girls having to work with that.

  • @louellamariapote9895
    @louellamariapote9895 Před 3 lety +76

    A 14 year old going out at 9:30 at night is absurd.

  • @apebeats6631
    @apebeats6631 Před 3 lety +358

    When I was 14 or 15 I took a ride from a stranger on my way home from a friend's house. It was drizzling and it was a good 3 hour walk up a mountain in a small southern town. I got into his van and immediately noticed a very strange odor, which now I'm sure came from some drug he had smoked. I tried to make small talk but he barely spoke, only asking what I was doing and where my parents were. He was behaving pretty odd, seeming really nervous and such. I got him to drop me off about 2 miles from my home because I didn't want him to know where I lived. He seemed hesitant to let me out, which was alarming, but he let me go. I'll never forget that. I thought for sure I was about to be kidnapped. Everyone knew each other in that little town, but I had no idea who that guy was, and he didn't seem local. He wasn't friendly at all which was another huge red flag. I was just a kid though, so I was stupidly naive. Dont think girls or women are the only targets for these people. They'll take boys too. I'm 32 now, and looking back on that, I count myself lucky to be here. I did have a big ass pocket knife and lots of homegrown country boy muscle back then, so he would've had a fight on his hands at least. Stay safe out there friends. Unfortunately it's safer to just say no to any courtesy these days.

    • @apebeats6631
      @apebeats6631 Před 3 lety +11

      @Mike Lopez Yeah, you're probably right. I mean people never fantasize about crazy shit and go to do it and abort at the last second. I'm glad you know more about shit I experienced than I do.

    • @DhirajKPradhanAcutech
      @DhirajKPradhanAcutech Před 3 lety

      @Mike Lopez you are disgusting.

    • @ivornappinion9406
      @ivornappinion9406 Před 3 lety +2

      @Mike Lopez YEAH AND BRAID HIS HAIR TOO.THE GUY WAS A WEIRDO

    • @arvismac
      @arvismac Před 3 lety +11

      Why you even want to hitch hike with a complete stranger? You're inviting trouble to yourself if you do that...

    • @apebeats6631
      @apebeats6631 Před 3 lety +5

      @Sadie Smiles It wouldn't surprise me. I did a lot of hitching through my teen years. Been a couple of times I thought I wasn't getting back out of the car without a fight. Even had a couple try to rob me and a friend. That ended up being pretty funny in the end though.

  • @rhondatrue761
    @rhondatrue761 Před rokem +46

    The almost forgotten part of this whole situation is how Ricky’s family were not even looking for him! I don’t care what my kids do, if I don’t go more than two days and I want to hear from them!

    • @panchoverde5078
      @panchoverde5078 Před rokem +9

      "Written off as a bad kid who would probably end up in prison..." Seriously wtf

    • @Gurl-5150
      @Gurl-5150 Před 9 měsíci

      Rotten parents who SHOULD be in hell.

    • @pinkpugginz
      @pinkpugginz Před 3 měsíci

      no wonder he wanted to run away from home he was clearly unloved and 18 was still a kid.

    • @user-hw4cd6ks2q
      @user-hw4cd6ks2q Před 2 měsíci

      Ik right 😞😞😞

  • @Lakridza67
    @Lakridza67 Před 8 měsíci +9

    I had two experiences with truck drivers too. The first was in 1982-83 sometime and my step brother and I had decided to hitch hike to Sydney from the Gold Coast. We hitched to Sydney without problems, but on our return things went sour. We got picked up by a crazed trucker madman who tried to kidnap me! Along the Road a few hours into our trip, he stopped the truck and sent my brother into a service station to get chocolates and drinks. As my brother entered the store, the trucker tried to start up the truck with me in it and take off. My brother was a super fast runner and he managed to catch the truck as it was pulling out of the service station, get the passenger door open and drag me out! The truck driver screamed profanities at us but we just ran for our lives back into that service station!
    The next time, we broke down on the Hume Highway out of Melbourne. A really nice truck driver helped to get us all home safe. Another motorist had stopped and offered to help but the trickiest had spotted him and pulled over also. He told the other guy to take a hike and afterwards explained to us that he thought the first motorist was a weirdo. Turns out that he was right. A week later, my friend was coming to my place late at night and as he approached the house, he heard a noise. Then, a man came running out from the backyard and he almost bumped into my friend in his haste! My friend gave chase but couldn’t catch the man. Next morning we looked all around our home to see if we could find anything. There was a man’s jumper left outside under the bushes directly beneath my daughters bedroom! My friend later told me that he recognised the man when he chased after him that night. It turned out to be the motorist who had stopped and offered to help us on the Hume Highway that fateful night. That trucker did is a huge favour by preventing me and my daughter getting in his car to call for help. As it also turned out, that weirdo followed us all the way from Seymour back to Melbourne to find out where we lived. Strange and scary true story🤷🏼‍♀️

    • @pinkpugginz
      @pinkpugginz Před 3 měsíci

      OMG!!! was he ever prosecuted?

  • @mylifeundefined8260
    @mylifeundefined8260 Před 3 lety +186

    I wonder how many crimes went undetected and unanswered in these old days

    • @johngillon6969
      @johngillon6969 Před 3 lety +21

      it is still happening these days. A friend of mine's death was called a suicide, because he was just a drunk no body, but i have strong hunches that the killer is still around . People in the community don't want to believe the truth , are comfortable believing this nobody just killed himself.

    • @TheMattc999
      @TheMattc999 Před 3 lety +1

      @Meyer Mica same here in the US.

    • @RuminatingWizard
      @RuminatingWizard Před 3 lety

      @Joseph Robinson 90%? Where do you get this number?

    • @klaidaz01
      @klaidaz01 Před 3 lety

      @Joseph Robinson source?

    • @priscillamccain2301
      @priscillamccain2301 Před 3 lety

      Plenty

  • @rameshnaidunooknaidu7810
    @rameshnaidunooknaidu7810 Před 3 lety +235

    950 kids 14-16 years old missing who fit the description....damn way too many

    • @SusanWillful
      @SusanWillful Před 3 lety +33

      It was 950 missing girls. That number was just for missing 14-16 year old females. Wonder what the total was (and is currently, for that matter) of all missing kids of that age range? Shocking, creepy and heartbreaking, isn't it?

    • @rameshnaidunooknaidu7810
      @rameshnaidunooknaidu7810 Před 3 lety +10

      @@SusanWillful yea...I can't even imagine...I think there should be more awareness required regarding this, most people don't know the stats are this bad...something must be done ....

    • @dahninedahcari774
      @dahninedahcari774 Před 3 lety +5

      🙏🤔🙄

    • @ShayLikeButter
      @ShayLikeButter Před 3 lety +9

      That really threw me off too...

    • @prescott1960
      @prescott1960 Před 3 lety +14

      Ramesh naidu nook naidu
      Is this number from America? In America there are 950 kids ages 14 to 16 yrs old missing yearly and never found? Is it this bad in any other countries? So this is just for one 2 year gap of 14 to 16 yr olds. How can there be so many missing? This seems like something as bad as this pandemic! I wonder what the total is from ages 1 to 18? Good Lord, there must be thousands of children missing? It can't all be human trafficking? What the What is going on?
      How can our leaders, let this be so NOT SPOKEN ABOUT? Then there are these sickos killing and not telling the families where the body is. Can't we torcher these men, like they did their captors and get the info out of them?
      FBI how can we loose this many children?

  • @travelerforever8849
    @travelerforever8849 Před 2 lety +93

    No matter how the son behaved,the family should not just give up on the boy, Ricky. Died and forgotten at a young age. Sad story

  • @rileyxsko
    @rileyxsko Před rokem +33

    This is why I will never kick my son out. My parents kicked me out when I was a teenager and I saw some messed up stuff, lived through some pretty crazy shit too. As long as I have a home so does my kid. This is terrifying...

    • @wompwomp338
      @wompwomp338 Před rokem

      No one asked.

    • @vladimirputinforUSA
      @vladimirputinforUSA Před rokem

      Nobody cares Clown 🤡

    • @mokushmasmo6009
      @mokushmasmo6009 Před rokem

      Yeah I'm homeless now my dad kicked me out. He's an asshole controlling jerk

    • @christianruffin1342
      @christianruffin1342 Před rokem +1

      @@wompwomp338 And no one cares what YOU think.

    • @rileyxsko
      @rileyxsko Před rokem +5

      @Donnell Okafor I'm definitely a dude. I'd rather my kid be at home playing videogames than moving packs and risking getting clapped up or in prison, or potentially being abused by what he thought was a potential employer because he desperately wanted to no longer be homeless. The shit that I've seen bro, yeah I would much rather have him at home. I can work on him being lazy but I would never be able to live with myself knowing I could have prevented him from having to walk the same paths I did.
      Capitalism got yall mfrs cruel as shit.

  • @gayledimitri5887
    @gayledimitri5887 Před 3 lety +403

    I’m shocked the police didn’t take this girl to the hospital first. WTH! They take her to the police station first, I’m no expert but they should have gotten her medical attention first, since she was raped & beaten.

    • @scorpio5165
      @scorpio5165 Před 3 lety +29

      I think she wasn't badly hurt and she was coherent otherwise they will send her to the hospital first

    • @cameraduong9886
      @cameraduong9886 Před 3 lety +7

      True that cop should be out of our system immediately

    • @UncleOhRed
      @UncleOhRed Před 3 lety +21

      This was a dramatization from the late 90s. I'm sure they really did.

    • @jongallant6054
      @jongallant6054 Před 3 lety +21

      Maybe they needed photos of her injuries . the hospital would have bandaged her wounds. And so the severity of her wounds would have had some time heal up. Hospitals may have kept her there for days. Defence attorneys would have seen the pictures of the healed up wounds. And claimed they were nothing. Remember defence Attorneys are on the wrong side of justice.

    • @lancelotkillz
      @lancelotkillz Před 3 lety +10

      Cop needed to secure the scene smh

  • @thisisme3238
    @thisisme3238 Před 3 lety +426

    DON'T HITCHHIKE! You may not live to see your destination...

    • @gayledimitri5887
      @gayledimitri5887 Před 3 lety +18

      Karel Naona I cant believe people did this. Nor, that they still do it. Crazy! Stay safe!

    • @BMG060981
      @BMG060981 Před 3 lety +14

      Everything is a risk sometimes you have no choice or you will live your life walking.

    • @johannahoneyman697
      @johannahoneyman697 Před 3 lety +19

      How about don’t MURDER!!

    • @reanreyes4371
      @reanreyes4371 Před 3 lety +1

      or another day 😐

    • @MuMu124
      @MuMu124 Před 3 lety +14

      Isnt Uber like hitchhiking lmao

  • @timchen5299
    @timchen5299 Před 2 lety +32

    God bless the good people who stopped to help the victim.. thank you for helping & saving life.

  • @juliadesl
    @juliadesl Před rokem +2

    Why would he have such a short sentence, 1 year with parole, for such depraved crimes of torturing women in his truck?

  • @thorazinedreams381
    @thorazinedreams381 Před 3 lety +52

    When I was a kid I saw a link to a page that showed the last pictures taken of people before they died. Regina's pictures in the barn were in there. Her head was shaven and she had her hands up defensively. She was in a black dress with heels. I was very young, shouldn't have been looking at that kind of stuff. The pictures of her haunted me, and I've never forgotten her. The photos are some of the most terrifying images I've ever seen. RIP.

    • @musictranceworld6222
      @musictranceworld6222 Před 3 lety +1

      turn to jesus christ and you will see her one day, a killer can kill a body but not the spirit as jesus clearly said..........come to jesus my friends its time now. look up todd white and start your journey

    • @w_5492
      @w_5492 Před 3 lety +19

      @@musictranceworld6222 Please preach somewhere else.

    • @alysononoahu8702
      @alysononoahu8702 Před 3 lety +5

      @@w_5492 I reported for harassment x2

    • @eianbetts6522
      @eianbetts6522 Před 3 lety

      @@w_5492 who gives a flying fuck if he’s preaching

    • @rocioaguilera3555
      @rocioaguilera3555 Před 2 lety +3

      @@musictranceworld6222 Take your comment to the proper place

  • @rutituti678
    @rutituti678 Před 4 lety +430

    Forgive me but my fourteen year old daughter wouldn't be going any where besides the bathroom at 9:30 PM

    • @trailtrs1
      @trailtrs1 Před 4 lety +30

      Absolutely true. What’s wrong with these people

    • @jackieoman6695
      @jackieoman6695 Před 4 lety +21

      She ran away ! Geez

    • @trailtrs1
      @trailtrs1 Před 4 lety +11

      jackie oman yeah she ran away. Do you know how many young people over the past 40+ years of counseling I have told NEVER do this stupidity?

    • @jackieoman6695
      @jackieoman6695 Před 4 lety +14

      @@trailtrs1 very stupid ! But for that woman to think it could never be her child that runs ! She is simply in denial !

    • @trailtrs1
      @trailtrs1 Před 4 lety +5

      jackie oman true, as are many many numerous parents who’s kids take off. Though I don’t want to blame all parents that go through a tragedy like this, some honestly are not aware, but many are uninvolved and don’t know for that reason.
      Part of the problem is the idea that many younger people consider themselves invincible

  • @lizngotho
    @lizngotho Před 2 lety +29

    that part where he was undoing his cuffs in the cop car just gives me chills....😰🥶

  • @Lexi_Bean
    @Lexi_Bean Před 3 lety +62

    Idk why I laughed so hard at the scene where the cops knocked on the apartment door and waited a half a second then said “okay” and walked away lmao

  • @user-vj1kg6kt4u
    @user-vj1kg6kt4u Před 3 lety +292

    Criminals without remorse enjoy life sentence in warm prison, food, medical care, etc.. and the innocent homelesses NOTHING!!!

    • @fystimami4394
      @fystimami4394 Před 3 lety +43

      Prison is not warm whatsoever freezing cold in winter heatstroke hot in the summer food is trash you have to pay for your own medical care ETC that shit is no joke period! Been there done that

    • @jimmyjennings5343
      @jimmyjennings5343 Před 3 lety +31

      @@fystimami4394 lol, true. OP makes it sound like prisoners have it made. Freezing in winter, hard ass bed, one thin blanket, no pillow. Garbage food that makes a 99 cent TV dinner look like a 5 star gourmet meal. Healthcare? Lmao! Good luck with that. The homeless are better off on the streets honestly. I know which option I'd choose

    • @tonykshaziri452
      @tonykshaziri452 Před 3 lety +6

      Fysti Mami right anywhere aus is better than in jail true

    • @quanbrooklynkid7776
      @quanbrooklynkid7776 Před 3 lety +1

      @@fystimami4394 is that u in your profile picture

    • @sstritmatter2158
      @sstritmatter2158 Před 3 lety +8

      Interesting point. Of course homeless have freedom of movement but little else for luxuries.

  • @lindafurr2404
    @lindafurr2404 Před 3 lety +45

    My 15 yr old cousin ran away from home, hitched a ride with a trucker and lived with him for 3 mos. when she was ready to come home he brought her back. She was just lucky. That was 40+ yrs ago.

    • @taniece-ciagray3547
      @taniece-ciagray3547 Před 3 lety +4

      Not everyone has a bad heart. Thumbs up to him.

    • @angelhellokitti
      @angelhellokitti Před 2 lety +5

      @@taniece-ciagray3547 she lived with a stranger.. a grown man at 15 she hitchhiked a ride with and you say “not everyone has a bad heart” lmao the irony

    • @cincin4515
      @cincin4515 Před 2 lety +4

      Not all truckers are murderers.

  • @Gurl-5150
    @Gurl-5150 Před 9 měsíci +3

    When I was 14, I NEVER would have insisted on a damn thing to my mother!!

  • @feliciajohnson4540
    @feliciajohnson4540 Před rokem +11

    When parents try to protect their children, it is because they know the world can be a cruel world.

  • @kenyanroots
    @kenyanroots Před 3 lety +451

    Whenever I see a video like this, I shudder to think how many more have not been caught.

    • @demariowilliams8
      @demariowilliams8 Před 3 lety +21

      He said his name was "Whips n Chains" and he been doing this for 15 years! 😂

    • @dstrong5897
      @dstrong5897 Před 3 lety +32

      I read that the FBI believes there is approximately 50 serial killers roaming the highways in USA

    • @mr.anonymous5501
      @mr.anonymous5501 Před 3 lety +2

      14.3

    • @perseverance5918
      @perseverance5918 Před 3 lety +8

      Absolutely! Same here. I feel for me it’s because So many COLD CASES are SOLVED by DNA evidence. So, sometimes 20 years later. They’re absolutely hard criminals like murderers who haven’t been caught yet, or even committed their first crime and preying on their victim rn. I think that’s a huge reason I love true crime: it makes you aware. Even the simplest or less sketchy situations, to just... knowing that gut feeling, and listening to it because anything can happen even crazy things in the blink of an eye.

    • @scorpio5165
      @scorpio5165 Před 3 lety +4

      statistics say every 6 seconds a woman is raped in the US how true is that I have no know Idea.

  • @neilmcgilligan2695
    @neilmcgilligan2695 Před 3 lety +395

    That girl that got away could have saved so many lives of she had just told the police it was him. She should have been reassured that by telling them should be safe....

    • @febiaivy4702
      @febiaivy4702 Před 3 lety +39

      The police even she said is not him, should still take him to police station and feather questioned him, because he could easily dicused himself and the police have not see the girl was disturbed?

    • @michellealcantara4981
      @michellealcantara4981 Před 3 lety +2

      @@febiaivy4702 oo of ooh okoo ofo ooooooooooooooo out of Ohio oooio off o

    • @misty5979
      @misty5979 Před 3 lety +60

      yes because people react different when in shock.....must walk in her or anyone's shoes.....cops should of brought her to hospital for her to get help to calm down to the point that she would of talked more about what happened and get DNA.... then to ID the guy and return her to hospital so she can get more help

    • @scorpio5165
      @scorpio5165 Před 3 lety +14

      Everything has an end eventually.

    • @mummybear0078
      @mummybear0078 Před 3 lety +9

      @@michellealcantara4981 translation please ;)

  • @edda9362
    @edda9362 Před 2 lety +35

    It's very rare you see a hitchhiker on our motorway slip roads ( you can't stop for them on a motorway) and also on local roads. My heart goes out to all the families who have lost someone like this.

  • @lacrossebro42
    @lacrossebro42 Před 2 lety +16

    i love true crime documentaries, but this is the first one i’ve seen that actually terrifies me

  • @jthoen61
    @jthoen61 Před 3 lety +38

    I really feel for the family of the 14 year old girl. We were all teenagers once. We did stupid shit. I know it was not smart to get into a truck, not knowing the driver. She probably felt safer because her boyfriend was with her. The girl and her boyfriend didn't have to die. This truck driver is really a sick piece of shit. I'm glad authorities have him in custody. I hope he rots in Hell. Prayers for all of the victims, dead or alive.

  • @annettegenovesi4012
    @annettegenovesi4012 Před 3 lety +113

    This was a terrific cop/FBI story of solving a crime, and how they worked together to achieve their goal. Thank you for this mesmerizing tale.

    • @Herks-st1nn
      @Herks-st1nn Před rokem

      The scums were slow your police is corrupt they know everything but won’t do anything you white people are sickening corrupt

    • @fastsetinthewest
      @fastsetinthewest Před 6 měsíci

      All made up to make the FBI look good.

  • @joshuab464
    @joshuab464 Před 2 lety +39

    Can we take a moment to realize that a lot of these killers are caught on pure LUCK?!? This is the 4th video today where It’s been out of luck they catch these crazy mfs. Him getting caught is literally pure luck and that is SCARY!

    • @singmysong1167
      @singmysong1167 Před 2 lety +6

      I don't call it luck, friend, it is the justice and providence of God, in my humble opinion.

    • @penguinfan67
      @penguinfan67 Před 2 lety +5

      @@singmysong1167 yeah, god…. right. Just like he allowed then to get taken

    • @johnscanlon2598
      @johnscanlon2598 Před rokem

      Joel Rifkin !!!

    • @vivianblack2951
      @vivianblack2951 Před rokem +1

      There was a new officer here who saw a man driving out from a seldom used side road and was curious to know what he was doing there. (way out in the bush) The officer detained him and checked out the area and found a freshly dumped body. It was the fourth victim of that man. Some luck... a cop thinking something was suspicious and just doing his job.

    • @MrRyan-wu4jx
      @MrRyan-wu4jx Před rokem +4

      @@singmysong1167 so god has the power to stop this but not prevent it in the first place?

  • @suzimonkey345
    @suzimonkey345 Před 2 lety +52

    Regina’s “last photograph” has become quite infamous on True Crime social media. It’s so ominous to see photographs of that barn once you know the horrors that had been inflicted on that poor girl!

    • @nmc8931
      @nmc8931 Před rokem

      Agreed. I wish she would have jumped out ran and screamed like a psycho

    • @ellenthom34
      @ellenthom34 Před 11 měsíci

      You sometimes miss your old lifestyle? Filthy men, drugs what? Thank God every day you are here to tell your story. "Escorts" are seen as disposable and easy prey. How could you meet him after all that creepy behavior. You are in denial. I hope you go volunteer to warn others and leave this fantasy behind. Being a good mom and person will sustain you for life.

  • @ShabazzTBL
    @ShabazzTBL Před 3 lety +165

    The justice system treats sadistic rapist better than a small time weed dealer.

    • @peterdemeulenaer3282
      @peterdemeulenaer3282 Před rokem +9

      I agree with you on that 100%

    • @serbcanuck
      @serbcanuck Před rokem +4

      Yup

    • @bari2883
      @bari2883 Před rokem +3

      Yup.

    • @moonsiemeda5054
      @moonsiemeda5054 Před rokem +6

      You are so right. Not only law enforcement, people online and in real life make excuses for them and are enarmored by them. They blame everyone else for theiir actions except them -all the bleeding hearts.

    • @dudemorris7769
      @dudemorris7769 Před rokem

      Completely false with plenty of evidence to back up that “small time weed dealers” get very little time & most get probation. It’s the king pins or other drugs they are caught with intent to distribute that gets them longer sentences.

  • @gringodog111
    @gringodog111 Před 3 lety +191

    Why didn't the cops take the girl back to where she escaped from, the brewery /distributor where he went in to sign for a shipment of beer, and go through the records of who did the pick ups that day?
    Seriously???

    • @lavenderoh
      @lavenderoh Před 3 lety +11

      Pigs will be pigs. Probably had a 2 for 1 on donuts that day or something.

    • @mr.washington1397
      @mr.washington1397 Před 3 lety +7

      @@lavenderoh Well Dam

    • @EYE_GOTCHA
      @EYE_GOTCHA Před 3 lety +8

      @@lavenderoh
      I suggest that *you* attempt to be a police officer and see how well *you* do. 🙄

    • @lavenderoh
      @lavenderoh Před 3 lety +10

      @@EYE_GOTCHA Well I'm a nurse, I have dealt with a lot more than you I'm sure. But I've never killed anyone, or even hurt anyone. I suggest you stfu and stop supporting unchecked criminals who refuse to do their jobs and actively abuse their position causing harm and death to civilians.

    • @grimreaper1149
      @grimreaper1149 Před 3 lety +2

      @@lavenderoh did it not occur to you the truck driver was using a fake name when singing to pick up freight, the woman could have taken down the truck registration number

  • @cryptobra5933
    @cryptobra5933 Před rokem +17

    A 14 year old high hiking with a 17 year old?!!! This is why you gotta discipline your kids!!!

  • @moondancer4660
    @moondancer4660 Před 10 měsíci +1

    Thank you to whoever put this up

  • @chazzcharles1327
    @chazzcharles1327 Před 3 lety +98

    Thank you to all the Police out there fighting the good fight!

  • @susanwaldron6831
    @susanwaldron6831 Před 3 lety +146

    Kids listen to your parents. I hated having to be in by a certain time. I didn't like it when they said no you're not going out now it's too late. I did as I was told and I'm so grateful that they gave me rules that kept me safe. Parents know what's best for us even if we don't believe it at the time.

    • @scorpio5165
      @scorpio5165 Před 3 lety +2

      Hi Susan, I'm not gonna be a smart ass with you, I agree with what you said, a beautiful white girl had lived in the streets of the downtown area and she used to come every day to my store to buy,25c Chinese noodle I've seen some scratches on her body and used to complain to me about her encounters, I finally asked her about her parents she said they live 20 minutes away by bus and she left the parent's house because ( her bitch mother kept nagging on her to clean her room and help clean around the house and the girl's pride didn't handle her mom telling her you to live under my roof you obey my rules) LOL, isn't that pathetic.

    • @junglekutz5625
      @junglekutz5625 Před 2 lety +4

      It amazes me how kids believe themselves to be smarter than the average sensible adult! It's like, are you serious?!?!?......I've been in existence way longer than you have. But then again, I'm gonna guess that the word "rude awakening" is something that's learned, not readily received.

    • @junglekutz5625
      @junglekutz5625 Před 2 lety +1

      It amazes me how kids believe themselves to be smarter than the average sensible adult! It's like, are you serious?!?!?......I've been in existence way longer than you have. But then again, I'm gonna guess that the word "rude awakening" is something that's learned, not readily received.

    • @deerjoy2435
      @deerjoy2435 Před 2 lety

      @@scorpio5165 it’s a normal thing for a mother to have her kids with house shores it’s called learning to keep ur house clean *** lazy people don’t like to clean *** people should know better then to get into a stranger vehicle... u can end up dead 💀... you teach ur child that at an early age **** these young victims made the wrong choices .... how many big trucks we drive by not knowing if they have someone chained up in the back seat ... it would scare the hell out anyone..don’t pick up strangers or don’t get into anyone vehicle u might just go. Missing for good *** lord Jesus

    • @chrise842
      @chrise842 Před 2 lety

      And now nobody is protecting you from the invasive, overreaching government and their forced, dangerous vaxxes with all their additives. Back to start. Bad guys out there again.

  • @Liss1122
    @Liss1122 Před 2 lety +73

    All these things lined up so well. The cop just happened upon them and was able to easily detain him, and then the detective from the previous Texas case just so happened to read a paper and make a connection with his case. So many different things. It was aGod send that he was finally caught.

    • @TNT-km2eg
      @TNT-km2eg Před 11 měsíci +1

      Clearly all those 50 + murdered were "return to sender" .
      There's some freak , lying on cloud , jerking off and using this world as his youtube channel ?! And slaves are kissing his ass ?! My oh my

  • @judithwest4183
    @judithwest4183 Před 4 měsíci +2

    My car broke down in no man’s land on the way to Atlanta GA. Being a female, alone, I was very appreciative. I started praying and stood out to flag down help. A trucker stopped and I got in. He had Christian music playing on the radio and was coming from Columbia SC, my hometown. The nicest guy ever. Took me all the way to Atlanta. Turned out he knew my Uncle who was also a truck driver. God answered my prayer. God bless this wonderful earth angel who came my way in need.

  • @kayk.d.noonoo
    @kayk.d.noonoo Před 3 lety +378

    I'm not being judgemental but women need to stop getting in trucks with truck drivers they don't know.

    • @meredithcarlson9920
      @meredithcarlson9920 Před 3 lety +18

      I agree

    • @xxdivineenigmaxx3814
      @xxdivineenigmaxx3814 Před 3 lety +15

      Right? Like how dumb

    • @rftm
      @rftm Před 3 lety +37

      No one should get into a vehicle with someone they do not know or weren't at least expecting. They tell us don't talk to strangers and don't take things from strangers when we're kids...then people grow up and forget that that is a life lesson not a childhood one.

    • @eli8707
      @eli8707 Před 3 lety +9

      The little girl was too naive to know better.. that’s not her fault. Apparently had shit parents who didn’t care what she did with her free time either ....

    • @hannahlukianoff7479
      @hannahlukianoff7479 Před 3 lety +1

      How how how millions times I asks myself. Driving in a truck with a cabin?😱😱 with a stranger🙆🏽‍♀️🙆🏽‍♀️🤔🤔sorry 🙅🏽‍♀️🙅🏽‍♀️. I blame them😂😂

  • @sherylbutler7041
    @sherylbutler7041 Před 3 lety +108

    It's so unbearable that so many young people go missing every year. With all the knowledge we have at our fingertips and as mush as parents, police and others talk to young people at school and such it's just mind blowing that it's still happening. My only child passed away in 2005 at the age of 29 and it was the worst thing I'd ever gone through. But I can't imagine what it would be like not to know what happened to my child. I have a 24 year old granddaughter and I've always tried to teach her about such things. She carries pepper spray and I've taught her to always have her car keys ready to use as a weapon and to unlock her car in a hurry. You never know when someone might be ready to attack you. People need to be aware of their surroundings. I pray for all the families that have loved ones missing and for all the families who's loved ones have been murdered.

    • @Mischa21xo
      @Mischa21xo Před 11 měsíci +5

      Especially in today's very rapidly declining world, people are going mad and their mentality is getting sicker and sicker, single women or at least one person in the household if they are a married couple needs to carry a firearm. There is no reason for a 20 something year old woman to be walking around without a firearm. It could be the difference between life and death, and if someone breaks into your home, you can't bring mace or a knife to a gunfight. Having a firearm allows you to walk without fear knowing you will never be sexually assaulted or have your life taken from you. As a woman I would never ever live my life without one, and everyone who doesn't have one is making themselves an unnecessary easy target.

    • @benjiebenjamin7810
      @benjiebenjamin7810 Před 10 měsíci +2

      A dear friend had left her car unlocked, 9/1/'79, Slidell LA, to buy me a get well card on her way to the hospital/icu to visit me.
      She got in her car from the drug store, & a knife came up to her throat from behind her seat......
      .......long story, she survived, but it was a horrible ordeal.
      3 guys, @ a red-light, opened my girlfriend's door & mine as teens, were in the back seat in a flash & it was scary, tho a lesson learned & we weren't harmed luckily. A friend's brother was jerked out of his pick up, shot in the face & his truck sped off.
      I've many stories in 77 yrs, my point: you cannot be too careful. Wisdom is better than wise ass, or thinking you're smarter than others.
      This world has gotten to be dangerous in church, school, the store, etc., etc., etc..
      The old adage 'better safe than sorry' can save your life.
      There's too many technologies these days that can make your life safer.....
      ....or, put you in a very bad spot. How many dates on lines, for example, have ended up dead?

    • @christinamartinez8132
      @christinamartinez8132 Před 6 měsíci

      My deepest condolences go out to you and your family for the loss of your only child. Your granddaughter is lucky to have you in her life.

  • @MyDyerMaker
    @MyDyerMaker Před rokem +13

    The mom let her 14 year old daughter leave on foot to visit a friend at 9:30 PM. That was great parenting there.

    • @xenon6947
      @xenon6947 Před rokem +1

      You are right . We need GPS tracker in every kid.

    • @gatorduran3288
      @gatorduran3288 Před 4 měsíci +4

      The mom should never have let the daughter go out at 9:30pm period!

  • @bill2066
    @bill2066 Před 11 měsíci +3

    "The FBI FILES?" Now thats a Reliable Organization!

    • @DrJ-hx7wv
      @DrJ-hx7wv Před 11 měsíci

      Right. But white guys are being pursued, so they'll be competent.

    • @bill2066
      @bill2066 Před 11 měsíci

      @@DrJ-hx7wv not sure what you mean

  • @SeeNoEvil777
    @SeeNoEvil777 Před 3 lety +90

    POLICE: "We found a young girls remains"
    DETECTIVE READS AUTOPSY REPORT: "Oh good it's not Regina, it's just someone else!". like what the heck? that's how it came across

    • @NEPZ1993
      @NEPZ1993 Před 3 lety +10

      Because it could mean she was still alive

    • @michaelkoszowski3716
      @michaelkoszowski3716 Před 3 lety +11

      At the expense of another young girl .

    • @oneilanelson9231
      @oneilanelson9231 Před 3 lety +14

      We live in a selfish world. If it doesn't happen to you you feel no pain. If it is not yours you suffer no loss. We all are guilty if it.

    • @michaelkoszowski3716
      @michaelkoszowski3716 Před 3 lety +6

      @@oneilanelson9231 ...that is true .

    • @rohipsalm2370
      @rohipsalm2370 Před 3 lety +2

      I agree!

  • @jabez623
    @jabez623 Před 3 lety +162

    There's a reason why hitch hiking is against the law.

    • @forgive7449
      @forgive7449 Před 3 lety +2

      i wonder how many hitch hikers murder drivers ?

    • @elizabethsohler6516
      @elizabethsohler6516 Před 3 lety +4

      I don't know of any laws to that effect.

    • @nikkibiro1191
      @nikkibiro1191 Před 3 lety +5

      @Michael Jurek where i live, many highways state that it is illegal to pick up hitchhikers

    • @BiggHogg870
      @BiggHogg870 Před 3 lety +4

      I dont know if its against the law that would be stupid. There are actually good people willing to help and There ar people who need it

    • @GastedFlabber
      @GastedFlabber Před 3 lety +4

      Who the fuck would get into a random truckers truck?! This always just blows my mind.

  • @oliverdesvaux
    @oliverdesvaux Před rokem +3

    @21:50 “950 matches for similar missing girls came up…..”
    WTF is wrong with the USA? Serial killers are like way too common

  • @judibiggerstaff8054
    @judibiggerstaff8054 Před rokem +7

    This is so horrible. And hearing about the children's bodies before they found Regina's makes it so much worse. And the fact that there were 950 matches in the database for that time period!! Horrifying.

  • @angeliamessex4340
    @angeliamessex4340 Před 3 lety +210

    The fact that the bfs family just wrote him off as a bad kid is honestly so upsetting. Like, how can you have a kid and not hear from them for so long then in your head all you think is oh their a bad kid and probably in jail....like wtf!

    • @cynk956
      @cynk956 Před 2 lety +10

      That sickened me, also. My mother would never have reported me missing except to complain that I was not slaving away for her! I feel so bad for that boy.

    • @wintershouse4093
      @wintershouse4093 Před 2 lety +12

      Maybe just bad parents, as parent you fight to get your kid back on right track.

    • @lizr990
      @lizr990 Před 2 lety +7

      Factz I felt bad that he’s family was cold I wonder how they feel to no he’s died selfish family

    • @keziahmunjiru1259
      @keziahmunjiru1259 Před 2 lety

      B n h h h b hb h b hh b b nb n hhh b b b h h b b h h b b h b hhb h h h h b h h hh hh b h h h h bh h h h h hh h h b h h b hh b hhb h hh h h nh h h n hb h h b hh b h b bh n h h b hh n h h hb h b h b hhhb b h hh b h h h h B n hB h b H @@wintershouse4093

    • @johnnycomer5712
      @johnnycomer5712 Před 2 lety +6

      You can say what you want,you don't know how he might have disrespect his parents before he left.Once a child curses you and you know you don't deserve it ,they tell you that they are grown and to not call them,you either take them up on it or you worry yourself to death .lf you haven't been there then don't judge.

  • @diaryofarealmom3264
    @diaryofarealmom3264 Před 3 lety +122

    *Finds a bunch of other dead kids skeletons.*
    “Well, thank god it wasn’t Regina!”
    Seriously...? 🙄

    • @pattihawks93
      @pattihawks93 Před 3 lety +10

      Yes! RIP ALL INVOVED 🕊🕊❤️🕊🕊

    • @gracefullikeagazelle
      @gracefullikeagazelle Před 3 lety +7

      Diary of a Real Mom What a STUPID comment.

    • @Lonit-be
      @Lonit-be Před 2 lety +4

      yeah right? always such callus mothers in these, it's still someones kid ffs

    • @matthiasholzman6982
      @matthiasholzman6982 Před 2 lety +10

      At this point in the case, they still did not know that Regina was dead. It’s not that they didn’t care about these other bodies, but they each carried a new hope that she may have been alive yet.

    • @williamdougie6213
      @williamdougie6213 Před 2 lety +2

      They made it sound like the other kids didn't matter WTF

  • @khelintriplett9130
    @khelintriplett9130 Před rokem +5

    My parents used to hitchhike cross country all the way to 1980! I cannot believe they had such happy memories of it while insane stuff like this happened.

  • @erickingsbury7193
    @erickingsbury7193 Před rokem +3

    I returned home from BASIC/AIT from the National Guard and wanted to surprise my parents.
    I graduated high school young, I was still 17.
    Waiting in the old downtown in Elgin, IlL sitting against the old clock in my dress greens and my duffle bad. I watched a car drive VERY slowly (creeping past where I was sitting) the driver looking at me.
    I shrugged it off…..
    4 or 5 minutes later the same car drives back past me from the opposite direction. The driver staring so hard he really wasn’t looking where he was driving. The hairs on my neck stood up. I watched him drive down the street.
    10 minutes later, I was unaware I was sitting at the T-Intersection but this guy came from down the hill and stopped at the stop sign across from where I was sitting and sat there for a minute or two. It was just weird!
    I continue to sit and wait (leaning against my duffle bag) looking down at the ground; I see a set of shoes. I look up and this clown was bent over looking down at me only a foot or so away from me. This guy found parking and now is walking up on me.
    He pulls out a cigarette and ask if I smoke.
    Hell No!
    He voices his concern that I was wearing a tie in this part of town. He claimed to be worried about me because I was wearing a tie.
    Just then 3 guys walk out from the nearby alley….all wearing those skinny 80’s ties with one carrying a boom box.
    He kept talking to me AND I kept being abrupt and rude to him; he FINALLY walked away.
    Now years later, I still remember this guys face….I swear I’ve since seen him in some of these killer profile shows….something was messed up with him.

  • @thecatalunya1
    @thecatalunya1 Před 3 lety +62

    so why didnt the police go straight to the brewary where he took her to sign for his freight .

  • @samsngdevice5103
    @samsngdevice5103 Před 3 lety +110

    To skip all the ads drag the progress bar to the end and then hit the replay button.
    Your welcome.

    • @eden19966
      @eden19966 Před 3 lety +8

      Samsng Device Didn’t help at all.

    • @samsngdevice5103
      @samsngdevice5103 Před 3 lety +7

      @@eden19966
      Then you arent doing it right.

    • @bullcat6531
      @bullcat6531 Před 3 lety +5

      @@eden19966 Don't go to the very end. Let the last 10 seconds or so run out by itself. Then hit the rewind.

    • @eden19966
      @eden19966 Před 3 lety +5

      @@bullcat6531 Thanks! That worked a lot bettet than what Samsng Device said.

    • @kimberleytaylor4475
      @kimberleytaylor4475 Před 3 lety +1

      Thank you👍it worked👏😍

  • @_LilacRoses
    @_LilacRoses Před 2 lety +4

    I love these old crime documentaries, and the voice of the narrator.

  • @jameslangley7299
    @jameslangley7299 Před 2 lety +14

    I believe there are way more serial killers then advertised. I see them as opportunist. With drugs and homeless so high today I can't believe serial killers aren't in the hundreds..

    • @hunters6940
      @hunters6940 Před rokem +1

      But drugs don’t just turn normal people into murderers out of nowhere. Nor does homelessness. I’m sure it could catalyze it if it was already probably going to happen. But I think there is no under estimation. Just think about all the technology we have like forensic genealogy.

  • @campar1043
    @campar1043 Před 3 lety +49

    so theyre finding skeletons everywhere and it wasn't regina...who the hell were they?

  • @patoni860
    @patoni860 Před 4 lety +191

    The smartest thing the police could have done... Especially in the time before internet... Was check his IRS records... To find out what trucking companies had he been working for

    • @inkyguy
      @inkyguy Před 3 lety +19

      loganlocke1, federal tax returns are private and federally protected. They are not available to local or state police. The best they could do would be to apply for a warrant to a federal judge asking for their release.

    • @songbirdy
      @songbirdy Před 3 lety +2

      @@inkyguy What about state tax records?

    • @inkyguy
      @inkyguy Před 3 lety +3

      @@songbirdy , there’s that too, given the proper warrant.

    • @triplethreatcga2358
      @triplethreatcga2358 Před 3 lety +15

      Need to check the IRS records on voters for Old Joe Biden. None of them match up to people voting the ballots.

    • @anzavian1
      @anzavian1 Před 3 lety +7

      Joe won easily

  • @genesis2936
    @genesis2936 Před 2 lety +29

    Bravo for the woman who screamed non-stop and bit him on the shoulder ended this son of satan crimes and she was a certified “nut case”. How does humanity behave like mischievous apes and start to murder, make that the “lust” to murder !

    • @nbsoboleski
      @nbsoboleski Před 7 dny

      Yes and thank God she pressed charges and worked with police and was game to go to trial. I'm sorry, but I'm angry that the first victim, Nicole, didn't work with the police and justice system to get this monster locked up. She was safe, the next victims weren't so lucky.

  • @devsanghera7273
    @devsanghera7273 Před rokem +11

    Thankfully justice for the families of the victims got justice, however I couldn’t imagine how they were feeling when their daughter initially went missing and then confirmed as dead. I’ve always heard stories that prisoners hate inmates that have hurt or killed children, I wouldn’t be surprised if the inmates torture him the way he tortured his victims

  • @Papertin99
    @Papertin99 Před 3 lety +13

    It really got me when there is a picture of a woman that got in the truck and they don’t know if she was a victim or not - so upsetting !!

    • @johnscanlon2598
      @johnscanlon2598 Před rokem

      Turns out she is alive still she was some native girl from Canada someone else said

  • @freedomtrailamerica2981
    @freedomtrailamerica2981 Před 3 lety +168

    I used to hitch hike in 60's. It was en vogue. 2 experiences could have put me en grave. Not wise.

    • @jg2730
      @jg2730 Před 3 lety +6

      #FEMINISMISCANCER

    • @hilldwler420
      @hilldwler420 Před 3 lety +13

      They count on people being naive believing people are inherently good. Bundy hunted for his victims at churches and civic meetings..... not really safe anywhere

    • @hilldwler420
      @hilldwler420 Před 3 lety +5

      @@jg2730 #diversity=antiwhite

    • @dilated7781
      @dilated7781 Před 3 lety +1

      Good thing you never hopped in the car with any number of these people. It seems that the serial killer began to peak in the 60’s and 70’s as we went into the late 80’s early 90’s advancements in DNA has been, I think key to capturing these deviants and stopping others from attempting similar acts. Now that’s not to say the day of the serial killer is a thing of the past it’s more that it seems that our bigger threat now a days is the advent of the spree killer. What’s tough about that one is, there’s not a lot one can do to protect themselves against such a killer.

    • @alfredocastro3071
      @alfredocastro3071 Před 3 lety +2

      why though like what made you think that was a good idea? not criticizing just genuinely intrigued

  • @cwavt8849
    @cwavt8849 Před rokem +21

    I was cautioned as a child never to hitch hike. These serial killers were public knowledge in the early '70's. Young girls, high on youth, think that they can tell a bad guy from just looking at him. Or, as I was foolishly thought, that I was strong enough to handle myself. I am so glad that I grew a brain before my pride and stupidity put me in a position to find out how wrong I was. These girls just didn't live long enough to grow "smarts".

  • @LittleBlueOwl318
    @LittleBlueOwl318 Před 2 lety +3

    If only Nichole had been brave enough to say, "Yes - that's him." to the police the night she escaped...

  • @wilburmcbride8096
    @wilburmcbride8096 Před 3 lety +162

    It's sad. But the trucking industry is the best profession for a disturb serial killer. They travel from state to state without much supervision.

    • @cheriem5265
      @cheriem5265 Před 3 lety +4

      @Patrick O'Brien what about owner operated? Not being smart, I am unaware of this industry and am curious.

    • @annamariebeneduci3754
      @annamariebeneduci3754 Před 3 lety +12

      @@cheriem5265 i can answer any questions you have. My ex is a OTR driver and I've gone with him for years and started learning how to drive an 18 wheeler myself. It's true ALL trucks are tracked 24/7 BUT! ways around it. My ex use to put a metal pot over the part that tracks the truck when we were in a state that we wanted to chill in

    • @Nizwiz411
      @Nizwiz411 Před 3 lety +2

      Not anymore. They all have gps tracking

    • @BoilerBloodline
      @BoilerBloodline Před 3 lety

      Unless you were named Israel Keyes. That dude was one sick puppy. His interrogation is on here.

    • @tricky2055
      @tricky2055 Před 3 lety

      I just assume they are all killers and will teach my daughter to do so too!

  • @anjeliquebelcher4366
    @anjeliquebelcher4366 Před 3 lety +56

    why everyone had in such a strong opinion on her saying it wasn't him she might have been still in shock and scared to tell the police yes it was him show her a little sympathy victims do get trauma when things like that happens

    • @rustynails8756
      @rustynails8756 Před 3 lety +2

      You are so right. I can't even begin to know how traumatized that young woman must have been.

    • @shiabutterfly8361
      @shiabutterfly8361 Před 2 lety +2

      Aint that much shock in the world. The truth hurts. Id have it for her if those were my relatives.

    • @Vlog-hu8gb
      @Vlog-hu8gb Před 2 lety +3

      Bi5ch was too selfish

    • @Vlog-hu8gb
      @Vlog-hu8gb Před 2 lety +2

      Some people are too selfish and dont care if their tormentor will torment someone else, she just let him off because she wanted to go home and not get involved in the investigations. That is the unfortunate reality of this world. Most people dont care about other people

    • @angelhellokitti
      @angelhellokitti Před 2 lety +1

      @@Vlog-hu8gb ok victim blamer

  • @carlosdelgatito2039
    @carlosdelgatito2039 Před 2 lety +53

    It's such a shame that some victims are too scared to testify.

    • @MrRyan-wu4jx
      @MrRyan-wu4jx Před rokem +2

      Police tend to do a pretty shitty job protecting CIs

  • @amyezell4950
    @amyezell4950 Před 2 lety +6

    I use to run away from home glad I never ran into any kind of man like that prayers go put to the families

  • @JohnJohn-it9vy
    @JohnJohn-it9vy Před 3 lety +51

    Weather you hitchhiked or not no one deserves to be killed the truckers had a choice to stop or not to.

  • @susiepoo51
    @susiepoo51 Před 3 lety +67

    Where was Alaine Wuornos when we needed her

    • @johnhensley2152
      @johnhensley2152 Před 3 lety

      Haha

    • @philorepurcell3403
      @philorepurcell3403 Před 3 lety +2

      @SueDowney : That would be in a fact a fascinating encounter.

    • @rockon772
      @rockon772 Před 3 lety +3

      Maybe if that Nicole girl didn't bitch out .. a lot more women would be alive

    • @michealschofield4536
      @michealschofield4536 Před 3 lety

      having plastic surgery

    • @HonestHuck777
      @HonestHuck777 Před 3 lety +4

      That would be an interesting storyline .....Quentin Tarantino might be interested to make. Female serial killer hitchhiking gets picked up by trucker serial killer. Personally....I think Wuernos would have made him into toast.

  • @truecrime98
    @truecrime98 Před 10 měsíci +5

    Why couldn’t they get Rickey Lee Jones DNA from his parents or sister? That’s awful they just thought he was a bad kid. Everyone deserves to be loved unconditionally

    • @davemeckfessel1296
      @davemeckfessel1296 Před 4 měsíci

      That was ion early 1990's when DNA was just beginning to be used in cases. The labs were few and case loads backed up in most jurisdictions. Not used yet for matching with parents. That came later with better DNA techniques and more labs. This serial killer probably needs many more hours of investigation along Interstate truck routes of where his time logs match possible victims pre-1990.

  • @seevanmaroge
    @seevanmaroge Před 2 lety +4

    Great channel. I love watching true crime, will definitely subscribe.

  • @foresttaniguchi3168
    @foresttaniguchi3168 Před 4 lety +95

    Why does she have to press charges? Why doesn’t the state press charges?

    • @demetriusevans2730
      @demetriusevans2730 Před 3 lety +11

      Correct the state should pick up the charges

    • @netsk1679
      @netsk1679 Před 3 lety +6

      Couldn't agree more!

    • @nunyabuisness7552
      @nunyabuisness7552 Před 3 lety +22

      If you don't know that answer then you must never watch these type shows. Prosecutors don't want to risk losing a case because of what is called "Double Jeopardy" when there is the possibility that more evidence could be found if they wait longer before prosecuting. IF the case is weak and they prosecute and lose the person cannot be tried a second time even if more evidence even much better evidence is discovered!

    • @NotAnotherKuromi
      @NotAnotherKuromi Před 3 lety +3

      @lyfe 1zruff ha that made me chuckle

    • @inkyguy
      @inkyguy Před 3 lety +9

      Evan Moyer, even with DNA there is no case without the victim’s cooperation because the defendant can claim the sex was consensual. DNA identifies suspects. It doesn’t convict them without the victim filing a complaint and testifying.

  • @jabez623
    @jabez623 Před 3 lety +35

    The Ted Bundy of Truck drivers

  • @patriciawickholm3617
    @patriciawickholm3617 Před 2 lety +6

    Wait a darn minute....RIcky's family didn't make a missing persons report on him? Very odd.

  • @lorikoenig6111
    @lorikoenig6111 Před rokem +3

    In the Seventies me and my girlfriend hitch hiked from Michigan to Florida we were only 15. Most of our rides where from Truckers. Thank God we never ran into someone like this.

  • @liisamatinmikko9780
    @liisamatinmikko9780 Před 3 lety +14

    I hitchhiked here in Finland at the 80's.
    The trucker was a young man. Suddenly his head was beween my legs. I got really scared. He let me out. He laughed at me. I never hitchhiked again. It was a sign. A warning.

  • @jns.channel6162
    @jns.channel6162 Před 3 lety +30

    A 14 year old left to run around with no direction in life. It’s hard to not judge the lack of supervision and parenting in this case.

    • @sophielyn8274
      @sophielyn8274 Před 11 měsíci

      My parents were very caring, wary, we had rules etc they did all the right things... my sister on the other hand, was just like Regina was. My sister is lucky she didn't meet the same fate. It's not always the parents fault. Kids can be sneaky and ruthless

    • @car-less-ness6770
      @car-less-ness6770 Před 11 měsíci

      O don't give this crap about lack of supervision....blah! blah!. The girl was stupid.....believing like most 14 year olds that she was invincible, knew more than her loving parents and she was "top of her kind". What is a dumb 14 year old.....a container of stupidity, ready to be exploited by any sick dude in the world.

    • @portianacleo965
      @portianacleo965 Před 6 měsíci

      ​@@sophielyn8274 yeah those kinds of girls pay the price, unfortunately they become exhibit when we try to discipline other girls.

  • @clarkkent3730
    @clarkkent3730 Před 7 měsíci

    I love the slow burn style of this real crime channel because a lot of the modern stuff today is so quick and fast I can't comprehend it quick enough

  • @iantierney6905
    @iantierney6905 Před 2 lety +7

    My question is this how did when he took his truck in for any type of service did no mechanic or tech notice anything if they had to clear codes or during dot inspections.

  • @user-by5by4pr5s
    @user-by5by4pr5s Před 3 lety +184

    My mother always said, “never hitchhike or pick up a hitchhiker.”

    • @christopherwilcox6624
      @christopherwilcox6624 Před 3 lety +5

      I do it all the time...

    • @anniemay4547
      @anniemay4547 Před 3 lety +3

      I was stopped by a friend of my boyfriend in his car he said he had come to take me to my boyfriend so I got 8n but he stared gett8ngbweird and wantin* me to do something 8 wasn’t hav8ng any o& that 8 screamed at him to stop 5he car andd I opened the car door.. he was angry he hit me so hard I fell out the car semi conscious and he drove off there was a car behind that saw it and stopped to help me I started fighting him cos I didn5 know who he was bu5 he was a nice who was trying to help me so he took me back to my boyfriends grandads place where we was staying I packed my stuff up and left I hitch hiked back home a lorry driver took me all the way home..
      ..

    • @islandgirl9479
      @islandgirl9479 Před 3 lety +8

      @@christopherwilcox6624 well you need to stop that terrible behavior.
      1- the person you pick up can be a killer women, man or child.
      Why put you self in danger that maybe one day we will hear about you on
      True Crimes
      ID Channel
      Real Crime Stories.
      Loosing your life to say a killer is not worth it.
      Stay safe and please stop picking up strangers.
      🤗

    • @islandgirl9479
      @islandgirl9479 Před 3 lety +7

      @@anniemay4547 what's up with the numbers you using for words??🤔

    • @donnaspear8311
      @donnaspear8311 Před 3 lety +4

      Your mother is RIGHT! Please preach this to all your young friends and family members. Both male and female.

  • @musiquefrique
    @musiquefrique Před 3 lety +34

    Saw this on criminal minds years ago. So much worse when I realized it was based on an actual case. Take care of each other friends

  • @markrichardson3566
    @markrichardson3566 Před 2 měsíci

    Great videos , keep going ❤

  • @razzmatazz52726
    @razzmatazz52726 Před 2 lety +2

    There's a photo of Regina that's haunting. She's wearing a black dress with heels. Holding her arms out like "don't touch me". Her face looks terrified.