44 Seemingly Normal Photos That Hide Shocking Secrets Behind the Scenes
Obligatory: Regina Kay Walters
I don’t know if it qualifies as “seemingly innocuous” to anybody else, but it became a lot creepier and more tragic to me once the story behind it was explained, because at first glance it just looks kind of like somebody getting annoyed at having their photo taken.
Before serial k**ler Robert Ben Rhoades killed his victims, he like to snap a photo of them. This is the last picture ever taken of Regina Walters.
The TL;DR: is that the photo was taken by the “Truck Stop K**ler” – he drove her out to that rotting shell of a house, made her cut her hair and put on the dress, and snapped the photo before moving in to m**der her.
someCrookedVulture:
Just to add to this, Rhodes made her pose this way for the photo. She wasn’t actually reacting to an impending threat.
Edit: That doesn’t diminish the impact of the photo, it’s still haunting and terrible. And made even worse by how little he valued life, calling homeless runaways “the invisible people.”
“Her body was later found in September 1990, in an abandoned Illinois barn. Also present were photos of another female (Walsh), whose body was discovered that October. In 1994, Robert Ben Rhoades was convicted of the first degree m*rder of Regina Kay Walters and sentenced to life without parole at Menard Correctional Center in Chester, IL. He was extradited to Utah in 2005 to be tried for the deaths of Candace Walsh and Douglas Zyskowski; however, per the victims’ families’ requests, the charges were dropped in 2006 and he was returned to prison. Rhoades later pleaded guilty to those crimes as well.”
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