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flag Vanessa Veselka narrowly escaped serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades in 1985 after accepting a ride near Martinsburg, PA.

flag Vanessa Veselka, 56, has shared her 1985 near-escape from serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades, known as the 'Truck Stop Killer,' while hitchhiking near Martinsburg, Pennsylvania. flag She accepted a ride from Rhoades just hours after a teenage hitchhiker’s body was found. flag During the trip, his behavior turned threatening, and he referenced a fictional "Laughing Death Society" before pulling over with a knife. flag Veselka fled, narrowly avoiding becoming one of his estimated 50 victims. flag Rhoades, active from 1975 to 1990, targeted vulnerable women at truck stops across the U.S.

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