He is confirmed to have tortured and killed at least two couples in Illinois and Texas in 1989 and 1990, and is additionally suspected of torturing, raping, and killing more than fifty women between 1975 and 1990, based on data about his truck routes and women who went missing during those years and who met the profile of his preferred victims.

[1][2] Rhoades was raised by his mother in his formative years, as his father was a soldier in the United States Army and was stationed in West Germany.

[1] In 1994, Rhoades was convicted of the first degree murder of Regina Kay Walters[12] and sentenced to life without parole at Menard Correctional Center in Chester, Illinois.

He was extradited to Utah in 2005 to be tried for the deaths of Candace Walsh and Douglas Zyskowski; however, in accordance with the victims' families' requests, the charges were dropped in 2006, so that they would not be required to testify more than once (for both states) and he was returned to prison.

[11] Rhoades continues serving his life-without-parole sentence at the maximum-security Menard Correctional Center in Chester, Illinois.