Serial Killer - Robert Ben Rhoades

A suspected serial killer charged with capital murder for the 1990 slaying of a woman found along Interstate 80 near Fillmore is scheduled for a 10-day preliminary hearing starting Feb. 27 in 4th District Court.

Robert Ben Rhoades, 59, was linked by DNA in 2003 to the murder of 24-year-old Patricia Candice Walsh. Rhoades allegedly dumped the body of Walsh's husband, Douglas Scott Zyskowski, 28, in Texas. The couple were traveling from Georgia to Seattle when they allegedly crossed paths with Rhoades, a long-haul trucker suspected of a decade of rape, torture and murder.

For the past 23 years, Rhoades has been serving a life sentence in Illinois for slaying a 14-year-old girl.