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Robert Ben Rhoades (born November 22, 1945), also known as the Truck Stop Killer, is an American serial killer and rapist.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 ...
John Joseph Fautenberry (July 4, 1963 – July 14, 2009) was an American serial killer.A long-haul trucker, Fautenberry befriended and subsequently murdered five people across four states between 1990 and 1991, [1] [2] and after his arrest, confessed to an additional 1984 murder for which another man was convicted.
Adam Leroy Lane (born August 7, 1964) is a convicted murderer and suspected serial killer who was dubbed the Highway Killer because his crimes took place near highways, which he frequently traveled due to his job as a truck driver.
Midnight in the Switchgrass is a 2021 American crime thriller film directed by Randall Emmett in his directorial debut from a screenplay by Alan Horsnail. It stars Megan Fox, Bruce Willis, Emile Hirsch, Lukas Haas, Colson "MGK" Baker and Lydia Hull.
Wayne Adam Ford (born December 3, 1961) is an American serial killer. Ford, a former long-haul truck driver, murdered four women from 1997 to 1998. He strangled them and dismembered three of his four victims. He turned himself in with a woman's breast in a bag in his coat pocket.
Dennis Harvey of Variety called the film a "low-budget ripoff" of Duel that suffers for the absence of both Dennis Weaver and the expected exploitative content. [6] Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter, in comparing it negatively to Duel, wrote, "Director Bafaro shows little aptitude for the driving sequences, which are stunningly dull in their repetitiveness and lack of visual flair."
Neal Martin Falls (September 24, 1969 – July 18, 2015) [4] was an American suspected serial killer who was shot and killed in self-defense by Heather Saul, a woman in Charleston, West Virginia. Falls had been stopped by police in over twenty states during his life but did not incur any serious criminal charges.
Additionally, Spielberg said that the multiple license plates on the front bumper of the Peterbilt subtly suggest that the truck driver is a serial killer, having "run down other drivers in other states". [9] For each shot, several people were tasked to make the truck progressively uglier, adding oil, grease, fake dead insects and other blemishes.