Trucker Kept Sex Slaves, Including Fla. Relative

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By Michelle Rindels

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A Utah truck driver kept sex slaves in his semitrailer for months at a time while he traveled the country, filing down their teeth, forcing them to alter their appearance and beating them until they nearly passed out, authorities said.

Timothy Jay Vafeades, 54, made an initial appearance Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Fargo, N.D., and will now be transferred to Utah for further proceedings.

The charges against him include kidnapping, transportation for illegal sexual activity, and possession of child pornography, and could bring a life sentence if he is convicted. His public defender, Richard Henderson, could not be reached for comment.

An arrest warrant filed Tuesday in Salt Lake City claims Vafeades kidnapped a 19-year-old female relative who had come from Florida in May 2013 to work with him on his truck, the "Twilight Express."

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[In_The_Wind]

1. There are a lot of truly sick people out there!

[jsr]

2. Give him life in prison. And for starters, file down his teeth

Damn, he has no teeth?

[Blue_Tires]

3. I'm guessing he isn't new at this sort of thing

I think there might be more women in his past that he killed and dumped...

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. The Long history of serial killers using long haul trucking

Serial killers working as lorry drivers have murdered 500 women across US



The women – a mixture of prostitutes, hitchhikers and stranded motorists – have been killed along popular trucking routes over the past three decades.
Their bodies have been dumped on highways and at rest stops or motels popular with truckers.
Since the FBI launched a Highway Serial Killings database collecting crime information from around the US and searching for patterns, the bureau has helped solve more than two dozen murders.

US truck drivers often criss-cross huge swathes of the entire country, making it easy for homicidal ones to evade detection by police in each state, said the FBI.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5115514/Serial-killers-working-as-lorry-drivers-have-murdered-500-women-across-US.html

Robert Ben RHOADES had a torture chamber on board his truck

He's the nastiest I've read about
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/03/30/10934355-truck-driver-who-killed-hitchhikers-gets-life-sentences-in-plea-deal?lite

[In_The_Wind]

5. Truck stops are still not safe at night.

[AngryAmish]

8. Here

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&ei=1eohU6OtIaGMyQGk14CQCg&url=http://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DimhBoE56OEs&cd=3&ved=0CDAQtwIwAg&usg=AFQjCNF8oJLWP2omEDCVRURilPXmaIIznQ&sig2=1geR40-QNv2hiIead0DFRQ

[eppur_se_muova]

6. I thought it said "Tucker" ...

Have to admit I wasn't all that surprised.

[Gothmog]

7. This guy is sick

I am glad that he was caught