Rader is an american serial killer

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John Wayne Gacy was Pogo the Clown by day and a heartless executioner around evening time. There was DNA evidence under her fingernails and this was tested against collected samples. The final victim of Dennis Rader was Dolores E. She was strangled with a pair of pantyhose in her home on January 19th and was later discovered on February 1st. Dennis Rader had planned further killings but luckily for various reasons he was unable to commit these crimes.

One such plan was to killed Anna Williams, Dennis Rader had broken into her home but she was late returning home. Dennis was obsessed with her and was angry when she did not return home and left. He wrote her a letter to tell her that he had been there. Dennis Rader said in police interviews that there were a lot of lucky people, suggesting he had planned other murders. At the time of his arrest, he had planned another killing and had been inside the intended victims home.

BTK wrote letters containing details of the killings. Some letters from the BTK strangler were sent to newspapers, some were sent to police and also some were hidden in public places. A BTK killer letter detailing the killings of the Otero family was hidden in a book in the Wichita Public Library in October and was given to a local newspaper. He warned in this letter that he would strike again and signed the letter as BTK.

He would often send poems with his BTK letters. He had also sent a letter to a local newspaper after he killed Shirley Vian. Dennis wrote a letter denying involvement for the killing of the Fager family in The letter was filled of praise for the real killer. Dennis Rader wore a mask and sent photographs of himself wearing it where he was bound and wearing female clothing stolen from his victims. After more than a decade of silence from BTK, a new series of letters were sent to the local media.

Rader created what he called a "hit kit," a briefcase or bowling bag containing the items he would use during murders: guns, tape, rope and handcuffs. He also packed what he called "hit clothes" that he would wear for the crimes and then dispose of. Rader developed a pattern for his murders. He would wander the city until he found a potential victim. At that point, he would stalk the person until he knew the pattern of their lives and when would be the best time to strike.

Rader often would stalk multiple victims at a time, so he could continue the hunt if one victim didn't work out. At the time of the murder, Rader would break into the house, cut the phone lines, and hide until his victim came home. Rader would often calm his victims by pretending to be a rapist who needed to work out some sexual fantasies on them. This caused many of his victims to be more cooperative and even help him, thinking that once the rape was over, he would leave them alone.

Instead, Rader would kill them. The name BTK, chosen by Rader for himself, also dictated his methods. Rader bound, tortured, and killed his victims. Rader would strangle his victims until they lost consciousness, then let them revive, then strangle them again. He would repeat the pattern over and over again, forcing them to experience near-death, becoming sexually aroused at the sight of their struggles. Finally, Rader would strangle them to death and masturbate to ejaculation onto the corpse.

Police officials say there is no reason to believe Rader was responsible for any other murders. Nonetheless, Rader cannot necessarily be ruled out as a suspect in other cases. There were several communications from BTK during to A poem was enclosed entitled "Oh Death to Nancy". These featured another poem, "Oh Anna Why Didn't You Appear," a drawing of what he had intended to do to his victim, as well as some small items he had pilfered from Anna's home. Apparently, Rader had waited for several hours inside the home of Anna Williams on the block of South Pinecrest.

Not realizing that she had gone to her sister's house for the evening, he eventually got tired of the long wait and left. All of Rader's communications were poorly written with many misspellings and incorrect grammar usage.

It was theorized at times that the writing style was a ruse to conceal his intelligence, but it turns out Rader really does write that way in his everyday life even though he earned a college degree in In , after the murders of three members of the Fager family in Wichita, a letter was received from someone claiming to be BTK in which he denied being the perpetrator of this crime.

He did credit the killer with having done admirable work. It was never proven until that this letter was a genuine BTK communication, although BTK is not considered by police to have committed this crime. In March , he began the series of eleven communications from BTK that led directly to his arrest in February The Wichita Eagle newspaper received a letter from someone using the return address Bill Thomas Killman.

The writer claimed that he murdered Vicki Wegerle on September 16, , and enclosed photographs of the crime scene and a photocopy of her driver's license, which had been stolen at the time of the crime. In June a package was found taped to a stop sign in Wichita containing graphic descriptions of the Otero murders. In July a package was dropped into the return slot at the downtown public library containing more bizarre material, including the claim that he, BTK, was responsible for the death of year-old Jake Allen in Argonia, Kansas earlier that same month.

This claim was found to be false and the death remains ruled as a suicide. Ken Landwehr and a false autobiography giving many details about his life. These details were later released to the public as though possibly factual, but the police were mostly trying to encourage the killer to continue to communicate until making a major mistake. It contained the driver's license of Nancy Fox, which was noted as stolen at the scene of crime, as well as a doll that was symbolically bound at the hands and feet with a plastic bag tied over its head.

In February there were postcards to KAKE, and another cereal box left at a rural location that contained another bound doll symbolizing the murder of year-old Josephine Otero. Rader asked the police that if he put his writings onto a floppy disk if the disk could be traced or not.

He received his answer in a newspaper ad posted in the Wichita Eagle saying it would be OK. Forensic analysis quickly determined that the disk had been used by the Christ Lutheran Church in Wichita, plus the name Dennis.

An internet search determined that Rader was president of this church. After his arrest, Rader stated he chose to resurface in for various reasons, including the release of the book Nightmare in Wichita - the Hunt for the BTK Strangler by Robert Beattie.

The following is a letter: "I find the newspaper not writing about the poem on Vain unamusing. The Police Chief he keep things quiet, and doesn't let the public know there a psycho running around lose strangling mostly women, there 7 in the ground; who will be next? Josephine, when I hung her really turn me on; her pleading for mercy then the rope took whole, she helpless; staring at me with wide terror fill eyes the rope getting tighter-tighter.

Also enclosed were a letter, a photocopy of the cover of a novel about a serial killer Rules of Prey ISBN and a gold-colored necklace with a large medallion. Police found metadata embedded in a Microsoft Word document on the disk that pointed to Christ Lutheran Church, and the document was marked as last modified by "Dennis". Police immediately began surveillance of Rader.

Sometime during this period, police obtained a warrant for the medical records of Rader's daughter, Kerri. A tissue sample seized at this time was tested for DNA and provided a familial match with semen at an earlier BTK crime scene.

Rader's home and vehicle were searched, and evidence including computer equipment, a pair of black pantyhose retrieved from a shed, and a cylindrical container was collected. Rader talked to them for hours. He confessed right away. They filled up twelve DVDs with his confession. The Sunday after his arrest, Associated Press reports cited an anonymous source that Rader had confessed to other killings in addition to the ones with which he was already connected.

On June 27, the scheduled trial date, Dennis Rader changed his plea to guilty. In a very calm manner he described, in detail, the killings. He made no apologies. On August 18, Dennis Rader faced sentencing. The victims' families made statements, followed by Rader, who apologized for the crimes.

He was sentenced to ten consecutive life terms, which requires a minimum of years without a chance of parole. Kansas had no death penalty at the time the killings were committed so this was the maximum sentence allowed.

While going there, Rader talked about the weather. But when Victims Families Statements from a day before at his sentence hearing came on the radio, Rader began to cry. From April 23, Rader has been allowed to watch television, listen to radio, read magazines and have other privileges for good behavior. The victims' families disagreed with this decision on the grounds that he had previously used those media to explore sexual fantasies.

According to Rader's record in the Kansas Department of Corrections database, he had a disciplinary report concerning mail on April 10, Other cold cases in Kansas were reopened to see if Rader's DNA matched crime scenes, but Rader's confession was limited to the ten known victims and police and prosecutors do not believe there were any more victims because of the extensive records and memorabilia he kept on each of his victims. Rader and Joseph Otero, one of the first victims, both worked as Air Force mechanics, but at different times and different locations.

This is thought to be a coincidence and not relevant to the murder. The poem was titled "Black Friday," an ode to the day he was arrested. The poem expressed a point that Dennis Rader was not happy about being caught, with one of the verses proclaiming, "The dark side of me has been exposed. Robert Mendoza interviewed Rader after he pleaded guilty on June They claimed on the program that Rader knew the interview might be on TV but that was a false statement according to Sedgwick County Police.

They thought it was strange Mendoza recorded the interview with a camera. It had 9 million viewers. A direct-to-video movie, entitled B. Killer was released in May Critics point to several inaccuracies in the film, including incorrect timelines the movie shows the BTK murders happening in the s, not the s , and changed premises the movie shows Dennis Rader using animals and raw meat to torture his victims, which investigators say never happened.

Davis, Jeffrey M. ISBN Martin's True Crime, March 7, Douglas, John E. BTK serial killer Dennis Rader was ordered to serve 10 consecutive life terms Thursday during a tear-filled hearing in which his victims called him a monster and said he should be "thrown in a deep, dark hole and left to rot. The sentence - a minimum of years without a chance of parole - was the longest possible that Judge Gregory Waller could deliver.

Kansas had no death penalty at the time the killings were committed. The two-day hearing featured testimony from detectives who graphically detailed the 10 killings and tearful relatives of the victims. Then, she started doing the same. On April 4, , he attacked year-old Kathryn Bright and his brother Kevin. She killed Kathryn by stabbing her multiple times and shot Kevin, who, however, managed to survive. He started focusing on his career as he got a job in a company specializing in the installation of alarm systems.

Moving on, in , he again killed two people: Shirley Vian and Nancy Fox. The murders shocked Kansas and police advised people to be safer. However, in , he again killed his neighbor Marine. After a year, he again killed a young mother Vicki. In , he broke into the house of an elderly lady, Dolores Davis, and killed her. After sending many letters to the police, he then sends a floppy disc to the police which was his big mistake.

The detectives soon traced the source of the floppy disc and he got arrested on February