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Sep 5, 2023 · She is found dead by strangulation eight days later, though police fail to connect her murder to BTK at the time. September 16, 1986: A husband becomes the suspect in another BTK killing
Dennis Lynn Rader (born March 9, 1945), also known as BTK (an abbreviation he gave himself for "bind, torture, kill"), is an American serial killer who murdered at least ten people in Wichita and Park City, Kansas, between 1974 and 1991. Although Rader occasionally killed or attempted to kill men and children, he typically targeted women.
Aug 29, 2019 · The BTK Killer was on the loose from 1974 until 2005, which obviously left Wichita in a constant state of fear and panic. During that time, he took the lives of 10 people in the area.
May 21, 2024 · On January 15, 1974, Rader committed his first murders, strangling four family members, including two children, in their Wichita home; the mother had worked for Coleman. Semen was found at the scene, though none of the victims had been sexually assaulted.
Aug 24, 2023 · BTK first struck in 1974 and stoked fears throughout the 1970s in the Wichita area. The earliest known crimes linked to the BTK strangler date to Jan. 15, 1974, when Joseph Otero, 38, his 34-year-old wife, Julie, and their 11- and 9-year-old children were found dead in their home.
Aug 25, 2023 · Her remains were found in December 1990, left behind a rural Lanagan farmhouse in McDonald County, Missouri, two months after she was killed. Undersheriff Upton told Law&Crime that his office “uncovered a lot of the evidence” and now they are “working in collaboration with McDonald County to do our best to resolve [the Garber] case, as ...
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Before being convicted in 2005 of killing 10 people from 1974 to 1991, he led investigators and the media on a cat-and-mouse game. Authorities still believe there are multiple missing persons ...
