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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.
Dennis Rader, known as the BTK Killer, tormented his Kansas community but was caught through his desire for attention. Here’s how the events unfolded.
Several of these photos — featured in Oxygen's "Snapped: Notorious BTK Killer" — were able to shed light on the serial killer who went unnoticed in the city he terrorized for more than 30 years. Scroll down to see what authorities uncovered.
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. After strangling three other women that decade, he began seeking attention.
Dennis Lynn Rader (born March 9, 1945) is an American serial killer who murdered 10 people in Sedgwick County (in and around Wichita, Kansas), between 1974 and 1991. He was known as the BTK killer (or the BTK strangler ), which stands for "bind, torture and kill" and describes his modus operandi.
Dennis Rader (born March 9, 1945, Pittsburg, Kansas, U.S.) is an American serial killer who murdered 10 people over a span of three decades before his arrest and confession in 2005. He called himself BTK because he bound, tortured, and killed his victims. Rader was raised in Wichita, Kansas.
Between 1974 and 1991, Dennis Rader murdered at least 10 victims in Wichita and Park City, Kansas while calling himself the BTK Killer.
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