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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.
Though not even Rader’s wife, Paula Dietz, had any idea, he had secretly been leading another life as the Park City, Kansas serial killer, better known as the BTK Killer — a man who had tortured and murdered 10 people in and around Wichita, Kansas between 1974 and 1991.
On Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023, authorities in Oklahoma and Missouri said they are investigating whether the BTK serial killer was responsible for other homicides, with their search leading them to dig on Tuesday, Aug. 22, near his former Kansas property.
This week, Mr. Rader was named the primary suspect in two unsolved cases: Cynthia Kinney, a 16-year-old girl who worked at a laundromat and disappeared in 1976 from Pawhuska, Okla., in Osage ...
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.
A law enforcement team in northeast Oklahoma believes the prolific serial killer known as “BTK” may be responsible for several additional unsolved missing person and homicide cases.
Dennis Rader, the serial killer better known by his self-assigned pseudonym of “Bind, Torture, Kill” (BTK), murdered 10 people, including men, women, and children, between 1974 and 1991. He...
