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Oct 1, 2020 · The code word for me will be…. Bind them, torture them, kill them, B.T.K., you see he's at it again.”. And thus the monstrous Rader gave himself the title he’s known as: BTK Killer. [ Watch...
- 10 The Oteros
- 9 Factor X
- 8 He Reveled in The Terror
- 7 Dennis Rader Was Dumb
- 6 He Photographed His Victims
- 5 The One That Got Away
- 4 Location, Location, Location
- 3 His Laziness Did Him in
- 2 BTK’s Daughter
- 1 BTK Wants to Help His Victim’S Families
When Dennis Rader first saw the Puerto Rican Otero family, he became transfixed. His main focus was on mom Julie Otero and her 11-year-old daughter, Josephine. Rader hatched a plan to attack on the morning of January 15, 1974 when only Julie, Josephine, and youngest son Joseph Jr. would be home. Rader was caught by surprise when he entered and foun...
Rader had a reasoning behind his killing. One of the unique aspects of Rader’s crime spree was his enormous ego; he kept in contact with the press in the 1970s in an effort to spread fear throughout Wichita. In an early letter, he blamed “Factor X” as the motivation behind his murders. Rader fancied himself as an aficionado of serial killers and sa...
Part of Rader’s twisted game was the sexual thrill he got from striking terror. That’s why he kept in contact with the press; he enjoyed knowing that he was the reason that fear swept through Wichita in the 1970s. Rader chose his victims carefully, stalking them for days and weeks, learning their movements, their schedule, and then carefully planni...
For a guy who fashioned himself as an evil genius killer terrorizing Wichita, Rader was pretty stupid. The 1977 pronunciation of “homicide” was seen as a clue, but it was only a clue to how dumb Rader was. His first communication to the press was so riddled with grammatical errors that most assumed it was done on purpose. It wasn’t. “I write this l...
Rader wasn’t content to live out his sexual fantasies in the flesh. He also wanted to relive them by saving the moment through photographing some of his victims. This was speculated early in the investigation based on the positioning of the bodies, and after his arrest, the public had a chance to see the grotesque documentation. Rader photographed ...
By 1978, Rader had an established pattern that was unfortunately very successful at terminating lives. He would stalk victims, learn their routine, and then carry out his kill. After his “success” in controlling the Nancy Fox murder, he stalked a recent widow, Anna Williams. In April, he decided it was time, and set out to strangle Anna Williams in...
The only good that came out of Rader’s heinous crimes was that his inflated ego made him talk in great detail about his methods. As we mentioned, Rader stalked people for a very long time and chose his victims carefully. It’s not a stretch to say that serial killers fall into the same pattern, and one aspect of his victims was crucial to his plan: ...
In 2004, lawyer Robert Beattie decided to write a book about the BTK killings. It had been 30 years since the initial slayings, and as far as the police knew the killings stopped in the late 1970s. Nightmare in Wichitawould be his tribute to the victims, bringing a spotlight on long-forgotten crimes. On the other hand, there was no way Dennis Rader...
Authorities already had circumstantial evidence identifying Dennis Rader as BTK. In one of his communications in 2004, he left a Rice Krispies boxat a Home Depot. Security cameras facing the parking lot noticed a vehicle circling the lot, and stopping briefly. Police identified that vehicle as belonging to Dennis Rader. With his vehicle and floppy ...
Dennis Rader is a coward and a vicious killer; there’s no doubt about that. He ruined the 10 lives he took and did untold damage to the surviving members of their families. Charlie Otero, the eldest Otero child, suffered greatly at the loss of his parents and two youngest siblings. He arrived home shortly after his two other siblings discovered the...
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Sep 5, 2023 · In a letter to Fox News Digital, Rader compares himself to Gilgo Beach murder suspect Rex Heuermann, calling him a “clone of myself” based on the similarities of their...
Jan 30, 2023 · But if Rader got sexual satisfaction by making others suffer, he said his real motivation came from something he called Factor X. Harvard neuropsychologist, Dr. Robert Mendoza interviewed Rader, and during a 2005 episode of NBC's Dateline, parts of the jailhouse interview were shown.
- Amy Beeman
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.
- Incarcerated
- 10–12+
- BTK, BTK Killer, BTK Strangler
- Life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for 175 years, (10 consecutive life sentences)
Feb 18, 2019 · 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...
Aug 24, 2023 · The Associated Press. Dennis Rader, the BTK serial killer whose self-given nickname stands for “Bind, Torture, Kill,” played a cat and mouse game with investigators and reporters...
