Her body was found days later on the side of the road. Reports suggest Prince Charles will live "in a flat above the shop" when he becomes king. [74] Kansas had no death penalty at the time of the murders. Rader killed her on January 19.[42]. "[59][60] Wichita Police, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, the FBI, and ATF agents searched Rader's home and vehicle, seizing evidence including computer equipment, a pair of black pantyhose retrieved from a shed, and a cylindrical container. Police in surrounding states such as Nebraska, Missouri, Colorado, Oklahoma and Texas also investigated cold cases that fit Rader's pattern to some extent. In February 2005, more postcards were sent to KAKE, and another cereal box left at a rural location was found to contain another bound doll. Rader did not contest the divorce, and the 34-year marriage was ended. Other cold cases in Kansas were reopened to see if Rader's DNA matched crime scenes, but Rader's confession was limited to the 10 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 mentioned the interview during his sentencing statement. These letters subsequently led to his arrest in 2005. A poem was enclosed titled "Oh! It is believed to be correct at the time of inputting and is presented here in good faith. After graduating from Wichita Heights High School,[16] Rader attended Kansas Wesleyan University, but received mediocre grades and dropped out after one year. Rader maintained the image of being a good husband and father, and his family had no inkling about his murderous streak. Convicted of murdering ten victims, he was planning to attack another victim at the time of his arrest. Surveillance tape of the parking lot from that date revealed a distant figure driving a black Jeep Cherokee leaving the box in the pickup. (Photo Credit: Larry W. Smith / Getty Images) Please review our privacy policy here: https://heavy.com/privacy-policy/, Copyright 2023 Heavy, Inc. All rights reserved. He unemotionally described the murders in detail and made no apologies. I still love her greatly. [23] He suggested many possible names for himself, including the one that stuck: BTK. From 1974 to 1991, serial killer Dennis Rader murdered 10 people under the moniker BTK Killer, standing for "Bind, Torture, Kill." Around his hometown of Wichita, Kansas, Rader was known as a family man and church leader, and no one suspected he was the man sending taunting letters to police and media detailing his brutal, twisted crimes. On February16, 2005, Rader sent a purple 1.44-Megabyte Memorex floppy disk to Fox affiliate KSAS-TV in Wichita. John Wayne Gacy, often called the "Killer Clown," was one of the worst serial killers in U.S. history, murdering at least 33 young male victims. Rader, who called himself the BTK Killer because he bound, tortured, and killed his victims, lived a double life, hiding in plain sight with his wife and two. Dennis Rader married Paula Dietz on May 22, 1971. A search of the church web site turned up Dennis Rader as being president of the congregation council. How could this man be both? A narcissist who took pride in the murders he committed, he sent a series of anonymous letters to the police along with a few pieces of evidence claiming himself to be responsible for the murders. Together Gloria and Dennis made their home in Spruce Grove Township where they operated their Dairy Farm. In February, more postcards were sent to KAKE, and another cereal box left at a rural location that contained another bound doll, apparently meant to symbolize the murder of 11-year-old Josephine Otero. Brian is the son of Dennis Rader (father) and Paula Dietz (mother). "BTK" stands for "Bind, Torture, Kill", which was his infamous signature. When he first lived out the fantasies he started harboring as a child, to bind, torture and kill people, he was. When a reporter knocked on Dortheas door after Rader was arrested, one of Raders brothers, Jeff answered. It was later retrieved from the trash after Rader asked what had become of it in a later message. [35] In early 1978, he sent another letter to television station KAKE in Wichita, claiming responsibility for the murders of the Oteros, Bright, Vian Relford, and Fox. He is now in solitary confinement for his protection (with one hour of exercise per day, and showers three times per week). That became imprinted in his mind and became the image he was always after. Then, Rader initiated a series of 11 communications to the local media. Confession of a Serial Killer: The Untold Story of Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer. The parents couldve behaved very differently toward him than they did the othersIve seen that in cases and the other kids are spared some of the discipline and harsh behavior apparently sometimes.. After more than one year, Dennis Rader killed again. Copyright FameChain 2023, All rights reserved. This includes one person who was saved when Rader called off his planned attack upon his arrival near the target's home due to the presence of construction and road crews nearby. Rader was raised in Wichita, Kansas. The Worlds Most Elusive Serial Killer, Sedgwick County 18th Judicial District collection of legal documents on the Rader case, KAKE Collection of articles and videos on BTK, Dennis Rader's listing on the Kansas Department of Corrections, When your father is the BTK serial killer, forgiveness is not tidy, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dennis_Rader&oldid=1133681933, Rader's case is portrayed in Episode 1 of, A character based on Rader played by actor Sonny Valicenti appears in the. Rader initially worked as an assembler for the Coleman Company, an outdoor supply company. Table of Biography [ show] Early Life and Childhood Dennis Rader was born on March 9, 1945, and is currently 77 years old. He has three siblings named Bill Rader, Paul Rader, and Jeff Rader. Dennis Rader, known as the BTK killer, was convicted of 10 murders in Wichita and Park City, Kansas in 2005. He also said he was bored, because his children had grown up and he had more time on his hands. The ten known murders are now believed to be the only murders for which Rader is actually responsible, although Wichita police are fairly certain that Rader stalked and researched a number of other potential victims. He described the murders in detail and made no apologies. [23], Between the spring of 1974 and winter 1977, Rader killed three more women: Kathryn Bright (April4, 1974), Shirley Vian Relford (March17, 1977), and Nancy Fox (December8, 1977). In May 2004, a word puzzle was received by KAKE. He's based on a Kansas serial killer", "Mindhunter: Who is the ADT Killer from Kansas? It would be a few more years before the BTK killer would strike again. Police began surveillance on Rader. In October 2004, a manila envelope was dropped into a UPS box in Wichita containing a series of cards with images of terror and bondage of children pasted on them. US based Meghan and Harry.. FameChain has their amazing trees. He had been arrested for the murders five days earlier. He was also a Boy Scout troop leader and president of his church council. Ex-husband of Private Rader has always maintained that he was not physically or sexually abused as a child, according to an ABC News interview with his daughter, Kerri Rawson. Dennis Rader spent four years on active duty in the Air Force. As far as is known, Rader kept his fantasies and his cruelty to animals to himself. Forensic analysis quickly determined that the disk had been used by the Christ Lutheran Church in Wichita, as well as a reference to the name "Dennis". The poem was titled "Black Friday", an ode to the day he was arrested. Dennis Rader tormented his Kansas community with a string of murders and taunted the police who couldn't solve his crimes. Geni requires JavaScript! According to Rader's record in the Kansas Department of Corrections database, he had a Class Two disciplinary report concerning "mail" on April 10, 2006. He also liked to hang cats and watch them struggle until they died. [38], He also intended to kill others, such as Anna Williams, who in 1979, aged63, escaped death by returning home much later than expected. He was also a family man, the president of the local Christ Lutheran Church and a boy scout troop leader. Leary told Heavy in a phone interview that Raders methods of torture and murder are a sign of someone who was regularly exposed to horrific abuse.. Serial killer Dennis Rader stands before Sedgwick County District Court Judge Greg Waller as sentencing is read Aug. 18, 2005, in Wichita, Kan. Rader was sentenced to nine life terms and a "hard . He spent four years (19661970) in the United States Air Force, then upon discharge, he moved to Park City, a suburb located seven miles north of Wichita. However, physical and circumstantial facts that would have corroborated Rader as the BTK killer include: Rader's grammar and writing style match letters and poems received from BTK, though none of his communications were handwritten, but typed, stenciled, stamped with a stamp set, or computer generated. In 1977, Dennis Rader struck twice. Rader's alter ego resurfaced in 2004, but his penchant for leaving clues led to his arrest and life imprisonment the following year. Having developed a morbid fascination with extreme violence as a young boy, he often fantasized in his head about torturing and killing others. The truth of what caused Rader to become the BTK killer may never be fully known. He measured the height of people's lawns and chased stray animals while toting a tranquilizer gun. In March2004, The Wichita Eagle received a letter from someone using the name Bill Thomas Killman. Dennis Lynn Rader (born March 9, 1945) is an American serial killer known as BTK (an abbreviation he gave himself, for "bind, torture, kill"), the BTK Strangler or the BTK Killer. Her body was found a few days later. [72] His statement has been described as an example of an often-observed phenomenon among psychopaths: their inability to understand the emotional content of language. In terms of his family, he was born to William Elvin Rader and Dorothea Mae Rader. Known as BTK - which stands for bind, torture, kill - Dennis Rader murdered 10 people in the Wichita, Kansas area from 1974 to 1991, often leaving clues to taunt authorities. [12][13] Rader acted out sexual fetishes for voyeurism, autoerotic asphyxiation, and cross-dressing; he often spied on female neighbors while dressed in women's clothing, including women's underwear that he had stolen, and masturbated with ropes or other bindings around his arms and neck. On May 3, District Court Judge Gregory Waller entered not guilty pleas to the 10 charges on Rader's behalf, as Rader did not speak at his arraignment. [14], Years later, during his "cooling off" periods between murders, Rader would take pictures of himself wearing women's clothes and a female mask while bound. He attended Riverview Elementary School. Ive always loved her. He installed alarms as a part of his job, and many of his clients had booked the company to stop BTK from ever entering their homes, unaware that BTK himself was installing them. [72] On August 19, he was moved to the El Dorado Correctional Facility. They obtained a warrant to test the DNA of a Pap smear Rader's daughter had taken at the Kansas State University medical clinic while she was a student there. Rader also sent trophies to police in his letters, and others were discovered in his office. He was arrested on February 25. Immediately after, law enforcement officials, including a Wichita Police bomb unit truck, two SWAT trucks, and KBI, FBI, and ATF agents, converged on Rader's residence near the intersection of I-135 and 61st Street North. Leary told Heavy: He was terribly to cruel to animals. They then began DNA testing hundreds of men in an effort to find the serial killer. These details were later released to the public. Dennis Rader is an American serial killer also known as the BTK "Bind, Torture, Kill" Killer or the BTK Strangler. Between 1974 and 1991, he killed ten people in Wichita and Park City, Kansas, and sent taunting letters to police and media outlets describing the details of his crimes. But Ill talk with you for a minute., Jeff said, I dont think my brother is BTK. Shortly afterward, in January 1978, Rader sent a poem to a local newspaper about the Vian killing. The Wichita Eagle received a letter from someone using the return address Bill Thomas Killman. "[61][62], On February 28, 2005, Rader was charged with 10 counts of first degree murder. The victim this time was someone Rader and his wife knew personally: his 53-year-old neighbor Marine Hedge. He also engaged in mutilations of some degree. Rader dropped out of college and joined the U.S. Air Force in the mid-1960s. Born in 1945 in Pittsburg, Kansas, Dennis Rader went on to live a double life: Devoted family and company man by day, he also terrorized the Wichita, Kansas, area as the. One of the serial killer characters known as ADT Man on the show is based on Rader. He then became a dogcatcher and supervisor in the Compliance Department at Park City. The initials stuck, and the murderer came to be known by variations ofthe "BTK killer" moniker, or simply "BTK. And he was upset that they didnt find him and recognized him and give him the credit in the press for what he did. According to witnesses, while traveling the 40-minute drive from Wichita to El Dorado, Rader talked about innocuous topics such as the weather, but began to cry when the victims' families' statements from the court proceedings came on the radio. Then, Rader sent an anonymous letter to the police, claiming responsibility for a killing that had previously not been attributed to him. By the 2000s, the public interest in the BTK killer had faded off to a great extent. Apparently, Rader had waited for several hours inside the home of Anna Williams but left when she still had not returned hours later. It was believed that the killer was dead, or maybe institutionalized. He is currently serving 10 consecutive life sentences at the El Dorado Correctional Facility. Jeff said, My mother still cant believe it, he said. Rader attended Butler County Community College in El Dorado, earning an associate degree in electronics in 1973.He then enrolled at Wichita State University and graduated in 1979 with a bachelor's degree in administration of justice. On March 5, news sources claimed to have verified by multiple sources that Rader had confessed to the 10 murders he was charged with, but no additional ones. The police corresponded with the BTK Killer (Rader) in an effort to gain his confidence. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us! He was represented by a public defender. But if its sustained on a regular basis you then end up engaging and incorporating into your behavior repertoire these behaviors more permanently and especially in an early age. Also enclosed was a chapter list for a proposed book titled "The BTK Story", which mimicked a story written in 1999 by Court TV (now truTV) crime writer David Lohr. All relationship and family history information shown on FameChain has been compiled from data in the public domain. There were several communications from BTK from 1974 to 1979. [31], On January 15, 1974, four members of the Otero family were murdered in Wichita, Kansas. Rader was stopped while driving near his home and taken into custody shortly after noon on February 25, 2005. In the early 1990s, he became a dogcatcher and compliance officer in Park City. [64] However, the Sedgwick County district attorney denied the story, yet refused to say whether Rader had made any confessions, or if investigators were looking into Rader's possible involvement in more unsolved killings. See FameChain's massive Trump family tree. The Sunday after his arrest, Associated Press cited an anonymous source that Rader had confessed to other murders in addition to the ones with which he was already connected. This claim was found to be false and the death had been ruled a suicide. [1], Rader was born on March 9, 1945, to Dorothea Mae Rader (ne Cook) and William Elvin Rader, one of four sons. [32][33] After his 2005 arrest, Rader confessed to killing the Otero family. Finding himself unemployed and in a disturbed state of mind, he delved deeper into the dark fantasies that had haunted his mind from childhood. On January 19, 1991, he broke into the house of an elderly lady, Dolores Davis, strangulated her to death, and then dumped the body under a bridge. It contained the driver's license of Nancy Fox, which was noted as stolen from the crime scene, as well as a doll that was symbolically bound at the hands and feet with a plastic bag tied over its head. Between 1974 and 1991 Rader murdered 10 people, including four members of the same family. NBC claimed Rader knew the interview might be on TV, but that was a false statement according to the Sedgwick County Sheriff's Department. In an effort to catch him, the authorities released the 1977 recording of his phone call to police, hoping that someone might recognize the voice. Asked about the reported confessions, Sedgwick County District Attorney Nola Foulston said, "Your information is patently false", but she refused to say whether Rader had made any confessions or whether investigators were looking into Rader's possible involvement in more unsolved killings. Rader spent hours waiting in her home but became impatient and left when she did not return home from visiting friends. Between 1974 and 1991, he killed ten people in Wichita and Park City, Kansas, and sent taunting letters to police and media outlets describing the details of his crimes. . His neighbors and fellow church members were stunned by the news, unable to believe that the man they knew was the serial killer that had haunted the area for so long. The church he attended, his office at City Hall, and the main branch of the Park City library were also searched. His father was arrested in 2005 following 10 counts of crimes where he had killed more than ten people. This is a puzzlenot all is meeting the eye here. Convicted serial killer and sex offender Jeffrey Dahmer murdered 17 males between 1978 and 1991. Then everything upended on us', "Charlie Otero finds peace, stability nearly 40 years after BTK murders", "BTK serial killer's victim families to address court", "BTK: 'I took her to the basement andhung her', "Victim's family files suit against Rader", "Transcription of poem "Oh! Her parents were also professional actresses. Shes still very much in denial. Brian Rader is an American famous youth who is known as the son of an American serial killer or BTK strangler, Dennis Lynn Rader. Rader explained during his confession that he had become obsessed with Williams and was "absolutely livid" when she evaded him. Click here to Start FameChaining. It had many cards with images of terror and bondage of children pasted on them, a poem threatening the life of lead investigator Lt. Ken Landwehr, and a false autobiography with many details about Rader's life. There, he photographed her body in various bondage positions. The BTK killer's last known communication with the media and police was a padded envelope that arrived at FOX affiliate KSAS-TV in Wichita on February 16, 2005. ", Rader's next known crimes occurred in 1977. Dennis Rader was not only the BTK (short for bind, torture, kill) killer, the notorious serial killer who killed 10 people and tortured Kansas for decades. William Rader{ "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "Person", "name": "William Rader", "gender": "Male" }, Dorothea Rader{ "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "Person", "name": "Dorothea Rader", "gender": "Female" }, Wichita Heights High School, Wichita, Kansas, United States, Riverview School, Wichita, Kansas, United States, Butler County Community College, El Dorado, Kansas, United States, Kansas Wesleyan University, Kansas, United States DNA collected from under the fingernails of that victim provided police with previously unknown evidence. It had to have been in the family, or it could be an uncle classically or an aunt. Many observers noted that he described the gruesome events without any sign of remorse or emotion. There were four people present inside: Julie Otero, her husband Joseph Otero, and two of their children, Joseph Jr. and Josephine. He sent letters describing the details of the killings to police and local news outlets during the time period in which the murders took place. [39], Marine Hedge, aged 53, was found on May5, 1985, at East 53rd Street North between North Webb Road and North Greenwich Road in Wichita. The author of the letter claimed that he had murdered Vicki Wegerle on September16, 1986, 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 1966, Richard Speck committed one of the most horrifying mass murders in American history when he brutalized and killed eight student nurses living on Chicago's South Side. [20][30], In an interview with ABC News in 2019, Rader's daughter Kerri said she still writes to her father and has now forgiven him, but still struggles to reconcile him with the BTK killer, stating her childhood seemed normal and they were a "normal American family". Shortly after Rader was arrested in 2005, his shocked wife was granted an immediate divorce. Rader was born in Pittsburg, Kansas on March 9, 1945, but raised in Wichita. 2 Dennis Rader brutally murdered ten people, including two children, over a 17-year stretch DNA tests showed a "familial match" between the pap smear and the sample from Wegerle's fingernails; this indicated that the killer was closely related to Rader's daughter, and combined with the other evidence was enough for police to arrest Rader. In 1974, he began a lengthy stint as an employee ofADT Security Services. Dennis Nilsen was best known as the Scottish murderer of many young men in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Because Kansas had no death penalty at the time the murders were committed, life imprisonment was the maximum penalty allowed by law.On August 19, Rader was moved from the Sedgwick County Jail to the El Dorado Correctional Facility, a Kansas state prison, to begin serving his consecutive life sentences as Kansas Department of Corrections #0083707 with an earliest possible release date of February 26, 2180. The same year, he began his studies at Wichita State University. His nickname 'BTK' stood for 'Bind, Torture, Kill' - his modus operandi, and left a number of taunting notes for the police and the media, detailing his crimes. He was sexually excited when he read books about murders, masturbating to his fathers copy of a book about the Lonely Hearts Killers. [75], Rader talked about innocuous topics such as the weather during the 40-minute drive to El Dorado, but began to cry when the victims' families' statements from the court proceedings came on the radio. But I think I got Rader pretty well.. The following year, he killed Vicki Wegerle in her home. He served in the United States Air Force from 1966 to 1970. Rader was arrested on February 25, 2005, and later charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder. [73] He was sentenced to 10 consecutive life sentences, with a minimum of 175 years. Son of William Elvin Rader and Dorothea Mae Cooke Dr Ramsland is the leading academic authority on the BTK killings and wrote the 2016 book Confession of a Serial Killer: The Untold Story of Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer, drawing on hundreds of . He also made allusions to several other notorious killers, including Ted Bundy and David Berkowitz, also known as the "Son of Sam.". Space-X continues to reach for the stars. American serial killer and rapist Ted Bundy was one of the most notorious criminals of the late 20th century, known to have killed at least 20 women in the 1970s. Once in handcuffs, he was asked by an officer, "Mr. Rader, do you know why you're being arrested?" This job too did not last long and he was soon fired. Inside Dennis Raders Childhood: What Made Him the BTK Killer? Prior to this, it had not been definitively established that Wegerle was killed by BTK (Rader). Dennis Rader, American serial killer also known as the BTK, was sentenced to 10 life sentences in prison after his trial in 2005. [19][20] He attended Butler County Community College in ElDorado, earning an associate degree in electronics in 1973. He is confined to the cell 23 hours a day with the exception of voluntary solo one-hour exercise yard time and access to the shower three times a week. At a press conference the next morning, Wichita Police Chief Norman Williams announced, "the bottom line: BTK is arrested. This claim was found to be known by variations ofthe `` BTK of men in an effort gain! 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