Dennis+Rader+BTK

Dennis Rader: BTK 'Bind Torture Kill' "I am BT. I’m the guy they’re after -- 100 percent."  "I feel like I’m a star right now."



Basic Profile:

 Name: Dennis Rader  Birthplace: Wichita, KS  Born: March 9, 1945

Dennis Lynn Rader was an American serial kiler who murdered ten people in Sedgwick County, between 1974 and 1991. He was known as the BTK killer, which stands for "bind, torture and kill". He was well known to send letters and messages describing his crime to the police office and local news reporters. He was finally convicted in 2005 where he admitted of all his deeds. He is currently serving 10 consecutive life sentences at El Dorado Correctional Facility with an earliest possible release date of February 26, 2180.

 Early Life:

Rader was the eldest son of William Elvin Rader and Dorothea Mae Cook. He was born in Pittsburg, Kansas but grew up in Wichita. He attended Riverview School, and later graduated from Wichita Heights High School. He was also known to attend the Zion Lutheran Church. Rader also later attended the Kansas Weslayan University from 1965 to 1966. He then spent four years (1966–1970) in the U.S. Air Force.

From 1974 to 1988, Rader worked at a office of ADT Security Services, a company that sold and installed alarm systems for commercial businesses. It is believed that he learned how to defeat home security systems while there. Rader served on both the county's Board of Zoning Appeals and the Animal Control Advisory Board. He was also a member of Christ Lutheran Church. He had been a member for about 30 years and had been elected president of the Congregation Council. After Rader's arrest, his wife called for a divorce, saying that her mental health was in danger. Rader did not contest the divorce, and the 33-year marriage was ended. Paula Rader said in her divorce petition that her mental and physical condition has been adversely affected by the marriage.

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List of Victim:

Example of Letter:

 " I find the newspaper not writing about the poem on Vain unamusing. A little paragraph would have enough. I know it not the media fault. The Police Chief he keep things quiet, and doesn't let the public know there a psycho running around lose strangling mostly women, there 7 in the ground; who will be next? <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> How many do I have to Kill before I get a name in the paper or some national attention. Do the cop think that all those deaths are not related? Golly -gee, yes the M.O. is different in each, but look a pattern is developing. The victims are tie up-most have been women-phone cut- bring some bondage mater sadist tendencies-no struggle, outside the death spot-no wintness except the Vain's Kids. They were very lucky; a phone call save them. I was go-ng to tape the boys and put plastics bag over there head like I did Joseph, and Shirley. And then hang the girl. God-oh God what a beautiful sexual relief that would been. Josephine,when I hung her really turn me on; her pleading for mercy then the rope took whole, she helpless; staring at me with wide terror fill eyes the rope getting tighter-tighter. You don't understand these things because your not underthe influence of factor x). The same thing that made Son of Sam, Jack the Ripper, Havery Glatman, Boston Strangler, Dr. H. H. Holmes Panty Hose Strangler OF Florida, Hillside Strangler, Ted of the West Coast and many more infamous character kill. Which seem s senseless, but we cannot help it. There is no help, no cure, except death or being caught and put away. It a terrible nightmarebut, you see I don't lose any sleep over it. After a thing like Fox I ccome home and go about life like anyone else. And I will be like that until the urge hit me again. It not continuous and I don;t have a lot of time. It take time to set a kill, one mistake and it all over. Since I about blew it on the phone-handwriting is out-letter guide is to long and typewriter can be traced too,.My short poem of death and maybe a drawing;later on real picture and maybe a tape of the sound will come your way. How will you know me. Before a murder or murders you will receive a copy of the initials B.T.K., you keep that copy the original will show up some day on guess who? May you not be the unluck one! P.S. How about some name for me, its time: 7 down and many more to go. I like the following How about you? 'THE B.T.K. STRANGLER', WICHITA STRANGLER', 'POETIC STRANGLER', 'THE BOND AGE STRANGLER' OR PSYCHO' THE WICHITA HANGMAN THE WICHITA EXECUTIONER, 'THE GAROTE PHATHOM', 'THE ASPHIXIATER'. B.T.K "