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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 for decades before he was caught.
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 10 people in Wichita and Park City, Kansas, between 1974 and 1991. Although he occasionally killed or attempted to kill men and children, Rader typically targeted women.
BTK killer’s daughter wears prison-like orange at CrimeCon for ‘special convict in her life’ - live updates Rachel Sharp,Andrea Blanco and Andrea Cavallier September 25, 2023 at 4:36 AM
Rader’s need for notoriety eventually led to his arrest and conviction for 10 murders in the Wichita area when investigators traced a floppy disk he had sent to a Kansas TV station to a computer ...
Originally arrested in 1960 for the killing of a store clerk, Jameson murdered a prison guard and escaped before trial, but was arrested again when he was robbing a grocery store. One of the life sentences was commuted in 1975 by the state governor, Michael Dukakis. He escaped again in 1985 and wasn't recaptured until 2005. Ancell E. Hamm 1972
An addendum about Rader and his arrest was added before the book went to press. Many, including some Wichita police officers, have speculated that the fact that a book about BTK was being written was what caused the killer to reemerge in 2004, which led to his arrest the following year. [2] Beattie researched the book for two years. [3]
EXCLUSIVE: Kerri Rawson was just 26 when her father was unmasked in 2005 as the BTK predator who’d terrorised Kansas for more than three decades. Now a victim advocate and 45-year-old mother ...
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