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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 13 January 2025. American serial killer (born 1945) Dennis Rader Mugshot of Rader by the Kansas Department of Corrections. Born Dennis Lynn Rader (1945-03-09) March 9, 1945 (age 79) Pittsburg, Kansas Other names BTK BTK Killer BTK Strangler Education Butler County Community College (AE) Wichita State ...
Over a two decade reign of terror, Dennis Rader stalked, raped and murdered his victims before boasting of his kills in encrypted messages to police and media.. Rader’s need for notoriety ...
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.
Nightmare in Wichita: The Hunt for the BTK Strangler by lawyer Robert Beattie is a non-fiction book about a serial killer in Wichita, Kansas, known as the BTK Strangler. The book debuted at No. 4 on The New York Times bestseller list upon its April 2005 release.
Right before he was going to publish it, Dennis Rader was arrested and then convicted as the BTK Killer. [1] As a result, Beattie quickly wrote an epilogue . Beattie is also known for interviewing serial killer Charles Manson for a class project as a professor at Newman University in Wichita , which stirred controversy and brought media ...
A&EDennis Rader, aka the BTK Killer (for “bind, torture, kill”), was one of the 20th century’s most heinous serial killers. He was also one of its greatest criminal copycats, inspired to ...
Dr Ramsland, a world-renowned expert on serial and mass killers, wrote the 2016 book Confession of a Serial Killer: The Untold Story of Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer, in 2016, drawing on hundreds ...
David Lohr (born 1974) is an American journalist who has written about and interviewed many of the world's most notorious criminals.. Lohr gained national prominence in 2003 when Wichita, Kansas serial killer Dennis Rader (then known only as BTK), wrote letters to news outlets.