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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.
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]
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.
Rader was arrested in 2005 and is now serving 10 consecutive life sentences after pleading guilty to murdering 10 people. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Osage County Sheriff’s ...
The BTK killer’s last known crime was in 1991, ... After he was arrested, Rader confirmed that he was the BTK killer and confessed to the murder of 10 victims. He also claimed that he had been ...
Considered by some a definitive history of serial homicide, [2] this was the book serial killer Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer, was reading when he was arrested in 2005 ...
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 ...
Oklahoma officials may have tied a cold case disappearance to the infamous BTK serial killer. Dennis Rader, 78, is serving 10 consecutive life sentences after pleading guilty to 10 murders in 2005.