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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 ten 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.
Just months later, in April 1974, Rader killed 21-year-old Kathryn Bright, in the same way he did the Otero family, binding her, strangling her, and then killing her. At his trial years later, he ...
The earliest known crimes linked to the BTK strangler date to Jan. 15, 1974, when Joseph Otero, 38, his 34-year-old wife, Julie, and their 11- and 9-year-old children were found dead in their home.
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.
The BTK killer, which stands for blind, torture, kill, who is now 78, has confessed to 10 murders and remains in prison. He waived his right to remain silent, and spoke with investigators at ...
I Survived BTK follows Charlie Otero, who, as a teenager, discovered the bodies of his parents and two younger siblings after returning home from school on January 15, 1974. Thirty years later his family's murderer, the BTK serial killer, was discovered and brought to justice. The movie chronicles Charlie's search for the truth about that day ...
Name Sentence start Sentence term Country Description Terry Nichols: 1995 162 consecutive life sentences plus 93 years without parole United States Convicted of 161 counts of first degree murder, first degree arson, and conspiracy by the state court of Oklahoma for his part in the Oklahoma City bombing of April 19, 1995; also sentenced in federal court for terrorism and eight counts of ...
BTK – self-named for Bind, Torture, Kill – had stopped his spree after seven murders in the 1970s, or so people thought. Dozens of stories had been done in the subsequent 25 years, most of ...