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renaeshea
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 Posted - 26 March 2005 : 12:30:18 AM
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hi i was just wondering if anyone has any updates on the btk killer has he been caught , hhas he killed again |
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renaeshea
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Posted - 19 April 2005 : 4:46:02 PM
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| hi i have just read today on other site that the btk killer after 30 years has finally been caught? |
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renaeshea
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Posted - 24 April 2005 : 11:42:14 AM
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Police Chief Norman Williams announced that BTK is in custody
Cops say he terrorized Wichita for more than 30 years. But, when he finally went to court, Dennis Rader was only there a couple of minutes.
At a probable cause hearing on April 19th, Dennis Rader stood at the defendant's table and waived his right to hear the evidence prosecutors have against him.
This time, there was no scruffy face and red jump suit like in his booking photo. Rader was dressed in a gray suit and sported a full beard.
In total, the much-hyped hearing last only about one-and-a-half minutes. The next hearing is slated for May 3rd. Prosecutors may finally lay out some of the evidence gathered against Rader at that time.
The Arrest of BTK Suspect Dennis Rader
This picture of Rader is from the Park City website, he worked for the city as a compliance officer.
More capture photosPolice Give A Name To The Face Of Evil
Wichita Police say the BTK Killer is 59-year-old Dennis L. Rader. We are learning more about Rader's life. He's a married father of two and is a compliance officer for Park City, Kansas. That means the man police say is BTK spent his days enforcing municipal regulations. According to the city's website, the compliance officers deal with "animal control, housing problems, zoning, general permit enforcement and a variety of nuisance cases." Rader is also a cub scout troop leader and president of his church. Neighbors report him as being sometimes helpful, but also prickly and easily irritated. A neighbor whose property is adjacent says Rader would frequently take photographs of her property in attempts to find reasons to issue citations. Other neighbors report that Rader had an ongoing concern as to whether their lawns were maintained to his standards.
The AMW Forums are buzzing with Wichita residents sharing their knowledge of Dennis Rader.
New Murders Chalked Up To BTK
Dennis Rader formally charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder. Rader has been held in Sedgwick County jail on $10 million bond since his arrest on Friday. A judge Tuesday retained that amount. Cops say that's $1 million per victim.
Dennis Rader answered "Yes" when the judge asked if he understood the charges against him. Dennis Rader's arraignment has been set for 9am, March 15th.
Police indicate that he was charged with the murders of Joseph Otero, Julie Otero, Josephine Otero, Joseph Otero, Jr., Kathryn Bright, Shirley Vian, Nancy Fox, and Vicki Wegerle, Marine Hedge and Delores Davis.
Police also said they now consider two other Wichita area murders closed cases.
On April 27, 1985, Marine Hedge was abducted from her home in Park City, Kan. Her body was found eight days later. She had been strangled and a knotted pair of pantyhose was found nearby.
Marine lived just three doors down from Dennis Rader in Park City.
On January 19, 1991 Delores Davis, 62, was abducted from her home. She was found 13 days later under a bridge in rural Sedgwick County. She had been strangled and bound with pantyhose. Delores lived in Park City.
While there is no statute of limitations for homicide, the death penalty would not apply to any of the murders currently associated with BTK, because Kansas did not have a death penalty until 1994.
Comparing BTK's Clues To Dennis Rader
Police long suspected that BTK had a tie to Wichita State University and professor P.J. Wyatt. Dennis Rader received a degree in administrative justice from WSU in 1979. But did he know Professor Wyatt? Here's a schedule of her classes from the 1970's.
In December, police released a list of clues to BTK's identity. They were based on actual communications from BTK in which he revealed "facts" about himself. How accurate were those facts? Check out AMW's gallery of clues. BTK claimed to have been born in 1939. Dennis Rader's birthday is March 9, 1945. Do any of the facts hold up?
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renaeshea
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Australia
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Posted - 28 June 2005 : 10:06:05 PM
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From correspondents in Chicago
June 28, 2005
From: Agence France-Presse
Dennis Rader ... has confessed to being the BTK killer / AP A SERIAL killer who gave himself the name BTK - Bind, Torture, Kill - has calmly told a court how he strangled, stabbed and shot 10 victims to satisfy his sexual fantasies.
Dennis Rader, a 59-year-old former home security company worker, haunted the midwestern town of Wichita, Kansas for decades as he silently stalked victims, broke into their homes and left them a tangled, broken mess.
Rader taunted police by sending them a series of letters full of spelling mistakes in which he named himself BTK for the grisly method he employed in seven violent attacks between 1974 and 1991 that left 10 people dead.
Dressed in a beige suit jacket and dark tie, Rader showed no emotion as he described the slayings, pausing only briefly to take sips of water as he told the court how he used various ruses to talk his way into some of the homes.
After posing as a telephone repairman, criminal on the run or a private detective, Rader said he pulled a gun on his victims and told them that he had "a problem with sexual fantasies" and was going to tie them up and rape them.
In several cases he tried to comfort his victims before he tied them up, sitting with them as they smoked cigarettes. But instead of raping the women, Rader strangled them with a belt or panty hose, masturbated over their dead bodies, took some of their personal belongings to keep as "trophies" and then made his way home to his wife and children.
Rader told the court that he "trolled" the city for most of his victims, waiting months or years for the right person to catch his fancy. But one day, when he was "all keyed up", he chose a woman at random.
Shirley Vian was home with her children on March 17, 1977 when Rader knocked on her door. Threatening her with a .357 Magnum, Rader told Vian he was going to tie her up and rape her and then got her to help him tie the children up as well.
"I explained to her that I'd done this before," he said. "I proceeded to tie the kids up but they were crying so that didn't work. So we put them in the bathroom."
The children were still upset, Rader told the court, so he and the mother gave them blankets and toys, locked the bathroom door and then pushed a bed up against it so they could not escape.
"She got sick, proceeded to throw up and so I got her a glass of water to comfort her and then I put a bag over her head and strangled her," he told the court in a flat monotone voice.
The BTK slayings confounded law enforcement for decades and left residents to anxiously await the next sadistic slaying.
Rader struck first in January, 1974, killing Joseph and Julie Otero and two of their children. He told the court he almost lost his nerve after he cut their phone line and was unsure of what he was doing.
"I had never strangled anyone before. I really didn't know how much pressure to put on a person or how long it would take," he said when describing how he killed Julie Otero as she lay beneath him with her hands and feet bound.
A few months later Rader broke into the home of Kathryn Bright where he was surprised to find her in the company of her brother. He beat, strangled and shot both of them, but Bright's brother managed to escape.
Rader struck twice in 1977 and then laid low until 1985. He killed again in 1986 and 1991, which authorities believe was his last slaying.
Authorities reopened their investigation in March 2004 after Rader, who had remained silent for decades, wrote to a local television station and sent a package containing the driver's license of a 25-year-old woman killed in 1986 whose death had not previously been linked to BTK. More taunts arrived, including a computer disk that was later traced to Rader's church.
Throughout his testimony Rader remained chillingly calm. He expressed a slight frustration when the judge was confused by his use of the word "trolling."
"If you've read much about serial killers, they go through what they call different phases," he said as he rubbed his forehead. "In the trolling stage, basically, you're looking for a victim at that time. You can be trolling for months or years, but once you lock in on a certain person, you become a stalker. (There) might be several of them but you really hone in on one person."
Rader referred to his victims as "projects" and said he often prepared for the slayings by bringing a "hit kit" and wearing "hit clothes" that he would dispose of after the murder. He frequently took Polaroid pictures of his victims, in one case taking the body with him so he could take more pictures of her in sadomasochist poses.
A Cub Scout leader, devout churchgoer and married father of two, Rader was a respected member of the local community before his arrest.
Rader will not be eligible for the death penalty because the murders occurred before Kansas reintroduced capital punishment in 1994.
District Attorney Nola Foulston said she will seek 10 consecutive life sentences for Rader at a sentencing hearing on August 15.
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renaeshea
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Australia
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Posted - 18 August 2005 : 11:00:08 PM
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The 60-year-old Rader, who called himself BTK, for "bind, torture and kill," showed little emotion on the first day of the hearing.
But relatives of those he killed sobbed and hung their heads as they listened to how Rader stalked and slowly killed his victims, largely for sexual gratification, in a 17-year murder spree.
The testimony included photos of many of the bodies.
The agents told the courtroom that shortly after his arrest last February Rader confessed to 10 murders, telling them that in one killing Rader used toys to try to distract three small children as he bound and strangled their mother.
In another, he pulled a chair next to a bed so he could relax while 9-year-old boy suffocated in the plastic bag Rader wrapped around his head. And in yet another, he took his victim to a church at night where he photographed her in various sexually explicit ways.
Rader had told law enforcement agents that he found killing people was harder work than he had expected so, as he continued killing, he worked out to improve his strength.
His first victims were four members of the Otero family, whom he killed in their Wichita-area home in 1974. Rader said he went after the Oteros because he was attracted to the Hispanic features of 11-year-old Josephine.
He killed her parents and younger brother while Josephine wept and called for her mother. Then he led the girl to the basement, telling her she would soon join her family in heaven, Kansas Bureau of Investigation agent Larry Thomas testified.
Rader removed some of the girl's clothes, groped her and hung her from a sewer pipe, masturbating alongside her body as she died, according to Thomas.
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