Serial Killers I

The BTK-Killer

Dennis Rader, an US-American serial killer, lived in the suburbs of Wichita, KS. He's also known as the BTK-Killer, where BTK stands for Bind, Torture, Kill. He gave him this name himself, as it was his method of killing his victims. Between 1974 and 1977 he killed at least 7 persons, mostly women, and another 3 between 1985 and 1991. Rader wasn't caught until 2005, when he was sentenced to life in prison ten times.

Dennis Rader was not only a member, but also elected president of the Christ Lutheran Church. He worked for a home security company, installing security alarms in hundreds of houses of residents fearing the BTK-Killer. Later he also worked for the city council and was known as a severe person. According to several records and his own confessions he tortured animals as a child. Later he developed a sexual fetish for women's underwear, stealing panties from his victims to wear them himself. Speaking of his victims, after bounding them, they were tortured crucially. Most of them died of suffocation with a plastic bag or strangulation with a rope, a belt or even nylon stockings.

More then a decade it was quiet around the BTK-Killer, and some experts even thought that was because he was in prison, which wasn't the case. On the 30th "anniversary" of his first assassination he wanted to be back on track and sent a letter with the driving license and pictures of one of his victims to a local newspaper, signing it with Bill Thomas Killman. After sending another letter, this time with a floppy-disk, he finally got caught. All letters were immediately sent to the FBI, they found out that the last person working with the floppy-disk was named Dennis and the disk itself was property of the Christ Lutheran Church. After some research they found Rader and subsequently they did an DNA-test on one of Rader's daughters giving the FBI the ultimate proof.

Whilst you are reading this, Rader is in prison. He plead guilty for killing 10 persons.