Dennis Rader - Modus Operandi

Dennis Lynn Rader (born March 9, 1945) is an American serial killer, who murdered at least ten people in Sedgwick County (in and around Wichita), Kansas, United States, between 1974 and 1991. He was known as the BTK killer (or strangler), which stands for Bind, Torture, and Kill, which was his modus operandi. Letters were written soon after the killings to police and to local news outlets, boasting of the crimes and knowledge of details. After a long hiatus, these letters resumed in 2004. ...

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Using personal jargon for his killing equipment, Rader casually described his victims as his "projects" and at one point likened the murders of his victims to killing animals by saying he "put them down." Rader created what he called a "hit kit," a briefcase or bowling bag containing the items he would use during murders: guns, tape, rope and handcuffs. He also packed what he called "hit clothes" that he ...

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Dennis Lynn Rader was born in March 9, 1945, the first of four brothers. He was the son of William E. Rader and his wife, the former Dorothea M. Cook. He grew up in Wichita and graduated from Riverview School and later Wichita Heights High School. Rader attended Kansas Wesleyan College in 1965–66 and then spent four years from 1966 to 1970 in the U.S. Air Force, including time in Texas, Alabama ...

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^ Twiddy, David. "BTK suspect's career in security probed." Associated Press. February 28, 2005. [11] ^ Williams, Sarah T. "Camp novel crops up in the BTK case." Minneapolis Star-Tribune. March 3, 2005. [12] ...

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Rader was particularly known for sending taunting letters to police and newspapers. There were several communications from BTK during 1974 to 1979. The first was a letter that had been stashed in an engineering book in the Wichita Public Library in October, 1974 that described in detail the killing of the Otero family in January of that year. In early 1978 he sent another letter to television station KAKE in Wichita claiming responsibility for the murders of the Oteros, Shirley Vian, Nancy Fox and another unidentified victim assumed to be Ka ...

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Rader's victims include: 1974: Four members of one family (Joseph Otero, his wife Julie Otero, and two of their five children: Joseph Otero II and Josephine Otero) 1974: Kathryn Bright 1977: Shirley Vian 1977: Nancy Fox 1985: Marine Hedge 1986: Vicki Wegerle 1991: Delores Davis Police officials say there is no reason to believe Rader was responsible for any other murders. He collected items from the scenes of the murders he committed and, reportedly, he had no items that were related to any other killings. Nonetheless, Rader cannot necessarily b ...

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