It took the Witchita police force over 30 years to capture the Bind, Torture, Kill murderer Dennis Rader. Dennis Rader committed these gruesome crimes while living a separate life with his wife and two children. Between the years of 1974 to 1991, BTK was actively involved in 10 murders. Dennis Rader was a serial killer with meticulous crime scenes that led the police on a long manhunt, ending with a floppy disk. The BTK’s crimes were carefully planned and unlike any other famous serial killer. BTK was extremely thorough and made it hard to trace anything back to him. Dennis Rader had no prior criminal record in the system except for traffic citations and a restraining order for stalking, which made him an unlikely suspect to police. Yes, Dennis …show more content…
One of Rader’s occupation’s in the past was a code compliance officer, a sworn-in inspector and investigator employed by a county or a city, so he would know the location of CCTV camera systems. Dennis even used forensic countermeasures when he was leaving taunting messages and images. He wore gloves while writing his notes, he didn’t allow any of his hair or fibers to be contained inside the clues, and his DNA was never traced in large enough quantities until after he was in custody. The most notable victims in BTK’s reign of terror were the Otero family due the the interesting, yet sloppy way Dennis went about killing them. Rader had strangled four members of the Otero family–Joseph and Julie, along with two of their children Josephine and Joseph Jr. to their death. Josephine got the worse of the end when the systematic strangulation didn’t work for them. BTK took her down into the basement, tied her to the water heater with rope and a drain pipe, and strangled and raped her. The DNA found on Josephine’s body later traced him to this horrendous …show more content…
He wrote a detailed letter about the murder of the Otero family and left it in a book at the Wichita library. He sent another letter to a radio station confessing to the murders of the Otero family, Kathryn Bright, Shirley Vian Renfold, and Nancy Fox. Dennis wrote “Oh, I’m a snooker! Death to Nancy is based on the 1920’s folk song “Oh, Death” to talk about how BTK was feeling about the killing of Nancy Fox. Dennis Rader’s most well-known clue was a cereal box filled with various items that would help explain the crimes that were committed. Their cereal boxes would be left out in corners or in parked cars to play on the term serial killer. One of the cereal boxes found contained the driver’s license of Nancy Fox and a doll bound the same way Nancy Fox was bound when she was killed. While Dennis was caught up in his fantasies of torture and the mind games he was playing on police, he ended up giving himself in with what he thought was a safe way to communicate. After a long back and forth battle between police and the BTK killer, they finally catch him in his own mind game. In a letter BTK sent the police, he asked if a floppy disk could be
In July 2003, Sheriff’s Deputy Todd Shanks of Multnomah County Oregon was performing a routine traffic stop on a vehicle driven by William Barrett. During this stop, Shanks arrested Barrett because of an outstanding warrant and then searched the car. A pressure-cooker found in the trunk was believed to be used in the making of methamphetamine. Barrett informed Shanks that the owner of the pressure-cooker was “Gunner Crapser,” and that he could be found at the Econolodge Motel in a room registered to a woman named Summer Twilligear (FindLaw, 2007, Factual and Procedural Background section, para. 2). Deputy Shanks quickly learned that there was an outstanding warrant for a “Gunner Crapser” but to not confuse the wanted man, whose name was not actually “Gunner Crapser,” with someone else using this name.
Jarrod J. Rein is an eighteen-year-old with dark brown hair and brown eyes to match the brown arid dirt of Piedmont, Oklahoma. His skin is a smooth warm tan glow that opposes his white smile making his teeth look like snow. Standing a great height of six foot exactly, his structure resembles a bear. He is attending Piedmont high school where he in his last year of high school (senior year). He is studying to be a forensics anthropologist. Also he is studying early in the field of anatomy to be successful in his profession. While not always on the rise for knowledge Jarrod’s swimming for his high school. In a sense it’s like you see double.
Schechter, Harold. The serial killer files: the who, what, where, how, and why of the world's most terrifying murderers. New York: Ballantine Books, 2004. Print.
Alvin Dewey, of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, is in charge of the investigation. Dewey is described as 'professionally qualified to cope with even as intricate an affair as the apparently motiveless, all but clueless Clutter murders. '
The murder of JonBenet Ramsey has become one of the nation's notorious unsolved murder mysteries. A wide range of crime scene investigators and police officials have searched for clues for JonBenet's killer, but countless authorities have already considered this murder to be one of the most inexplicable cold-cases in America. As the world marks the twenty first year anniversary of the tragic event with still no standing suspects, an abundance of evidence proven through research points to one suspect in particular.
Police found the tip of a broken knife by Wilson’s head, suggesting the murderer had been rushed. It was found, after a thorough background search, that Albright was living under forged documents of his father, who had
He worked hard and had his own business cutting trees. McMillian became well known due to an affair he had with a local married women Karen Kelley. Kelly was a white women and it became big news once in Monroe County about her affair with a black man. A few months after the murder of Ronda Morrison, a criminal named Ralph Myers was arrested for the murder of Vickie Pittman in a nearby county. Myers was a well-known criminal who was into drugs. Myers, but had started seeing Kelly during the months after McMillian and her split. Myers now in jail was trying to pin the murder on people including Sherriff Tate of Monroe County. Once he realized that was not sticking, he changed his story. Stevenson (2014) “… he had been involved in the murder of Vickie Pittman along with Karen Kelly and her black boyfriend, Walter McMillian. But that wasn’t all. He also told police that McMillian was responsible for the murder of Ronda Morrison.” (p, 33). Ralph Myers has now implicated McMillian, an innocent man, for the murder of Morrison who he no part in the event. McMillian was quickly charged and sent to death row before even being sentenced for the murder or Morrison. Within a year or so Myers and couple other people gave false testimony and McMillian in less than two days was sentenced to capital punishment with the death
Dennis Lynn Rader also known as the “BTK” killer; Blind, Torture, Kill. He is an American serial killer that murdered ten people in Sedgwick County, Kansas, USA in the year 1974 to 1991. Rader was born on March 9, 1945 in a place near Kansas, USA, and the oldest of four children. Rader grew up in Wichita, Kansas with an average family. His father was a former US Marine who then later worked for an electric company. He went to Riverview Elementary School. In an early age, Rader admitted that he have had developed sexual pleasures from killing. When Rader was a child, reports from Los Angeles Times stated that he used to do hanging of stray cats. Dennis Rader got married to her wife Paula in 1971 and had two kids. On January 15 of 1974, Rader committed his first murder; killing four members of the Ortero family in their own home which he says that these are his “projects”. After murdering and slaying numerous people, Rader would steal items as his reward or his souvenir. He also would leave semen at the scene due to having sexual pleasure from killing. The fifteen year old son of Joseph and Julie Ortero, Charlie, came home that day and shockingly discovered the bodies of his family. After a couple of months, in April 4, the next victim was Kathryn Bright. Rader murdered Kathryn by stabbing and strangling her. He also had tried killing her brother Kevin. Kevin was shot twice but survived the incident.
...found were, various pills, syringes, rubber dildos, homosexual literature, as well as explicit sex videos. The only thing Gacy was originally arrested for was possession of marijuana. Soon after his incarceration, the police were back at his residence. They wanted to search his crawl space beneath his house. He was quick to admit to killing one person in self-defense, and that the body was buried under his garage. They still felt it necessary to search the crawl space. Upon their search they discovered nearly 30 bodies that had been there a varying amount of time. The first killing had taken place in 1972, and currently the year was 1976. Upon conviction by authorities, Gacy was charged with the murder of 33 young men, and was sentenced to the death penalty. He was sent to Menard Correctional Center, where after years of appeals, he was killed by lethal injection.
Towards the end of 1983, two dozen women were reported missing and 13 bodies were found (The Green River Killer Documentary). Every time someone was driving around near areas of prostitution at night, they were pulled over to be questioned. Every time a woman was alone at night, they were terrified. Everyone was watching everyone in fear that they would be next. Due to lacking the advanced technology that we have today, investigators failed again and again to find the Green River Killer. Ted Bundy, who was a psychology student and another one of America's most notorious serial killers, gave the Green River Killer Task Force a little insight on how the Green River Killer would be doing his work. Bundy said that the killer loves that he has to hunt for his victims. He would spend his free time searching for the perfect and easiest victim. He would comfort them and show them that he could be trusted, then he would attack. He gets off on being able to overpower these women and, due to that, he would more than likely revisit where he dumped them to keep having sex with them (The Green River Killer Documentary). Ted Bundy’s profile of the Green River Killer matched Ridgway precisely, but it was still years before they had the technology to link him to the murders. Until then, Ridgway continued to murder and terrify the state of
Initially, Kraft was only arrested for Gambrel's murder, but as time passed, the evidence kept piling up and investigators were able to tie Kraft to other murders (Mendoza). To connect everything, the most valuable piece of evidence that the police had gathered, and the key way in which Randy Kraft was stopped was through the discovery of his gut-wrenching "scorecards," which detailed the brutal killings he had committed. These scorecards included cryptic symbols and numerals that were later tied back to the locations, dates, and names of his victims (Newton). The scorecards consisted of two neatly printed columns, thirty cryptic items on the left side of a sheet, and thirty-one
Farmers protect themselves from the terrible dust storms that occur during the day and night. At night dust storms take over and cover the stars and the sky. During daytime, the Farmers just stare at their dying crops in the fields just wondering how their families would survive. Their wives and children just stare at the disasters that the dust storms produce everyday with no faith. Into this desolate country enters Tom joad, newly released from the McAlester State Penitentiary, where he served for four years on a manslaughter conviction. Dressed in a cheap new suit, Tom gets a ride from a trucker he meets at a restaurant. The trucker’s vehicle carries a “No Riders” sign, but Tom asks the trucker to be a “good guy.” As they travel down the
My hero is Dan Houser because he is the founder/owner of RockStar Game, Developer/Producer, and how smart he is.
Anaximander was a famous Greek philosopher. Found historical documents say that he is the first philosopher to have written his studies, but it is said that only one fragment of his work has been found. He was one of the first people to say that the world is governed by systematic laws and not by the actions of the “Gods”. One part from a book he about wrote nature survived , but other philosophers know his views of other ancient authors . Anaximander was the first groundless astronomer. He emanate the world-picture of the open universe, and remove the closed universe of the celestial vault. With theorizing and asserting about the "Boundless" he was the first metaphysician. He drew a map of the world which made him the first geographer. We
Carl Rogers was a humanistic psychologist who believed that in order for a human to develop, they must be in an environment that provides them with positive regard and acceptance, and that if these are not present, a person is not able to grow as much as they should. He agreed on the theories of Abraham Maslow, believing that people are motivated to achieve certain needs. This basic principle led him to his making his own theories and expanding on Maslow’s theories to find out more about the human personality. Rogers believed that every human was capable of reaching their goals and desires through self-actualization. Self-actualization was one of Roger’s most important contributions to psychology.