Dennis Rader, A. B. K. BTK Killer

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This paper takes a look at the life and the murders of Dennis Rader, A.K.A. BTK killer.

While reading this paper you will gain better knowledge of what the BTK killer did and the

reasons for why he committed ten murders. Dennis Rader was a normal guy living in Wichita,

Kansas. He would have never been suspected of murdering ten people, until he sent the police

a critical piece of evidence. This was Rader’s only mistake throughout his thirty-one years of

killing.

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“How many people do I have to Kill before I get a name in the paper or some national

attention (Dennis Rader, n.d)” Dennis was born on March 9th

Rader (Dennis Rader, n.d). Dennis was born in Pittsburg, Kansas but was raised in Wichita

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Some believe that this is how Rader was able to disable security systems without a hitch

(Dennis Lynn Rader, Blanco). Rader was hired as a supervisor of the Compliance Department at

Park City (Dennis Lynn Rader, Blanco). He was in charge of animal control, housing problems,

zoning, general permit enforcement, and a variety of nuisance cases (Dennis Lynn Rader,

Blanco). Neighbors recall Rader to be overly strict and one resident says that Dennis euthanized

her dog without any reason (Dennis Lynn Rader, Blanco).

Dennis Rader terrorized the Wichita community between 1974 and 1991. On January

, 1974 Dennis Rader murdered four members of the Otero family, Joseph, Julie, Joseph II,

and Josephine (Dennis Rader, n.d). Dennis Rader sent the first of many letters to a Wichita-based

television station KAKE (Dennis Rader, n.d). This letter explained that someone by the name of

Bill Thomas Killman had done the murders. He also suggested names for himself, such as The

Wichita Strangler, The Wichita Hangman, The Asphyxiater, The Poetic Strangler, The Garrote

Phantom, and The Bondage Strangler (Dennis Rader, n.d). The public gave him the name of the

BTK killer because he would bind, torture, and kill his victims (Dennis Rader, n.d). Along

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