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Sep 4, 2020 · Here's how to watch the new ID Channel documentary 'BTK: Chasing a Serial Killer' streaming online if you don't have cable.
- 5 min
- Andrea Reiher
- Before Dennis Rader Became The BTK Killer
- The BTK Killer’S First Murder
- Dennis Rader’s Family Life Alongside Paula Deitz While Committing His Murders
- The BTK Killer: A Proud Father Secretly Living A Double Life
- Dennis Rader Faces Justice After Three Decades
- When The BTK Killer Was Caught, A Fractured Family Was Left Behind
- The Ongoing Aftermath of Dennis Rader’s Horrific Crimes
Dennis Lynn Rader was born on March 9, 1945, as the oldest of four in Pittsburgh, Kansas. He would grow up in a fairly humble home in Wichita, the same city which he would later terrorize. Even as a teen Rader had a violent streak in him. He would allegedly hang and torture stray animals and as he later explained in a 2005 interview, “When I was in...
Dennis Rader was laid off from his job as an electrician in 1973 and shortly afterward killed his first victims on January 15, 1974. While his wife Paula was sleeping, Dennis Rader broke into the home of the Otero family and murdered every person inside of the house. The children – 11-year-old Josie and 9-year-old Joseph – were forced to watch whil...
While her husband massacred a family, Dennis Rader’s wife Paula Dietz prepared to start one of her own. Rader took his next two victims just a few months after the Oteros’ 15-year-old son discovered his family. The BTK Killer stalked and waited in the apartment of a young college student named Kathryn Bright before he stabbed and strangled her. He ...
Not even Dennis Rader’s own children suspected him. Their father was, at his worst, a strictly moral Christian. His daughter, Kerri Rawson, would recall how once her father did angrily grab her brother by the neck, and she and her mother had to pull him off to save the boy’s life. “I can still picture it clearly and I can see the intense anger in m...
Dennis Rader in some respect fell into domestic life and in 1991 began working for the Wichita suburb of Park City as a compliance supervisor. He was known to be an exacting officer and often unforgiving with clients. That same year he committed his 10th and final crime. Rader used a cinderblock to break through the sliding glass door of a 62-year-...
Dennis Rader’s wife left her meal half-eaten on the dinner table when her husband was arrested. Paula Dietz would never come back to finish it. When the horrible truth of what Dennis Rader had done came out, she refused to ever step foot at that home again. She divorced Rader when he confessed to the crimes. The Rader family tried to stay quiet dur...
Even after nearly 20 years following his arrest, the story of the BTK Killer continues to unfold. In August 2023, Oklahoma’s Osage County Sheriff’s Office announcedthat they were investigating Dennis Rader as the possible culprit in the June 1976 disappearance of a 16-year-old cheerleader named Cynthia Kinney. She was last seen at a laundromat in P...
Dennis Lynn Rader (born March 9, 1945), also known as BTK (an abbreviation he gave himself for "bind, torture, kill"), is an American serial killer who murdered at least ten people in Wichita and Park City, Kansas, between 1974 and 1991. Although Rader occasionally killed or attempted to kill men and children, he typically targeted women.
Aug 25, 2023 · Dennis Lynn Rader, the “Bind, Torture, Kill” serial murderer better known as BTK, will have to wait until Feb. 26, 2180, to be released from Kansas state prison for his crimes, but that staggering century-plus away could extend even further now that he’s been identified as the “prime suspect” in two more murders.
Jun 28, 2005 · WICHITA, Kansas (CNN) -- Dennis Rader, the BTK serial killer who terrorized the Wichita area from the 1970s to the 1990s, pleaded guilty Monday and described in cool and dispassionate...
Mar 6, 2005 · The police say B.T.K. killed three more women in 1985, 1986 and 1991 -- including two cases, one from Park City and another from nearby, that were not linked to B.T.K. publicly until last...
Oct 21, 2017 · A scene showing an ADT killer in Kansas opened several episodes of Netflix's crime drama "Mindhunter." That man is based on a real serial killer known as BTK.
