Dennis Rader

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Dennis Lynn Rader (born March 9, 1945) is an American serial killer known as BTK or the BTK Strangler.

(for "bind, torture, and murder) Rader gave himself the nickname "BTK" (for "bind, torture, and murder).

In the Wichita, Kansas metro area, Rader killed ten people between 1974 and 1991. The details of his offences were sent by a raster in taunting letters to police and newspapers.

Rader returned to writing letters in 2004, prompting his 2005 arrest and subsequent guilty plea.

At El Dorado Correctional Facility in Kansas, he is serving ten consecutive life sentences.

Life and background

Rader was born on March 9, 1945, to Dorothea Mae Rader (née Cook) and William Elvin Rader, one of four sons. According to reports, Rader's home town is either Columbus, Kansas, or Pittsburg, Kansas. He grew up in Wichita. Both parents worked long hours and paid no attention to their children at home; Rader later described being ignored by his mother in particular, and resenting her for it.

Rader's earliest sexual fantasies about torturing "trapped and helpless" women. He also displayed zoosadism by torturing, killing, and securing small animals. The tener acted out of sexual fetishization, autogenotypation, and cross-dressing; he spied on female neighbors when dressed in women's clothes, including women's underwear that he had stolen, and masturbated with wires or other bindings around his arms and neck.

Rader would photograph himself wearing women's clothes and a female mask while bound years later during his "cooling off" periods between murders. He later confessed to presuming to be his victims as part of a sexual fantasy. Rader, on the other hand, held his sexual urges well-hidden, and he was often described as "ethical, polite, and well mannered" in his neighborhood.

Rader attended Kansas Wesleyan University after graduating from Wichita Heights High School but dropped out after one year. From 1966 to 1970, he served in the United States Air Force. On release, he migrated to Park City (a suburb of Wichita), where he worked in an IGA supermarket where his mother was a bookkeeper. Rader married Paula Dietz on May 22, 1971; the couple had two children, Kerri and Brian. In 1973, he attended Butler County Community College in El Dorado, receiving an associate degree in electronics. He continued to attend Wichita State University and graduated in 1979 with a Bachelor of Science degree majoring in Administration of Justice.

Rader began his career as an assembler for the Coleman Company, an outdoor supply firm. In many cases for homeowners concerned about the BTK killings, he worked at ADT Security Services' Wichita office from 1974 to 1988, where he installed security alarms as part of his work. In 1989, Rader was a census field operations supervisor for the Wichita area, before the 1990 federal census.

Rader became a dogcatcher and compliance officer in Park City in May 1991. In this situation, neighbors recalled him as being overzealous and stringent, as well as delighting in bullying and bullying single women. One neighbor screamed that Rader killed her dog for no reason.

Rader, a member of Christ Lutheran Church in Wichita, was elected president of the church council by a vote. He served as a Cub Scout leader before being named in Cub Scout leader Bill Clinton.

His wife was given a "emergency divorce" after Rader's detention on July 26, 2005 (extending the normal waiting period).

In an interview with ABC News in 2019, Rader's daughter Kerri said she still writes to her father and has since forgiven him, but she's now trying to reconcile him with the BTK killer, saying that her childhood was "unique" and that they were a "natural American family."

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