Arrest and trial, 2004-2005Īfter the Davis killing, Rader went quiet.
In January 1991, he killed Dolores Davis, leaving her body in a ditch. In September of the next year 1986, Rader strangled Vicki Wegerle, but did not take credit for the crime. Rader strangled Hedge, who lived down the street from him, in her home in April 1985. He broke into her house and waited for her, and then strangled her with his belt.Įight years passed before his next murder, Marine Hedge. In a letter to police, Rader bragged about the killing, recounting how he spotted Fox while cruising the area. Rader even called in to report the crime. In December, he did the same to Nancy Fox.
In March 1977, he tied up and strangled Shirley Via Relford in her home. Rader waited almost three years before his next killing. He would take credit for the Otero murders later that year, again in a letter to the Wichita Eagle. In April 1974, Rader stabbed Kathryn Bright in her home. Rader used other murder techniques as well. He would repeat this until he killed them. He would later tell the court that he received sexual gratification during the strangling, in which he would suffocate his victims to the point of unconsciousness before giving them air. He would stalk victims, wait in their homes, and then cut phone lines. Rader would repeat this home entry tactic. He then strangled the parents in their bedroom before taking the children into the basement, where he killed them. He tied up the family, placing a plastic bag over the children’s heads. In a letter to the Wichita Eagle, Rader wrote that he had crept in through the Oteros' detached garage. In January of 1974, Rader perpetrated his first attack, which left four dead: Joseph Otero, Julie Otero, Josephine Oero, and Joseph Otero Jr. What is known is that Rader began working as an ADT Security official in the Wichita area in November 1974. In his 30s, he claimed he attempted bondage on prostitutes, but that they found him “too scary.” Rader often lied in letters to authorities, purposefully misspelling words and using poor English. He claimed in letters that he would enact bondage fantasies by drawing pictures and then burning them when he left base. He entered the Air Force when he was 21, and would be stationed across the U.S. Rader was born in 1945 and grew up in Wichita. The father of two children, Rader was given ten consecutive life sentences. Finally, on February 26, 2005, the BTK killer, self-named for his MO (“bind, torture, kill”) was arrested by Kansas police, his real named revealed to be Dennis Rader.īy then, he was living quietly outside Wichita, volunteering as a Boy Scout leader and church leader. The couple were strangled in the home alongside their children, 11 and 9.Īfter the killings, the attacker killed again, six more times, between 19. His first attack, in 1974, left four members of the Otero family dead: Joseph, Julie, Josephine, and Joseph Jr.
When he failed to suffocate Josephine with the plastic bag, he took the 11-year-old to the basement and hanged her from a drain pipe. Otero, causing Rader to kill Julie by strangling her to death. After tying up every member of the family, Rader attempted to systematically suffocate the Oteros by placing a plastic bag over each of their heads. On January 15, 1974, 29-year-old Rader cut the phone lines to the family's house and forced his way inside, using a gun to control the Oteros. The first of Rader's victims were four members of the Otero family, a Wichita family that included Joseph, 38 Julie, 34 Josephine, 11 and Joseph Jr., 9.
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