BTK: Bind, Torture, Kill
He worked for the government, he was active in his church, he lead a Boy Scout troop, he was married with two children and he called himself BTK.
In Park City, the suspect’s neighbors said [Dennis Rader] helped elderly neighbors with yard work but described him as an unpleasant man who often went looking for reasons to cite his neighbors for violations of city codes.
Bill Lindsay, 38, lived behind Rader and said his wife caught Rader in their adjoining backyards filming the back of their house.
“He really acted really funny,??? said Lindsay, a truck driver. “I’d be on the road and my wife would tell me, ’Dennis has been out again, taking his pictures.???’
Jason Day, 28, said his brother was in Rader’s Cub Scout pack at the nearby Park City Baptist Church, but their mother pulled him out because of Rader.
“It was his demeanor,??? he said. “He was so strange.???
Rader served on the Sedgwick County Board of Zoning Appeals and the Animal Control Advisory Board, according to official documents posted on the Internet, and was president of the Christ Lutheran Church in Wichita, according to the church’s Web site.
I’m not sure what evidence the Wichita, KS police have that pointed them to Rader but I think it’s very interesting that such a serial killer can blend so well into mainstream society. So well that it took 30 years to catch him.
It also took decades for police to catch Gary Ridgeway.
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February 27th, 2005 at 2:48 pm
You know how they caught him? His last “package” was sent to KSAS-FOX studios in Wichita, and among the contents was a 3.5″ floppy disk that he had put some information on with which to tease the police. The police sent it to a forensic computer expert who found that the disk had been RE-USED, and was able to find BTK’s REAL NAME in the “erased” data on the disk. At around the same time, his 26 year-old daughter, who was suspicious of her father’s possible involvement (he had been a dismissed suspect in the 70’s) talked to the police, who persuaded her to give a blood sample for a DNA test. They basically did a paternity test on the DNA the killer had left at crime scenes and found that the killer was indeed a DNA match and the father of Kelly Rader. So much for diligent police work - the killer got stupid, and a family member turned him in at about the same time.
February 28th, 2005 at 11:03 am
I saw the Mayor and Police Chief of Wichita on The Today Show this morning and they would not comment on any evidence or any aspects of the investigation. I don’t know what the source of this information is.
When asked a question about the daughter’s involvement in giving evidence to catch her father, however, the police chief would only comment that it was NOT true.