Dennis Rader is sentenced to 175 years in prison for the BTK (bind, torture, kill) serial killings in Sedgwick County, K
Dennis Rader is sentenced to 175 years in prison for the BTK (bind, torture, kill) serial killings in Sedgwick County, Kansas
Dennis Lynn Rader, better known by his pseudonym BTK (for "bind, torture, kill"), is an American serial killer and mass murderer who murdered at least ten people in Wichita and Park City, Kansas, between 1974 and 1991. Although he occasionally killed or attempted to kill men and children, Rader typically targeted women. His victims were often attacked in their homes and then bound, sometimes with objects from their homes, and either suffocated with a plastic bag or manually strangled with a ligature.
In a series of crimes that terrorized Wichita in the mid-to-late 1970s, Rader also initiated a series of taunting letters sent to police and media outlets, describing his crimes in detail and referring to himself as "BTK".
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Dennis Lynn Rader, better known by his pseudonym BTK (for "bind, torture, kill"), is an American serial killer and mass murderer who murdered at least ten people in Wichita and Park City, Kansas, between 1974 and 1991.
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Dennis Lynn Rader, better known by his pseudonym BTK (for "bind, torture, kill"), is an American serial killer and mass murderer who murdered at least ten people in Wichita and Park City, Kansas, between 1974 and 1991. Although he occasionally killed or attempted to kill men and children, Rader typically targeted women. His victims were often attacked in their homes and then bound, sometimes with objects from their homes, and either suffocated with a plastic bag or manually strangled with a ligature.
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Dennis Lynn Rader, better known by his pseudonym BTK (for "bind, torture, kill"), is an American serial killer and mass murderer who murdered at least ten people in Wichita and Park City, Kansas, between 1974 and 1991.