Dennis Rader
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Dennis Lynn Rader, better known by his pseudonym BTK, is an American serial killer and mass murderer who killed 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.
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Rader after entering the U.S. Air Force in 1966
Rader's first four victims (clockwise from top left): Joseph Sr., Julia, Josephine, and Joseph II Otero
Nancy Jo Fox
The subliminal message to Rader that was flashed by KAKE-TV in 1978
Photocopy of Vicki Wegerle's driver's license that Rader stole and would later mail to police in 2004
Rader's letter to The Wichita Eagle under the name "Bill Thomas Killman"
Screenshot of Rader during his interrogationFilmography 6
My Father, the BTK Killer
BTK: A Killer Among Us
BTK: Confession of a Serial Killer
Serial Killers Defined
Serious Serial Killers9 credits on file
Television 3
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E! True Hollywood Story
One Night in Idaho: The College MurdersIn their orbit 1
Actors from United States 6
About this person
Dennis Lynn Rader, better known by his pseudonym BTK, is an American serial killer and mass murderer who killed 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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