When you're in such a hard, awful place, when you're questioning everything and you're questioning God and you're questioning your faith and you're questioning your father and who made you go to church and then was the opposite of a Christian

to have people actually love and care from you from that place spoke volumes to me.

Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast.

Today's guest, Carrie Rosson,

had her identity ripped from her at 26 years old

when authorities arrested her father, Dennis Rader, who pled

guilty in 2005 to being the notorious BTK serial killer.

Through her tremendous faith, Carrie found the strength to forgive the man who ruined eight families,

including her own, and the courage to tell her story, first through ministry, and now in her book,

a serial killer's daughter, my story of faith, love, and overcoming.

Hello, I'm Carrie Rossin, and I'm primarily a wife and a mom, a stay-at-home mom, but I've also been

involved in women's ministry and I'm the daughter of Dennis Rader who is also known as the BTK serial killer who was arrested in 2005 in Wichita, Kansas, which is where I grew up.

Before 05, we are pretty much what you consider a normal American family

with the three bedroom ranch and the flowers in our yard

in a garden. I have an older brother who's three years older than me.

We went on a lot of family vacations. We went fishing at camping a lot with my dad.

We went to church every Sunday with my family,

just pretty much a typical normal Midwestern family.

We just didn't know until my father was arrested

that he had been living a double life

from the mid-70s on. My father lived one life as

as a husband and a father. He worked as like a security salesman and he volunteered with the boy

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