BTK: Dr. Katherine Ramsland
True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers
Dan Zupansky
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🗓️ 16 October 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Osage County Sheriff Eddie Virden decided to investigate a possible link between Rader and Kinney's disappearance when he learned that Rader had included the phrase “bad laundry day” in his writings.The investigation includes other unsolved murders and missing persons cases, including the death of 22-year-old Shawna Beth Garber, whose body was discovered in December 1990 in McDonald County, Missouri. She had been raped, strangled and restrained with different bindings. As part of the investigation, police conducted a dig near Rader's former Kansas property in Park City.
Through jailhouse visits, telephone calls, and written correspondence, Dr. Katherine Ramsland, the renowned professor of forensic psychology and author worked with Rader himself to analyze the layers of his psyche. Using his drawings, letters, interviews, and Rader’s unique codes, she presents in meticulous detail the childhood roots and development of one man’s motivation to stalk, torture, and kill. She reveals aspects of the dark motivations of this most famous of living serial killers that have never before been revealed. With exclusive conversations with Rader himself, comprehensive interviews, and access to Rader's drawings and coded diaries all paired with Dr. Ramsland's expertise, we get to know the man behind the moniker, the truth behind the headline and a glimpse at the secrets Rader is still holding onto. BTK-Dr. Katherine Ramsland
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| 0:00.0 | You are now listening to True Murder, the most shocking killers in true crime history, |
| 0:12.9 | and the authors that have written about them. |
| 0:15.4 | Gacy, Bundy, Dahmer, The Night Stalker, BTK, every week, another fascinating author talking |
| 0:23.6 | about the most shocking and infamous killers in true crime history. |
| 0:27.7 | True Murder, with your host, journalist and author, Dan Zufantke. |
| 0:33.5 | Good evening. |
| 0:42.9 | In 1974, Dennis Lynn Raider stalked and murdered a family of four in Wichita, Kansas. |
| 0:49.4 | Since adolescence, he had read about serial killers and imagined becoming one. |
| 0:53.4 | Soon after killing the family, he murdered a young woman and then another, until he had |
| 0:57.2 | ten victims, he named himself BTK, fine, torture kill, and wrote notes that terrorized |
| 1:03.7 | the city. |
| 1:04.7 | He remained on the loose for 30 years. |
| 1:06.8 | No one knew him guest his dark secret. |
| 1:09.1 | He nearly got away with his crimes, but in 2004, he began to play risky games with the |
| 1:14.1 | police. |
| 1:15.1 | He made a mistake. |
| 1:16.1 | When he was arrested, Raider's family, friends and co-workers were shocked to discover |
| 1:20.0 | that BTK had been among them, going to work raising his children and acting normal. |
| 1:25.6 | This case stands out, both for the brutal treatment of victims and for the ordinary public |
| 1:30.6 | face that Raider, a church council president, had shown to the outside world. |
| 1:35.0 | Through jailhouse visits, telephone calls and written correspondence, Katherine Ramzlin |
| 1:39.5 | worked with Raider himself to analyze the layers of his psyche. |
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