BTK Killer - Dennis Rader

Serial Killer Documentary Podcast

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 26 June 2017

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Dennis Lynn Rader (born March 9, 1945) is an American serial killer who murdered ten people in Sedgwick County, Kansas between 1974 and 1991. He is also known as the BTK Killer or the BTK Strangler. "BTK" stands for "Bind, Torture, Kill", which was his infamous signature. He sent letters describing the details of the murders to police and local news outlets before his arrest.

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0:00.0	It seems to be a comprehensive serial killer.
0:08.0	He loves the concept of killing.
0:10.0	He would want to do it again.
0:12.0	I mean, he would bind him up, he would torture them, and then he would kill them.
0:16.0	We found the 13 year old girl in the basement hanging from a water pipe.
0:20.0	In that letter to us, BTK said,
0:23.0	how many more people do I have to kill
0:25.0	before I get some publicity?
0:27.0	There may be victims out there that we have no clue of.
0:30.0	The BTK Strangler hides in women's bedroom closets.
0:33.2	He kills women, men, small children.
0:36.6	Nobody is safe.
0:38.0	Nobody. You can feel the spring storms blowing back into Kansas. This is a live look from Sky Tracker in downtown Wichita.
0:52.0	Clouds already rolling in, bringing with them the
0:54.4	promise of a stormy weekend.
0:59.0	This is the story of one of the most extraordinary events in criminal history, a story that has terrorized a small
1:06.4	mid-American city for the last 30 years. The Conservative city of Wichita, roughly the size of Coventry, is slap-bang in the middle of the American heartland.
1:22.0	More power to the hour,
1:27.0	with a population of just 500,000, the city prides itself on its friendly peaceful community.
1:35.0	But Wichita harbours a dark past that has recently returned. In the 70s, this peaceful community was shattered.
1:49.0	Wichita had a serial killer on its hands.
1:53.0	The murderer became known as the BTK killer
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