Dennis Rader: Serial Killer

Rader: '"I put a bag over his head, put a cloth over his head, a t-shirt and a bag, so he could tear a hole in it. And he subsequently died from that. I then went back and Josephine had woke back up... I took her to the basement and eventually hung her."' These words were spoken when he was in court. Serial killers are interesting to people because their minds work so differently. Most serial killers like BTK, H. H. Holmes, and John Wayne Gacy seem like normal people but underneath they are terrors to this country. One of the first serial killers in America was H. H. Holmes. During the 1893 Columbian Exposition he lured victims in to his elaborate "murder castle"(Tribby 8). It was called the murder castle because this was a hotel that was set up with many
Known as the "BTK Killer" - which stands for "bind, torture, kill"- Dennis Rader terrorized the Wichita, Kansas, area from the 1970s to the 90s. ( Dennis Rader Biography). "Rader killed four members of the Otero family in their home - Joseph and Julie Otero and two of their children Josephine and Joseph Jr" (Dennis Rader Biography). "Rader confessed to at least 8 of the 10 murders that people and police say he committed"(Thomas). There was a 10 year gap when he disappeared and didn't kill anyone. "There may have been signs of trouble early on as Los Angeles Time reports stated that he used to hang stray cats as a child"(Dennis Rader Biography). " Rader was a poor student in high school and in college"(Dennis Rader a Biography). The way BTK was caught is because he put a floppy disk into a church computer and the cops tracked the location of the floppy disk and found him in the church. " How he became such a monster is an important case study to prevent others from taking his dark passage" (Dennis Rader Biography). BTK is still alive in the El Dorado Correctional Center serving many life