On discharge, he moved to Park City (a suburb of Wichita), where he worked in the meat department of an IGA supermarket where his mother was a bookkeeper. He served in the United States Air Force from 1966 to 1970.
Īfter graduating from Wichita Heights High School, Rader attended Kansas Wesleyan University, but received mediocre grades and dropped out after one year.
However, Rader kept his sexual proclivities well-hidden, and he was widely regarded in his community as "normal, polite, and well mannered". He later admitted that he was pretending to be his victims as part of a sexual fantasy. Years later, during his "cooling off" periods between murders, Rader would take pictures of himself wearing women's clothes and a female mask while bound. Rader acted out sexual fetishes for voyeurism, autoerotic asphyxiation, and cross-dressing he often spied on female neighbors while dressed in women's clothing, including women's underwear that he had stolen, and masturbated with ropes or other bindings around his arms and neck. He also exhibited zoosadism by torturing, killing, and hanging small animals. įrom a young age, Rader harbored sadistic sexual fantasies about torturing "trapped and helpless" women.
Both parents worked long hours and paid little attention to their children at home Rader later described feeling ignored by his mother in particular and resenting her for it. Sources give Rader's place of birth as either Columbus, Kansas, or Pittsburg, Kansas. Rader was born on March 9, 1945, to Dorothea Mae Rader ( née Cook) and William Elvin Rader, one of four sons. He is currently serving 10 consecutive life sentences at the El Dorado Correctional Facility. After a decade-long hiatus, Rader resumed sending letters in 2004, leading to his 2005 arrest and subsequent guilty plea. Between 19, he killed ten people in Wichita and Park City, Kansas, and sent taunting letters to police and media outlets describing the details of his crimes. Dennis Lynn Rader (born March 9, 1945) is an American serial killer known as BTK (an abbreviation he gave himself, for " bind, torture, kill"), the BTK Strangler or the BTK Killer.
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