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Btk Killer Research Paper

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Dennis Rader, otherwise known as The BTK killer, was arrested in 2005 for the murder of 10 people. Rader began killing in 1974 by killing four members of the Otero family. The reason that Dennis Rader was called the BTK killer is because of the “Bind, Torture, Kill” technique. Dennis Rader began to write taunting letters and reporting his crimes, providing details that only the killer would know. In October of 1974 Rader placed a letter in a public library book where he took responsibility for the Otero family. In this letter Rader wrote that “it’s hard to control myself. You probably call me ‘Psychotic with asexual perversion hang-up’.” Then he went into details as to his urge to kill as a monster inside him. Lastly, he requested to be called the BTK Strangler. …show more content…

For the next victims he would go on to calling the police to tell them about his victim Nancy fox, and he sent a poem to a local newspaper detailing the murder od Shirley Vian. In 1977 Dennis Rader waited in the house of his target, he them became impatient and left before she returned home. But Dennis Rader was sure to leave a note to let her know that the BTK killer had been in her home. The case had gone cold by 2004, until Dennis Rader sent a letter to the police. The reason Rader wrote to police claiming responsibility for a murder that hadn’t been associated with the BTK killer previously. Throughout many correspondences with police Dennis Rader asked if it was at all possible for them to track his information on a floppy disk. The police department told Rader that it was impossible when in fact it was possible. Some of the things they found on the USB that helped the police department included a link to a local Lutheran Church, and metadata from a Microsoft Word document. In the metadata they were able to determine that the document was created by someone named

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