Dennis Rader Case Summary

A month later on January 13, 1987, the police acquired a detailed confession from Godschalk that held information that was not yet released to the public. Later on that year in May both of the rapes were tried together in court. In court the prosecution relied on various items, such as the second victim’s identification of the perpetrator, the confession

This paper is a biography about Jeffery Dahmer, a notorious serial killer and sex offender. Mr. Dahmer was born on May 21st, 1960 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Jeffery murdered a total of 17 men, while molesting some of these victims. His first murder victim was Steven Hicks back in 1978. His killing spree went from 1978 up until 1991. When he was seized, he was sentenced to fifteen consecutive life terms. But on November 28, 1994 Jeffery Dahmer was murdered by a fellow prison inmate by the name of Christopher Scarver.

Richard Trenton Chase is a serial killer who is described as a disorganized visionary killer. He murdered six people in under a month before he was apprehended. Chase grew up in a very dysfunctional family, had borderline low average intelligence, and consistently received bad grades while in school. He suffered from erectile dysfunction at an early age. He spent much of his life in and out of mental institutions. During his short-lived murder spree he was delusional, he believed that the aliens and Nazi 's made him commit kill his victims. According to Storey, Strieter, Tarr and Thornton, "he drank the blood of his victims and ate their internal organs. He did this as part of a delusion that he needed to prevent Nazis from turning his blood into powder via poison they had planted beneath his soap dish" (para. 1).

Chase would also hold oranges on top of his head claiming the brain would absorb the vitamin C. He was then diagnosed with schizophrenia and was put under observation, but was then released. Chase killed his victims in a quite disturbing and inhumane way. His first victim was a 51-year-old, father of two, named Ambrose Griffin. Chase killed his victim in a drive-by shooting in front of his house while helping his wife with groceries. He would then attempt to enter a woman’s house two weeks later, but her doors were locked, causing Chase to walk away. His second victim was a pregnant woman, “Using the same gun he used to kill Griffin, he shot Teresa three times, killing her, then raped her corpse while stabbing her several times with a butcher knife. He then removed multiple organs, cut off one of the nipples and drank the blood. Before leaving, he collected dog feces from the yard and stuffed it into the victim 's mouth and down her throat” (Montaldo, Thoughco). Chase committed his final murders by entering the home of a 38-year-old, he then shot the victims friend and rampaged through the house. He finally shot the victim’s 6-year-old son and 22-month-old nephew. Chase then engaged in necrophilia and cannibalism with the child’s corpses.

Rader fits the reason for a serial killer’s motivation. In a testimony in the book he states,” In court testimony many years later, he attributed the killings to sexual needs, and he apparently molested at least one of the females” (190). He also held traits connected to all serial killers.

Eventually, he ended his rampage in a third floor lecture hall where he shot and wounded several more people before ending his own life. Suicide notes found on him revealed that his motives were based on his hatred for feminists, stating that they have “ruined his life”. It also revealed a hit list containing 15 public figures, probably found through news media sources, but stated that he was unable to act upon it. Instead, all his victims turned out to be strangers that were unfortunate enough to be caught in the killing spree (Maser, 1987).

The serial killer I chose to do my report on was Dennis Rader. Rader was born on March 9, 1945 in Pittsburg, Kansas and as of today he is still alive. Rader was the oldest of four sons. When Dennis was a child he hung stray cats. He grew up in Wichita, Kansas. Rader served our country by joining the U.S Air Force which he served from the mid to late 1960’s. He got married to Paula in 1971 and he work for a company that sold camping gear but he only worked there for a few years. He worked for ADT services in 1974.

Dennis Radar also known as the BTK Killer was born on March 9, 1945 to William Elvin Radar and Dorothea Mae Cook he was the oldest of their four children he was born in Pittsburg Kansas he grew up in Wichita and attended Riverview School and later graduated from Wichita Heights High School, according to several reports for him as a child made some confessions that he tortured animals, he also had a sexual fetish for women’s underwear he would later start stealing panties from his victims and wearing them. Dennis Radar attended Kansas Wesleyan University from 1965-1966 then he spent four yrs in the U.S. Air Force from 1966- 1970. In 1973 he attended Butler County Community College where he earned his

The first stranglings took place on took place on January 15th, 1974. Joseph Otero and his wife, Julie Otero were strangled in there living room. There daughter Josephine and housekeeper were found strangled in a bedroom and there son Joseph Otero was found strangled in the basement . The BTK strangler took the blame for it. He sent pictures and things he stole from the Otero family. Police knew it was him because know pictures were taken at the crime scene and the only person who would of had pictures was the murdered. On April 4th, 1974 Kathryn Bright who was 21 years old was stabbed to death in her home, police later concluded that it was a BTK victim. On March 17th, 1977, Shirley Vian was found strangled, and tied up in the basement of her home. On December 8th, 1977 Nancy Fox ,25, was found tied up and strangled in her home. The killer's voice is captured on tape when he calls the police to report the crime. On April 28th, 1979, Rader waits in the basement of a 63 year old ladies home. She decided to stay the night with a friend and Rader leaves. The next day he wrote her a letter telling her about how he was waiting for her. On September 16th, 1986 the final victim Vickie Wegerle was strangled in her home.

“I just know it’s a dark side of me. It kind of controls me. I personally think it’s- I know it’s not very Christian, but I actually think its demons within me” (Wenzl et al. 308). Dennis Rader, infamously known as BTK, commented about what he called his “factor X” above, which he claimed was his motive for killing. The demons within Rader supposedly caused him to murder four members from the Otero Family leaving the youngest daughter hanging in the basement nearly naked and gagged (Wenzl et al. 10). We now know that these demons within and “factor X” that Rader was referring to was his psychopathology, but we cannot ignore that these traits were triggered by early childhood experience. His early childhood experiences as in many other

Most of his victims were black prostitutes or drug addicts. He is believed to prey on this specific type of woman, because he wanted to seek vengeance against a female figure who wronged him in the past. To do so, this meant that he hurt, raped, photographed (sometimes unconscious or while raping), strangled, and shoot at a close range (many times) victims who resemble her in some way. His first known victim, Debra Jackson, was murdered August 10, 1985. Jackson was found shot three

This time, the victim was a man in his early twenties, and he was discovered, wrapped haphazardly in a plastic tarp identical to the one the first body had been found in, in the bushes outside of the one high school in the county. At first, the county police were skeptical that the murders had been committed by the same people, due to the fact that the victims were of different genders and had been disposed of in entirely different locations, but they were eventually forced to admit that all signs pointed to their sleepy little Pennsylvanian town having a potential serial killer on their hands. When the story broke in the local newspaper, the killer had received an official pseudonym: the Ridgway Ripper. Later, when the man responsible for bringing so much tragedy to such a small town was apprehended and a face and a name were given to this pseudonym, the majority of the town continued to call him the Ripper. No one would dare say it out loud, but everyone knew that it was because it was simply easier that way. It was easier to pretend that something else, something inhuman, could be the source of so much

72 years ago, 16 year old Paul Martin and 15 year old Betty Jo Booker were killed at the entrance to Spring Lake Park. The attack made people begin to realize that there was a serial killer on the loose in Texarkana, the “Phantom Killer.” According to my source, txktoday.com, they were not the first victims. Earlier that year, February 22nd, 1946, both Jimmy Hollis and Mary Jeanne Larey were attacked as well on a secluded road known as “lovers” lane, but survived. Mary Jeanne Larey ran to a nearby house, where the homeowner called the police. However, two more were found dead on March 24th, 1946, Richard L. Griffin and Polly Ann Moore were found in Griffin’s car, both shot in the back of the head. Three days later, in an edition of the Texarkana

David Berkowitz, who many know under the alias of the Son of Sam, or the .44 Caliber Killer, was a serial killer in the 1970s. Berkowitz was a resident of New York City. He was arrested on August 10th of 1977 and was followed up by a sentence of six life sentences in prison on June 12, 1978. This makes his supreme term around 365 years behind bars. To follow are the details of Berkowitz and his life.

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