Dennis Rader: The Serial Killer

Serial killers, we have all heard of them and most of us are petrified of them. They commit horrendous crimes that many people cannot even begin to wrap their head around. Unfortunately, for those of us who are afraid of them it is likely we have encountered at least one if not multiple in our lifetime. That last sentence really puts the “be nice to everyone” quote into perspective, doesn’t it? It is not known how many serial killers are actually walking around among us however most studies conducted reviled we may not want the answer. Chances are the number is higher than we would have thought and definitely higher than we had hoped. Although I highly doubt we will ever get an actual number. It is not likely that a survey will be given to see how many serial killers are actually walking free. Even if this hypothetical survey was given I do not think an actual serial killer is going to put a checkmark in the are you a serial killer box. Although if they did mark the box they would save a lot of lives. Answering yes to such a question would land them in a psych ward. We may not know how to identify a serial killer simply by looking them up and down but we do have theories that help predict why they choose to commit unspeakable crimes. One of these theories that will be discussed is the biosocial theory. Throughout the report, the biosocial theory of crime will be thoroughly explained and applied to this topic to better understand serial killers. Anyone who has some time to

However they still had to somewhat prove that Dennis was guilty so that a mistrial wasn't ruled. The prosecution relied heavily on the snitches and "expert" witnesses provided by the OSBI. Cindy McIntosh was called to testify as over hearing Ron and Dennis confirming details about the crime scene. Debating where the body was positioned, which room Debbie was found it, etc. James Harjos was also a snitch who was solely focused on Dennis and how Dennis confused to Harjos along with guilty driven statements about "We didn't mean to hurt her". Hajos also reported that Dennis admitted to drinking with Ron the night of the murder/ rape, bring beer to Debbie's apartment, raping her and then proceeding to wipe down the apartment for fingerprints before returning home. I will state though that Harjos was ruled a unreliable witness because Dennis had signed statements from him about his own innocence. Finally the prosecution was left with the OSBI experts that testified that the hand print found was Debbie's meaning that its wasn't the real killers and the second OSBI expert claiming the hair samples were undoubtedly Fritz and Williamson's.

This psychopath terrorized the people of Wisconsin and Ohio for thirteen years. This man committed a series of murder, rape, and dismemberment amongst his seventeen 17 victims. This paper will go one to talk about his early life, first victims, killing spree, arrest and imprisonment, and also his death.

There was a lot of evidence that pointed to Rader as the BTK Killer. DNA from semen, as well as from underneath Vicki Wegerle’s fingernails, matched Dennis Rader. Rader’s writing style matched up to all of the letters and poems that BTK had sent to authorities and local newspapers. The payphone that he used to report a murder was only a few blocks away from his job at the time, which was at ADT. Many different pieces of evidence led back to Wichita State University, which he had attended in the 1970s. Photocopies had been made on campus, poems were similar to a song taught by one of the professors at the university, and BTK even asked Kevin Bright, the man who was shot and managed to survive, if he had seen him at the university. Rader was neighbors with one of his victims. He sent “trophies” to police along with his letters. Rader had many different jobs throughout the thirty years in which he was acting as BTK, and he worked for some of the same companies as his

On January 15,1974 Dennis Rader killed Four members of the Otero family. This was his first kill. He waited long for the him to recognize his self with the family He has watched them enough to know what he is going to be dealing with. Than he came in their back door and strangled the family one by one. When he was finished he left through the front door. Later that night their 15 year old son from the otero family came home and discovered the bodies.(3). By killing these people he gained a sense of pleasure feeling and power and control over what he was doing. “Left semen at the scene and later said he derived sexual pleasure from killing”(3). According to this article Rader not only feeling sexual pleasure from this but he felt

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.

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Richard Kuklinski was an incredibly cold-blooded man. He had at least 100 confirmed kills, and claims to have around 200 total. Richard has a very horrible childhood. Richard liked to torture and kill animals as a little boy. His father abused him and his brothers, one of which was killed from the abuse received from Stanley. Stanley’s brother, Joseph, was pretty messed up, too. He probably would’ve turned out to be a serial killer himself. Kuklinski himself wasn’t like Ramirez or Dahmer, or any other serial killer for that matter. Kuklinski was an evil man, with a ton of interesting information about him out there.

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John Wayne Gacy was considered to be one of the most vicious serial killers in U.S. history. He viciously murdered 33-34 boys and men between January 3, 1972 and December 11, 1978. He would lure his victims into his house promising them jobs, he would then capture them, sexually assault them and then strangled most of them with a rope. He would than bury their bodies under his house. He was caught and sentenced to death by lethal injection. Through this paper you will see first-hand who John Wayne Gacy was and how he became the monster we all know him to be.

In January 2005, 25 years later he sent a postcard to a Wichita TV station describing a package he claimed to have left on the side of the road. In the message he also asked about the status of another package he left at a Home Depot store a few weeks earlier which gave the police their first big break in the case as he was spotted on the surveillance tapes. The letters became frequent again containing driver’s license and three Polaroid photographs of a dead woman Vicki Wegerle, who he strangled in her own home in 1986. He also sent letter containing dolls with bags over their heads and hands tied behind their backs, cryptic word and number puzzles, copies of serial-killer novels and victims’ personal

I think that Dennis Rader is a very weird and stupid person. He had no reason to kill any of the people that he did. He sent letters and acted like he wanted to be caught. After 18 years of not

When police came they found him dead. He committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. The shooting made buying a gun more hard. A report by Office of the Child Advocate said that he had a disorder.

In January of 1974, Dennis Rader violently murdered his first victims, an entire family of 4, which he killed and left the bodies in his local city of Wichita, Kansas. From that point, he went on to kill 6 more people over the next 17 years. The majority of his victims suffered from strangulation, but one was stabbed, one was hanged, and the others were suffocated.

When you hear the words serial killer, you instantly think about people like Jeffrey Dahmer, Ed Gein, Ted Bundy, or Charles Manson. You don 't think about a family man with a wife and two children, county board member, President of the church congregation council, or a Cub Scout leader. Dennis Rader possessed all of these shining attributes. He also possessed a dark secret. This secret had festered in him from an early age and grew as he got older. Dennis Rader had fantasies about bondage, control, and torture which eventually led to murder. Rader 's reign of terror began in 1977 and ended with his capture in 2005, almost 30 years later. He labeled his victims as "projects". He hunted his prey in stages he described as the "trolling stage and stalking stage". He even called the tools used for his trade his "hit kit". Dennis Rader was a stone cold killer who had no plans of stopping.