Bind, torture, and kill was his mantra. One by one innocent people were dropping dead at the hands of Dennis Rader, aka BTK.Stalking his victims for weeks, as if they were his prey, Rader caused havoc in Wichita Kansas. Hanging, stabbing, and suffocating innocent girls and families, Dennis Rader achieve sexual pleasure. Dennis Rader is the worst serial killer, because he showed no mercy.
Dennis Rader was born on March ninth, 1945. Born in Pittsburg Kansas, Dennis Rader grew up in Wichita. At a young age, Dennis tortured,and hung animals, and developed mental control issues. Dennis Rader grew up a fairly quiet, but normal boy. He attended Wichita State University, with a degree in Administration of Justice. At the age of twenty-one, Dennis rader joined the United States Air Force. After he was out of the force, he married Paula Dietz, in 1971, and had two children. Four years after his marriage he killed his first victim, and in the span of seventeen years there was a total of ten victims, which he called projects.
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On January fifteenth, 1974, Rader hung Josephine Otero from a drainage pipe. Prior to hanging Josephine, Rader killed her mother, father, and nine year old brother. The father and brother were suffocated with a plastic bag, and the mother was left strangled. Rader stalked this family for months, watching their every move. Once Josephine was hung and dead, and because he was a sexual sadist, Dennis Rader masturbated, and ejaculated over Josephine's leg. Dennis Rader later admitted in prison, that he had a sexual fantasy that involved death ,and said “ Yes, I had some sexual fantasies, but that was after she was
Richard Kuklinski was a convicted murderer and contract killer who was born on April 11 in 1935. Kuklinski claims to have killed over 200 people over the course of his “career” during 1949 to 1986. At first, he would simply kill people who annoyed him, got on his nerves, or who he ‘needed’ to kill. When the mob caught wind of a man who killed as frivolously as Kuklinski, they began to hire him out as a contract killer. He lived in New Jersey and New York and committed most of his crimes in that area. In 1988, he was caught and sentenced to life in prison -- he later died in prison in March of 2006
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
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The BTK killer was known for terrorizing the town of Wichita, Kansas. He would bind, torture, and kill his victims, hence the name he gave himself. He sought out victims and stalked them for days sometimes weeks, and his main focus was for women and young girls. According to the book, “Bind Torture Kill: The Inside Story of the BTK, The Serial Killer Next Door”, his killing spree began in 1974 with the Otero family. He entered the home, strangled and killed Mr. Otero, his wife Julie, and two of their children. He then moved on to stalking and killing six more victims in the same manner, by placing a plastic bag over their head, tying a rope or stocking around their neck, and sometimes stabbing his victims. The BTK killer was known for taunting
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
You don 't understand these things because your not under the influence of factor x). The same thing that made Son of Sam, Jack the Ripper, Havery Glatman, Boston Strangler, Dr. H. H. Holmes Panty Hose Strangler OF Florida, Hillside Strangler, Ted of the West Coast and many more infamous character kill. Which seem s senseless, but we cannot help it. There is no help, no cure, except death or being caught and put away. It a terrible nightmare but, you see I don 't lose any sleep over it. After a thing like Fox I come home and go about life like anyone else. And I will be like that until the urge hit me again. It not continuous and I don’t have a lot of time. It takes time to set a kill, one mistake and it all over. Since I about blew it on the phone-handwriting is out-letter guide is so long and typewriter can be traced to my short poem of death and maybe a drawing later on real picture and maybe a tape of the sound will come your way. How will you know me before a murder or murders you will receive a copy of the initials B.T.K. you keep that copy the original will show up someday guesswho? Because Rader did not contest his guilt, most evidence was not tested in court. However, physical and circumstantial facts that would have corroborated Rader as the BTK killer include:
Richard Kuklinski was born in 1935 in New Jersey. His father was very abusive towards him and his brother until they were teens. Richard and some Psychiatrist believe this contributed to his antisocial personality disorder. Richard developed a cold hatred for anyone who humiliated him or angered him. He first murdered someone when he was 18 by burning them alive in their own car. This started Richards long deadly habit of destroying those who got in his way. In his 20’s he joined up with Gambino mafia family. He proved his worth by un-empathetically killing a random person in the streets of new york. From there he started his career as one of the deadliest and most successful contract killer. He ascended beyond many serial killers ruthlessness and violence against his victims with his many tactics including letting rats eat them. His career as a contract killer lasted over 30 years. Through all this he had a loving wife and 3 kids including 2 girls and a boy. His family was completely unaware of his job. He was very different from many other serial killers in the way he was killing for personal gain such as money. He has repeatedly said in interviews that he felt no thrill or enjoyment from killing people. Many psychiatrist credit this to his fearlessness. Which is fueled by his antisocial personality disorders and the beats he received as a kid. This fearlessness makes a lethally efficient
Jasmin Guerrero Richard Kuklinski On April 11, 1935 a baby boy was born in Trenton, NJ to Stanley and Anna Kuklinski. His name was Richard Leonard Kuklinski. He became known as one of the most brutal and sadistic serial killers there ever was.
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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
“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
To begin, Jeffrey Dahmer was born May 21, 1960 not too far from us in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. While Jeffrey was still young his dad worked a lot of time of time in his research center and his mom was a print machine educator. Caring for Jeffrey was very stressful on his Mother Joyce and every little thing Jeffery did seemed to irritate her. Eventually Jeffrey's dad Lionel decided to do what was right and him and Jeffrey moved to his mom's house in West Allis, however the split's in the marriage begun to demonstrate early. There were constant fights amongst Joyce and Lionel and Jeffrey acknowledged each of these fights. Just before Jeffrey turned 4 he was diagnosed with with a double hernia that he needed surgery on. He was scared by the surgery,
Serial killers can be profiled in many ways, but they do not always fit perfectly into one category. Most of the definitions and techniques used to profile these criminals are based on reoccurring patterns and characteristics in their killings. While society may view most of these people as troubled, there are classifications of some serial killers as being well adapted into society. Serial Killers can be characterized as organized or disorganized murders, as well as classified into four different types created by Ronald and Stephen Holmes; serial killers are typed as visionary, mission-oriented, hedonistic, or power-oriented. Albert Fish is a well-known serial killer who is a good representation of how serial killers do not always fall or stay in one box.