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Dennis Rader: The Worst Serial Killer

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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. …show more content…

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

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