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    Dennis Rader was born on March 9th 1945 in Pittsburgh Kansas. He is the oldest son of William Elvin Rader and Dorothea Mae Cook. Dennis graduated from Wichita Heights High School. In 1965 though 1966 Dennis attended Kansas Wesleyan University after that he has spend four years in Air Force. When he returned from Air Force he started working in meat department in supermarket. When Dennis was a child he would tortured animals. Dennis Rader first murder began in January 15 , 1974 . He killed

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    Psychopath Dennis Rader, alias the BTK Killer, killed a total of 10 people, including 2 children, over a fifteen year period ranging from 1974 to 1991. Rader was apprehended and arrested in 2005 because of newer forensic technology available to analyze DNA and computer forensics. Ultimately, it was Rader’s own daughter who turned police informant, and give them a DNA sample from her cheek saliva (Hansen, 2006). Young & Ortmeier (2011) describe how DNA Identification Act of 1994 led to the development

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    BTK Story

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    BTK: The Story Abstract Dennis Lynn Rader was born to Dorothea Mae and William Elvin Rader on March 9, 1945. Otero was found murdered in his home alongside three of his family members. Joseph Otero 's wife was beaten, choked and bound before Rader killed her. Rader 's next "BTK" victim was a 21-year-old named Kathryn Bright.

Similarly to Rader 's first set of victims, she had been bound with a cord, somewhat clothed and had been choked and stabbed numerous times.

Rader 's last two victims

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    It sends signals that it 's filled to capacity, and when sentences stubbornly continue to be scanned, it tranquilizes. Is Sedgwick moving toward the painful end of the spectrum when she writes of Melanie Klein, "Engaging closely with Klein often feels like getting stoned, in the sense that the unchecked proliferation of the reader 's sense of recognition, endlessly recursive

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    Murderers usually don’t leave behind clues to be caught with. This is the reason why so many cases go unsolved. However, Dennis Rader, more widely known as B.T.K. (Bind Torture Kill), was an oddity amongst other serial killers. He almost desperately wanted his crimes to be noticed in the media and be looked at by police. He was wildly gruesome in his various murders, leaving behind many clues, but without any leads, the case couldn’t go any further. When media coverage and police investigation had

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    Although, he taunted the authorities the 31 years he avoided getting arrested using the alias BTK. Rader gave himself this name standing for, “Bind, Kill, Torture”. Dennis Rader did not want to get caught for the murders, but like most serial killers, he wanted the credit. In order to take credit, he sent many letters, poems, and clues to the authorities and media. On January 19, 1991, Rader killed and tortured Dolores Davis, his last victim. (foxnews.com Fast Facts: BTK Victims) He did not resurface

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    Dennis Rader is famously know as the BTK killer. “BTK” means bind, torture, kill, this was his signature for all of his killings. After many killings, Rader now sits behind prison bars, never to see the outside world again. The serial killer Dennis Rader used his own unique strategies to kill his numerous victims to fulfill his own sexual desires and fantasies. Dennis’s childhood was far from ordinary. He was born in Pittsburg, Kansas. He started school at Riverview Elementary , and eventually

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    The purpose of this essay project, is to summarize a serial killer, and identify three criminological concepts from the course, that I believe led the person to engage in criminal activity. The serial killer that I have selected for this essay project is , Dennis Rader, better known as the "BTK Killer". The concepts that can be related to why Rader committed this crimes are Hedonistic serial Killer, and Motivated by terror. Dennis Rader, or the "BTK Killer", first committed his murder in 1974 when

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    The Metaphorical Lesbian in Chopin’s The Awakening In “The Metaphorical Lesbian: Edna Pontellier in The Awakening” Elizabeth LeBlanc asserts that the character Edna Pontellier is an example of what Bonnie Zimmerman calls the “metaphorical lesbian.” It’s important to distinguish between Zimmerman’s concept of the “metaphorical lesbian” and lesbianism. The “metaphorical lesbian” does not have to act on lesbian feelings or even become conscious of herself as a lesbian. Instead, the “metaphorical

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    Dennis Rader, or the BTK Killer, was responsible for the murder of ten people between 1974 and 1991. He was known for writing letters to police after a murder that offered information that nobody knew. Eventually the murders and letters stopped, then in 2004 Rader sent another letter to police claiming responsibility for a murder that was not connected to him before. Thanks to advancements in DNA technology police were able to collect evidence from underneath the victim’s fingernails. Rader soon

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