No one’s lives are picked apart as much as those of serial killers. The public’s fascination about what makes the minds of such sick criminals tick has been the basis for endless television shows, movies, and books, and they only leave people clamoring for more. In the case of the infamous BTK killer from Wichita, Kansas, his more than 30-year reign of terror only came to pass when he was finally arrested in 2005. And yet, all the information that the police thought they knew about who he was, was nothing compared to the actual truth.
Take a peek inside the mind of one of America’s most prolific serial killers, and how he became known to the world as the ‘BTK Killer.’
Dennis Lynn Rader
Born on March 9, 1945, Dennis Rader was the son of Dorothea and William Rader. The eldest of four brothers, his family grew up in Wichita, Kansas, where he and his brothers had a seemingly normal childhood. But what his family never knew were the incredibly barbaric thoughts Rader claims he had since he was a boy.
