A Daughter’s Heartbreak

For his wife and two children, finding out that Rader was the BTK Killer was like a major stab to the heart. He may have actually killed people in real life, but he had also slaughtered his own family when they had no choice but to accept the truth of Rader’s double life. It was almost inconceivable for them to believe that it was him, given his past and how much of an amazing father he had been to his kids. When his daughter would finally speak up about it almost 10 years after he was caught, heartbreakingly she had written to her dad saying, “Should I tell you that I grew up adoring you, that you were the sunshine of my life…” but now that was ruined forever. Her mom divorced her father the same year he got arrested and his entire family had to undergo therapy. Now they live with the stigma of being the BTK Killer’s family, but thankfully, after so many years, they were able to find ways to survive that.

A Treasure Trove Of Secrets

At the time of his capture, detectives would end up finding Rader’s stash of treasures from his killings. And not only that, they would find photographs of Rader himself, dressed up like how he had his victims’ bound and gagged, and at times actually wearing the lingerie that he took with him, too. Apparently, his deep-seated fantasies were truly something that needed to be understood in a way, something that had been there for many years. But at the forefront was the fact that he was obviously a very troubled, very sick, and very malicious man. And he had shaken an entire community for 3 decades.