
#REDIRECT BTK killer
The BTK killer is a serial killer who police believe killed ten people in the vicinity of Wichita, Kansas, United States, between 1974 and 1977, and up to three more between 1985 and 1991. The name, chosen by the killer, stands for Bind, Torture, and Kill, which was his ''modus operandi.'' Letters were written soon after the killings to police and to local news outlets, boasting of the crimes and knowledge of details. After a long hiatus, these letters resumed in 2004. On Friday, February 25, 2005, Dennis Lynn Rader (born March 9, 1945), a city inspector, Cub Scout leader, and church council president, was arrested near his home in Park City, Kansas, and accused of the BTK killings. At a press conference the next morning, Wichita Police Chief Norman Williams flatly asserted, "the bottom line is that BTK has been arrested." Rader's trial has not yet started. ==Victims== The BTK strangler's victims include four members of one family (Joseph Otero, his wife Julie Otero, and two of their five children: Joseph Otero II and Josephine Otero); Kathryn Bright, Shirley Vian, Nancy Fox, and Vicki Wegerle. Two later murders, Marine Hedge and Delores Davis, were only recently affirmatively linked to the series. Police officials say the BTK killer murdered at least ten people between 1974 and 1991 and may be responsible for others as well. Semen found on or near the bodies of his victims appears to be the critical evidence linking Rader to the crimes. Other cold cases in Kansas are being reopened [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6988048/] to see if Rader's DNA matches evidence collected at those crime scenes. ==Letters== The BTK killer made headlines again in March 2004 when the ''Wichita Eagle'' newspaper received a letter from someone using the pseudonym Bill Thomas Killman. The writer claimed that he murdered Vicki Wegerle on September 16, 1986, and enclosed photographs of the crime scene and a photocopy of her driver's license, which had been stolen at the time of the crime. In December 2004, Wichita police received another package purportedly from the BTK killer. This time, the package was found discarded in Wichita's Murdock Park. It reportedly contains the driver's license of Nancy Fox, which was noted as stolen at the scene of crime, and other items which remain undisclosed to the public. Most believe that the serial killer chose to resurface in 2004 as it was the thirtieth anniversary of his first killings in 1974. A number of experts hypothesized that he could have been incarcerated during this hiatus. In his letters, the BTK killer claimed to be born in 1939 and to have spent most of his youth living near railroads. He also claimed that his father was killed in World War II, and that he was raised by his mother thereafter. ==Suspect== Dennis Lynn Rader (born March 9, 1945) has been named by Wichita police as the prime suspect in the BTK killings. At the time of his arrest he was a resident of Park City, Kansas, a Wichita suburb seven miles north of the city. He was a city inspector, but was fired after having been charged with the criminal offences. Rader was born in 1945, the first of four brothers. He grew up in Wichita and graduated from Riverview School and later Wichita Heights High School. Rader attended Kansas Wesleyan College in 1965-66 and then spent four years from 1966 to 1970 in the United States Air Force, including time in Texas, Alabama, Japan, Okinawa, South Korea, Greece and Turkey. When he returned, he worked for a time in the meat department of a supermarket in Park City, Kansas and married Paula Dietz in 1971. He attended Butler County Community College (Kansas) in El Dorado, Kansas, earning an Associate's Degree in Electronics in 1973. He enrolled at Wichita State University in the fall of 1973. There he graduated in 1979 with a degree in Administration of Justice. From 1972 to 1973, Rader worked as an assembler for the Coleman Company, a camping gear firm, as had two of BTK's early victims. From November 1974 until being fired in July 1988, Rader worked at a Wichita-based office of ADT Security Services, a company which sold and installed alarm system for commercial businesses during Rader's years there. He held several positions, including installation manager. He moved to Park City in the 1970s. Rader was a census field operations supervisor for the Wichita area in 1989 for 3 months, prior to the 1990 federal census. Rader had worked since 1991 as a supervisor of the Compliance Department at Park City, a two-employee, multi-functional department in charge of "animal control, housing problems, zoning, general permit enforcement and a variety of nuisance cases." In this position, neighbors recalled him as sometimes overzealous and extremely strict. Rader served on both the Sedgwick County, Kansas's Board of Zoning Appeals and the Animal Control Advisory Board (appointed in 1996 and resigned in 1998). He was also a member of Christ Lutheran Church, a Evangelical Lutheran Church in America congregation of about 200 people. He had been a member for about 30 years and had been elected president of the Congregation Council. He was also a Cub Scout leader. Rader and his wife Paula (née Dietz) are the parents of two adult children, Brian and Kerri. Both were born after the BTK killings started. ===Arrest=== [[Image:Dennis Rader booking.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Rader's mugshot, taken during booking at the Sedgwick County Jail at around 8 p.m. on February 27, 2005.]] The BTK killer's last known communication with the media and police was a padded envelope which arrived at FOX affiliate KSAS-TV in Wichita on February 16. A purple, 1.44-megabyte Memorex computer disk was enclosed in the package, and police reportedly traced it to Rader after FBI analysis of deleted data on the disk. Also enclosed were a letter, a photocopy of the cover of a 1989 novel about a serial killer (''Rules of Prey'') and a gold-colored necklace with a large medallion. Once the computer disk was analyzed, police began surveillance of Rader. Sometime during this period, police obtained a warrant for the medical records of Rader's daughter, Kerri. A tissue sample seized at this time was tested for DNA and provided a familial match with semen at an earlier BTK crime scene. This, along with other evidence gathered prior to and during the surveillance, gave police probable cause for an arrest. Rader was stopped while driving near his home and taken into custody shortly after noon on February 25, 2005. Immediately, law enforcement officials—including a Wichita Police Bomb disposal truck, two SWAT trucks, and Federal Bureau of Investigation and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives agents—converged on Rader's residence near the intersection of I-135 and 61st Street North. Rader's home and vehicle were searched, and evidence—including computer equipment, a pair of black pantyhose retrieved from a shed, and a cylindrical container—was collected. The church he attended, his office at City Hall and the main branch of the Park City library were also searched that day. Officers were seen removing a computer from his City Hall office, but it is unclear if any evidence was found at these locations. ===Legal proceedings=== [[Image:DennisRaderArraignment.jpg|200px|thumb|Pool video released March 1, 2005 of Rader's arraignment]] Kansas reinstated the death penalty in 1994. The last known BTK killing was in 1991, making all known BTK murders ineligible for the death penalty. Even if later murders are linked to the BTK killer, it is unclear at this time whether the death penalty would come into play, as the Kansas Supreme Court declared the state's capital punishment law unconstitutional on December 17, 2004. The Sunday after his arrest, Associated Press [http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=536753 reports] cited an anonymous source that Rader had confessed to other killings in addition to the ones with which he was already connected. Sedgwick County District Attorney Nola Foulston called these reports "patently false." [http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/11009169.htm] On March 5, news sources claimed to have verified by multiple sources that Rader had confessed to the ten murders he is charged with, but no additional ones. [http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/11058212.htm] On March 1, Rader was formally charged with ten counts of first degree murder (Associated Press via the ''Wichita Eagle'' [http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/11016083.htm]). He was arraigned via videoconference from jail. He was represented by public defender. Bail was continued at $10 million. On May 3, District Court Judge Gregory Waller entered not guilty pleas to the ten charges on Rader's behalf. The initial trial date was set to June 27, but it is typical for cases like this to be delayed multiple times. District Attorney Nola Foulston said she hoped it would start in the fall but that it might be as late as 2006. [http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/11552588.htm] ===Some of the evidence in the case=== Physical and circumstancial evidence links Rader to the BTK killings: * DNA analysis of BTK's semen and material taken from underneath the fingernails of victim Vicki Wegerle match the DNA profile of Dennis Rader. * Rader's grammar and writing style matches letters and poems received from BTK. * Rader was reportedly seen circulating frequently in the Home Depot parking lot near a BTK package drop site in early 2005. * ADT Security was located a few blocks from a payphone that the killer used to report a murder in 1977. * Rader had attended Wichita State University in the 1970s. The BTK killer used a photocopier on campus to copy one of his letters. A survivor of the attack on Bright reported that the killer had asked him if he had seen him at the university. A poem in one of the killer's letters was similar to a folk song taught by a professor on that campus in that time period. * Rader lived on the same street as Marine Hedge, just houses away. The BTK killer's other victims were in and around central Wichita. * The Coleman Company was located a few blocks from a payphone that the killer used to report a murder, and two of the victims (Julie Otero and Kathryn Bright) worked at Coleman during the same period that Rader worked there. * Rader and Joseph Otero, one of the first victims, both worked as Air Force mechanics. Critics believe that Rader might have been identified years earlier had more of these links been followed and analyzed. Preliminary news reports indicate that physical evidence, probably including DNA and trophies such as driver's licenses, will form the basis of the prosecution. ==Notes== Twiddy, David. "BTK suspect's career in security probed." Associated Press. February 28, 2005. [http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/special_packages/lewis_clark/11008720.htm] Williams, Sarah T. "Camp novel crops up in the BTK case." ''Minneapolis Star-Tribune''. March 3, 2005. [http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/5270446.html] == External links == *[http://www.freewebs.com/thebtksite The BTK Site - BTK Strangler Serial Killer & Dennis Rader] *[http://btk-profiles.blogspot.com/ BTK Wichita Serial Killer Blog] *[http://flickr.com/photos/13494015@N00/ BTK Photo Album] *[http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/unsolved/btk/index_1.html Bind Torture Kill Strangler – The Crime Library] *[http://www.serial-killer.org/serialkiller_news/RADER_dennis_l.php BTK Strangler News Timeline] * Tom Voigt. [http://www.catchbtk.com CatchBTK.com]. Retrieved December 16, 2004. *[http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=332540&page=1 Authorities Examining Suspected 'BTK' Serial Killer Package] (December 15 2004). ''ABC News''. *Wilhelm, Kim (December 15, 2004). [http://www.kbsd6.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=KBSD/MGArticle/BSD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031779685709 WSU crime expert says if authentic, latest BTK package is significant]. ''KWCH 12 Eyewitness News''. * [http://members.fortunecity.com/ghostiesannex/btkstrangler.html The B.T.K. Strangler] fact sheet. Retrieved December 16, 2004. *[http://p216.ezboard.com/bcrimeandjustice13552 Crime & Justice] *ACCJ. [http://btk-strangler.info BTK Strangler] *[http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/special_packages/btk/ Coverage of Rader's capture] and related stories from the ''Wichita Eagle'' *[http://www.ksn.com/news/btk.html Collection of KSN articles and videos on BTK], including a brief clip of 2001 footage of Rader interviewed by KSN in his capacity as an animal control officer. *[http://www.sedgwickcounty.org/da/Dennis_Rader/index.html Sedgwick County] 18th Judicial District collection of legal documents related to the Rader case Serial killers
== Naming issue == I have an issue (annoyance) with the use of the name "BTK killer." 1. Since BTK stands for Bind Torture Kill, you're saying "Bind Torture Kill Killer." It's the same issue as "PIN number."
2. On that note, since BTK was the name of the murderer himself, BTK Killer sounds like a person who killed BTK :I've been thinking that myself. Around Wichita, if he's called "the BTK" ''anything'', it's usually "The BTK Strangler." User:Mr. Billion 04:26, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC) :Interesting point I hadn't considered. "BTK Strangler" was one of the names he proposed for himself in a letter to the TV news back in the 70s, and it stuck. --User:Dhartung | User talk:Dhartung 06:28, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC) ::A google shows 220K hits for ''BTK serial killer'', 190K for ''BTK killer'', and just 22K for ''BTK strangler''. The phrase, flawed like ''PIN number'', is the one used by the news media. I don't think there's a great need to change it at this point. --User:Dhartung | User talk:Dhartung 07:49, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC) :::I found the term for the acronym redundancy. It's called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAS_syndrome RAS Syndrome]. ::yeah, in Wichita we just call him "BTK" ::User:Voltagedrop 02:46, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC) ==Middle name "Lynn" verified== [http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/11000926.htm AP wire story from K.C. Star] User:Googuse 07:01, Mar 2, 2005 (UTC) ==Arrested== How was he captured? == Should we use breaking news stories for reference material? == I'm not convinced that we should use breaking news stories as a source for material in Wikipedia. This is due to the significant degree of inaccuracy and speculation that occurs in "up to the second" news releases from organizations with a vested interest in increasing readership over immediate accuracy. Because of this, I'm not convinced that we should be labeling a suspect so vigorously ... particularly posting his picture here. We merely aid and abet the destruction of his life if he is indeed not the BTK killer, which we must assume before evidence sufficient to support the accusation "beyond a reasonable doubt" is available. I might sound like a pre-internet fuddy-duddy for not wanting to have "up to the second" information here, but I'm more concerned about the place of Wikipedia as a source than as a mirror. User:Ceyockey 19:22, 2005 Feb 27 (UTC) : Well, your instincts are good, but I hardly think Wikipedia can do more harm to his life in the (apparently unlikely) event he turns out to be the next Richard Jewell. He's literally been identified in newspapers on the other side of the world. Wikipedia doesn't have a problem with news stories, ''per se'', that can't be solved as they are proven inaccurate and corrected -- the example here being the question of his daughter's role, which is still not 100% clear. We do excel, after all, at correcting ourselves. What is important to control the process is to maintain clarity and NPOV throughout. For instance, the page was moved to Dennis Rader&redirect=no, which was a mistake. But having him identified as a man arrested and believed by the police to be the suspect is nothing that is Wikipedia's fault. --User:Dhartung | User talk:Dhartung 23:39, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC) I really think some of the editors need to take a break here and stop adding every single tiny bit of information that comes down the line. Do we really need to know the specifics breakdown of when the daughter's DNA was alleged obtained, and that it was supposedly gotten twice? The more details you add the more you get wrong, like the original story that the daughter voluntarily gave DNA. It's an encyclopedia entry, give the important facts and leave the trivia out, or at least wait long enough until you know that these bits are really honestly accurate. And if you absolutely feel like you must cram new information in here, consider paragraph breaks. User:DreamGuy 18:17, Mar 3, 2005 (UTC) :Just a suggestion. If you have a problem with the article, the best way to fix it is to make it better yourself. If you have a suggestion in Talk, try using more honey than vinegar. Breaking news can be done in Wikipedia (arguably, Wikinews is a more appropriate place, but a. that project remains adolescent and b. try stopping it here) -- a most excellent example is 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, which over the course of a few days evolved from a very rough collection of trivia to one of Wikipedia's best articles. :The main issue with some of the problem edits you're getting at isn't that the facts are put in and changed later -- that's just Wikipedia in a microcosm -- but that sometimes they aren't done in the most encyclopedic manner. That doesn't mean everything has to have a "Wire services reported ..." disclaimer, but the hinkier statements of fact should have been better qualified and sourced. An article such as this one, though, probably attracts a lot of inexperienced editors. Better just to fix their faults and improve the article; good work begets more. --User:Dhartung | User talk:Dhartung 01:35, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC) == doubts == why are you reverting doubts section. the man is not convicted yet, and he is portrayed as if he was. [unsigned user] :Why? Because the article does not in any way protray him as convicted, it says he is the main suspect and why, which is true. Your additions were highly unencyclopedic and violate NPOV rules with the "bloodthirsty" comment. User:DreamGuy 22:24, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC) :And your recent revert back to your bad version claimed the other version is "libelous" -- that's is complete nonsense. Please learn about the libel laws before you try to talk about them. User:DreamGuy 22:30, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC) :please learn about the presumption of innocence before you try to execute the poor man and keep your lynching drive under control. as for the libel, it is hardly a nonsense: putting a photo of a mere suspect on the page of some mass murderer tantamounts to saying that the two persons are the same. it certainly gives such an impression, and THAT is also libel. How would you feel if your photo was posted here? Yet he is AS INNOCENT AS YOU (or as guilty as you are), until proven by court otherwise. Who is going to pay damages for libel when he gets cleared? BTK has not sexually attacked his victims - so the DNA and disk might have been planted, and the alledged confession - denied by public attorney - also does not imply guilt (have you ever heard of false confessions????). from the dictionary: libel: a : a written or oral defamatory statement or representation that conveys an unjustly unfavorable impression b (1) : a statement or representation published without just cause and tending to expose another to public contempt (2) : defamation of a person by written or representational means (3) : the publication of blasphemous, treasonable, seditious, or obscene writings or pictures (4) : the act, tort, or crime of publishing such a libel :Hi, please sign your posts with four of these symbols in a row: ~ : :As far as your comments above go, newspapers around the world have lawyers who understand libel as part of their job, and none of them have a problem with printing the facts that he was arrested, etc., so it's pretty bizarre for you to come along and try to lecture us. Please give these arguments a rest, because they are horribly misinformed on the actual issues involved. User:DreamGuy 15:11, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC) You know, he ''has'' confessed to those ten murders of which he is suspected. I don't know what all the brouhaha is about. There's the confession, the incriminating evidence from the disk, the DNA samples, and the positive identification from Steven Relford. There's little question about it, particularly if Rader himself (judging from his own admission) is going to plead guilty in the trial. User:Mr. Billion 20:57, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC) : Sorry, although I agree with your basic point, it is only accurate to say ''news reports claim he has confessed''; the authorities have so far refused to confirm that rumor. We're probably going to be seeing people overreact in both directions; our job is to sort them out and make the competing claims encyclopedic. --User:Dhartung | User talk:Dhartung 03:55, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC) == It is a floppy disk == On the front cover of the Wichita Eagle today, they showed four items (photos) from the package sent to KSAS-TV. It was a purple floppy disk, not a CDROM. :Interestingly, it seems to be that Microsoft serial numbers placed on the disk were used to trace the operating system to the church of which he was president. Gotta love those serial numbers....unless you're a serial killer.... - User:Nunh-huh 23:14, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC) == Suspects Full Name == The article refers to both Dennis Lynn Rader and Dennis Lucas Rader. The only google hit for "Dennis Lucas Rader" is the Wikipedia entry, but there are only two hits for "Dennis Lynn Rader". I suggest using either using just the middle initial (which, according to google, is common), or omitting the middle name altogether. User:Epithumia 17:39, 2005 Mar 1 (UTC) :Until we have a source which we could cite for his middle name, that seems wise. - User:Nunh-huh 23:12, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC) :I agree. User:Mr. Billion 03:55, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC) :See AP source at top for name "Lynn" - User:Nunh-huh 07:03, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC) == On the news articles == Try to avoid Yahoo News articles, since those tend to disappear quickly from their original addresses. At least, that's been my experience. User:Mr. Billion 05:47, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC) == Redirect == Should we be re-directing Dennis Rader to the BTK entry before he's convicted? (and no, I don't think he's innocent) User:Voltagedrop 02:46, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC) :This is the only article on which he's been discussed... where else would it redirect to? If you are asking if that means we are basically saying he's the killer, not really, because victims of killers often have their names redirect to the killer's article too. It's a necessary redirect for people looking for info and this is a reasonable way of handling it. User:DreamGuy 05:29, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC) that's actually a pretty good answer. User:Voltagedrop 16:38, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
#REDIRECT BTK killer
See other meanings of words starting from letter:
Words begining with BTK_killer:
BTK_Killer
BTK_killer
BTK_killer
Btk_killer
BTK Killer
#REDIRECT BTK killer
BTK killer
The BTK killer is a serial killer who police believe killed ten people in the vicinity of Wichita, Kansas, United States, between 1974 and 1977, and up to three more between 1985 and 1991. The name, chosen by the killer, stands for Bind, Torture, and Kill, which was his ''modus operandi.'' Letters were written soon after the killings to police and to local news outlets, boasting of the crimes and knowledge of details. After a long hiatus, these letters resumed in 2004. On Friday, February 25, 2005, Dennis Lynn Rader (born March 9, 1945), a city inspector, Cub Scout leader, and church council president, was arrested near his home in Park City, Kansas, and accused of the BTK killings. At a press conference the next morning, Wichita Police Chief Norman Williams flatly asserted, "the bottom line is that BTK has been arrested." Rader's trial has not yet started. ==Victims== The BTK strangler's victims include four members of one family (Joseph Otero, his wife Julie Otero, and two of their five children: Joseph Otero II and Josephine Otero); Kathryn Bright, Shirley Vian, Nancy Fox, and Vicki Wegerle. Two later murders, Marine Hedge and Delores Davis, were only recently affirmatively linked to the series. Police officials say the BTK killer murdered at least ten people between 1974 and 1991 and may be responsible for others as well. Semen found on or near the bodies of his victims appears to be the critical evidence linking Rader to the crimes. Other cold cases in Kansas are being reopened [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6988048/] to see if Rader's DNA matches evidence collected at those crime scenes. ==Letters== The BTK killer made headlines again in March 2004 when the ''Wichita Eagle'' newspaper received a letter from someone using the pseudonym Bill Thomas Killman. The writer claimed that he murdered Vicki Wegerle on September 16, 1986, and enclosed photographs of the crime scene and a photocopy of her driver's license, which had been stolen at the time of the crime. In December 2004, Wichita police received another package purportedly from the BTK killer. This time, the package was found discarded in Wichita's Murdock Park. It reportedly contains the driver's license of Nancy Fox, which was noted as stolen at the scene of crime, and other items which remain undisclosed to the public. Most believe that the serial killer chose to resurface in 2004 as it was the thirtieth anniversary of his first killings in 1974. A number of experts hypothesized that he could have been incarcerated during this hiatus. In his letters, the BTK killer claimed to be born in 1939 and to have spent most of his youth living near railroads. He also claimed that his father was killed in World War II, and that he was raised by his mother thereafter. ==Suspect== Dennis Lynn Rader (born March 9, 1945) has been named by Wichita police as the prime suspect in the BTK killings. At the time of his arrest he was a resident of Park City, Kansas, a Wichita suburb seven miles north of the city. He was a city inspector, but was fired after having been charged with the criminal offences. Rader was born in 1945, the first of four brothers. He grew up in Wichita and graduated from Riverview School and later Wichita Heights High School. Rader attended Kansas Wesleyan College in 1965-66 and then spent four years from 1966 to 1970 in the United States Air Force, including time in Texas, Alabama, Japan, Okinawa, South Korea, Greece and Turkey. When he returned, he worked for a time in the meat department of a supermarket in Park City, Kansas and married Paula Dietz in 1971. He attended Butler County Community College (Kansas) in El Dorado, Kansas, earning an Associate's Degree in Electronics in 1973. He enrolled at Wichita State University in the fall of 1973. There he graduated in 1979 with a degree in Administration of Justice. From 1972 to 1973, Rader worked as an assembler for the Coleman Company, a camping gear firm, as had two of BTK's early victims. From November 1974 until being fired in July 1988, Rader worked at a Wichita-based office of ADT Security Services, a company which sold and installed alarm system for commercial businesses during Rader's years there. He held several positions, including installation manager. He moved to Park City in the 1970s. Rader was a census field operations supervisor for the Wichita area in 1989 for 3 months, prior to the 1990 federal census. Rader had worked since 1991 as a supervisor of the Compliance Department at Park City, a two-employee, multi-functional department in charge of "animal control, housing problems, zoning, general permit enforcement and a variety of nuisance cases." In this position, neighbors recalled him as sometimes overzealous and extremely strict. Rader served on both the Sedgwick County, Kansas's Board of Zoning Appeals and the Animal Control Advisory Board (appointed in 1996 and resigned in 1998). He was also a member of Christ Lutheran Church, a Evangelical Lutheran Church in America congregation of about 200 people. He had been a member for about 30 years and had been elected president of the Congregation Council. He was also a Cub Scout leader. Rader and his wife Paula (née Dietz) are the parents of two adult children, Brian and Kerri. Both were born after the BTK killings started. ===Arrest=== [[Image:Dennis Rader booking.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Rader's mugshot, taken during booking at the Sedgwick County Jail at around 8 p.m. on February 27, 2005.]] The BTK killer's last known communication with the media and police was a padded envelope which arrived at FOX affiliate KSAS-TV in Wichita on February 16. A purple, 1.44-megabyte Memorex computer disk was enclosed in the package, and police reportedly traced it to Rader after FBI analysis of deleted data on the disk. Also enclosed were a letter, a photocopy of the cover of a 1989 novel about a serial killer (''Rules of Prey'') and a gold-colored necklace with a large medallion. Once the computer disk was analyzed, police began surveillance of Rader. Sometime during this period, police obtained a warrant for the medical records of Rader's daughter, Kerri. A tissue sample seized at this time was tested for DNA and provided a familial match with semen at an earlier BTK crime scene. This, along with other evidence gathered prior to and during the surveillance, gave police probable cause for an arrest. Rader was stopped while driving near his home and taken into custody shortly after noon on February 25, 2005. Immediately, law enforcement officials—including a Wichita Police Bomb disposal truck, two SWAT trucks, and Federal Bureau of Investigation and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives agents—converged on Rader's residence near the intersection of I-135 and 61st Street North. Rader's home and vehicle were searched, and evidence—including computer equipment, a pair of black pantyhose retrieved from a shed, and a cylindrical container—was collected. The church he attended, his office at City Hall and the main branch of the Park City library were also searched that day. Officers were seen removing a computer from his City Hall office, but it is unclear if any evidence was found at these locations. ===Legal proceedings=== [[Image:DennisRaderArraignment.jpg|200px|thumb|Pool video released March 1, 2005 of Rader's arraignment]] Kansas reinstated the death penalty in 1994. The last known BTK killing was in 1991, making all known BTK murders ineligible for the death penalty. Even if later murders are linked to the BTK killer, it is unclear at this time whether the death penalty would come into play, as the Kansas Supreme Court declared the state's capital punishment law unconstitutional on December 17, 2004. The Sunday after his arrest, Associated Press [http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=536753 reports] cited an anonymous source that Rader had confessed to other killings in addition to the ones with which he was already connected. Sedgwick County District Attorney Nola Foulston called these reports "patently false." [http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/11009169.htm] On March 5, news sources claimed to have verified by multiple sources that Rader had confessed to the ten murders he is charged with, but no additional ones. [http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/11058212.htm] On March 1, Rader was formally charged with ten counts of first degree murder (Associated Press via the ''Wichita Eagle'' [http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/11016083.htm]). He was arraigned via videoconference from jail. He was represented by public defender. Bail was continued at $10 million. On May 3, District Court Judge Gregory Waller entered not guilty pleas to the ten charges on Rader's behalf. The initial trial date was set to June 27, but it is typical for cases like this to be delayed multiple times. District Attorney Nola Foulston said she hoped it would start in the fall but that it might be as late as 2006. [http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/11552588.htm] ===Some of the evidence in the case=== Physical and circumstancial evidence links Rader to the BTK killings: * DNA analysis of BTK's semen and material taken from underneath the fingernails of victim Vicki Wegerle match the DNA profile of Dennis Rader. * Rader's grammar and writing style matches letters and poems received from BTK. * Rader was reportedly seen circulating frequently in the Home Depot parking lot near a BTK package drop site in early 2005. * ADT Security was located a few blocks from a payphone that the killer used to report a murder in 1977. * Rader had attended Wichita State University in the 1970s. The BTK killer used a photocopier on campus to copy one of his letters. A survivor of the attack on Bright reported that the killer had asked him if he had seen him at the university. A poem in one of the killer's letters was similar to a folk song taught by a professor on that campus in that time period. * Rader lived on the same street as Marine Hedge, just houses away. The BTK killer's other victims were in and around central Wichita. * The Coleman Company was located a few blocks from a payphone that the killer used to report a murder, and two of the victims (Julie Otero and Kathryn Bright) worked at Coleman during the same period that Rader worked there. * Rader and Joseph Otero, one of the first victims, both worked as Air Force mechanics. Critics believe that Rader might have been identified years earlier had more of these links been followed and analyzed. Preliminary news reports indicate that physical evidence, probably including DNA and trophies such as driver's licenses, will form the basis of the prosecution. ==Notes== Twiddy, David. "BTK suspect's career in security probed." Associated Press. February 28, 2005. [http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/special_packages/lewis_clark/11008720.htm] Williams, Sarah T. "Camp novel crops up in the BTK case." ''Minneapolis Star-Tribune''. March 3, 2005. [http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/5270446.html] == External links == *[http://www.freewebs.com/thebtksite The BTK Site - BTK Strangler Serial Killer & Dennis Rader] *[http://btk-profiles.blogspot.com/ BTK Wichita Serial Killer Blog] *[http://flickr.com/photos/13494015@N00/ BTK Photo Album] *[http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/unsolved/btk/index_1.html Bind Torture Kill Strangler – The Crime Library] *[http://www.serial-killer.org/serialkiller_news/RADER_dennis_l.php BTK Strangler News Timeline] * Tom Voigt. [http://www.catchbtk.com CatchBTK.com]. Retrieved December 16, 2004. *[http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=332540&page=1 Authorities Examining Suspected 'BTK' Serial Killer Package] (December 15 2004). ''ABC News''. *Wilhelm, Kim (December 15, 2004). [http://www.kbsd6.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=KBSD/MGArticle/BSD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031779685709 WSU crime expert says if authentic, latest BTK package is significant]. ''KWCH 12 Eyewitness News''. * [http://members.fortunecity.com/ghostiesannex/btkstrangler.html The B.T.K. Strangler] fact sheet. Retrieved December 16, 2004. *[http://p216.ezboard.com/bcrimeandjustice13552 Crime & Justice] *ACCJ. [http://btk-strangler.info BTK Strangler] *[http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/special_packages/btk/ Coverage of Rader's capture] and related stories from the ''Wichita Eagle'' *[http://www.ksn.com/news/btk.html Collection of KSN articles and videos on BTK], including a brief clip of 2001 footage of Rader interviewed by KSN in his capacity as an animal control officer. *[http://www.sedgwickcounty.org/da/Dennis_Rader/index.html Sedgwick County] 18th Judicial District collection of legal documents related to the Rader case Serial killers
BTK killer
== Naming issue == I have an issue (annoyance) with the use of the name "BTK killer." 1. Since BTK stands for Bind Torture Kill, you're saying "Bind Torture Kill Killer." It's the same issue as "PIN number."
2. On that note, since BTK was the name of the murderer himself, BTK Killer sounds like a person who killed BTK :I've been thinking that myself. Around Wichita, if he's called "the BTK" ''anything'', it's usually "The BTK Strangler." User:Mr. Billion 04:26, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC) :Interesting point I hadn't considered. "BTK Strangler" was one of the names he proposed for himself in a letter to the TV news back in the 70s, and it stuck. --User:Dhartung | User talk:Dhartung 06:28, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC) ::A google shows 220K hits for ''BTK serial killer'', 190K for ''BTK killer'', and just 22K for ''BTK strangler''. The phrase, flawed like ''PIN number'', is the one used by the news media. I don't think there's a great need to change it at this point. --User:Dhartung | User talk:Dhartung 07:49, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC) :::I found the term for the acronym redundancy. It's called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAS_syndrome RAS Syndrome]. ::yeah, in Wichita we just call him "BTK" ::User:Voltagedrop 02:46, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC) ==Middle name "Lynn" verified== [http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/11000926.htm AP wire story from K.C. Star] User:Googuse 07:01, Mar 2, 2005 (UTC) ==Arrested== How was he captured? == Should we use breaking news stories for reference material? == I'm not convinced that we should use breaking news stories as a source for material in Wikipedia. This is due to the significant degree of inaccuracy and speculation that occurs in "up to the second" news releases from organizations with a vested interest in increasing readership over immediate accuracy. Because of this, I'm not convinced that we should be labeling a suspect so vigorously ... particularly posting his picture here. We merely aid and abet the destruction of his life if he is indeed not the BTK killer, which we must assume before evidence sufficient to support the accusation "beyond a reasonable doubt" is available. I might sound like a pre-internet fuddy-duddy for not wanting to have "up to the second" information here, but I'm more concerned about the place of Wikipedia as a source than as a mirror. User:Ceyockey 19:22, 2005 Feb 27 (UTC) : Well, your instincts are good, but I hardly think Wikipedia can do more harm to his life in the (apparently unlikely) event he turns out to be the next Richard Jewell. He's literally been identified in newspapers on the other side of the world. Wikipedia doesn't have a problem with news stories, ''per se'', that can't be solved as they are proven inaccurate and corrected -- the example here being the question of his daughter's role, which is still not 100% clear. We do excel, after all, at correcting ourselves. What is important to control the process is to maintain clarity and NPOV throughout. For instance, the page was moved to Dennis Rader&redirect=no, which was a mistake. But having him identified as a man arrested and believed by the police to be the suspect is nothing that is Wikipedia's fault. --User:Dhartung | User talk:Dhartung 23:39, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC) I really think some of the editors need to take a break here and stop adding every single tiny bit of information that comes down the line. Do we really need to know the specifics breakdown of when the daughter's DNA was alleged obtained, and that it was supposedly gotten twice? The more details you add the more you get wrong, like the original story that the daughter voluntarily gave DNA. It's an encyclopedia entry, give the important facts and leave the trivia out, or at least wait long enough until you know that these bits are really honestly accurate. And if you absolutely feel like you must cram new information in here, consider paragraph breaks. User:DreamGuy 18:17, Mar 3, 2005 (UTC) :Just a suggestion. If you have a problem with the article, the best way to fix it is to make it better yourself. If you have a suggestion in Talk, try using more honey than vinegar. Breaking news can be done in Wikipedia (arguably, Wikinews is a more appropriate place, but a. that project remains adolescent and b. try stopping it here) -- a most excellent example is 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, which over the course of a few days evolved from a very rough collection of trivia to one of Wikipedia's best articles. :The main issue with some of the problem edits you're getting at isn't that the facts are put in and changed later -- that's just Wikipedia in a microcosm -- but that sometimes they aren't done in the most encyclopedic manner. That doesn't mean everything has to have a "Wire services reported ..." disclaimer, but the hinkier statements of fact should have been better qualified and sourced. An article such as this one, though, probably attracts a lot of inexperienced editors. Better just to fix their faults and improve the article; good work begets more. --User:Dhartung | User talk:Dhartung 01:35, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC) == doubts == why are you reverting doubts section. the man is not convicted yet, and he is portrayed as if he was. [unsigned user] :Why? Because the article does not in any way protray him as convicted, it says he is the main suspect and why, which is true. Your additions were highly unencyclopedic and violate NPOV rules with the "bloodthirsty" comment. User:DreamGuy 22:24, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC) :And your recent revert back to your bad version claimed the other version is "libelous" -- that's is complete nonsense. Please learn about the libel laws before you try to talk about them. User:DreamGuy 22:30, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC) :please learn about the presumption of innocence before you try to execute the poor man and keep your lynching drive under control. as for the libel, it is hardly a nonsense: putting a photo of a mere suspect on the page of some mass murderer tantamounts to saying that the two persons are the same. it certainly gives such an impression, and THAT is also libel. How would you feel if your photo was posted here? Yet he is AS INNOCENT AS YOU (or as guilty as you are), until proven by court otherwise. Who is going to pay damages for libel when he gets cleared? BTK has not sexually attacked his victims - so the DNA and disk might have been planted, and the alledged confession - denied by public attorney - also does not imply guilt (have you ever heard of false confessions????). from the dictionary: libel: a : a written or oral defamatory statement or representation that conveys an unjustly unfavorable impression b (1) : a statement or representation published without just cause and tending to expose another to public contempt (2) : defamation of a person by written or representational means (3) : the publication of blasphemous, treasonable, seditious, or obscene writings or pictures (4) : the act, tort, or crime of publishing such a libel :Hi, please sign your posts with four of these symbols in a row: ~ : :As far as your comments above go, newspapers around the world have lawyers who understand libel as part of their job, and none of them have a problem with printing the facts that he was arrested, etc., so it's pretty bizarre for you to come along and try to lecture us. Please give these arguments a rest, because they are horribly misinformed on the actual issues involved. User:DreamGuy 15:11, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC) You know, he ''has'' confessed to those ten murders of which he is suspected. I don't know what all the brouhaha is about. There's the confession, the incriminating evidence from the disk, the DNA samples, and the positive identification from Steven Relford. There's little question about it, particularly if Rader himself (judging from his own admission) is going to plead guilty in the trial. User:Mr. Billion 20:57, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC) : Sorry, although I agree with your basic point, it is only accurate to say ''news reports claim he has confessed''; the authorities have so far refused to confirm that rumor. We're probably going to be seeing people overreact in both directions; our job is to sort them out and make the competing claims encyclopedic. --User:Dhartung | User talk:Dhartung 03:55, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC) == It is a floppy disk == On the front cover of the Wichita Eagle today, they showed four items (photos) from the package sent to KSAS-TV. It was a purple floppy disk, not a CDROM. :Interestingly, it seems to be that Microsoft serial numbers placed on the disk were used to trace the operating system to the church of which he was president. Gotta love those serial numbers....unless you're a serial killer.... - User:Nunh-huh 23:14, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC) == Suspects Full Name == The article refers to both Dennis Lynn Rader and Dennis Lucas Rader. The only google hit for "Dennis Lucas Rader" is the Wikipedia entry, but there are only two hits for "Dennis Lynn Rader". I suggest using either using just the middle initial (which, according to google, is common), or omitting the middle name altogether. User:Epithumia 17:39, 2005 Mar 1 (UTC) :Until we have a source which we could cite for his middle name, that seems wise. - User:Nunh-huh 23:12, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC) :I agree. User:Mr. Billion 03:55, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC) :See AP source at top for name "Lynn" - User:Nunh-huh 07:03, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC) == On the news articles == Try to avoid Yahoo News articles, since those tend to disappear quickly from their original addresses. At least, that's been my experience. User:Mr. Billion 05:47, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC) == Redirect == Should we be re-directing Dennis Rader to the BTK entry before he's convicted? (and no, I don't think he's innocent) User:Voltagedrop 02:46, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC) :This is the only article on which he's been discussed... where else would it redirect to? If you are asking if that means we are basically saying he's the killer, not really, because victims of killers often have their names redirect to the killer's article too. It's a necessary redirect for people looking for info and this is a reasonable way of handling it. User:DreamGuy 05:29, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC) that's actually a pretty good answer. User:Voltagedrop 16:38, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Btk killer
#REDIRECT BTK killer
See other meanings of words starting from letter:
B
BA | BC | BD | BE | BF | BG | BH | BI | BJ | BK | BL | BM | BN | BO | BP | BR | BS | BT | BU | BW | BX | BY | BZ |Words begining with BTK_killer:
BTK_Killer
BTK_killer
BTK_killer
Btk_killer
Sponsored links: praca.
These materials are based on Wikipedia and licensed under the GNU FDL
Untitled Document
| Linki sponsorowane | Tani hosting | Pozycjonowanie |
YouTube.com videos better site than Turbo Tax 2007
