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Dennis Rader: BTK: Bind, Torture, Kill

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Dennis Rader hid inside a Wichita neighborhood for thirty years, murdering ten people between 1974 and 1991, then went silent. The letters to the media, the taunting poems, the return to writing in 2004 that finally caught him. Compliance officer, church president, Cub Scout leader, killer. The floppy disk he asked police if it could be traced. The 175-year sentence in 2005. His daughter Kerri's decision to write about him. — a daily series with new episodes every day.

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  • September 8 · 13 min

    175 Years: The Sentence, the Floppy Disk, and Kerri's Reckoning

    Dennis Rader asked investigators directly whether a floppy disk could be traced. Then he sent one anyway. That single act of miscalculation ended thirty years of one of the most baffling serial killer investigations in American history — and delivered...

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  • September 7 · 12 min

    My Congregation, My Victims: The Double Life Dennis Rader Built

    Dennis Rader did not look like a monster. He looked like a neighbour. For more than thirty years, the man who called himself BTK — Bind, Torture, Kill — embedded himself in the routines of Wichita, Kansas, holding positions of authority and community...

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  • September 6 · 11 min

    The Floppy Disk That Caught BTK: Rader's Fatal Need for Recognition

    For thirteen years after his final murder in 1991, Dennis Rader disappeared into ordinary life — church president, compliance officer, Cub Scout leader, family man. Wichita had no credible suspect. The BTK case had gone cold. Then, in 2004, Rader...

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  • September 5 · 11 min

    Compliance Officer, Scout Leader, Killer: How BTK Finally Fell

    For thirty years, Dennis Rader lived two lives in the same Wichita neighborhood — and the distance between them was invisible to everyone around him. Compliance officer. Church council president. Cub Scout leader. And responsible for ten murders...

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  • September 4 · 11 min

    The Otero Murders: How BTK's First Kill Revealed Everything

    On a quiet Tuesday morning in January 1974, Dennis Rader broke into a Wichita home and killed Joseph Otero, his wife Julie, and two of their children. The crime scene told investigators everything — and nothing. Every victim had been bound. The killer...

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  • September 2 · 12 min

    The Ego That Never Slept: BTK's Double Life and Deadly Return

    Dennis Rader didn't hide. He led. For thirty years, the man behind the BTK murders held positions of authority in his Wichita community — compliance officer, church council president, Cub Scout troop leader — while concealing a secret life of...

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  • September 1 · 12 min

    Letters, Silence, and a Floppy Disk: The Ego That Unravelled BTK

    Dennis Rader didn't just kill. He performed. Between 1974 and 1991, he murdered ten people in and around Wichita, Kansas — and at every stage he made sure someone was watching. Letters to television stations. Notes hidden in library books. Poems...

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  • August 31 · 12 min

    175 Years: The Sentence, the Disk, and Kerri Rader's Truth

    For thirty years, Dennis Rader attended church, issued code violations, and led Cub Scout meetings — while secretly holding onto souvenirs from the ten murders he had committed across Wichita between 1974 and 1991. He had named himself BTK: Bind,...

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  • August 30 · 12 min

    The Floppy Disk Question: How BTK's Ego Ended Thirteen Years of Silence

    Dennis Rader evaded detection for three decades — but in the end, it wasn't superior police work that caught him. It was a question he asked himself. Before mailing a floppy disk to investigators in 2004, Rader asked whether it could be traced. Police...

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  • August 29 · 11 min

    Ten Murders, Thirty Years: Why BTK Couldn't Stay Silent

    Dennis Rader killed ten people in Wichita between 1974 and 1991 — and got away with it for thirty years. Not because he was invisible. Because he was hiding in plain sight, serving as a compliance officer, leading a church council, running a Cub Scout...

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  • August 28 · 11 min

    The Double Life: How BTK Lived Among His Victims for Thirty Years

    Dennis Rader didn't hide in the shadows. He knocked on your door, led Sunday worship, and organized the Cub Scout meetings. For thirty years, the man Wichita knew as a diligent compliance officer, church council president, and community volunteer was...

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  • August 28 · 12 min

    The Floppy Disk That Ended Thirty Years of Hiding

    For thirty years, Dennis Rader moved through a quiet Wichita neighborhood as a husband, father, church council president, Cub Scout leader, and city compliance officer. He was also BTK — Bind, Torture, Kill — the serial killer who murdered ten people...

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