Dennis Lynn Rader (born March 9, 1945), also known as BTK (an abbreviation he gave himself for "bind, torture, kill"), is an American serial killer who murdered at least 10 people in Wichita and Park City, Kansas, between 1974 and 1991. Although he occasionally killed or attempted to kill men and children, Rader typically targeted women.

2005年2月28日 · Now, members of Christ Lutheran Church must confront the possibility that 59-year-old Rader is something else: The BTK serial killer, blamed for 10 deaths in the Wichita area from 1974 to 1991. Rader has confessed to at least six of those killings, according to a source with direct knowledge of the investigation.

2024年7月12日 · Known as the BTK Killer, meaning "bind, torture, kill," Dennis Rader murdered at least 10 people in Wichita and Park City, Kansas between 1974 and 1991.

2005年10月18日 · About the only person to stand by Dennis Rader—known as the BTK Strangler—since his arrest in February for ten vicious murders has been his pastor, Michael Clark. The pastor of Christ Lutheran Church in northern Wichita, where Rader was president of the church council, visited Rader twice a week in Wichita’s Sedgwick County Jail while he ...

2023年8月24日 · Dennis Rader, the BTK serial killer whose self-given nickname stands for “Bind, Torture, Kill,” played a cat and mouse game with investigators and reporters for decades before he was caught. But Rader gradually faded from view after his 2005 arrest, as he served one life term for each of the 10 people he was convicted of killing.

2025年1月21日 · Two decades after the arrest of Dennis Rader, the infamous “BTK Killer” continues to intrigue true-crime fanatics. The 79-year-old and his crimes are the subject of the iHeartRadio podcast...

2005年2月28日 · On Friday, Rader, 59, was arrested and accused of being the long-sought BTK killer who tortured and killed 10 people in the Wichita area from 1974 to 1991. “I don’t know what to feel other than...

2019年1月15日 · Digging deeper, we find Dennis Rader, a Lutheran church deacon and president of the church council, living in suburban Wichita and 60 years old at the time of his arrest. Rader got his nom de guerre courtesy of himself, as he had suggested several possible names for him to be called in messages left for the police and the media.

2005年3月5日 · Authorities were led to the church by a computer diskette sent to a TV station; it apparently contained an electronic imprint from the church computer.

2019年8月19日 · Through a quick internet search, police learned Dennis Rader was the president of his church’s congregation. From security footage, police knew the BTK Killer had dropped off the latest batch...