He nearly loses control of the situation when he finds the father and son there as well. But Rader pulls out a gun. First, he binds the wrists and ankles of Joseph Otero, 38 a fellow former Air Force flight engineer. Rader does the same to the wife who he also gags. He strangles the father first, and then the mother. He takes Joseph Junior to his bedroom. He then sits and watches as the child slowly suffocates. He moves onto the real target of the family, the daughter of the Hispanic family, Josephine.
He takes the eleven year old down to the basement and hangs her from a pipe in the basement. That afternoon, the eldest child, Charlie Otero, comes home from school and finds his loved ones lifeless. The police investigate and find that right up to the point of death, none of the Otero family resisted as there are no defensive marks. How Rader might have persuaded his victims is answered by a survivor of his next attack.
Four months after the Otero massacre, Rader enters the house of brother and sister, Kevin and Kathryn Bright. When they return home at around 1pm, they find a man wearing a ski mask and pointing a gun at them. This is the story he used so effectively on the Otero family. The 21 year old sister is tied up first and then Kevin is tied and gagged in another room.
He shoots Kevin twice in the head. He goes back to Kathryn, strangles her to excite himself but she struggles so much that he stabs her eleven times in the stomach to stop her. The amount of blood surprises him. It takes her five hours to bleed out. Somehow, Kevin survives. He places it in a book in a library and rings a reporter with its name and location.
Bind them, torture them, kill them, B. By his third kill, Rader has developed a signature, attacking during the day, cutting telephone lines, and then executing his murderous MO according to his acronym. Ready to kill but frustrated, he wanders the streets and comes across a child returning home.
He first shows a photo of his own wife to the child asking if he knew who she was as if he was a private detective seeking information.
The boy shakes his head and continues home. Rader watches where the boy goes, follows, knocks on the door, and persuades the boy to allow him in. He enters the home of Shirley Vian, a mother of three in her mids.
Once in, he drops any pretence and pulls out a pistol. His story this time is that he has a sexual dysfunction and that tying her up is the only way he can achieve gratification. Shirley believes that if she complies, she will live.
She helps him confine her children, aged 4, 6 and 8 in the bathroom with toys and a blanket. Rader gives her a glass of water and tries to calm her. He then binds her wrists and ankles. She expects rape. Instead, he strangles her. The children can see what is happening through a gap in the door. Rader intends to do the same to them when the telephone rings. He has not had time to do his usual preparations He quickly exits.
On 8 December , Rader breaks form by one, breaking a window to enter, and two, by attacking during the night. He has focused in on her over the last few weeks, discovering her name, and following the jewellery store worker to her workplace.
Rader shares a cigarette with Nancy. He is currently serving this time in the El Dorado Correctional Facility and is not eligible for release before February 26, He is held in solitary confinement 23 hours a day, only being released one hour a day for yard exercise and is allowed three showers a week. Through good behavior, he has been allowed a few privileges such as access to television, radio, and magazines.
He is currently 76 years of age. Rader usually targeted women, though he did kill or attempt to kill men and children on a few occasions.
He would wander through Wichita until he found a potential victim and enter their homes through home invasions. The kills were highly premeditated, as he would stalk them beforehand to know when they would come home and who lived with them, bring various items with him to use for the kill and the break-in, like duct tape, rope, and a screwdriver which he would put in a briefcase or a bowling bag , cut off the phone lines to prevent the victims calling for help, etc.
He did not, however, make a habit of bringing a "hit kit" until after his first few murders, initially using objects from the house. He also wore what he referred to as "hit clothes" to the murders and later dispose of them. Rader would use a. On two occasions, he also masturbated on the victims' bodies. The victims were typically tied up, sometimes using items from their houses, and killed by strangulation, either manual or with a ligature, or suffocation with a plastic bag.
When he strangled his victims, he would do it repeatedly as a form of torture and become sexually aroused from watching them struggle. In the case of his fifth victim, Kathryn Bright, he tried to strangle her but stabbed her with a knife instead when she struggled too much. He also took souvenirs, such as underwear from his female victims, driver's licenses, and personal possessions. He had a habit of nicknaming his home invasion plans in a manner similar to the way military operations are codenamed; the Kathryn Bright home invasion was called "Project Lights Out" and Vicki Wegerle's murder "Project Piano" because he liked listening to her playing.
A few weeks later, such a disk from BTK was sent to a local television station. The disk was quickly traced to Rader through a computer at his church. Within days, the serial killer who had terrorized the Wichita area beginning in the s was in custody. BTK had killed a total of 10 people before seemingly vanishing into thin air in He resurfaced two years before his arrest, communicating with the police and the media, after a news report speculated he was dead or in prison.
Rader, who turned 61 on March 9, is now serving 10 consecutive life sentences in a Kansas state prison after pleading guilty last June to 10 counts of first degree murder.
Rader was still smarting about the apparent betrayal in the hours after his Feb. How come you lied to me? The idea going into the interrogation, Landwehr says, was to get Rader talking and keep him talking. At first, Rader tried to play a cat-and-mouse game with detectives, talking in hypotheticals and referring to BTK in the third person. But once he realized the jig was up, he gave a full confession, recounting in chilling, unemotional detail the cold blooded torture and murder of 10 people, including a 9-year-old boy and an year-old girl.
Rader felt a strange bond to him—and to police in general—Landwehr says, even remarking at one point that they were fellow law enforcement officers. Rader was actually a code compliance officer in the Wichita suburb of Park City. In fact, he displayed such an infatuation with himself that he seemed to believe the police were his friends. Landwehr says the case taught him not to be shy about seeking outside help.
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