BTK+Serial+Killer+Project+Outline


 * //__BTK Serial Killer Outline__//**


 * __Background Life__**
 * Born March 9, 1945
 * Parents William Elvin Rader and Dorothy Mae Rader
 * Four Brothers
 * Graduated top of class in High School
 * Attended Kansas Wesleyan Univ. (1965-1966)
 * Served U.S. Air Force (1966-1970)
 * Exhibit many symptoms of Macdonald Tried.


 * __Serial Killer Background__**
 * Dennis Rader was known as the "BTK" Killer
 * M.O.- "Bind, Torture, and Kill"
 * Killed 10 People between 1974-1991
 * Worst Killing: The Otero Family (Murdered all four members of the family in the same fashion)
 * Apprehended February 25, 2005


 * __Letters__**
 * One of Rader's fetishes was to send letters to the police for attention. He wanted to be nationally recognized and threatened to kill until he was. He usually left the notice in unusual areas like in a cereal box in the back of a car, and a book in a library.

__Example of Letter__ “I find the newspaper not writing about the poem on Vain not amusing. A little paragraph would have enough. I know it not the media fault. The Police Chief he keep things quiet, and doesn't let the public know there a psycho running around lose strangling mostly women, there 7 in the ground; who will be next? How many do I have to Kill before I get a name in the paper or some national attention”


 * __Apprehension__**
 * Apprehended in February 2005

In an attempt to send the police another threatening note, Rader sent a floppy disk to FOX, in which, Police found metadata on the Christ Lutheran Church with the name Dennis. They tracked him using metadata. This literally translates to data about data. For example, the creator of the file not anything about the actual file itself Death penalty is re-instated, yet Rader is ineligible for the penalty.


 * __Vital Evidence__**
 * Floppy disk sent to FOX from Rader
 * Cereal box found in back of a truck Rader used as a message
 * Semen found on Josephine Otero
 * Material found under fingernails of victim
 * Pay phone record Rader used in 1977