Due to the graphic nature of this killers crimes listener discretion is advised. This episode includes discussions of murder and assault that some people may find offensive. We advise extreme caution for children under thirteen one night in early January nineteen. Ninety one sixty two year old, Dolores Davis, noticed one of her beloved cats. Pine at the wheel as though there was something on the other side of the glass sit wanted to catch. She peered out the window, but saw nothing then another one of her cats caught her eye. He was jumpy on edge like he knew something she didn't a shiver scooter down her spine, Something is not right. Dolores called her son Jeff. She told him might be someone lurking outside outsider home Jeff assured her nothing was amiss per machination was getting the better of her. He calmed her fears and said good night. Of course,

F, had been mistaken. Some one was outside Dolores Window, hiding in the darkness just out of sight. And a few days later. On January, eighteenth nineteen. Ninety one Dolores Davis, became the final victim. Of the serial killer, known as Bt K, hi I'm Gregg pulsing, and this is serial killers, today we're going to continue our deep dive into the life of Dennis Writer, who, nicknamed himself Bt K, bind torture, kill I'm here with my co host Vanessa Richardson high everyone. Many of you have been ass, seeing as how you can support the podcast if you enjoy the show one of the best ways to help us, is to leave a five star review wherever you listen to podcast while you there. You can listen to previous episodes of serial killers as well as park ass, other podcast.

A new episode comes out every Monday. You can also find a sun, Facebook and Instagram at PAR cast and on Twitter, at Parkhurst Network or in our website, Parkhurst dot com. Dennis raider began his serial killer career in nineteen. Seventy four, when he slaughter four members of the Otero family, including two young children. She proceeded to kill six additional victims in Wichita Kansas over the next twenty years, murdering his final victim in January, one thousand nine hundred and ninety one raider tortured and strangled helpless women and children chief. The sexual satisfaction that he fantasized about blue murder. Wasn't all he craved raider wanted to be a notorious as the famous serial killers he spent his childhood and adult life. About an raiders desire for fame was ultimately his undoing,

Reader spent most of his youth fantasizing about tying up and torturing pretty girls by nineteen. Seventy four, the twenty eight year old, was ready to act. He targeted the vote, pro family after spotting, the mother, Julie and a car on Murdoch Avenue throughout his killing career, the random This of his murders was one of the reasons police had so much difficulty connecting raider. Who is various crime scenes in the early morning of January, fifteenth nineteen? Seventy four raider crept to the terrorists, suburban home in Wichita Kansas. He tied up, tortured, suffocated and strangle Joe and Julio Terror, as well as their two children. Nine year old Joey and eleven year old Josie for Raider murder felt like pure heroin. He became obsessed friend

Indeed, even he needed to kill again. This is going to take over on the psychology here and throughout the episode. Please note: Vanessa is not a licence psychologist your psychiatrist, but she has done a lot of research for the show thanks Gregg Psychologist Joanie, each Einstein explains that serial killers are somewhat similar to attics in the way that they give in to a compulsion in order to improve how they feel Johnston notes that criminals can become as addicted to their particular. Form of criminal activity, as is a heroine act to smack or an alcoholic to alcohol having the same difficulty resisting a crime as a substance abuse or does resisting his or her cravings from the moment, raider. First tasted blood, nothing else could truly satisfier. Just a few weeks after killing, though terrorists in January of nineteen, seventy four raider began hunting women for

next kill or ass. He called it his next project, but even ass. He silently stopped the women of Wichita. He kept up appearances as adults husband and diligence student at the University of Wichita greater. Was very good at compartmentalizing, his different persona us and like many of the cycle paths, we d thus on the show felt no guilt about line to his family. In fact, raider spotted his next victim Catherine bright. While he was taking his wife Paula out for lunch in early spring at night, in seventy four Catherine bright was a twenty one year old student at the University of Kansas. She was very close to her for siblings and extended family.

And though she lived alone at her suburban house on three thousand one hundred and twenty seven EAST 13Th street. Her nineteen year old brother, Kevin often came to visit Raider had a couple reasons for targeting Catherine. She was slim with long blond. Hair is preferred type hood radar, also targeted Catherine brighten part because of this obsession with the number three which he believed was supernaturally lucky her house was on EAST 13Th Street and her address three thousand one hundred and twenty. I started with a three as well as we mentioned last week. An obsession with rituals involving numbers can be a symptom of obsessive, compulsive disorder or OECD for someone the disorder. This can mean that some numbers save three are good or magical, and some Numbers are bad and need to be avoided at all costs greater was later evaluated by psychologist Robert Mendoza,

Mendoza noted, raiders, OECD tendencies, but didn't believe they reached a clinical level where they significantly impacted his day to day activities. Raider spent weeks, stock and Catherine making sure she lived alone ever their protectionist raider also begun, obsessively squeezing stress ball, trying to work up hand, strength. He had failed to successfully strangle the or terrorism the first try and was about to make that mistake. Twice. He came up with a story, so Catherine would let him in he decided to pose as a fellow college student looking for help with homework, since he really was college student. It would be an easy role to pull off Rater assembled weapons for the murder, his buck knife, a twenty two cult and a three fifty seven called Magnum. For some reason he didn't bring the hit kit but are usually brought along to each

James House. He hid weapons in his large airforce jacket and brought gloves, so he wouldn't leave fingerprints behind and he chose a nickname for this murder project lights out later came up with a variety of code. Words are nicknames for his murder related paraphernalia, while this would have thrown his wife. Of his sent Should she stumble upon his work. It also allowed him to entertain a fantasy of being a secret agent. He liked to write notes and stories about his victims that only he could understand. On April fourth, nineteen. Seventy four raider drovers card to which it hosty universities, campus and Parker their Catherine, lived within walking distance of the college. So he was able to easily make his way to her home on foot. He saw Katharine's car sitting it driveway and assume she was home. He put on his gloves, but ultimately decided against the scheme. Ask he knocked on Katharine's door. What you did Mansour after a few

Moments he realized she must have gone somewhere on foot, so he broke a kitchen window in the back of the house and clambered inside. Indeed, Catherine wasn't home, he swept up the broken glass and tightened up. Kitchen so as not to arouse suspicion before she walked into her bedroom. He walked on the whole way towards her bedroom nervous, he pulled out his gun and filled with it. Fire didn't he fired around into Katharine's bathroom door. Nothing seemed to be going right for iter and the situation became even dice here as the front door. Open Catherine was home, but she wasn't alone her. Nineteen year old brother Kevin was with her panicked raider quickly drew his gun and confronted the siblings. He fell back on. It tell your story. He was a few

It is on the run, who just wanted to tie them up and rob them by greater hadn't bothered to bring his head kit. He didn't have anything to tie up siblings. He kept Catherine and Kevin at gunpoint and ordered them into Katharine's bedroom with his gun, train them. The rifle through her dressers. Until he found bandanas and other clothing items, you could use to bind them greater force coven to tie a sister's hand, so she wouldn't fight back. Then he bound Kevin to the bedpost later drag Catherine into a separate bedroom and tied her to a chair. He decided to kill Kevin. First since he considered the brother to be a bigger threat. He turned on the radio and blasted music, so Catherine wouldn't hear him throttling her brother in the next room, but as Rater wrapped courtroom, Kevin's throat, the young men ripped free of his findings. Kevin fought for his life but greater whipped out his gun and fired at the teenagers head cabin collapse to the

around seemingly dead Catherine heard the gunshot from the next room and began screaming for her brother Raider rushed in and tried to reassure her that cabin was fine. He led both siblings go soon. Catherine was having none of it. She struggled desperately against her bindings rate or tried to strangle Katharine, but she continued to fight him. Rater got nervous. Catherine was proving how to kill than he anticipated. He decided to take a moment to regroup he'd go double check that Kevin was indeed dead. It might seem like an odd thing to do. But again, Bt K didn't have a great track record with first try kills he returned to the other bedroom. Where Kevin lay on the floor and kicked the boys corpse, but cabin was just playing, did he sprang it Rater and the two fought for control of Raiders Gun Kevin with slight five foot six, and only one hundred

fifteen pounds raider at five foot eleven was easily able to overpower the team he shot Kevin in the face and Kevin dropped to the floor. Raider returned with the other bedroom where Catherine was still struggling to loosen her bindings. He tried to strangle her but Catherine managed to free herself from the chair, before Catherine could get away, raider pulled out his hunting knife and stabbed the young woman. She tried to run, but raiders stabbed her ten more times until she collapsed to the ground. The rooms walls and floor were coated with her blood were Catherine, was still clinging to life, then read or heard something strange. He hurried back to the other bedroom Kevin was gone,

The team who had sustained to bullet wounds to the head had run right out the front door. Raider didn't have time to finish, Catherine, the police might have been coming any minute. He grabbed Catherine driver's license and a few other odds and ends of trophies then fled for his life. As we have seen in past episodes, many serial killers take trophies, so they can later real, live and fantasize about the murder. This was certainly the case. With greater He had a vivid imagination and enjoyed recreating his murders, often playing the role. Of the bound victim police later recovered photographs of re are closed in only his victims, bras and undergarments, with his trophy in hand, raider raced back to his car as long as they came, he drove back to his childhood home and his trophies in a tackle box. He hit his weapons and bloody clothes, and his parents garage attic

and their old chicken coop. Meanwhile, after escaping from Raider Kevin stumbled to the front door of Katharine's neighbour, he blind. There was an attacker and his sisters home and the neighbors quickly found the police. Catherine was still alive and the cops arrived. They rushed both Catherine and Kevin to the hospital, but Catherine died later that day, Kevin tried to give the police a description of his attacker, though he had trouble. Talking, raider had shot him in the jaw and he choked his own blood when he tried to speak. He manage should tell police that raider was around five foot eleven and wearing a distinctive silver watch. Cabin was describing the watch that raider had stolen from Joe Arturo his previous murder victim, but despite care his eye. Witness account police were unable to locate rater. They couldn't. Agree on the identity of the murderer. Some investigators believed that cat, in the autumn, arrows were slaughtered by the same killer, while others thought the

Heroes were most likely killed by drug dealers, though, is unclear. Why They assumed the terrorists were involved in drugs. Rater was through when he realized that the police had no idea who he was. But this wasn't good enough for him. He wanted to be a famous serial killer like the ones he had read about as a team, and if he was going to be a famous killer, then he needed a signature name in October. One thousand nine hundred and seventy four raider left of taunting letter to police in a library book then called the local newspaper. So they could locate his note ain't shocking details about the auto murderous that only the killer could now Raiders Letter was signed, Bt K, which stood for him, modus operandi bind them torture them kill them will continue investigating Bt K. In just a moment.

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reader was amused to find himself installing security systems in the homes of people, afraid of the Bt K, killer rate or else made sure to keep playing the role of loving husband. He later claimed author and professor of criminal psychology, Catherine Rams land that he genuinely cared about his wife and enjoyed the sex life. But his fantasies of strangling women were still more important to him than anything else. Rams land notes that fantasy was a crucial coping mechanism for raider. It afforded him an escape from life's everyday stresses, while some of us may play video games are go for a hike to stave off boredom raider like to tie up dolls or draw frightened women bound up with rope as part of his fantasies. He eventually started taking pictures of himself tied up as though he was his own victim, at least once he encased himself in plastic and pretended to bury himself alive and a freshly Doug grave

link between fantasy and cereal murder, isn't unique to rater either Criminology Professor Scott Bun notes that many serial killers have intense fantasy lives. They imagine killing their victims as a way of ramping up to committing murder in real life. Raider riderhood these fantasies from Paula. Pretending he was satisfied with their marriage and in an odd way he was They were an otherwise normal couple in late nineteen, seventy four she became pregnant with their first son. Brian who was born in July nineteen. Seventy five Paula stayed at home with the new baby, while raider supported the family through his work at eighty tee, but even though he acted like a contented family man in public greater was always looking his next victim, he spent the next two years, stalking women in Wichita had in March of nineteen. Seventy seven he's zero it in on his next project raider was still obsessed with the number three and he believed March,

was a good month for his next kill because it was the third month of the year. Cuz intended target. That day was a woman who lived at one thousand two hundred and seven South Greenwood. He nicknamed her project green. On March nineteen, seventy seven raider knocked on the woman's front door. His hit kit was hidden in a brief case, but she did Mansour down, but not out raider wandered the neighbourhood looking for different victim on self draw Lik Street. He ran into a five year old boy named Stephen Viviane, who was bringing as me

their Shirley by an a can of soup from the grocery store for lunch. The whole family had come down with the flu and surely wasn't well enough to run to the store herself reader pondered whether the boys mother could be a substitute target. He showed Stephen a photo of Paula and his young son Brian. He claimed they were missing and asked if Stephen seen them, it's not clear why Rater bothered with such an elaborate lie, since he could have just follow the child home? Perhaps he simply enjoyed roleplaying ass. A detective nonplussed Stephen tell him that he hadn't seen the people the photo raider press, the child and said, are you sure. Look again, but the little boy repeated no sir, and he continued down the street to his home raider captain I and the boys he knocked at the door of another possible victim he'd been talking Cheryl Gilmore, he later till police that he had nickname, Cheryl Project blackout because she frequented by

are with that name, but Cheryl didn't answer as he waited on her stoop. Raider watched six you old Steven enter the house two doors down at one thousand three hundred and eleven south hydraulic. The boys address had a three in it raiders favorite number. He decided to go for it. Every boy on House five year Old Steven didn't feel up to playing with his eight year old brother Bud or his four year old sister Stephanie. He lay in his mother Shirley's bed to keep her company until he heard right fucking Stephen about raced each other to the front door. The five year old, one the race in a moment that he would regret forever Stephen opened the door to find raider staring down at him. Reader told the kids that he was a I, the detective when their mother Shirley dragged yourself out of bed to see who was at the door. Radar grew excited. He replied in the light is surely and stepped inside the house. As soon as you inside and the door was shut. Rater quickly drew

all the blinds in the living room and pulled out his gun, Shirley begged rate, or not to hurt her or the kids and writer quickly came up with a story to calm down. He claimed that he just wanted to tie Shirley up and take bondage pictures if she cooperated. Everyone would fine, the phone rang, but raider ordered the family, not to answer the phone. Shirley once again begged rate or not to hurt her kids, but he ignored her. He took rope out of his brief case and tried to tie up bud when the eight year old cried raider decided. It was too much trouble to tie up each of surely three children individually.

And the phone call began to worry him- someone might be on their way to the violent house. He hurriedly stuck Bud Stephen an Stephanie in the bathroom. He chucked blankets in toys into the bathroom to keep the kids busy then quickly tied the bathroom door shut with rope. Raider hoped he did not to rush everything too much if he had time to spare. He wanted to suffocate the young boys with plastic bags and strangle four year old, Stephanie Raider, drugged, surely into the bedroom away from her sobbing children. She didn't fight back, just really hoping if she cooperated that greater, would rape her and leave it wasn't until later placed a bag over her head and tied the rope around her neck that surely relay she was about to die. The violent children were frantic, they knew her. Mother was in danger, but they didn't know how to help her five year old, Stephen scream that he was going to untie the rope, keeping the bathroom door closed and stop rater from hurting

mother, but Rater warn the child that he'd shoot him in the head. Stephen Bud and Stephanie were too terrified to leave the bathroom. They wept and pounded their fists uselessly against the door as raider strangled their mother as a psychopath. Rater felt no guilt over his actions. Bother him at all to hear the children's cries, echoing from the neighbouring room. In fact, it only confirmed his total control over the situation. After surely was dead, Raider thought about killing the three young children still trapped in the bathroom, but his thoughts kept returning to the phone call but surely had received earlier. He decided not to chance it greater grabbed two pairs

surely underwear as trophies and fled the home. Eventually, eight year old, Bud smashed open the bathroom window, so the three siblings could escape to the yard. The children ran through the unlocked front door to their mothers bedroom only to discover her dead in her bed, hysterical the children race to their neighbours house and the neighbour called the police. Radio was worried that the children would be able to identify him, but the disk

since the children gave weren't enough for the cops to track rater down. However, several officers did notice similarities between Shirley S, death and the murders of the o taro family. Both had been bound up with intricate knots and in both crime scenes. The victims were suffocated with bags over their heads, but they still didn't have enough information to find rater. He was so satisfied after getting away with surely death, but he wrote a children's rhyme curly locks, curly locks and transformed into a typo ridden celebration of his successful murder, quote Shirley Locks, surely locks wilt, thou, be mine, thou shalt not scream, not yet feel below. Fine, but lay on a cushion and think of me and death and how it is going to be and quote. Raider had now killed six people and he was starting to feel invincible. Author Catherine Rams Land describes. Raider is suffering from a condition she calls. Narcissistic

immunity. Essentially, like many other serial killers we have seen on the show. Raider became convinced that he was smarter than the detectives trying to catch him. He believed he could get away with anything the high from killing, surely virus didn't last law and raider spent the rest of nineteen. Seventy seven looking for his next victim, he often sculpt out women during the day, while installing security systems for eighty tea in the winter of nineteen. Seventy seven rater spotted his next target twenty five year old Nancy Fox. Here pleased to learn that Nancy lived alone at eight forty, three South Pershing. That meant that will hopefully be no kids, dogs, siblings or husbands to contend with he nicknames Project, Fox Tail or Fox Hunt after Nancy, surname and supper eighth. He warned his wife. He would be studying late at the library he spent a couple hours. We are working on a paper for one of his college classes

But around nine p m he left the library and drove to Nancy's duplex with his head cat. He knocked on Nancy Store to make sure she wasn't home, then went back and cut. The phone line he smashed open a window and scrambled into the apartment where he waited for her to return from her evening, shift at Helsenburg jewellers, he'd memorized, her entire schedule and new. Precisely what time she would arrive home. Greater drank a glass of water, a tradition he had started when he murdered the o taro family. He put Nancy's phone to his ear to double check that it was dead right, then Nancy walked into her apartment, We don't know for sure how Nancy reacted when she spotted raider and her living room in one version of raider story. Nancy was defiant when Raider pulled a gun on her and another version of the story. Nancy was tear

I'd from the ghetto in all versions. Raider told Nancy that he just wanted to have sex with her and then let her go. Nancy then asked to use the bathroom first. When ass it came out of the bathroom rater handcuffed, her and forced her to live face down on the bed. Then he strangled her with a bell. Until she fell unconscious, but raider wasn't done. He derived special pleasure out of psychologically torturing his victim and wanted to prolong, Nancy's agony as much as possible. Here

aided until Nancy, stirred then leaned close to her ear and whispered that he was Bt K. He already killed six victims, and now it was Nancy Stir Nancy thought desperately, but she wasn't strong enough to throw raider off. He strangled her to death as raider Watch Nancy. Take her final breaths. He masturbated into her blue nightgown rater than cleaned up the apartment. He also stole Nancy's clothes jewelry and her driver's licence, as trophies. He was proud of this murder where everything had gone according to plan so much so that he couldn't wait for someone to discover his perfect crime scene. The next day he called the police on himself we'll talk about that phone call right after this now back to

story of the evening of December eighth, one thousand nine hundred and seventy seven thirty. Two year old, Dennis Rader murdered twenty five year old Nazi Fox. He was so pleased with how smoothly everything had gone, that he was impatient for police to comb through the crime scene. The next morning, on December, ninth raider dial, nine hundred and eleven from a pay phone and told the dispatcher that the police could find Nancy's body at eight hundred and forty three south. The dispatcher was confused and tried to ask follow up questions, but raider abandoned the phone and left the receiver hanging by chance of fire fighter entered the phone booth, just as writer was leaving, he later tried to describe rate or to the detectives who found Nancy's body but and get a good look. At writer. He estimated that raider was maybe six feet tall and have blonde hair. It wasn't enough evidence for detectives to go on and the case when cold greater was thrilled that Wichita detectives weren't able to locate him even after you.

Been brazen enough to report his own crime. He felt infallible cocky enough to take chances. He sent poem. He had written about Shirley Dyin to the local paper, the Wichita Eagle on January thirty first, but he was disappointing when they didn't publish anything about Bt K. So writers sent a poem about Nancy's death to local television station K, a k e eleven days later, Raider had slightly rewritten the folk song o death, two reference, Nancy's murder, entitled it quote: oh death to Nancy and quote along with the revised song lyrics. He scented drawing of Nancy signed with his initials Bt Kay He also sent a note to the tv station whining that the Wichita Eagle had ignored his poem about Shirley via an this prompted the newspaper to

Kate, raiders, surely palm and handed over the police as evidence reader was frustrated that police didn't seem to realize they were dealing with a serial killer. So he decided to connect the dots for them. He laid out the similarities between his victims in its title filled letter to K o k edited some of those typos clarity. He wrote quote golly G. Yes, the imo is different in each but look a pattern is developing. The victims are tied up, most have been women. Phone cut, bring some bondage material, sadistic tendencies, no struggle outside the debt spot, no witnesses except the viands kids,

we're very lucky phone call saved them. End quote: Raider later admitted to Arthur Catherine Rams land that he got a thrill out of playing games with the police, the risk and a subsequent media attention he received was intoxicating, but raiders soon became too preoccupied to write taunting letters to the media. His daughter carry rater was born on June thirteenth nineteen. Seventy eight His growing family now took up most of his time. He spent what little free time he had looking for his next victim and a little less than a year later. In April nineteen, seventy nine he found her. Anna Williams, sixty three lived alone in Wichita after her husband had died, but she was close to her twenty four. You're old, granddaughter Rebecca, who often stayed with her raider spotted Rebecca staying at the house and believed she was the primary resident and when he looked up the name of the homeowner, he came to believe that Rebecca was actually Anna. He does

I did that Rebecca would be his next victim and nicknamed her a project, pine cones, because she lived at six fifteen South Pine crest of the evening of April twenty eight he decided to carry out the murder he snipped Anna's phone line and broke into her then he looked for Rebecca, but neither she nor Anna were at home. He set up camp, but no one came and rate couldn't stay out too late? He had told his wife tat. He was taking night classes, but that only by I'm so much time, eventually rate or gave up. He still some jewelry some clothing and a sock with thirty dollars in it he also scribbled a threatening message on Anna's bathroom mirror with her lipstick, though

you couldn't remember if he rode mirror mirror on the wall or Bt K was here and with that he left. Luckily, Anna had been out late square dancing on April twenty Eightth and she didn't make it home until eleven p m. She found a mess of close on the floor for bedroom, missing jewelry and the phone line dead by this point. Wichita citizens new that a dead phone line meant one thing Bt K she ran for her life. Despite raiders failure to kill Anna, he still craved attention for the murder. He almost committed his deep seated need for admiration, which would later be noted by psychologist Doktor Mendoza encouraged him to play risky games with the media once again on June fourteenth, he sent dual packages to both a k, a k, e tv station and to Anna Williams, home as adult daughter, Rebecca mom, opened the package which she

and was beyond disturbing inside was drawing of naked woman trust up on a bed, one of the scarves that had been set and from an his house and a poem titled o Anna? Why didn't you appear in the poem which was full of typos raider lamented the fact that Anna wasn't his eighth murder victim Anna was so terrified to learn. Her house had been broken into by Bt Kay that she left Wichita entirely. Meanwhile, raider graduated from college in May nineteen. Seventy nine and spent some time focusing on his family. He got his children a puppy named patches, but through his work with eighty two, he was sometimes set out of town and stated motels. Whenever he was at a motel, he would engage in what he called motel parties. He would hold up in his motel room, pretending to be his own victim. He often handcuffed him self or tied himself up while wearing his female victims clothing. Sometimes he wore a creepy

ask of a woman's face over his head, along with his view, his brows and lazy undergarments. He loved to place plastic bags over his head and hang himself. He almost suffocated himself a couple of times, so we started keeping one hand free to make sure he didn't accidentally asphyxiated. He took pictures of himself tied up in looking, which he found highly erotic. In our last episode, we discussed how people like Raider, who hang themselves or otherwise, cut off their oxygen supply to achieve orgasm. Have an unusual condition called asphyxia failure, also known as hypoxia failure. It isn't just serial killers who developed this condition psychologist mark.

Fits notes. Several celebrities have accidentally killed themselves while practicing auto erotic asphyxiation, including actor David Carotene, who died in his hotel room closet, but Raiders Motel room fantasies warranted satisfying for him as actual murders. Family responsibilities kept him from settling on a victim for several years after his failed attempt at killing on Williams and ninety seventy nine, but he continued to stalk women He was window shopping. If you will, by April nineteen eighty five he was forty years old, and not quite as spry as he used to be. He picked an easy target that didn't require much stalking or detective work his fifty three year old Neighbour marine hedge. He called her project cookie because she worked at a local cafe His nine year old Son Brian, had been in the boy scouts now for two years and raider had become a scout leader on April twenty six, the Scots we're having a camping.

And raider knew. This would give him the free time he needed to commit us next murder. He spent the evening of April twenty six that the campgrounds with the other boys fathers then told them, he was tired and going to bed with no one. Why? urging him in the tent. He was able to Nick out to his car and drive to a bowling alley. He pretended to be drunk and hired a taxi to drive him to his neighborhood. The taxi dropped him off a block away from Marines He snuck through the yard of his wife's parents. To reach Marines House then cut her phone line. He broke in and waited, but when he heard marine arriving home with a male friend, he hid in a closet. After an hour Marines friend, left and marine went to bed, she had no idea. There was a monster hiding just a few feet away: She woke up to her neighbor raider, choking the life out of her after raider finished. Killing marine. He tighter up to

gauge and twisted sexual fantasies For some reason it wasn't enough for him to take pictures of marine in her bedroom. He wanted to take pictures of her corpse in his church. The Only explanation that he ever offered police was that he had a mean streak rate hid Marines body in a blanket and transported her to his lutheran church. In her car he took photos of her bound corpse and the churches classroom grotesquely positioning her limbs like He was a doll raider, then dumped Marines body in a ditch by fifty Third North abandoned her car and draw his own car back to the boy scout Camp, the other boyscout father Never even noticed he was missing. The police never suspected raider for Marines murder. Instead. Many believe that remains male friend, the last one to see her alive was want to kill her when his wife and neighbours gossiped about Marines friend raider insisted that he wasn't. The killer, perhaps because he couldn't

and the idea of some one else getting the credit for one of his murderers between raiders family commitments and career. He had little time to devote to killing. It wasn't until a year later, in September of nineteen. Eighty six that rater selected is next target Twenty eight year old Vicki regularly. He picture for a couple of since she was young blonde and an excellent pianist. She was general home alone, every day parenting her two year old Son and her house had covered porch. So One would see raider coming are going rate or listen to Vicki play piano as he stopped her. He liked hearing her place so much that he named her project piano on September, sixteenth. He knocked on Vicky's door.

Posing as a telephone repairman ass, soon ass. She let him inside raider pulled his gun on her and forced her into the bedroom. He strangled her, but Vicki fought back scratching raiders face and permanently scarring him. Nevertheless, he managed to kill her. He took three photos of Vicky's corpses trophies and grabbed her driver's license before long he didn't strangle Vicky's, two year old son, mainly because the boy had been in the living room and hadn't witness the murder. Sadly, the police didn't realize that Vicki was killed by Bt K and for decades they suspected at her husband bill had murdered after killing Vicki in nineteen. Eighty six rater struggled to keep his murderous compulsion under control police. Starting to make use of dna evidence by the late nineteen eighties and eight or new. He needed to be careful from the late nineteen eighties,

till the beginning of the ninety nineties. Raider tried to fulfil his needs with motel parties, but he could only tat down his desire to keep for so long. On January, Eighteenth nineteen, ninety one rater committed his final murder. Once again, he used one of his son, Brian's boyscout, camping trips as a cover he snuck away from the camp and drove to the house of sixty two year old, Dolores Davis, a beloved mother and grandmother. He then broke in and strangled her with a pair of pantyhose raider dump Dolores body under a bridge and left a creepy porcelain masked by her corpse. A young boy discovered her decomposing body weeks later on February, first the police had no leads in May of ninety. Ninety one raider started new job as a compliance officer and took delight in handing out citations. Raider began stalking his neighbor Barber Walters,

a former auditor for the IRS looking for any reason to give her a citation on August. Third, one thousand nine hundred and ninety three raiders spotted for black dog named shadow in a fenced in yard. He vaulted over the backyard fence and unlock the gate letter dog run free raider then issued a twenty five dollar fine to Barbara, insisting she was the one Let shadow roamed, the neighbourhood barber realize that It was aiming to have shadow put down, so she fought citation in court rate or brought in an enormous file full of evidence. He had collected on shadow to barbarous horror, Raider one the case she appealed to the higher court and was fortunately able to save her dog, but raiders. Obsessive stocking of his neighbors contain you'd. He scrutinised every neighbour's house and longed for minor violations, even going so hours to measure the grass height of a neighbour to sick and weak to mow his yard. He also

tend to go after neighbourhood dogs, succeeding in getting a few put to sleep Nineteen, eighty four or ninety five raider began stalking women again contemplating potential victims, but familial obligations soon inhibited him from murdering his their died in nineteen. Ninety six and Rater became his mother's primary care. Take her all was quiet for nearly a decade, but then, in January, two thousand for a reporter release an article about Bt K. On the thirty year anniversary of the murders of the auto family, he described Kay as a killer that few in Wichita even remembered fifty nine year old raider wasn't going to let that stand. It was time he decided to start up his games with the police. Again he sent a package to K a k, e tv on May fourth, two thousand for under the name bill, Thomas kill men whose initial spelled out Bt K inside it.

Judge was Vicki Waggeries Driver's license. Wichita detectives realised that this was finally their chance to catch the serial killer. They just needed to draw Bt K out over the course of two thousand for rater, since several more packages to the media revelling in the renewed attention Bt K now received from reporters. He even contemplated upping, be anti by murdering at eleven victim in October, two thousand for buddy boy out at the last minute after noticing, a construction crew working outside or home raider, never named his eleventh intended victim, but his fellow code compliance officer, Mary Cox. Later said in interviews that she believed she was raiders target. Meanwhile, the police continued to coax raider into communicating with them, hoping he would make mistake and in February of two thousand five, their plan paid off

greater, was finding his game with police to be a lot of work, and he was sick of photocopying notes. He figured he could simplify things by sending his taunting messages on a floppy drive, greater left police. A message in a trash been nearer home Depot in Wichita. The note ass quote: can I communicate with floppy and not be traced to a computer, be honest and quote paraded request? The police then left a coded message in a local paper. That said quote Rex, it will be ok. End quote greater naively assumed the police wouldn't lie. On February sixteenth, two thousand five: he sent a floppy desk to the local media, who turned it over to police by recovering and analyzing. The data on raiders disk police figured out. They were looking for a man named Dennis who had been using a computer at Christ. Lutheran church upon Further investigation. They learned that a man named Dennis Raider had just been elected. The churches, precedent

investigators wanted to compare the DNA taken from the crime scenes to Raiders DNA, but they didn't want to Tipp him off that they were onto him. Luckily, Wichita State University Student Health Centre still had his daughter carry raiders, perhaps mere on file and detectives were able to obtain heard dna through a subpoena. When investigators compared the crime scene, dna to carries DNA, they found a match killer was carries Father Dennis Rater, Wichita police, spied on raider memorizing his schedule, and on February twenty fifth, two thousand five. They arrested him during his lunch hour. Raider was quickly able guess why they were pulling him over and politely greeted the detectives how for he later mentioned that he wished he had been able to shoot the cops and escape much like James Bond might raider.

Best as soon as he learned that he checked has had a positive dna match. In fact, he later admitted to authorise Catherine Rams land that he probably bragged a bit too much. Yet raider insisted that he wasn't a bad person He told detectives quote normally, I'm a pretty nice guy. I'm sorry, but I am end- quote: Raider also lead police too many of what he called his Heidi holes or places where he stored is trophies. They recovered articles of clothing, photos of the victims, bounding gang and photos. Raider had taken of himself tied up in wearing his victims, clothing. The evidence against him was overwhelming in this clip. Correspondent Josh Wells describes what police found. They said after the initial interviews with writer, they obtained a search warrant and found the killers own crime scene, photos and his dash of personal effects. He had taken as trophies from his victims. They also found pages and storage. He had written

detail to describe as killings, Josh Wells, Wichita, raiders public defenders hired psychologist, Robert Mendoza, to evaluate raider just in case he wasn't competent to stand trial, I'll Mendoza noted raiders obsession with patterns and numbers, his stubbornness, his manipulative tendencies, lack of empathy and narcissistic traits. However, he found raider fully competent, but raider decided he didn't want to trial either because he wanted to make things easier for his wife and kids or because he knew he would be convicted, regardless on June, twenty seventh, two thousand five he pledged guilty to all ten murders But the judge you didn't want to let him go so easily. He forced raider to give an account of every single one of his murderers to provide closure on these cases as well.

You're confessed, his murders. He kept making strange noises with his mouth. The detectives who caught rater were both irritated and humiliated. He was coming off like such a bumbling idiot that they feared he was making them look stupid. Nevertheless, raider was sentenced to ten life sentences or one hundred seventy five, years minimum at El Dorado Correctional Facility, a maximum security prison near Wichita. He still remain is there to day raiders, wife, Paula and his two children initially had trouble, believing that he was really a serial killer, but after raider confessed they were disgusted horrified and traumatized. Paula never spoke to her husband again raiders adult daughter carry struggled to reconcile her childhood memories of loving, attentive father with the load some murderer. He really was. She was terrified that

might somehow end up like him. Raider had spent the past decade, analyzing and re analyzing, his own psyche wondering what drives him to kill. He cooperated on a book about his psychology with other Catherine Rams. Land who believes that raider is driven by a combination of disturbed sexual needs, a desire to control others and a deep seated wish to be infamous and in a way he's gotten. His wish. Since his capture in two thousand five raiders name has become famous and he was thrilled when Stephen King published a good marriage. A novella inspired by raiders, exploits in two thousand ten. However, raider bought almost every murder he planned. He handed believe the evidence that damned him and while he did it, Even for me, during his trial, the name be

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