Rader offered quotes from the Bible, gave thanks to police, and made an apology to victims' relatives before he was sentenced. ''He should never, ever see the light of day." ''This man needs to be thrown in a deep, dark hole and left to rot," she said before the court. I want him to suffer as much as he made his victims suffer." ''As far as I'm concerned, Dennis Rader does not deserve to live. ''Nancy's death is a like a deep wound that will never, ever heal," testified Beverly Plapp, a sister of victim Nancy Fox.
It culminated with rambling testimony from Rader, who said he had been dishonest to his family and victims and who at times wiped his eyes. The two-day hearing featured graphic testimony from detectives and from sobbing relatives. Kansas had no death penalty at the time the killings were committed. The sentence, a minimum of 175 years without chance of parole, was the longest that Judge Gregory Waller could deliver for Rader, who is 60.
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The convicted BTK serial killer, Dennis Rader, was ordered to serve 10 consecutive life terms yesterday during a tear-filled hearing in which a relative of his victims called him a monster and said he should be ''thrown in a deep, dark hole and left to rot." He ultimately confessed to all ten murders and is currently serving out a 175-year sentence at El Dorado Correctional Facility in Kansas.WICHITA, Kan. "The floppy did me in," Rader would later lament, via Cybercrime. A DNA test confirmed Dennis Rader was the man they had been looking for. In short order, the metadata had led authorities straight to Christ Lutheran Church and to Dennis Rader, the congregation's president, per The Atlantic.
Detectives were able to run relatively simple tests to determine that the file had last been saved by a user named "Dennis," and it had been printed using one of the printers at the nearby Christ Lutheran Church. Authorities were now one step ahead of the killer. Rader was cocky, claiming the first floppy disk was only a "test," but it turned out he wasn't all that tech-savvy. Just two weeks later, Wichita's KSAS-TV received a package containing a floppy disk with one single file on it. After searching through the garbage, authorities uncovered an unassuming cereal box, which had been left in the bed of a pickup truck parked in the Home Depot parking lot and then discarded by the truck's owner, who assumed it was trash.įollowing his particular instructions, the police took out an ad in the Miscellaneous Section of the Wichita Eagle, reading: "Rex, it will be OK." Rader believed them.
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In 2005, he sent a letter to a local TV station asking about a package he had left for police in a Home Depot parking lot, according to The Atlantic.
He taunted the authorities by sending them puzzles, word searches, pictures, and even chapter outlines for a "BTK Story," per Biographyīut his arrogance proved to be Rader's downfall.
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Rather than allow his crimes to fade out of the spotlight, Rader began sending letters to local newspapers, television, and radio stations, alerting them he was still alive, well, and a free man. That is, until 2004, when a local paper, the Wichita Eagle, began speculating that the killer who had long tormented the area may be dead or put away on some other charge. The BTK Killer, whose real name is Dennis Rader, adopted the moniker to stand for the depraved methods he used to murder his victims: "Bind, Torture, Kill." He took the life of his final victim, Dolores Davis, on January 19, 1991, but then, the murders abruptly stopped. From 1974 to 1991, a serial killer terrorized Wichita, Kansas.
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