CATCHING THE KILLER
July 22, 2004 Wichita police forge a multi agency task force to catch the killer.
Fast forward to February 2005.
The killer leaves a package for the police and notifies them that it is at The Home Depot.
Police looked at The Home Depot's security camera footage and saw a man driving around the parking lot, in a black Jeep Cherokee numerous times.
The vehicle in the video is registered to 59 year old Dennis Rader.
Rader was formerly in the Air Force and a supermarket in the meat department, before getting married and having two children.
He earned an associate's degree in electronics in 1973, at Butler's County Community College.
He then enrolled in Wichita State University and graduated in 1979, with a bachelors in administration justice.
Then Rader worked as an assembler for the Coleman Company.He earned an associate's degree in electronics in 1973, at Butler's County Community College.
He then enrolled in Wichita State University and graduated in 1979, with a bachelors in administration justice.
He worked at the Wichita-based office of ADT Security Services from 1974 to 1988, where he installed security alarms as a part of his job, in many cases for homeowners concerned about the BTK killings.
Then he was a census field operations supervisor for the Wichita area in 1989.
Rader was a member of Christ Lutheran Church and had been elected president of the church council.
He was also a Cub Scout leader.
COULD THIS MAN BE THE KILLER?.........
Rader calls police and asks them if they could trace a computer disk if he sent them one.
Police lie to him and tell him that it is impossible.
February 16, 2005. BTK sends a computer disk to a local T.V. station.
The police trace the disk to the Christ Lutheran Church, where Rader had been a member for 30 years.
There were church documents with Rader's name hidden on the disk.
Rader is one of the few people who had access to the church's computer.
The police asked his daughter, Kerri, for a DNA sample saying it was for a medical record.
In reality the police were using it to match to the semen found in past crime scenes left by BTK.
It came back as a match.
12:00 p.m. Friday, February 25, 2005, Rader was driving home from work for lunch.
The police pull him over and he does not resist as they take him into custody.
The police search his home.
They tear apart his house and take a computer and a pair of black nylon pantyhose.
Rader then tells the police to search his locker at work.
They find his trophies, newspaper clippings, victim's driver's licenses, copies of letters he had sent the police and media, his sexually explicit drawings, as well as chapters of a book he called the BTK Story.
Police interrogate Rader for 32 hours.
For the first few hours, Rader talks about the BTK in the third person.
Eventually he gives a full confession.
HE IS NOT DONE YET.........
Police lie to him and tell him that it is impossible.
February 16, 2005. BTK sends a computer disk to a local T.V. station.
The police trace the disk to the Christ Lutheran Church, where Rader had been a member for 30 years.
There were church documents with Rader's name hidden on the disk.
Rader is one of the few people who had access to the church's computer.
The police asked his daughter, Kerri, for a DNA sample saying it was for a medical record.
In reality the police were using it to match to the semen found in past crime scenes left by BTK.
It came back as a match.
12:00 p.m. Friday, February 25, 2005, Rader was driving home from work for lunch.
The police pull him over and he does not resist as they take him into custody.
The police search his home.
They tear apart his house and take a computer and a pair of black nylon pantyhose.
Rader then tells the police to search his locker at work.
They find his trophies, newspaper clippings, victim's driver's licenses, copies of letters he had sent the police and media, his sexually explicit drawings, as well as chapters of a book he called the BTK Story.
Police interrogate Rader for 32 hours.
For the first few hours, Rader talks about the BTK in the third person.
Eventually he gives a full confession.
HE IS NOT DONE YET.........
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