Who's the Killer? Wichita 1974 Pt. 7

Dennis Rader stuns police by confessing to two more murders.

Marine Hedge was 53 years old and a widow.

Her and Rader lived on the same block for over 30 years.

April 27, 1985.

Rader cut the phone line and pried open her back door with a screwdriver.

No one was home.

He waited until the bedroom until Hedge came home.

Hedge wasn't alone, another man walked into the house.

Rader had to wait until the other man left.

He waited in the bedroom closet until 1 a.m. so that the man was gone and Marine had gone to sleep.

Rader came out of hiding, turned on the bathroom light, and jumped on top of Marine choking her to death.

Once she passed away he dragged her body outside into the trunk of her car, where he drove to the church.

He put black plastic over the windows so no one could look inside, and dragged her body to the basement of the church.

He photographed the body, before putting her body back in the trunk of the car and taking off. 

 He then dumped the body in a ditch along a dirt road not far from their homes.

January 19,1991, Rader waited outside 62 year old Delores Davis' home, until he thought she was asleep.

He broke the glass door at the back of the house with a cement block.

Delores came out of her bedroom to find Rader.

He says he is a fugitive and wants food and a way to get away.

He handcuffs her and strangles her to death and places a mask over her face.

Rader took the body outside and put her in the trunk of her own car. He drove to a lake and hid the body and evidence under some trees. He drove the car back to the Davis house, wiped it down for fingerprints.

Later he went back to where he hid the body, put it in his trunk and dumped the body under a bridge in Sedgwick County.

March 1, 2005, Dennis Rader is charged with 10 counts of first degree murder and bail is set at 10 million dollars.

His attorney enters a plea of not guilty.

June 27, 2005, Rader changes his plea to guilty on all counts.

August 18, 2005, he recieves 10 consecutive life sentences.

He cannot be put to death, because he committed the crimes before the death penalty was reinstated in Kansas.