BTK admits guilt
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Dennis Rader, aka BTK, (Bind, Torture, Kill) waived his right to trial and entered guilty pleas on all 10 counts of murder in Wichita, Kansas. For those who don’t know he has terrorized the citizens of Wichita for over 30 years. He will not get the death penalty as he committed he crimes before Ks reinstated that punishment.
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either way, he'll spend the rest of his life in jail and away from society.
how very sad for his family and his chuch --to whom, I'm sure, this turn of events was an unearthly shock.
I cannot imagine what life was like for his wife and family, then and now. There have been conflicting stories as to how they caught him. Any news on that?
After years of silence, the killer resurfaced last year with a letter to The Wichita Eagle that included photos of the 1986 strangulation of Vicki Wegerle and a photocopy of her missing driver’s license. Her case had not been linked to BTK until then.
The messages became increasingly frequent in the months before Rader’s arrest on Feb. 25.
That letter was followed by several other cryptic messages and packages. The break in the case came after a computer diskette the killer had sent was traced to Rader’s church.
I hope that some of the inmates don't take too kindly to his crimes and grandfather the death penalty back to the date of his actions themselves.
#1 thing a consultant shouldn't say: "I could tell you the answer right now, but we're committed to a three month project..." #-o
Obviously there is nothing he can say that will make the victims' families feel better, but there must be some relief at not putting everyone through a trial, and now any possible shadows of doubt have been eliminated.
I do feel sorry for Rader's family. I have not heard many specifics about them but I can't help but wonder if his wife had ever suspected anything at all, or if she was totally blindsided by this?
Rader sees himself as equals to Bundy, The Son of Sam, the Hillside Stranglers. These are the people he admired. To have the aspiration to achieve, in his mind, the stature of these sick demented people, was his objective. To not get the "credit" he deserved drove him crazy. Now he gets the attention he wanted. We are saddened by the attrocities he committed. He is finally happy for people to know that it was him. God have mercy on him!
I saw last night that as a condition of entering his plea of guilty, he had to give specific details of the crimes. The unnerving part was watching him do so matter-of-factly. I don't believe he was as calm as he appeared to be. I believe that he enjoyed giving the details, with several of the victim's family members there. Another way for him to exert control over the families. My heart goes out to these families and I will continue to pray that find some closure to this ordeal.
In the end, though, it was his daughter who suspected strongly enough to suggest to the police; that's how they got onto his church . . .
I know it's CNN but here is the link.
[url]http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/02/26/btk.investigation/[/url]
Information came from KAKE televisionstation.
He was traced to the church from a diskette he sent with the picture and copy of the license from his last victim. There were deleted files on the disk that were restored and found to be from the church. When they looked into it, they discovered that Rader had been at the church using the computer and it snowballed from there. What I find repulsive is that after killing Davis, he loaded her in the car, took her to the church (he said it was the old church) and took pictures of her in different stages of bondage. To defile the church in that manner is unfathomable to me.