Hi there, the same rules apply here as the True crime from around the world book, if I couldn't find a true crime case, it was replaced by a plane crash.
This case takes us to the state of Kansas, which is located next to the following states: Nebraska, Missouri, Oklahoma and Colorado.
WARNINGS OF TORTURE AND MURDER
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Pictured above is Dennis Rader.
Dennis Lynn Rader, born on the 9th of March 1945, he is 78 years old, was an American serial killer known as the BTK (an abbreviation he gave himself, it stands for Blind, Torture, Kill), the BTK strangler or the BTK killer, between 1974 and 1991, he murdered ten people in Wichita and Park City, Kansas and he sent taunting letters to the police and newspapers describing the details of his crimes, after aa decade long hiatus, Rader resumed sending letters in 2004 and he sent a floppy disk to the police, which lead to his 2005 arrest and subsequent guilty plea, he is currently serving ten consecutive life sentences at the El Dorado Correction Facility.
On the 15th of January 1974, four members of the Otero family were murdered in their home in Wichita, Kansas, the four victims were 38 year old Joseph Otero, his 33 year old wife Julie Otero, their nine year old son Joseph Otero Junior and their 11 year old daughter Josephine Otero, their bodies were discovered by the family's three older children, Charlie, Danny and Carmen, who were at school at the time of the murders.
Between the spring of 1974 and winter of 1977, Dennis killed tree more women; Kathryn Bright, Shirley Vian Relford and Nancy Fox, in 1985 he killed Marine Hedge (53, her body was discovered on the 5th of May 1985), he dumper her body on a remote ditch, in 1988, he murdered three members of the Fager family in Wichita, Kansas and his final victim was Dolores Davis, her body was discovered on the 1st of February 1991.
He was arrested on the 25th of February after the police tracked a floppy disk that he sent contacting graphic images of his murders and on the 28th of February, he was charged with 10 counts of first degree murder and he was sentenced to serve 10 consecutive life sentences with a minimum of 175 years before he could be eligible for parole.
