1. Dennis Rader
BTK KILLER
By: Matthew Lindsey
Pd: 5
Forensic Science

2. Background
Hello Children!
• Young child tortured
and killed animals. :)
• Sexual fetish for women’s underwear and
even wore them after killing his victims.
• Dennis would stalk his victims gathering
all the information he could about their
daily life.
• Previously married and had two children.

3. Psychological Profile
 A very intelligent
predator
 Cautious
 Prepared and
Preemptive
 Organized
 Psychopath
 Lack of remorse or
empathy

4. Gruesome Details
• 10 victims
• Whole family ( The Otera’s ) (4)
• All but two victims were women
• Strangled 6 adult women with
ropes, belts, nylon stockings,
pantyhose and when personal
his bare hands.

5. Otera Family Massacre
After stalking his prey for some
time, Dennis made his move and
took a whole family to their
graves. He suffocated the father
and son with plastic bags.
Strangled the mother with a
rope and made the daughter
hang herself from a drainage
pipe.

6. An Unfortunate April 4th
• An unexpected Kathryn Bright was
attacked by our friendly neighbor
Dennis Rader. Failing to stay alive
and fend off her stalker Kathryn was
stabbed once in the back and once
in the abdomen and died. This
unusual method was of disliking to
Dennis. He then took an unexpected
break for about 3 years. Before
finding another succulent prey.

7. Forensic Evidence
 DNA from one victims
fingernails
 Semen found at multiple
victims locations
 Grammar and Speech
identical to the letters he
wrote to the police after
every killing.
 16-Hour Confession in
gory detail of each and
every victim. All 10.

8. Legal Outcome
 Dennis Rader arrested on Feb. 25, 2005
 He gave his account of the murders
 He also noted that he wanted to resurface for
two reasons David Lohr’s story on Tru TV and a
book that was written by Robert Beattie about
the BTK Killer. Dennis said that he wanted his
story to be told his way.
 Formally convicted and charged of 10 homicides
on Feb. 28, 2005.

9. Cont.
 During the time of the murders the state
of Kansas did not have the death penalty
therefore Dennis Rader was not eligible for
The Death Sentence.
 On June 27, Rader changed his public
defender’s plea from not guilty to guilty.
 Rader was sentenced to 10 consecutive
life sentences with no parole.

10. F.U.N
F.A.C.T.S
On the very important date of March 5th,
2005 ( My Birthday ) media reported
multiple verified sources the Rader
confessed to the murders.
While being arrested and read his Miranda
Rights a police officer asked Dennis “Mr.
Rader do you know why you’re going
downtown?” to which he replied, “Oh, I
have my suspicions, why?”

11. Cont.
10 consecutive life sentences is a
minimum of 175 years, so Rader is
eligible for parole in 2180.
For all you math fanatics :)

12. THE END
For Dennis Rader
References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Rade
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,149113,00.html
http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi