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Dennis Lynn Radar Case

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Dennis Lynn Radar is an American serial killer who murdered ten people in Sedgwick County, between 1974 and 1991. He is known as the BTK Killer. ”BTK” stand for “Bind, Torture, and Kill which was his infamous signature. Dennis Radar sent letters describing the details of the killings to police and the local news outlets during the time period in which the murders took place. Radar brutally tortured killed four members of the Otero family. Then over two decades he killed six more. Following the of Delores Davis in 1941, Radar disappeared and the case went cold and reports of him being dead or in prison made him want attention so he sent letters to the Eagle taking responsibility for an unsolved 1986 murder.

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