Dennis Rader Research Paper

Dennis Lynn Rader was a very persistent person, he never gave up when he set his mind to something he was truly passionate about no matter what the cost was. Dennis always sought fame and attention from the killings he had done. Dennis would send letters and leave notes for people to find. For example, in his first killing spree Dennis admitted to killing the Oteros’ family and in the note he explained how he would like to be referred as the “B.T.K. Strangler.” According to CNN, “Rader explained how, in most of his cases, he chose and then stalked several people at a time -- referring to them as ‘projects’ or ‘potential hits.’ ‘If one didn't work out, I just moved to another one,’ Rader said. Rader told the court he selected his victims as

Dennis Rader was an active serial killer from the years 1974-1991 no one truly knows why he stopped killing but he did admit that he was intending to kill again. Dennis even had been stalking and had a date set when he was going to kill his victim, he planned for October 2004 until his plans were ruined when he was captured shortly after that. The only reason why they captured Dennis was because he kept in contact with the police more than 14 years after committing his last crime until his arrest on February 25, 2005. According to the editors of biography.com this all started with the talk of his first murder victims began to resurface in 2004, “With many news stories marking the thirtieth anniversary of the Otero murders, the BTK Killer resurfaced in 2004. Rader sent local media outlets and authorities a number of letters. These were filled with items related to his crimes, including pictures of one of the victims, a word puzzle, and an outline for the BTK Story" (biography.com 2015). At that point, Rader was sending letters to the police, guaranteeing obligation regarding a murdering that had already not been credited to him. The police decided to the collect DNA from under the fingernails of the victim to confirm who was the real killer. So they started DNA testing many men to accomplish there goal to find the serial killer. There was nearly 1100 DNA tests done and they still could not find the suspect. According to murderpedia “In one of his communications with police, Rader asked them if it was possible to trace information from floppy disks. The police department replied that there was no way of knowing what computer such a disk had been used on, when in fact such ways existed” (murderpedia 2015). The police office lied to him and told him that there was no chance to get of recognizing what computer he used for the floppy disks. Rader