Inside the Mind of BTK: The True Story Behind the Thirty-Year Hunt for the Notorious Wichita Serial Killer (59 page)

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Authors: John Douglas,Johnny Dodd

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Shirley Vian, undated photo, murdered on March 17, 1977
 
CREDIT:
The Wichita Eagle
/Newscom
 
Nancy Fox, undated photo, murdered on December 8, 1977
 
CREDIT:
The Wichita Eagle
/Newscom
 
Marine Hedge, undated photo, murdered on April 27, 1985
 
CREDIT:
The Wichita Eagle
/Newscom
 
Vicki Wegerle, undated photo, murdered on September 16, 1986
 
CREDIT:
The Wichita Eagle
/Newscom
 
Dolores Davis, undated photo, murdered on January 19, 1991
 
CREDIT:
The Wichita Eagle
/Newscom
 
Dennis Rader took these photos of himself in the late 1980s during one of his so-called motel parties. One of Rader’s favorite pastimes was to check into a motel, dress up in women’s clothing, then bind his arms and legs in ropes and handcuffs.
 
Two examples of Dennis Rader’s hand-drawn torture chambers where the serial killer fantasized about taking his victims. Rader kept these drawings with his enormous stash of photos taken of his victims, sketches, and journal entries.
 
Police and KBI agents stand over Dennis Rader, moments after his arrest shortly after noon on February 26, 2005. Rader was driving to lunch when dozens of law enforcement agents in unmarked cars swooped in to arrest him, not far from his home in Park City.
 
CREDIT: Courtesy of the Wichita Police Department
 
Lieutenant Ken Landwehr holds up a pair of handcuffs, which were used in one of the crimes, during Dennis Rader’s sentencing hearing, August 18, 2005.
 
Wichita Police Detective Sam Houston shows a mask, which was used in one of the crimes, during Dennis Rader’s sentencing hearing, August 18, 2005.
 
Dennis Rader arrives in court on the fi rst day of his sentencing at the Sedgwick County Courthouse, Wichita, Kansas, August 17, 2005.
 
CREDIT: Bo Rader/Getty Images
 
CREDIT: Bo Rader/Getty Images
 
CREDIT: Bo Rader/AFP/Getty Images
 
Dennis Rader is escorted into the El Dorado Correctional Facility on August 19, 2005, in El Dorado, Kansas.
 
The Park City home where Rader lived with his wife for more than three decades. The residence was demolished by the city in March 2007 to provide an access-way to the park located behind the property.
 
Members of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation’s BTK Task Force, from left: KBI Assistant Director Larry Thomas, KBI Director Larry Welch, DNA expert Sindey Schueler, and Senior Special Agent Ray Lundin, with Wichita Police Department Lt. Ken Landwehr (second from right).
 
CREDIT: Jeff Tuttle/Getty Images
 
CREDIT: Johnny Dodd
 
CREDIT: Courtesy of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation
 

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