He demanded media attention in this second letter, and it was finally announced that Wichita did indeed have a serial killer at large. He suggested many possible names for himself, including the one that stuck: BTK. In early 1978, he sent another letter to television station KAKE in Wichita, claiming responsibility for the murders of the Oteros, Bright, Vian Relford, and Fox.
īetween the spring of 1974 and winter 1977, Rader killed three more women: Kathryn Bright (April 4, 1974), Shirley Vian Relford (March 17, 1977), and Nancy Fox (December 8, 1977). Rader wrote a letter that had been stashed inside an engineering book in the Wichita Public Library in October 1974, which described in detail the killing of the Otero family in January of that year. After his 2005 arrest, Rader confessed to killing the Otero family. Their bodies were discovered by the family's three older children, Charlie, Danny, and Carmen, who had been at school at the time of the killings. The victims were Joseph Otero, age 38 Julie Otero, age 33 Joseph Otero Jr., age 9 and Josephine Otero, age 11. On January 15, 1974, four members of the Otero family were murdered in Wichita, Kansas. In an interview with ABC News in 2019, Rader's daughter Kerri said she still writes to her father and has now forgiven him, but still struggles to reconcile him with the BTK killer, stating her childhood seemed normal and they were a "normal American family". On July 26, 2005, after Rader's arrest, his wife was granted an "emergency divorce" (waiving the normal waiting period). Rader was a member of Christ Lutheran Church in Wichita and had been elected president of the church council. One neighbor complained that Rader killed her dog for no reason. In this position, neighbors recalled him as being sometimes overzealous and extremely strict, as well as taking special pleasure in bullying and harassing single women. In May 1991, Rader became a dogcatcher and compliance officer in Park City.
Rader was a census field operations supervisor for the Wichita area in 1989, before the 1990 federal census. He then worked at the Wichita-based office of ADT Security Services from 1974 to 1988, where he installed security alarms as part of his job, in many cases for homeowners concerned about the BTK killings. Rader initially worked as an assembler for the Coleman Company, an outdoor supply company. He then enrolled at Wichita State University, and graduated in 1979 with a Bachelor of Science degree, majoring in Administration of Justice. He attended Butler County Community College in El Dorado, earning an associate degree in electronics in 1973. Rader married Paula Dietz on May 22, 1971 they had two children, Kerri and Brian. On discharge, he moved to Park City (a suburb of Wichita), where he worked in the meat department of an IGA supermarket where his mother was a bookkeeper. He served in the United States Air Force from 1966 to 1970. Īfter graduating from Wichita Heights High School, Rader attended Kansas Wesleyan University, but received mediocre grades and dropped out after one year. However, Rader kept his sexual proclivities well-hidden, and he was widely regarded in his community as "normal, polite, and well mannered". He later admitted that he was pretending to be his victims as part of a sexual fantasy. Years later, during his "cooling off" periods between murders, Rader would take pictures of himself wearing women's clothes and a female mask while bound. Rader acted out sexual fetishes for voyeurism, autoerotic asphyxiation, and cross-dressing he often spied on female neighbors while dressed in women's clothing, including women's underwear that he had stolen, and masturbated with ropes or other bindings around his arms and neck. He also exhibited zoosadism by torturing, killing, and hanging small animals. įrom a young age, Rader harbored sadistic sexual fantasies about torturing "trapped and helpless" women. Both parents worked long hours and paid little attention to their children at home Rader later described feeling ignored by his mother in particular and resenting her for it. Sources give Rader's place of birth as either Columbus, Kansas, or Pittsburg, Kansas.
Rader was born on March 9, 1945, to Dorothea Mae Rader ( née Cook) and William Elvin Rader, one of four sons.
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